Re: Cleveland outage (Warning: operational content)

[jlewis () lewis org]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Steve Sobol wrote:

> http://www.cleveland.com/news/sreports/flood
>
> A 36" pipe burst yesterday afternoon, releasing over 25 gallons of
> water into an area covering several city blocks.

Personally, I don't consider 25 gallons of water in an outdoors setting to
be a flood.  Judging from the picture (and the text on the page) there's a
whole bunch of zeros missing from the 25.  Perhaps it was 25 gallons per
some small unit of time?

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