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Your Evening Commute To Get A Lot Worse
An underground explosion has shut down pretty much all of Center City. A 36-block radius — 13th to 18th, Walnut to Vine — is closed. (The explosion also took out power to PW. Oh, the horror.) Thousands of people have been evacuated after an underground explosion and then fire at S. 15 Street. KYW 1060 is reporting that a cable had a fault in it at 15th Street, and then someone tried to switch the load to another cable — but instead switched it to the faulty cable. (Got all that?) Now there are fires at 15th and Ranstead and 13th and Chestnut. Of course, if this really affects you, you’re probably out in front of your building and not reading this, are you? Update, 3:10 p.m.: Fire commish says one person is injured; also has hilarious “has to turn down his radio” moment during the presser, as if he were on sports talk radio. Underground Electrical Explosion Rocks Penn Center Area [KYW 1060] |
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Here’s the head-scratcher of the day - all three stations, who would cut into programming at the drop pf a hat to show something non-newsworthy like, say, a Rocky statue being unveiled again, are sticking with the soaps while CNN is breaking in live.
Jesus. I’m gone for five days and all hell breaks loose. What’s gonna happen when I leave for good? And more importantly, will I care?