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a house exploded
Jan. 10th, 2012 11:09 pmYesterday, a house exploded.
The explosion demolished the house and shifted a neighbor's house right off the foundation. People felt it down the block. It caused an enormous fire, and I suppose we must be thankful it was damp and cool when this happened or I hate to think of how the fire might have spread. The man in the house died, and a neighbor was seriously injured and remains hospitalized.
Over the summer, the drought dried out the ground. It shrank. Numerous water pipes all around the city broke as a result. It is not unthinkable to imagine a gas pipe could break in the same way. This fear has been in the back of my mind for months. I can't help but wonder if that played a part in the gas leak here. The issue of how shitty the gas companies are about delaying repairs is a whole other thing. Letting an unidentified, noticeable gas leak go on for a month is completely nuts and clearly, devastating. There was a story in the paper some months ago about this same gas company failing to fix a major gas leak in a neighborhood for months. I don't even understand how you could make a decision to let something like that go on, given the risks.
The explosion demolished the house and shifted a neighbor's house right off the foundation. People felt it down the block. It caused an enormous fire, and I suppose we must be thankful it was damp and cool when this happened or I hate to think of how the fire might have spread. The man in the house died, and a neighbor was seriously injured and remains hospitalized.
Over the summer, the drought dried out the ground. It shrank. Numerous water pipes all around the city broke as a result. It is not unthinkable to imagine a gas pipe could break in the same way. This fear has been in the back of my mind for months. I can't help but wonder if that played a part in the gas leak here. The issue of how shitty the gas companies are about delaying repairs is a whole other thing. Letting an unidentified, noticeable gas leak go on for a month is completely nuts and clearly, devastating. There was a story in the paper some months ago about this same gas company failing to fix a major gas leak in a neighborhood for months. I don't even understand how you could make a decision to let something like that go on, given the risks.