The Big Bang

Louisville residents still remember the Friday the 13th sewer explosion in 1981 that destroyed some 13 miles of lines and left 38-foot deep craters.

At 5:16 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 13, 1981, an explosion in downtown Louisville, Ky., hurled a passenger car into a railroad overpass structure and dropped it into a crater. At the same time, officers in a police helicopter saw a series of explosions begin at the railroad underpass on...

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