An explosion and fire in San Francisco has led authorities to advise residents to stay indoors
An underground explosion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood has prompted fire officials to issue a shelter-in-place warning this afternoon because of toxic smoke caused by an underground explosion and fire.
About 4,500 Pacific Gas and Electric customers lost power shortly after 11:30 a.m., when an underground explosion occurred in the area of Polk and O’Farrell streets.
Firefighters used CO2 to suppress the flames, but PG&E requested they stop using it in order to allow the equipment to fail completely, fire Lt. Mindy Talmadge said.
But when firefighters stopped using the CO2, a black cloud of smoke seven stories high rose from the manhole. At one point around 1:15 p.m., flames 10 feet high shot from the manhole.
The downtown area has been seriously impacted as buildings with smoke detectors automatically have shutdown systems including elevators.
Today is the twentieth anniversary of the first “half-free” elections in Poland, when the Solidarity trade union won all available Sejm seats and all but one senate seat by a landslide. This led to the first non-communist coalition government in the Soviet Bloc and marked the fall of communism.
What is it we wanna do?
Now that I’m allowed to be alone with you
Birthday Girl its your birthday
Wherever you wanna go
Now you are old enough to go and see the R-rated show now
R-rated show
Yo, She said she was a magazine editor named Janine
Backstage in high heels and painted on jeans
Probably had the most devious eyes I’d ever seen
Told me she was twenty-two she was only seventeen
She had sumthin’ to hide she snuck in from outside
And got everybody gassed like the car I drive
With all that grown lady ass and my far out vibe
She said she came to see them roots boys fallout live
But listen,
What is it we wanna do?
Now that I’m allowed to be alone with you
Birthday Girl its your birthday
Wherever you wanna go
Now you are old enough to go and see the R-rated show now
R-rated show
You see them girls look good but they brains not ready
I talk to a woman, her mind is more steady
Probably something in the way they designed that’s more steady
I just let you recite cause the line so heavy
But I shoulda known better cause now I feel like America’s underbelly
R. Kelly gutter smut peddlers, internet predators, chat-room irregulars
This not my twist you trying to send me to the therapist, miss
What is it we wanna do?
Now that I’m allowed to be alone with you
Birthday Girl its your birthday
Wherever you wanna go
Now you are old enough to go and see the R-rated show now
R-rated show
Now she told me cheddar cheese grits
Two tomato fried fish
Cause she heard its my dish
Tryna be my sidekick
All the people all around thinking she was my chick
Saying DAMN the girl thick
But she aint no twenty-six
Looking at me like I’m up to sumthin’ on the funny tip
Like I ever been the one to honey jib
Its your birthday so let me know the gift you wanna get
In fact blow out the candles on the cake and make a wish for me
They can’t really seem to look away
So they tried asking her to stay
Fake I.D. you won’t get turned away
You look lovely tonight
Now you are old enough to buy a gun
So many better ways of having fun
Right now I can only think of one
You look lovely tonight.
What is it we wanna do?
Now that I’m allowed to be alone with you
Birthday Girl its your birthday
Wherever you wanna go
Now you are old enough to go and see the R-rated show now
R-rated show
I certainly hope that the restructuring of GM will bring forward engine technology such as this awesome diesel V8:
These features give the new engine an unusually small, light, and narrow form factor for a diesel, with the ability to fit anywhere the current LS-series gasoline V-8 will go, according to GM sources. Potential applications mentioned so far include pickup trucks under 8,600 pounds GVW and the Hummer H2. While no passenger-car plans have been revealed so far, the new engine’s small footprint allows GM “the flexibility to introduce this engine in a wide variety of vehicle applications should there be future market demand,” according to GM statements. [And what a potential hot rod engine swap candidate! -Ed.
