Yeah, that is total destruction there.
Can't post the picture per AP has claimed it but there is absolutely nothing left standing that I can see.
What did they have on Hillary?
“The couple had a new stove delivered Friday. I would start there, if you can find it.”
Who delivered and installed the new stove, and is English their primary language.
I lived in a neighborhood where a house was obliterated by a gas explosion. Plumbing crew broke the gas line and couldn’t shut it off. There wasn’t a piece of wood longer than two feet left and the bricks were all shattered. There was nothing left but the basement.
I went to a whole lot of gas leaks during my career, the vast majority of which didn't cause any real damage so they get to routine. But I never forgot that gas has a wide explosive range and can cause an impressive and dangerous explosion under the right circumstances.
In one of the neighborhoods I lived in growing up, two houses were leveled by a gas exposion, and a 3rd damaged so badly it had to be leveled. Leak caused by utility construction in the street nearby. I was at school, but mom said that insulation came out of the sky like snow at our house a 1/3rd of a mile away or so.
Lesson: Take natural gas piping and connections seriously.
I’ve only had gas in my house once.
In the gas vs oil debate, remember - oil heat houses never “just blow up”.
Elderly Married Couple Killed in Earth-shaking House Explosion
I don't like death notices involving married people, that give one person top billing over the other.
Yeah, that is total destruction there.
Flippant comments aside, if your home is served with nat gas, a leak sensor can save the lives of you & your family.
Just sayin’.
Many years ago, I worked for a Home Appliance Delivery Service - those guys made more mistakes than people ever knew about. One crew burned down a house using the wrong pipe & connector on a Gas Dryer - thankfully everyone got out alive. The company was sued for big $$.
Poor couple. This is one reason that I’m not a fan of natural gas even though my house has a “split” heating and cooling system. The heating is natural gas and the cooling is electric.
A few years ago, we had problems with our heating system so we hired a man from the next county to fix it. A couple of days later, we smelled gas in the house and were getting headaches.
We called the gas company and they came, along with a couple of firemen. They informed us that it was carbon monoxide and that the repairman who worked on our heater was negligent.
We would have sued but we aren’t that type of people. Instead, we warn everyone to not use that particular repair company. We now have a Carbon Monoxide detector in our home.
When the article mentioned the new stove, I was reminded of an acquaintance whose daughter’s large, beautiful home burned because of a faulty gas stove. The stove exploded and caught the house on fire. Luckily, the family was going on vacation the next day and weren’t home because they had taken their dog to be boarded.
I have always said that I would never own a gas stove. Apparently my fears are well founded.
I’m in agreement with you about investigating that stove.
Recently an older upper middle class neighborhood in Dallas had a string of gas explosions. The gas company had to shut the gas off to several thousand homes and replace the old iron pipes.
I learned one very interesting about natural gas the perfume that gives gas it’s smell is absorbed by dirt and the gas becomes orderless. If it then seaps into a house it can’t be smelled by people.
Dollars to donuts it revolves around the new gas stove.
It looks like a tornado touched down in the neighborhood.