Extreme Cold Pipe Burst

[@dukemetzger3784]

Of all the damn place for it to burst...it had to be baggage claim area! lol

[@BattlestarCanada]

It's the self-cleaning floors! Cool innovation :D -- Damn that's cold!

[@lisapolanski9379]

I don't think I'd want to get on a plane if it's that cold. How miserable to be in that airport at this time.

[@scottfw7169]

Eh, cold air is thicker than hot air, they fly better in cold, & then there is that airliners habitually cruise at altitudes where the air is well below freezing as a matter of normality, a quick reference check says at 30,000 feet air temperature is normally in the ranges of -40F to -70F, or for the non-Fahrenheit demographic, -40C to -57C.

[@alvinhe7871]

How cold was it?

[@anthonyguarino4242]

Like it was raining heavily inside the airport!

[@White_sox_fan]

And get it to all sorts of problems at airports like a pipe burts Miss your flight and delayed

[@gibrath5514]

Ut oh……

[@scottfw7169]

For some strange reason my brain rendered that 'Ut oh' in Scooby Doo's voice ...

[@akshonclip]

Thats a fire sprinkler. Hence the flashing strobes as well.

[@7duke77]

Actually it's not. If it were, they'd all be going off since those systems are designed so that when one of them goes, they all go. So were it part of the fire suppression system, the entire place (at least that floor and area) would be one giant shower.

[@anthonyguarino4242]

@@7duke77yep, good catch! The entire airport would’ve been flooded by fire sprinklers if all were going off. It’s unknown how the pipe burst could cause the fire alarm to go off!

[@Asteroid44yay]

@@7duke77 no, it was a fire sprinkler suppression system. I was there.

[@akshonclip]

@@anthonyguarino4242 You two have no idea how fire sprinklers work. What you see in the movies is not how they activate. Pressurized systems only release the heads that have been set off from heat below them. Not the entire system. Freezing can also set them off.

[@akshonclip]

@@7duke77 You two have no idea how fire sprinklers work. What you see in the movies is not how they activate. Pressurized systems only release the heads that have been set off from heat. Not the entire system. A soft metal plug or ampule melts. Freezing can also compromise them.