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  1. 07-29-2019, 06:43 PM #1
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    Neighbors home exploded

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    I'm nearing home after work today and wondering why there are 3 helicopters hovering over my house. The east/west street at the north end of my block is blocked off with police cars and there are 2 trucks from our natural gas provider. I cut thru the backyard and went down the bike paths to the home about 1/2 block away. The entire back side of the townhome is blown out. Windows, doors, siding, chimney. News says there was a smell of natural gas. 1 person taken to the hospital.
    Don't know if it was the home owner or the "worker" the news person stated.
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    #2 07-29-2019, 06:46 PM
    Shake n bake Meth??
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    #3 07-29-2019, 06:47 PM
    Dude leave Illinois now. Just load the boat and fishing gear and haul ass.
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    #4 07-29-2019, 06:49 PM
    WOW
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    #5 07-29-2019, 07:02 PM
    My friend's dad died when their house exploded. The house had a propane leak and when the water heater kicked in, the house went boom. He was a good guy too.
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    #6 07-29-2019, 07:13 PM
    You may need to hide under that boat hull
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    #7 07-29-2019, 07:42 PM
    Police are gone and the board up crew is there
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    #8 07-29-2019, 07:48 PM
    Hope the injured are going to be ok. Good luck to you and yours.
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    #9 07-29-2019, 08:28 PM
    I'm curious about this. This is at least the 4th gas explosion I've read/seen in the last 2 months. One home within 30 miles of me was flattened and killed one of the occupants. It was a rather large home too.
    I wonder if there's a bad batch of gas water heaters or dryers out there?.....sure is strange to have that many explosions within a few weeks of each other all over the US.
    Just curious to find out if there's a link between some of these incidents.
    for those involved
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    #10 07-29-2019, 08:32 PM
    Usually when they explode out here, it's a honey oil lab (weed).
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    #11 07-29-2019, 09:12 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Buccaneer View Post
    Dude leave Illinois now. Just load the boat and fishing gear and haul ass.
    just don't come to Florida
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    #12 07-29-2019, 09:18 PM
    More and more ppl are going gas. Back in the 70's seems it was all electric ...
    I prefer electric.
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    better than the other options .. er ..option !
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    #13 07-29-2019, 10:01 PM
    Times must have been hard for them.
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    #14 07-30-2019, 01:26 AM
    That was a hell of an explosion plus a fire.
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    #15 07-30-2019, 05:33 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by haveme1 View Post
    More and more ppl are going gas. Back in the 70's seems it was all electric ...
    I prefer electric.
    We've had natural gas here forever. Only other explosion i recall in my life was a mob hit.
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    #16 07-30-2019, 06:50 AM
    Remember the good old days? Long before Meth Labs, bomb making etc., Back when life was simple and if a house blew up it was just the neighbor kids science project gone bad?
    No one can be wrong that often so it has to be deliberate.
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    #17 07-30-2019, 06:55 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by haveme1 View Post
    More and more ppl are going gas. Back in the 70's seems it was all electric ...
    I prefer electric.
    Electric is rare up here by us - always has been. Gas is FAR more common. Electric seems more prevalent in any area where heat pumps are used in place of forced air furnaces...but that is just a foolish observation on my part, not sure if that it true or not.
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    #18 07-30-2019, 06:59 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by Buccaneer View Post
    Dude leave Illinois now. Just load the boat and fishing gear and haul ass.
    ^^^^^^^what he said^^^^^^^^
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    #19 07-30-2019, 07:02 AM
    ALL the comments about drug cooking --- there was an HVAC guy there according to the articles I read.
    I can tell you this.
    I am not sure what change they have made to gas valves. Our service guy told me but I was not fully paying attention. Our old water heater was 20 years old when we replaced it - never needed a thing. The only reason we replaced it was because the new ones were supposedly so much more efficient. The new ones - we have replaced it once, and the second one has been repaired 4 times. All four times was a gas valve issue....which makes me wonder about the recent explosions, which seem more common to me than they ever were before.
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    #20 07-30-2019, 09:21 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by delee36 View Post
    The new ones - we have replaced it once, and the second one has been repaired 4 times. All four times was a gas valve issue....which makes me wonder about the recent explosions, which seem more common to me than they ever were before.
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