{"id":24915,"date":"2011-03-17T13:06:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T13:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/03\/17\/how-does-todays-explosion-in-m\/"},"modified":"2011-03-17T13:06:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T13:06:42","slug":"how-does-todays-explosion-in-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/how-does-todays-explosion-in-m\/","title":{"rendered":"How does today&#8217;s explosion in Minneapolis compare to TMI and Chernobyl?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daemonic underground gasses exploded to the surface in a fiery fireball in South Minneapolis today, blasting a huge hole in a parking lot, causing several cars to meltdown, and potentially damaging a newly rebuilt section of God&#8217;s Highway (I35 W).<sup>1<\/sup>  The news agencies noticed it when checking the traffic cameras for their local traffic report.<\/p>\n<p>Local Minneapolitonians:  This was on 60thE and Nicollet, near the Crosstown Junction.  Route 62, closed for a time, is reopened, but as of this writing, 35 W is closed both North and South as they are checking for damage.  Of the just moments ago rebuilt nightmarish intersection from hell.  Somehow it all fits together.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sBz8n-XCA44\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(do watch at least through the middle!)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Not the part that fell into the River a few years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daemonic underground gasses exploded to the surface in a fiery fireball in South Minneapolis today, blasting a huge hole in a parking lot, causing several cars to meltdown, and potentially damaging a newly rebuilt section of God&#8217;s Highway (I35 W).1 The news agencies noticed it when checking the traffic cameras for their local traffic report. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/how-does-todays-explosion-in-m\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How does today&#8217;s explosion in Minneapolis compare to TMI and Chernobyl?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6tR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}