A question arose in our office in San Francisco: why is it that in virtually every movie showing East Coast cities, you see various vents in the streets with steam coming out? Where is this steam coming from? Why don’t we have it out here? My current theory, that Satan has taken up residence in only a select few city undergrounds, is probably incorrect. But where is all the steam coming from?
Thanks. I don’t understand why this didn’t turn up when I did an archive search …
Haven’t read the link so maybe it is addressed there, but this happens all the time in San Francisco (in the Financial District anyway).
Yeah, I see it in Downtown SF all the time too.
Just a bit of a nitpick…
It’s not steam people!!
You really wouldn’t want to walk through steam.
Steam is invisible. And tremendously hot. What you are seeing is water vapor.