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...came down like rain, but what was falling on a West Virginia shopping mall was a chemical compound that had leaked from a Union Carbide plant in South Charleston. About 5,700 lbs. of a mixture containing mesityl oxide escaped when an excessive amount of steam built up in a distillation tank. The stinging substance sent four people to the hospital. Others were treated for nausea and tissue irritation...
...about eight months, and at 7:30 on Feb. 7, the birthday morning, the view from a frost-coated Palmer House window was of what a local writer, Chuck Rathe, calls glittering bitterness--a sub-zero refraction of sunrise on salt and ice and frost, sparkling through clouds of steam and smoke, the air itself turned to veils. The cold and the seeping, whistling presence they call "that wind!" are eerie and somehow ominous...
...Harvard community is still awaiting the first burst of steam this winter as a custom made steam meter, ordered from a Washington contractor over two months ago, has yet to be installed, said George Oommen, senior project development officer for the Harvard University Planning Group...
...added that the recent warm weather has also prevented fountain operation. The fountain, which runs in the winter by spraying steam at 180 degrees, cannot operate when air temperature exceeds 40 degrees as the steam will not condense and will dangerously heat the spray jets, Oommen explained...
Temperature and wind sensors are in the process of being calibrated, but Oommen said he doesn't expect the fountain to operate again until mid-April when water, rather than steam, will fuel the fountain's rainbow effect...