Big Bang

[landman]

There was an explosion here last night which shook houses all over town and was heard for several miles around. It turns out a gas leak in someone's garage ignited and blew the garage to smithereens , damaging the neighbor's which was adjacent. You should have seen the flurry of speculation on facebook. Apparently no one was hurt.

[vintagercr]

Buildings can be replaced humans can't.  Glad no one hurt

[Jim N]

5 hours ago, landman said:

There was an explosion here last night which shook houses all over town and was heard for several miles around. It turns out a gas leak in someone's garage ignited and blew the garage to smithereens , damaging the neighbor's which was adjacent. You should have seen the flurry of speculation on facebook. Apparently no one was hurt.

In today's times, I can only imagine.  To echo Steve, also glad no one was hurt. 

[landman]

The garage in this photo was pushed over by the blast from the garage that blew up behind it.

[Toner283]

Gas explosions can be huge. There was one in my hometown where a service tech had worked on the furnace in a house and then left mid morning. An acquaintance of mine was living in the house at the time and when he woke up at about 4:30 p.m. to get ready for work, he was looking out the storm door at the front of the house and lit a cigarette.

He said he remembers hearing a funny noise and then waking up lying in the front yard of the house across the street. Now it should be noted that he has no sense of smell and didn't before the explosion. He was lucky to be alive with severe burns on most of his body. The guys in the fire department said that if he hadn't been standing in front of the door, he wouldn't have survived.

The house however was completely destroyed. Essentially all that was left was a smoking crater full of rubble. The houses on either side of it were also shoved sideways off their foundations and the house behind it (farther away) was also severely damaged. There were also broken or cracked windows in houses up to a hundred feet away. To add insult to injury his truck was parked beside the house and it blew up a brick wall on top of the truck flattening most of it.

My father works at the auto parts store that was about 200 feet away from the house and the explosion was strong enough that it rattled a bunch of stuff off of the shelves in the store and knocked dust out of every nook and cranny. Natural gas explosions are nothing to mess with. Last I heard, the insurance company is still fighting with the gas company over whose fault it was.

Edited February 6, 2018 by Toner283

[NYLIBUD]

While I was renting a small house with my girl friend a few years ago,the house right up the street from us blew up.I mean it literally blew it clear off the foundation.There were just a few broken windows to some of the surrounding homes...It was just very odd,I go to work in the morning,and the house is there.I come home,and it was just a big pile of rubble.But no one was injured,including the home owners,who weren't home during the explosion.BOOM!!!.Dam losing everything in a house,eg.flood,fire,etc,has really got to suck.