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luke duke

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  1. Sidenote, I was curious on what the safety reg is for pipeline valve safety and found the following:
    https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/interp/pi-12-0008

    In a letter to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) dated August 9, 2012, the Associated Safety Consultants (ASC), Inc., requested an interpretation of the applicability of the Federal pipeline safety regulations at 49 CFR 192.317(b) to an aboveground gas transmission line or main.  Specifically, ASC asks PHMSA's interpretation of how a 'safe distance' is defined or determined, and what would constitute an effective barricade?

    Section 192.317(b) reads as follows:

    (b) Each aboveground transmission line or main, not located offshore or in inland navigable water areas, must be protected from accidental damage by vehicular traffic or other similar causes, either by being placed at a safe distance from the traffic or by installing barricades. 

    PHMSA has not adopted general criteria to judge the safety of distances and effective barricades separating aboveground gas pipeline facilities from vehicular traffic.  Therefore, a safe distance and effective barricade would be whatever a reasonable and prudent pipeline operator would conclude is safe under the site specific circumstances, considering relevant factors such as the speed limit, the direction of traffic, the terrain, and any natural barriers.

     
    So there's no actual rules or regulations on what is required, just as long as it passes the gut check of the operator. The valve is 100 feet from a 50mph road (45 posted, but cmon its Houston yall), surrounded by gravel. A chainlink fence seems sub-par at best.

    If we want to split hairs, the pipeline and mainline valve appear to be below ground. It looks like either the smaller blowoff valve and/or the above ground actuator is what was hit.
  2. still begs the question: how are there not more bollards or other protective measures to keep heavy things away from such a vulnerable and critical valve? In a residential area no less? They just throwing up a chainlink fence and calling it good?

    When you’re several hundred feed away from the parking lot, an accidental vehicular impact is low on the list of likely scenarios. The most likely risk is dumb high school kids turning a valve. That being said bollards aren’t that expensive.
  3. Liar.  No way you would have ever found me in a library!
    Yeah, if my math is correct, I've been a member about 23.5 years (half my life) on some sort if Longhorn message board.  And the other half not on a Longhorn message board website, with a few 6-mos hiatuses here and there over the years.  Never tempted to join myspace, twitter, facebook, instagram, reddit, snapchat, pinterest, or tiktok.  Have an old linkedin page for a previous employer and you surly bastards.  
    But levity aside, it's weird to think about this mass of us adopting the original sites in late 90's/early 00's.  A vast majority of the posters/tailgate attendees/et. al. mainly between 25-35 at the time.  Meaning ~25+ years from now, there's gonna be hundreds of us dying every single year.  Kind of a bummer.  But been a run ride, hopefully we're not even halfway done yet. Also doing well at football would certainly help take the fucking sting off this shit.

    This one didn’t age well. RIP
  4. Pretty sad about Grendel... 58 damn. Apparently I worked for years w/his stepbrother, a well-known character at our office, and didn't know it 'til looking at the obit just now. 

    I’m only a year and a half late on this one

  5. Like dcbc said, it should be okay, but I have yet to try it myself.  
    Word of caution though, if you're going to be using store-made chicken stock, make sure it's gluten free, because some retail brands have gluten-containing ingredients.  We have a friend who has celiac, and a couple years ago saw first hand a reaction to having just a little bit of gluten.  It wasn't pretty.

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  6. There's a whole YouTube rabbit hole you can go down of people from different parts of the world trying different kinds of food.  The tribal people (Pakistan/Afghanistan border area) ones are my favorites.

    Thanks for the link.
  7. I don't know shit about fuck about your family dynamic.  But, a young man, in these days of YouTube videos, should be able to make these repairs himself.  It will be a great learning experience for him. A confidence builder.  Check rockauto.com for the parts, and let him do the install.  Nothing here is rocket science.   If he's not a dumbshit, he should be able to figure it out.  

    lol no


    He’s going to a&m?
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