House exploded in Michigan City...

[1911ly]

Holy sh*t.

https://wsbt.com/news/local/crews-respond-to-house-explosion-in-michigan-city

 

[KokomoDave]

Big boom for sure.

 

[Hawkeye]

Amazing. Haven’t been paying attention to the news, but hadn’t heard of it.


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[foszoe]

evicted...hmmm

 

[1911ly]

evicted...hmmm

First thing I thought was maybe someone turned on the gas on the way out.

 

[Alamo]

At least no one killed. I do not like gas.:[

 

[red_zr24x4]

evicted...hmmm

First thing I thought was maybe someone turned on the gas on the way out.

Same here

 

[printcraft]

Nipsco has shut off the gas and are investigating what caused the gas leak and explosion.

Somebody is going to jail.

 

[1911ly]

Somebody is going to jail.

I would think so.

 

[red_zr24x4]

On a side note, I work with natural gas every day. It could be a leak anywhere in the block and it followed the pat of least resistance, which happened to be that service. And anything from a light switch to the AC kicking on could ignite it.
Having said that, I think someone turned the gas on before leaving

 

[1911ly]

On a side note, I work with natural gas every day. It could be a leak anywhere in the block and it followed the pat of least resistance, which happened to be that service. And anything from a light switch to the AC kicking on could ignite it.
Having said that, I think someone turned the gas on before leaving

This could be true. About 10 years or so ago we had a under ground boring company hit a gas line across the street from where I live. The gas followed the line in to one of the condo's and it exploded. I missed seeing it but I heard and felt it. My wife was looking out the window at the time it blew. I can't repeat her exact words in open forum. But she said it was terrifying. No one was home. I think a couple of pets were lost. Along with the complete building.

 

[1911ly]

It was about 8 years ago: Family loses home, pets in gas explosion

 

[Gabriel]

On a side note, I work with natural gas every day. It could be a leak anywhere in the block and it followed the pat of least resistance, which happened to be that service. And anything from a light switch to the AC kicking on could ignite it.
Having said that, I think someone turned the gas on before leaving

That's not quite what happened, but you aren't too far off.

 

[red_zr24x4]

That's not quite what happened, but you aren't too far off.

I figured it was either the evictee or the evictor...

 

[Haven]

Fun story about homes with natural gas. Around 20 years ago, when my wife was pregnant with our child we lived in an apartment with a gas water heater, gas heat, and stove. One night as we were going to bed, she tells me she smells gas. I check the whole apartment. I check with the cats, they aren't acting anything but normal. I tell her I don't smell it. Leading up to this my wife had been smelling strange smells quite often. Who ever was around her at the time didn't smell what she was smelling. Finally she crys at me "I don't want to wake up dead in the morning." I had a rough time not laughing when she said this.

I offered to call maintenance, the gas company, etc. I told her we could go to a hotel for the night, we just needed to find one we could take the cats. After a little crying, she calmed down and said she didn't smell it anymore and we would be fine. The Maintenance people didn't find anything wrong the next day.

When we built the house in 2000, we didn't get gas hooked up to the house. In fact they didn't offer it in our part of the neighborhood. The section behind us has the ability to have gas, and the gas lines run through our yard.

 

[Tactically Fat]

Meh. A schoolbus full of kids missed being in front of this house by about a minute. Many of them were first-hand witnesses.

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