Report: Welcome to Exploding Manhole Season.

As Gothamist points out today, we're now in Exploding Manhole Season, when, as they put it: "The city's creaky tangle of underground utilities is once again under siege from salty water." 

As a result, there have been numerous manhole explosions reported around the city. 

Around here, we've had some smokers, as you can see in the top photo on Avenue A between Fifth Street and Sixth Street. And this morning, there was a report of a "smoking maintenance hole" on Second Avenue at 13th Street ...

Fortunately, nothing exploded in these two instances. The Gothamist post included this helpful infographic via Con Ed ...