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mountain grammy

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2. It is a terrible failure and could have caused damage.

Reply to SidDithers (Original post)

Thu Nov 24, 2016, 09:34 AM

Nov 2016

Glad no one was injured. But, to put this in perspective with, say, an oil rig failure or pipeline blowout, we're not looking at years of cleanup and environmental impacts.

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