Mike Heller <mikeh@earthweb.com> writes:

I find it interesting that we don't hear about more accidental gas explosions and water main breaks from backhoes. Are the blueprints and posted warnings more detailed or is there more fiber than utility pipe in the ground?

{Tardy reply} Ha! I was in the pipeline business. It happens all the time. See <http://www.underspace.com/> About a year ago, a woman in a new tract house out by Dulles died after the basement filled with gas & it exploded. The line had been nicked -- suspected cause: the electric utility laying THEIR feed. Every few years, someone hits a LPG line and turns into marshmallow. A public housing building in Chicago was destroyed when a gas line was hit -- ?18 months? ago or so. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433