BREAKING: Right outside the recently crumbling Hibernia Bank building at Jones & Market, a flood of brown water has erupted either out of a storm drain, or out of the building itself, or out of some pipe just up Jones Street. Prepare to be wading in shit if you have any errands around Civic Center BART. Buses and cars are currently plowing through the sludge up McAllister, but it is spreading toward 7th Street and no one has stemmed the tide...

Update: SFAppeal has word that "[a] new connection (made just this morning) in a water main broke on McAllister and has flooded the street 'for about a block.' While the water (which, did we mention, is blessedly not sewage) does creep onto Market Street, traffic on Market is not expected to be disrupted." The area, however, will remain closed for the next few hours or so. (Also, blessed be, it's not poop!)

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