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At 3:45 pm, the last explosion occurred, blowing out a manhole cover at the intersection of Second street and Burnett Avenue. [ 2 ] The university and all businesses and other schools in the area were shut down for varying periods (including the shops and restaurants that area residents needed to use, especially as they had no running water and ...
Shortly before 5:30 a.m., a manhole cover lifted off from its launching pad on Hill Street in Old Louisville and blasted through Pam Smith's roof, decking a coffee table in the process.
Across both Indiana and Kentucky, the massive amount of water entering the cities' underground viaducts caused a pressure build-up, blowing off a number of man-hole covers, which created dangerous road hazards. [4]
In a second the air was aflame with a roar like artillery. “As soon as the gas took fire, the head of the jet of oil was in a furious blaze, and falling like water from a fountain over a space 100 feet in diameter; each drop came down a blazing globe of boiling oil. Instantly the ground was aflame.”
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A round manhole and its cover. A manhole cover is a removable plate forming the lid over the opening of a manhole, an opening large enough for a person to pass through that is used as an access point for an underground vault or pipe. It is designed to prevent anyone or anything from falling in, and to keep out unauthorized persons and material.
This is the bizarre moment manhole covers were captured bouncing up and down on a road in northwestern China. In the video, shot in the city of Shangluo in Shaanxi Province on August 1, a couple ...