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  • This is the same thing that happened in the chernobyl powerplant...

    Lucky bastards.

  • i used to be an explosion, then i took an arrow to the knee

  • Why the fuck is all that steam under the streets?

  • @channelhismojo New york uses steam for a lot of different things

  • :DDD nice

  • scary sound damn

  • Not to bring up the past, but this video looks almost exactly like the big dust cloud after 9-11.

  • SHIT!!!

  • Is this Real world? lol

  • that is crazy

  • i took work off that day, i'm glad i did

  • @daveed793

    Water collects and takes up the steam pipes. The built up water traps areas of steam together under high pressure causing the pipe to burst. It's uncommon it happens to this extent as the Steam network has bleeders through out it where the water can be released.

    That's why all over NYC you can see steam coming from drains and man made chimneys to vent of the water and any other overly high pressures.

  • @AGWDanimations Most likely some steam traps failed, which allow condensate (water) to exit the line but the steam does not.

    Its not the built up pressure from the water that will burst a line but most likely water hammer due to the condensate over a period of time.

    Sometimes over time steam lines just give way due to weakness from wear and tear and improper water treatment

  • An old timer steam locomotive engineer would have simply walked right up to the orifice where the steam was ascending from, sat down, and felt right at home.

  • I bet you tht knocked the boilers offline lol. Header pressure would have been sucked out right away.

  • @WeeSexyTC lol wat

  • Sorry, I swung my cock and hit the pipe.

  • Man I breathed in some of that smoke coming from the street. I got sick for weeks.

  • It's STEAM you prick! W A T E R!!!!! Sick?

  • @greatwhiterose

    No it wasn't necessarily THIS. It was that gas that comes [Or came] up from manholes.

  • thats alot of steam

  • So u guess that on the hot side eh?

  • placing such thing under street is stupid!

    it is like placing nuclear reactor or giant tanks with explosive gas in center of the city.

  • The steam is pumped under the city because it means that the people of New York can have hot running water without having to rely on boilers. It works in two ways because it means in winter snow melts off the roads and pavements than it would do otherwise :)

  • I dont understand - Why is steam pumped under the city?

  • wtf when did this happen???

  • summer 2007

  • Dang, it looks like a baby volcano erupting!!!

  • @kdc43 oh yeah! Same with the NY Post headline on that day. I think it was called "Midtown Volcano"! BTW I was in Soho when it happened, but I can't really see anything with all the buildings around. When I went home in Flushing, NY. and turned on NY1 was the moment I found out what happened.

  • Are these deadly?

  • @mushidigger OF COURSE! NO SHIT!! One person actually died in this accident! Imagine having extremely highly pressurized steam at 125 Deg. C. shooting at you, I mean you are pretty much sizzled!

  • @NKoreaMann21 kfh then

  • Cogeneration. Conventional coal-thermal electric plant: 30% efficient to electricity, 70% waste heat. Cogeneration coal plant - guessing - 20% electricity, 60% steam for building heat, only 20% waste heat.

    At Wikipedia it sez -- "Con Edison distributes 30 billion pounds of 350 °F/180 °C steam each year through its seven cogeneration plants to 100,000 buildings in Manhattan—the biggest steam district in the world."

    In the summer, the steam runs absorption chillers for air conditioning.

  • Can somebody message me and tell me what on earth that is?? Why would new york of all places have its own private geyser? I dont understand....

  • i remember seeing somewhere that it has something to do with steam entering a water main which caused the steam to rapidly cool leaving a void which the water rushed into which somehow caused an explosion. i can't remember what its called though and i'm still not sure on why exactly it occurs

  • i just found out the name. its something called 'water hammer'

  • yea it is called water hammer.water hammer is when cold water comes in contact with the pipe causing the steam inside the pipe to condense into water and increase the pressure locally

  • it happens when a steam bubble travels up a pipe water logged as it condenses it slings a few hundred pounds of water in speeds of 150mph and when it reaches a T or a U joint it can easily break through and shatter through 1/2 thick black steel. cast iron/copper should not be used on steam.

  • few hundred pounds of water in speeds of 150mph? this is steam. and again, condensing steam would be a decrease in pressure-.-

  • what? do you know what your talking about? first, a water hammer is when you close a valve quickly and because water doesn't compress easily, it sends shock waves through the pipe, second, condensing steam would cause the pressure to decrease. if it was water freezing that would be a different story, but this is a "Steam explosion NYC", so next time don't post something on you tube if your just going to be stupid

  • @Maverickb LOL I was just looking through all of the replies to my messages over the years and I just came across this gem! Hopefully someday you'll come across this again as well and enjoy the memories.

    Peace be upon you brother.

    P.S. Yes, I am a cynical bastard :)

  • i was on Vacation on the Helmsley the next block over when this happened....i almost shit when i heard the bang...scary man

  • global warming

  • Damn, I shouldn't have flushed that baking soda...

  • I flushed my vinegar at the same time you flushed baking soda. Now we owe New York millions of dollars!

  • wow that fucking crazy

  • ah, vai à merda!

    isso é só putaria deles!!!

  • omg wat must have been going thru new yorkers head when this was happening they would have thort a terrosit attack

  • thort is still not a word -.-'

  • It's neeeeeeeew yooooooooooork!so beautiful!

  • anone seen that film volcano with tommy lee jones wen thers a volacno that blows up in a city an thers steam everywere, that wat tht luks like

  • global warming moving on...

  • omg..

  • It has been speculated that this explosion was caused after routine maintenance on that pipe's generation station left excess steam in the pipe after shut down. The steam cooled, condensed, and left a pool in a low spot. When steam was forced through later, it hit the narrower section of the pipe where the water had pooled and as a result, pressure built up behind the pool and forced the pipe to explode.

  • How does this happen? Where is the steam from? I live in a cornfield.

  • Many eastern US cities rely on steam from steam generation facilities or local power plants for heating. Because steam rises, as made evidently apparent in the video, it is an excellent method for heating very tall structures.

  • thais is real i was there

  • was this the explosion that blasted out tons of asbestos?

  • This was on FOX News! An example of NYC's aging utility pipelines...

  • last...

  • are you a dumbfuck it was on the news.

  • And of course there is always someone who don't get sarcasm.

  • its hard to express sarcasm on the internet it doesent even seem as if you were being sarcastic

  • I love cyberspcace beatdown Fight Fight Fight!!

    uh.. it was posted 4 months ago... sigh....

  • epic

  • ... The scolding hot watery kind of steam.

  • someone had too many burritos last night it seems..

  • What the hack is a steam pipe of that size doing under NY city?

  • one of the things that bascially powers our city there's a huge network of them

  • when the world trade centre fell, it knocked a crack in the pipe, and then later it exploded.

  • man that steam rises up quickly. dont the people standing there feel the heat from it?

  • Unbeliveable that a steam pipe can blow up that much,

  • ok first off, that karletto guy below me isnt funny cuz some people died from it and my brother was there. and second, to the fireball guy, the pipes were made in the 30's. thats why they blew up because they were incredibly old.

  • Yes but why are they there?

  • If I had to guess, Combined Heathing and Power(CHP).

    If a fireplant burns natural gas and generates electricity it will produce ~40% electricity and ~60% heat. That's of course an enormous waste, so if you can use that heat to heat peoples appartments in the winter it's a big win.

  • people in that building dont need to clean the windows

  • why are there pipes carring high pressure steam beneath roads!!! Who's idea was that dear God the americans are incredibly stupid.

  • Not as dumb as he United Kingdom boys with the severe water leaks problems you have. I live in the UK and its no perfect place also FIREBALL!

  • I'm sorry which is more dangerous high pressure steam or leaking water. hmmm... thats a toughy duhhhh

  • It's a secret.

  • "why are there pipes carring high pressure steam beneath roads!!!"

    Well thats easy to explain... Imagine a city block surrounded on all 4 sides by city streets. How do you get steam to those buildings with out laying pipes under the streets? You cant its impossiable. Come on use your head alittle. I bet if i goto your country ill see the same thing...

  • @fireball79058350 You are one hell of a dumbass you know that ?

  • @67tr876 What is your justification?

  • @fireball79058350 Well for starters I can see you're a rude ass brit like most of you and what the hell would you know of are city. 2nd you're comment was not true at all and rude. and 3th con ED does this so we all can have hot water and heat in the winter my good sir.

  • @fireball79058350 o and I will be the bigger man and say sorry for calling you a dumb ass but I do have a temper when it come's to guys like you.

  • @fireball79058350 Still dont get it ? Let look at that comment you were not just asking but you did say ''God the americans are incredibly stupid'' That was rude and not true at all and uncalled for. Maybe not all of you are rude but you sure are.

  • damn, where is Giulliani when you need him?

  • dat was coming out of da gutter idk y shii like dat happen evryday here

  • So, was this Bush's fault or was it global warming this time....it had to be one or the other right?

  • It looked like 9/11. I would've hit the cuts and been in Jersy before anyone knew what happened.

  • Ummm... Why is anyone concerned with office building windows breaking, and car windows staying intact?

    It's alot easier to break pane glass than car windows; One is designed to regularly travel at speeds over 60mph and protect from rocks and other road debris, and one is designed to sit in a frame...

  • Aw, too bad you're wrong.

  • F-N A Cotton, F-N A

  • Lol funny how no one's like Holy shit...cept they all just stand there

  • u would too

  • ehhh its new yark, anyting can 'appen

  • TAHT'S a BIG BITCH

  • oh no, terrorism! must stay in fear

  • I would've been running like hell. It looks too much like 9/11 in the streets.

  • Here the next Hollywood Blockubster: STEAM 3!

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • holy crap, no wonder everyone was so sketched out.

  • i guess this is why new york always smells so fucking awful

  • start your own business and leave the rat race, then you don't have to go into the steam bath of a city. work from anywhere!

  • so fake

  • why does anybody need to carry steam?? I could understand steam coming from water heaters in buildings, but why this huge quantity?

  • It was a CONTROLLED EXPLOSION! Look at the man-made PATTERN of STEAM! Wake up People!

  • o really? then why were 47 people injured and $30 million lost. What possible reason would thye have?

  • Yes, wake up people. Listen to the paranoid nut job

  • Saying its a coincidence would be ignorant of me, knowing what happened on 9/11 and how that was proven a cover-up. If there was i towtruck the crator it could of been a Car bomb or something.. We really dont see an actual Physical car in there except the tow truck.. But if u look at the Debris after the steam settles it looks like Small car Peices. Not the Color of the Tow Truck either, Look at other angles on other Videos to confirm.

  • One thing i dont understand is why Windows were broken on the buildings Nearby but The cars windows closer to the explosion werent also broken >.>. U can Clearly see it in any video of the coverage.. I think i saw one Video that one Car window was broken.ONLY ONE wtf, lol. Also why the fuck would there be a Tow Truck right in the Explosion Site.

  • transformer fart

  • the government kill 3000 not the talibans.

  • Damn, that was wicked...Rumor had it that it was all just Al Roker passing gas...

  • NOT THE STEAM! ANYTHING BUT THE STEAM!

  • Yum!

  • damn ny must suck

  • quit using these silly videos as your soapbox people. no one gives a shit about your rip off political views.

  • Believe EVERYTHING on CORPORATE MEDIA. Give NO thought to logic, reason, or reality. NEVER think. FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, tell you what to think. The "EVIL DOERS" are THE GANG of CRIMINALS in Government and Corporations. Americans will be arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and executed. Think, ACT, and LIVE FREE or DIE TRYING. Those in POWER are less than 1% of the population. We are the powerful when we realize we are. Wake up.
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  • r u skird yet ? ? ? what color is the tera alert today? had a gut feeling lately? Americans are s t oo p i d !!!!

  • how does THIS make americans stupid? Well at least we are not monkey-raping fags like you.

  • I don't really think terrorism on any country is something to joke about. It doesn't matter who it affects. And I don't understand how it makes American citizens 'stupid' (funny how an American can spell these tough words correctly). You need to grow up.

  • Is it possible to "grow up" in an oppressive enivronment? Most of the USA has child mind, is told what to do, refuses to take responsibility for anything. When in turn = passive and stupidity. Do I have to draw a diagram for you like Kurt Vonnegut? Well, this is what is happening.

  • every country in the world is like that. people believe whatever they are told anywhere in the world. it isnt just the u.s. it really isnt oppressive either. apart from high medical bills, fewer gay rights, and the patriot act its the same as europe.

  • So Fake!!!

  • a giant smoke bomb would do the same, hehe

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  • 911 again!!! Get ready America, Al Qaeda strikes again!

  • Yippee! Al Queda! Now we can bomb Iran! Whoo-hooo yipee!

  • Makes no fucking sense you stupid ignorant runt, Al Queda and Iran are two different situations, it's people like you that rot the world and should just die.

  • whoa, looks like 911, i bet people were shitting themselves!

  • Brian Battybungbung, "there is no way this was an accident, it look like a terrorist attempt, that has been covered up"

    Cant argue with fact

  • thats the devil comeing after you!

  • It's so obvious that Bush did it.

  • Is that doo doo commin out? lol

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  • Story is posted here..... so stop with the fake stuff...msnbc.msn.(om/id/19837­147/

  • I dont know who did this, but I do kno that its not a fake video.

    There are tons of shots of this all over YouTube, rom diferent angles.

  • chill the fuck out. It wasn't anything serious, I'm sure ConEd's fixing it as we speak.

  • No jail time for Marine convicted in Iraqi killing .............. a reduction in rank and will be discharged.

    watch?v=-KPkpuaCJF4

  • u guys r really fucked in the head, a word of advice NOBODY GIVES A HOLY FLYING FUCK

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  • Steam Pipe Explosion my ass.

    7/18 was an inside job. Ask yourself, who profits from this? Who gets the big juicy contracts to fix it, hmmm?

  • The NYC street department?

  • quite obviously a governmental scare tactic. knew it the first instant i saw it on television.

    fear is what keeps us apart.

    don't be afraid to love one another.

    love your fellow humans. oh, look into brainwave entrainment..

  • Good thing we have the expert here.

  • get a life.

  • Daddy never loved you did he?

  • That is crazy. I bet people were freaking out. I would have been running to the library to hide like in that disaster movie that sucked ass.

  • what caused the explosion anyways?!

  • my dad is a fireman in NYC and he went to the steam pipe explosion, so anyone saying this is a hoax video is mistaken, it did happen

  • your dad said you were an accident

  • snap!

  • it's not fake dumbass. first of all you can see the reflexion in the building. secondly, they're are 50 other youtube vids of this.

  • wow

  • so fake

  • no a steam pipe did explode in midtown