Published: October 30th, 2012 at 9:30 pm ET
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Title: Sandy Aftermath: Ruptured Gas Lines Worry Seaside Heights, New Jersey
Source: ABC News
Author: Lauren Effron
Date: Oct. 30, 2012 at 8:03p ET
Aside from widespread power outages and flooding that is reaching doorsteps, residents stranded in Seaside Heights, N.J., are worried about another danger: ruptured gas lines.
Locals told “Nightline” anchor Terry Moran that they had been told there is a concern that the slightest spark could set the town ablaze.
Moran, who canoed to the beach because the storm surge from Sandy was so high, said he could smell gas and oil coming from the standing flood waters [...]
Seaside heights is 10 miles north of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant.
NBC Philadelphia is reporting similar problems in Ship Bottom, 11 miles to the south of Oyster Creek:
Published: October 30th, 2012 at 9:30 pm ET
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If ABC is concerned, include me out.
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Upon further consideration, I perceive this otherwise alarming, ABC promoted, 'spark could set town ablaze', and 'reporter smells oil' suggestion, coinciding with possible nuclear cooling failures and contaminating gas emissions from Salem and Oyster Creek NJ NPPs, to be unmitigated, diversionary, and corporatized disinformation of the 1st order.
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Guess I'll be watching the jet stream a tad more closely.
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I need to get some shut-eye, but one last post directed to moonshellblue: Where are you relative to the storm and how are you faring? (Since it's 4 a.m. in Pennsylvania I hope you are blissfully sleeping as I write this!)
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[Watch a report from NBC on the spewing gas here]
This link goes to a 'blank' screen for me?
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Got it now.
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