HUGE pipe going down the street

[jaedaliu]

No pictures, phone was out of batteries.

If anyone lives in southern california, they probably know where this is.

Thursday night I left Benihanas in Torrance and turned onto Hawthorne across from Del Amo, there was a flat bed truck with a police escort, and maitenance crew escort going northbound. The truck had some kind of pipe that was so tall that the traffic lights had to be taken off the traffic light mounting pole thingies in order to go through intersections.

For those of you that don't know hawthorne, it's probably as large as you're going to get on sruface streets. 4 lanes on each side, concrete median. and this giant pipe thing couldn't even fit under the traffic lights.

This was about 10 PM on a weekday night, and without real nightlife in the area, the streets were fairly quiet. Everyone slowed down just to see it go the other way and watch the repair crews take off and replace the traffic lights at the needed times.

anyone see it? know what the pipe was? it was mostly grey with deep red rings at the ends, but the ends were also sealed. Maybe hazardous waste? i have no freaking clue.

cliff notes:
1) Humongous pipe going North on Hawthorne near Torrance Blvd.
2) anyone see it and know what it is?

 

[mobobuff]

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[Armitage]

I saw stuff like that a few times when I lived in the area. I think it was generally refinery equipment on the way from the port up to the chevron refinery in El Segundo.

 

[jaedaliu]

Originally posted by: Armitage
I saw stuff like that a few times when I lived in the area. I think it was generally refinery equipment on the way from the port up to the chevron refinery in El Segundo.

Hey, that makes sense. but man, that must be a heavy piece of metal if it can't make it via the freeway.

 

[neutralizer]

Damn, the first thing I thought when I read "huge pipe" was how much bandwidth it would have.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: jaedaliu

Originally posted by: Armitage
I saw stuff like that a few times when I lived in the area. I think it was generally refinery equipment on the way from the port up to the chevron refinery in El Segundo.

Hey, that makes sense. but man, that must be a heavy piece of metal if it can't make it via the freeway.

I was always curious why it was on surface streets also, instead of running a traffic block up the 110 & 405 at about 1 AM. There's still alot of traffic on the freeways even at that time on a weekday, so maybe that's why.

 

[SouthPaW1227]

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[Martin]

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