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Fella up the road had a bad day yesterday.

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Dick2

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Fella's wife wouldn't let him smoke in the house so he went to the garage and lit up a cigarette. BOOM! Big explosion blew the double garage door off the house. He's in critical condition in the hospital.

The houses in the area are all electric. It took them awhile to figure out that the gas company had laid lines in the area before the builders put up the electric homes; the gas lines were never hooked up to any houses. Seems the gas company forgot about the lines.

Lawyers all over town are ringing their hands on this one, except for the lawyers that represent the gas company, of course.
 
Similar thing happened in Cleburne TX a few years back.

A total electric house exploded. Found out the gas leaked at the line in the street. The gas found it's way to the house via the disturbed soil through the ditch the water line was buried in. In the process of traveling through the dirt, the odorant was filtered out, the gas had no smell but was able to reach an explosive level. One person died.
 
While I'm no fan of lawyers, they do have their uses, and this is one of them. To think that one's life can change that fast in a way you could never dream of. I hope he makes a full recovery and sues for every penny he can get.
 
As you might guess by my handle I was a builder in a previous Life.

In testing conducted by experts there was the ability to detect things such as natural gas only a short time after installation in a house with a 100 foot long trench holding the gas line to the house.

Think radon and other soil gas.

Even compacted soil is pretty pouris (spelling).
 
You guys that dump oil, gas and antifreeze might be surprised how fast it gets in your basement and house, never mind your water and neighbor's.

Signed,
Not a abundant
 
We had a restuarant destroyed by a gas leak here. They were working on the line, about 100 ft outside the restuarant, and it migrated into the basement along the line. Blew it into a gazillion pieces.
 
I'll tell you what,explosions don't happen in slo-mo like in the movies. It's over before you know it happened.
 
building a new road north of my place when the went to blow it the blast went underground and blew up the old road they had to stopped traffic till it was fixed.
a lot of things travel underground around some of the mega dairys they have whats called a brown water event some people have had straw come out of there faucets .water can run into your wells a lot quicker then you think . never forget a women talking about her child drinking water from the faucet and what happened after she was lucky and survived
 
There was an incident on the news here in Dallas a month or so ago. House had a propane leak. Literally blew it to shreds. One person was killed.
 
(quoted from post at 10:50:16 02/11/14) There was an incident on the news here in Dallas a month or so ago. House had a propane leak. Literally blew it to shreds. One person was killed.
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A house a few miles south of me blew up from a propane leak a couple months back. A lady was killed
 
Yep smoking is one freedom that many cities are taking away from people. Me I do not smoke but I think it should be ones choice to if they want to. Ya maybe not in places that ban smoking by again that should be a choice if you want to let people smoke in your business or not but many cities say no smoking in any business which is wrong
 
A few years ago, a friend of mine went into the basement, lit a cigarette, blew up the place. Died due to inhaling flaming gasses. To make a long story short, leak was out under the street. Gas followed gas line up under the paved driveway to the house, through the hole in the basement wall. By the time gas had traveled that far through sand under paved driveway, it had lost most of the odorant added to the gas. Being a smoker, he could not smell the slight odor - even when friends (visitors) would notice it, and tell him he ought to have it checked out. Fatal to him, son seriously burned, house totally destroyed. Lifted it right off foundation. Be careful!
 
Sounds like the voice of experience rrlund. I work on some trucks for an explosives company. The safety guy explained to us that if you make a mistake you won't hear a BOOM. It'll just be B..... The folks a couple miles away will hear the BOOM!
 
UPDATE: The gas company worked through the night digging up soil and installing vent pipes to bleed off the gas in the ground. Still several families that can't return to their homes. I wonder why there was gas in a line that nobody was using? I'm sure that will be argued in court!
 
All I'll tell you is that the only thought going through my mind was "when am I going to hit the ground?". I did a lot of flailing.
 
I remember a few years back, just north of me, some young aprentice fella was digging with a backhoe and hit a 24" gas main pressurized at about 850 PSI, and was killed, and it also uncovered a smaller 22" main that was nearby. He was working a site where the owner was putting up a new barn. Made an awful big hole that went 25' deep, and shook windows and houses for miles. Where I live, the huge gas mains are marked where they cross the roads, so one would think that tracing markings from one road to the next across fields might have helped, but they didn't check and they didn't have anyone come out to mark the area for him. Left a young wife and new born behind.

Mark
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Various buildings in my hometown were blowing to pieces. Apparently the gas company was storing gas underground in the bedrock (before the added scent). It eventually began blowing things up. It was like a war zone as things were randomly exploding. I'll bet the lawyers made out on that one.
 
(quoted from post at 06:47:46 02/11/14) While I'm no fan of lawyers, they do have their uses, and this is one of them. To think that one's life can change that fast in a way you could never dream of. I hope he makes a full recovery and sues for every penny he can get.
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Yes, lawyers do have uses. You send them out into the garage to smoke a cigarette first. If the house dont blow up, then it is safe for normal people.

Gene
 
Jim
I live just up the road in Burleson.

Did you know John Barnett, the mayor? Passed away
couple years ago. Used to buy bolts from him. I
work with his grandson, Mark.

Pleased to meet you!
 
(quoted from post at 00:07:18 02/12/14) Jim
I live just up the road in Burleson.

Did you know John Barnett, the mayor? Passed away
couple years ago. Used to buy bolts from him. I
work with his grandson, Mark.

Pleased to meet you!
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Steve
It's a small world and it's nice to meet you . Yes I knew John. He lived about a mile north of me. I also know Johns father in law Glenn Thomas. I baled hay for Mr Thomas before he decided to buy a rd baler. They're were very nice neighbors.
Jim
 
About 60 years ago near Wichita Falls, Texas when the renters moved out they shut the propane tank off, removed all the valves in the house and turned the tank back on. The owners fixed everything and aired the house out for over a week, and had the tank refilled. When they went to light the water heater the house blew about a foot into the air and came back down. Gas had settled under the floor and was not ventilated enough. Not much damage inside the house. It was about a half mile from where we lived.
 
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