Leaky Pipes

I was standing in a basement looking up at some stairs.  All around the stairs were pipes.  The pipes were all different, copper, plastic and iron.  One of the pipes was leaking.  I disconnected the pipe and had a closer look.  The connection was all rotted out and broken.  I noticed a large pipe going up that was leaking a lot.  The water coming out was hot.  It was gushing out and running down the pipe.  The pipe was broken at the bottom too.