@@bitcoindaddy1 This is _mainstream media_ that you're watching and commenting on. (Not FOX goofball news) What would matter if it was an EV ? Am so tired of politicizing everything !
Major fines for pipeline corporation for not installing protection around the pipeline. Greedy Incompetent Oiuld and Gas Industry with their corrupt bribed politicians.
Just Greg Abbott and the GOP fighting to keep needless “regulations” off business. Nothing to see here, it’ll go back to chain link after all is said and done.🤷🏼♂️
How about saying something constructively true instead of mindlessly false? Here are facts. "It takes 17 hours to reduce the pipe pressure to atmospheric pressure with venting at one end of the pipe."
Just a chain link fence and a unfortunate accident ( also unfortunate for the person and family) caused all this damage and $$$$ when a crash proof barrier could have been built ( not a big area- hell that burned park is much bigger and I'm sure cost alot more than a sturdy barrier)
This event has received so much attention on social media. I wouldn't be surprised that this type of 'accident' starts occurring around the country now.
Well, sure would be easy to do this again if someone wanted to...perhaps, just perhaps the chainlink fence isn't the safest barrier. Maybe if they put a sign up, that would surely keep out wayward vehicles.
If the person behind the wheel was in distress and unable to stop before hitting the terminal, barriers would have not only saved the pipeline but possibly her life.
A little old lady. That is soo sad. She was probably having a medical issue. With the way the car sped up she lost conscience and her foot got heavier on the gas pedal then. 😢
Here are facts for those accusing the company who runs the pipeline of fowl play by not shutting it off. "It takes 17 hours to reduce the pipe pressure to atmospheric pressure with venting at one end of the pipe."
There needs to have bollards installed around the sensitive and vulnerable electical, and natural gas equipment rather than a chain length fence to stop a vehicle.
Why is it still being fed? Shut down the compressors. PG&E learned about this with the 2010 San Bruno explosion. They have plenty of isolation/diverter valves now.
Is not the best way to get rid of "associated gas", since the gas is at the negative price? Otherwise, the gas companies have to pay customs to use their gas.
Facts seem to suggest that the driver is still in the SUV, and expired. Especially if elderly; reaction and recovery time would be poor. Even a recovery isn't possible yet with intense heat. Anything not steel within that vehicle, has been burnt and is gone. Bones too.
In addition to the possibility of a heart attack, a stroke, or some other incapacitation, whomever was driving the vehicle may have gotten the drive and reverse gears mixed up; if not, the car may have malfunctioned as in the case of a stuck accelerator. (The latter, by the way, happened to me once on a two-lane desert highway, in a fairly new pickup; it was a hairy ride past the shoulder, onto and into a barbed wire and mesquite fence before it bogged down in the caliche, stopping it.) My condolences are to the family of this person, and my empathy is for those who have lost property in this devastating situation.
Are we to assume the car ended up stopped on top of the broken valve! And was then hurled to its current location in the next second, or seconds, as the rapidly accumulating gas exploded?
I hear lots of people complaining about having more safty valves on the pipeline. Guess which political party has killed that legislation every time it gets mentioned?
Odd that the fuel source hasn't been able to be cut off by now. The operator probably hasn't been maintaining their block valves as they are required to do...
No way to cut it off, no crash protection around vulnerable hardware, great design. Texas, guess how well managed the rest of your state's isolated from everybody else's energy grids are.
Well did the driver get out and run away, or did the driver eventually get cooked in their car after the explosion? No one is saying anything about what happen with the driver after the impact with the pipeline valve. Did 1st responders have to pull the driver out, if they were even able to get close enough?
@@briansmyla8696 By now well yes of course it would be. I meant as soon as it had happened. Wonder if any of those businesses across the street there would have any video cameras at that angle that would have picked that up.
These pipelines with no nearby shut off valves, thats a huge problem, thats what should be next, make all these companies install them at least every 5 miles, 20 miles is just unacceptable, they make billions and cant control a fire
This was a shutoff valve that got destroyed. Normally you would expect something to happen in the pipeline between two valves, so you would shut the two valves down. Now you are dealing with a much larger section of pipeline that goes on for many miles. It was full of liquefied natural gas.
Holy shit Houston looks like it's in complete chaos all over the news channels today
Order Ab Chao
It's in a town called La Porte.
Houston Is a mess every day.
Lmao @@bride4jesus0126
Houston is complete chaos everyday.
10-4 it's a sh.. hole here
This might be a good time to build barriers around other valves.
Worldwide, even
Is a fence not a barrier? 🙄
@@Dhern0115 No
It sure does seem like it. Build barriers around bridge piers too.
The real question is: what is the reason that it was not already done.
Reporter looks 8-feet tall when interviewing the guy @ 0:40.
He's only 3ft tall
Lol at first I thought it was just the angle but he's really looking up at her.
Why weren't bollards installed around the gas fixture? This is a huge oversight that could have been prevented.
Like the Francis Scott Key bridge in Maryland?
There's no regulation on gas companies in texas when it comes to public safety LOL
They are called barriers, they are quite useful.
at least mainstream media didn't blame an EV.
@@bitcoindaddy1 This is _mainstream media_ that you're watching and commenting on. (Not FOX goofball news) What would matter if it was an EV ? Am so tired of politicizing everything !
Yes that’s what I’m trying to get at..there’s this war on EV and tech has turned into political topics.
I own bitcoin , I owned and have multiple tesla and I managed cloud AI data center.
All mainstream media is garbage include left and right
Major fines for pipeline corporation for not installing protection around the pipeline. Greedy Incompetent Oiuld and Gas Industry with their corrupt bribed politicians.
What’s a ouild?
They had a fence around it
Just Greg Abbott and the GOP fighting to keep needless “regulations” off business. Nothing to see here, it’ll go back to chain link after all is said and done.🤷🏼♂️
@@chaos0852 I could be wrong, but I think that's another term for peanut butter.
@@rrf6747 Need K rails or bollards. A chain link fence????
elderly and teen drivers are similar in that they have highest rate of confusing gas and brake pedals.
And Asians...
They are having that same problem in Springfield, Ohio, concerning dyslexic pedal operation.
where u get these stats? or we just making shit up?
@@Urbicide You mean Haitians
And females
What an absolute mess.
Either that guy is real short or the reporter is real tall.
lol I noticed that too.
@tazmod7272 i know him hes only 37" tall
Just look her up, she is 5 feet 6 inches tall
@@georgeeharrison4293 He certainly looked her up.
Or both
This is so heartbreaking 😢Unbelievable something like this could happen please Investigate!!!!
Wonder if the company will put up better barriers around the pipes?? Duh!
Automatic shut off valves upon sudden pressure drop? Hello?
too much money
To dangerous under ground explosion would happen if you got automatic valves
"If it's not required, we're not doing it" - 99% of companies in the USA.
@@Crismodin Actually, it is more than that. The companies lobby（=bribe?) to keep minimal requirement.
How about saying something constructively true instead of mindlessly false? Here are facts. "It takes 17 hours to reduce the pipe pressure to atmospheric pressure with venting at one end of the pipe."
No barriers around all that. Wtf!
Just a chain link fence and a unfortunate accident ( also unfortunate for the person and family) caused all this damage and $$$$ when a crash proof barrier could have been built ( not a big area- hell that burned park is much bigger and I'm sure cost alot more than a sturdy barrier)
Welcome to the USA.
They never mention what happened to the driver. I guess they are still in the vehicle?
Probably. Meat falling off the bone by now.
I doubt this was a survivable accident.
This is the third news story I’ve seen this year of a senior citizen driving into something….this is the only one that didn’t have mass fatalities.
It will later. They are all breathing all that air in.
This event has received so much attention on social media. I wouldn't be surprised that this type of 'accident' starts occurring around the country now.
Oh dear, the cat is out of the bag.
Russian sleeper cell suv
@@takehandleandshoveuparse "They're eating the dogs!They're eating the cats!"😮
It's a Democratic conspiracy! 😯
Cat had kittens? DEMOCRATS!
The left hate their country to lazy to work to scared to steal.
Well, sure would be easy to do this again if someone wanted to...perhaps, just perhaps the chainlink fence isn't the safest barrier. Maybe if they put a sign up, that would surely keep out wayward vehicles.
If the person behind the wheel was in distress and unable to stop before hitting the terminal, barriers would have not only saved the pipeline but possibly her life.
Just put up a sign that says “Don’t!”😂
A "Car Free Zone" sign should prevent this from ever happening again.
The ATM machine in my hood has a cement barrier, and it's inside the store.
💯
that ATM had money inside of it, and isnt going to explode and kill you when you impact it.
@@melvinwren but the owner will explode.
A little old lady. That is soo sad. She was probably having a medical issue. With the way the car sped up she lost conscience and her foot got heavier on the gas pedal then. 😢
I looked up the reporter, and she is 5' 6". I thought she might be really tall.
guess they need more valves to shut of the supply of gas to that valve... REDUNDANCY
FAIL on the GAS Company.
Now we will hear about the green effort which Kamala is support. What a coincidence
No barriers???????😮😮😮😮😮😮😮For protect valve? Very danger
Now that's how you make a point...
Here are facts for those accusing the company who runs the pipeline of fowl play by not shutting it off.
"It takes 17 hours to reduce the pipe pressure to atmospheric pressure with venting at one end of the pipe."
This is a liquid product in this particular pipeline. I believe your quote is referring to a gaseous product. There is a difference.
@@briansmyla8696
I haven’t seen any reports that have identified what type of pipeline it is.
@@sunshine3914 NG
Wtf won’t they just SHUT OFF THE GAS flow?! Simple.
There are MULTIPLE VALVES
They did shut the valves, residual pressure is burning off
OMG I cant believe someone didn't think of that.
Laid off the guy that knew where they are
@@flutetubamorg For 36 hours? It's still being fed.......
Nice safety barriers Texass
Heart attack
Terrorism, suicide, medical emergency. Whatever happened looked really painful. RIP
Excuses..
Wow, whoever designed that should be fired. A chain-link barrier to protect a major gas line. What an idiot.
Walmart surely has footage...
Biden told fbi not to say it’s terrorism
Driver may have had a medical emergency.. Poor woman.
What a few steel posts concreted in around it cost, less than that.
Well ....I woke up to get me a cold pop...
There needs to have bollards installed around the sensitive and vulnerable electical, and natural gas equipment rather than a chain length fence to stop a vehicle.
That's what happens when you have a stroke.
Why is it still being fed? Shut down the compressors. PG&E learned about this with the 2010 San Bruno explosion. They have plenty of isolation/diverter valves now.
Houston, we have a problem.
Seems to be a case of confusing brake with gas pedal.
I have full confidence that big oil will fully use this as an excuse to raise gas prices.
Turn it the F off
Wow....now that's a flippin' flame.
So sad for all involved
APPEARED to be elderly.
It’s completely weird officials aren’t saying anything about the driver, nor their condition. I would assume dead, but maybe not.
Better call Chance Buckman
Where that fire came from
I'm guessing that there are no rails or concrete pillars around these exposed parts of the pipeline ? 🤔
Electric vehicles are dangerous
THE REAL BLAME IS THE PERSON BEHIND THE WHEEL. SORRY BUT NOT SORRY. PEOPLE CANT DRIVE AND MANY OTHERS ARE NOT FIT TO DRIVE.
Im sure glad regulations didnt stop this and couldnt have stopped it amiright everyone im sure EVERYONE agrees
The transition to the live shot with the flame in the background was humorous
Is not the best way to get rid of "associated gas", since the gas is at the negative price? Otherwise, the gas companies have to pay customs to use their gas.
Couple: It burns just like a Tesla!
You mean gas cars are no good too?
Facts seem to suggest that the driver is still in the SUV, and expired.
Especially if elderly; reaction and recovery time would be poor.
Even a recovery isn't possible yet with intense heat.
Anything not steel within that vehicle, has been burnt and is gone.
Bones too.
How can they operate a pipeline with that kind of pressure thru a neighborhood. Why can't they shut it down?
We’re used to it.
In addition to the possibility of a heart attack, a stroke, or some other incapacitation, whomever was driving the vehicle may have gotten the drive and reverse gears mixed up; if not, the car may have malfunctioned as in the case of a stuck accelerator. (The latter, by the way, happened to me once on a two-lane desert highway, in a fairly new pickup; it was a hairy ride past the shoulder, onto and into a barbed wire and mesquite fence before it bogged down in the caliche, stopping it.) My condolences are to the family of this person, and my empathy is for those who have lost property in this devastating situation.
When near lives harden the valve so vehicle, backhoe etc does not hit it
If the driver ran through the fence and did it on purpose the driver should pay for all the damages caused including the homes
Man, that SUV gets horrible mileage.
Are we to assume the car ended up stopped on top of the broken valve! And was then hurled to its current location in the next second, or seconds, as the rapidly accumulating gas exploded?
Huh? The car ran into it, explosion, car went up into air, came back down, that's it.
Nothing more to it. Not hard to figure out.
Pipeline expert who was interviewed said it's a liquid product in the line based on the way it is burning. I'm not convinced, but time will tell.
I hear lots of people complaining about having more safty valves on the pipeline. Guess which political party has killed that legislation every time it gets mentioned?
Not very secure, or hardened, that a car traveling at low speeds is able to collide with a major gas pipeline. 🤨
Odd that the fuel source hasn't been able to be cut off by now. The operator probably hasn't been maintaining their block valves as they are required to do...
Sad. 😢😢 Possible Heart Attack?
But pipelines are super safe remember ???
must not be cost effective to try and stop the gushing flames. very impressive effort to do nothing
Did she made it alive ,,,
No.
I wonder if there is a cremation discount for partially burned bodies.
I trust the FBI
Was it on purpose?
Get ready for price hikes!!😒
No way to cut it off, no crash protection around vulnerable hardware, great design. Texas, guess how well managed the rest of your state's isolated from everybody else's energy grids are.
Bollards. Use 'em liberally around critical infrastructure. Way to go TX .. nice job on those regulations!
Look at what happened to the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland.
Well did the driver get out and run away, or did the driver eventually get cooked in their car after the explosion? No one is saying anything about what happen with the driver after the impact with the pipeline valve. Did 1st responders have to pull the driver out, if they were even able to get close enough?
lol no way anyone could get close enough. Meat is fall off the bone cooked by now.
@@briansmyla8696 By now well yes of course it would be. I meant as soon as it had happened. Wonder if any of those businesses across the street there would have any video cameras at that angle that would have picked that up.
Sir, that thumbnail fire ball looks like it has horns
She is probably older than dirt and shouldn't of had a license or as you can see been driving.
"What had happened was..."
what is the brand of the suv? bet they are disappointed that it wasn't a Tesla
....why was that rig so close to a Walmart!?
They’re everywhere, especially on that side of Houston.
That old dude is a big chismoso
So who ever it is they’re dead?
Unfortunately yes. There may not be a body left.
My vehicle emmisions fee will help save the environment.
this was no accident
Arby's said the valves are safe though
Probably someone close to Trump's age.....they did say an elderly person. He's definitely elderly
Trump is elderly, but he is not feeble or demented, unlike the current POTUS.
These pipelines with no nearby shut off valves, thats a huge problem, thats what should be next, make all these companies install them at least every 5 miles, 20 miles is just unacceptable, they make billions and cant control a fire
is she, the driver, alive?
Somewhere there is a valve that turns that off
That was a valve. Now you have to backtrack many miles one way & many more in the opposite direction to get to the valves.
Should be more than a barb wire fence
Good grief, how tall is Alex?
Looked like she was interviewing Cotton from King of the Hill.
No wonder why Progressive is leaving Texas natural disasters, now man made disasters
why waste time say lot word when few word do trick
They need the guy called Big Red and his crew to put that out , that's his specialty. They put oil fires out on the ocean .
They could put it out, but the remaining liquefied natural gas would continue to go from a liquid to gas & simply reignite.
There goes our gas bill for the winter!
For that state or all country
Not shutting off the flow seems like a convenient way to use up unwanted product or create a scarcity
This was a shutoff valve that got destroyed. Normally you would expect something to happen in the pipeline between two valves, so you would shut the two valves down. Now you are dealing with a much larger section of pipeline that goes on for many miles. It was full of liquefied natural gas.
Classic American situation
That and the Thousands of Unmarked (No lights or gates) railroad crossings!!
Something is not adding up… My condolences for those involved…🤨♾️🇺🇸
on drugs i bet that never happen before
Did school ever happen for you?
@@robertpalmer3166 Has thinking before replying ever happened to you?
@@illbeyourmonster5752 Every single time.
Extra crispy senility
Could this have been planned?
I hope Chik-fila is ok. 1:55
Either God or man.