More than 300 Evacuated After Natural Gas Leak Darien, WI, United States 1/19/2000 CSB

Information Added: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 - 5:17 PM ----- Evacuated were more than 300 students and teachers from Darien Elementary, who were bussed to a school in nearby Delavan. More than 20 residents were put up in a nearby fire station.

The evacuation orders were called off after two hours when crews successfully shut off the gas supply to the area.

A gas main and water main were both reported to have broken.

Police chief Michael Michalek said, "The risk was whether or not the gas main was a large main and whether there were a lot of gas fumes. We were worried that with wind the fumes would go into people's basements."

Link:

http://chemsafety.gov/circ/post.cfm?incident_id=4609

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 19, 2000

Answers

Could it have been due to severe artic weather conditions?

-- (jack@frost.freezingpipes), January 19, 2000.

It's in Wisconsin, for God's sake....They have arctic conditions all the time.

This is getting to the point of rediculousness. Mains breaking left and right. There is definitely a pattern here. Who else sees it?

Now is it because of faulty embeddeds misregulating pressure?

Or is it because safety systems have been shut down? Or maybe a combination of the two.

And how 'bout those electric bills coming covering a 6-7 week period because the systems are still being tested. That's not Y2K related. Of course not.

"we're just upgrading systems."

I started breking into my supplies, maybe I shouldn't have. Will trucks be running to the grocery store in a month? Will the shelves be restocked? Or will gasoline only be available for official use only???

-- Duke1983 (Duke1983@aol.com), January 20, 2000.

It's in Wisconsin, for God's sake....They have arctic conditions all the time.

This is getting to the point of rediculousness. Mains breaking left and right. There is definitely a pattern here. Who else sees it?

Now is it because of faulty embeddeds misregulating pressure?

Or is it because safety systems have been shut down? Or maybe a combination of the two.

And how 'bout those electric bills coming covering a 6-7 week period because the systems are still being tested. That's not Y2K related. Of course not.

"we're just upgrading systems."

I started breaking into my supplies, maybe I shouldn't have. Will trucks be running to the grocery store in a month? Will the shelves be restocked? Or will gasoline only be available for official use only???

-- Duke1983 (Duke1983@aol.com), January 20, 2000.