He was about 1/4 mile away when he shot the propane tank with his rifle.

This is how we got rid of pesky black helicopters. Timing is key.

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Thank you, Sir!

Poor people.....

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Originally posted by Jimbo Jones:
Looks like they effed up both neighbors' houses as well, initally at the explosion and from the fire afterwrads (neighbors house the the right looks totally charred).

Glad no one got hurt.

I agree the flex in both of the neighbor’s houses was amazing.

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Originally posted by Graniteguy:
New home and new cars.

Still going to suck living in a hotel for 6 months.

This an example where intentional, diligently well-secured cloud backups are a godsend. Imagine losing you family photos (most digital at this point).

Imagine sitting on the deck next door sipping coffee when that explosion touched off

The fire is added insult to injury and virtually impossible to extinguish once it gets going- too much air getting in from all sides.

The local report stated that neighbor homes nearby were immediately condemned. This isn't just one home now, it's the others in close proximity who are now out.

The contractors take blame for mistakes, yet a recent experience is interesting. Our water line was seeping, we needed a repair, I first called up the utility locators to find all the underground stuff buried in the easements. Once again the gas line that our neighbors have always thought wasn't there was marked, and a 7200v buried cable from the overheads to a new street junction box was marked.

Right down our driveway. Ah, no, and our own power hookup was marked coming off the pole, it's the next one to the south. The utility marking company was wrong - flat wrong. I got the contractor on site the next day and we both laughed over it - when the 7200v line was put in some excavated fill wasn't needed and the wife talked them into putting it in our yard as a parking pad, which they eagerly did. We also had the driller in our yard and they went east - not west the way the line was marked. When you live at a location for decades, these things aren't rocket surgery.

Contractor opened it up and no, there is no 7200v line running down my driveway under an intermittent stream toward a 40 acre field that remains undeveloped. Hmm. And we did fix the $25 a month leak. My side of the meter, nope, no refund.

We don't get the stories of the utility locators getting it wrong, only the explosions.

I'm still confused about how an outside line puncture blows up a home- and just that home. Perhaps an open door or window that let the house fill with gas? I get the ignition source being inside the house, but have a hard time imagining that house filling with gas.

If the entire area surrounding the house was filled with gas, would an ignition source inside the house cause only that house to explode, with no fireball around it?

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They lived in a rural area. He waited some distance away when the cheater boyfriend entered the home. He was about 1/4 mile away when he shot the propane tank with his rifle. It not just blew it up, where he was 1/4 mile away it blew him over and burned the shit out of him.
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Sounds like he was pulling someone's leg, while she was pulling something else...

Link can a rifle shot blow up a Propane Tank

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Originally posted by tacfoley:

Thank you, Sir!

Poor people.....

My pleasure..

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Originally posted by honestlou:
I'm still confused about how an outside line puncture blows up a home- and just that home. Perhaps an open door or window that let the house fill with gas? I get the ignition source being inside the house, but have a hard time imagining that house filling with gas.

If the entire area surrounding the house was filled with gas, would an ignition source inside the house cause only that house to explode, with no fireball around it?

Natural gas rises it is about 1/3 the molecular weight of air, helium is about 1/9. You see how fast a helium balloon rises when let go, a natural gas ballon would move about 1/4 that speed, but still up it goes.

So, if the line break is near the house, the hous e is uphill and upwind, the gas can infiltrate and "force out" the air and replace it, building up and it does not take much to make a house go to pieces.

Anyone that has gas appliance (stove or oven) and ever let he gas run on for more than 5-10 seconds and then got it to light, imagine gas filling a house for minutes (not to forget, 30 minutes to an hour), and you can understand how it is a bad thing.

If we knew where this break was, wind, and how high above the break, we might better understand this one.

As to why houses on either side? Same points, relation to gas source, the flow, and all the other stuff.

Glad nobody was hurt but I have to admit, I love a good explosion. Too bad the homeowners had to lose all they had for the contractors mistake.

Another one today, this time in Silver Springs, MD:

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/si...s-apartment-building

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Originally posted by Shaql:
How does a gas leak outside the home blow up the home?

Because the high pressure from the main line follows the pipe underground to the house and enters the home where the line penetrates the structure.
It happens all the time...

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Originally posted by jhe888:
Those construction guys are surprisingly sloppy about that stuff. I knew a lawyer who made a lot of money suing construction companies for a giant communications company when the construction guys cut their cables. It was very often city and county maintenance departments who just fired up the backhoe and started digging.

There’s that, then there are plenty of citys that have totally screwed as builts. A friend hit a gas line in town that was six feet away from where the city had marked it as being. First city guy who came was being quite the Richard. Then his boss comes out, looks at where they had marked the line as being, told the other guy to shut up, and apologized to my buddy. Doo doo occurs. As long as nobody gets hurt, fix it and drive on.

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Originally posted by Shaql:
How does a gas leak outside the home blow up the home?

It shouldn’t. From what I was told O’Fallon has some lacking Building codes that doesn’t have the same safety valves that most places now have.

When the third party contractor hit the gas line it broke it off right where it comes into the house. It just poured in NG from that point on and even though the contractor called the gas company immediately they couldn’t get out there quick enough to shut it off before the pilot light from the furnace sent it up.