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[-] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Was this the one in texas, or in plum PA? Or a different one. As the gas infrastructure ages we are getting more and more of this. I mean, it's only a couple over the past few years vs the 100s of thousands of houses with gas lines, so it's still relatively rare.

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A catastrophic failure is a sudden and total failure from which recovery is impossible. Catastrophic failures often lead to cascading systems failure. The term is most commonly used for structural failures, but has often been extended to many other disciplines in which total and irrecoverable loss occurs, such as a head crash occurrence on a hard disk drive. Such failures are investigated using the methods of forensic engineering, which aims to isolate the cause or causes of failure. (Wikipedia)

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