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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
Then I got home and it was a steam pipe.
Is this not 2007? what kind of shit is this? why do they need STEAM pipes anymore? To heat the buildings? BULLSHIT!.
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Its my understanding this is waste heat from electricity generation they use to heat buildings and I think that is great, honestly. I'm not sure why its there in the summer though. I think every building I've lived in NYC uses steam heat.
I can't verify the accuracy, but on one site some guy compared the situation to dropping cold water on a hot incadescent lightbulb (BOOM!) - perhaps some water leaked from yesterdays heavy rain and penetrated the asbestos layer.
My weather channel radar shows some weather building up now, just in time for rush hour. Its bizarre how these storms consistently come through NYC right around rush hour.