steamThe bowels of New York exploded in a seismic geyser-like spew! Turn on your TV to local NY news to watch incredible footage of a steam pipe gushing gas and mud into the air!

It’s not terrorism.

UPDATE 7:20 PM – Our resident steam correspondent ZvS can see the steam all the way from Brooklyn, and has called our attention to the above pretty awesome photo on Flickr.

ALSO – We’d like to take a moment, purely for history’s sake, to appreciate the crazy shit that happened last summer in New York: Power-saw slicingSuicide bombing. Prolonged blackouts. Let us appreciate what hot weather will do.