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07-02-2019, 08:23 PM #1
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A house blew up in Charlotte today...
Really blew up...
http://www.wsoctv.com/video?videoId=...deoVersion=1.0
Gas? Interested to hear what happened here...looked at houses in the very near vicinity a year or so ago.
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07-02-2019, 08:36 PM #2
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Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last
Night now they blew up his house too
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07-02-2019, 09:05 PM #3
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place blew the fuck up.
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07-02-2019, 09:06 PM #4
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Down on the boardwalk they're getting ready for a fight
Gonna see what them racket boys can do
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07-02-2019, 09:23 PM #5
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I'm not sure what's going on in the other part of this thread, but in this part, the explosion pretty much had to be gas. Not a lot of meth labs around there I wouldn't think. Last year the gas company overpressured a line in Mass. and all hell broke loose, it was like a war zone. Amazingly one one person died but there were at least 40 explosions and fires and over a billion dollars worth of damage. It wasn't even a year ago but you don't hear much about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrim...gas_explosions
good longform article: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/...ions-columbia/
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07-02-2019, 09:29 PM #6
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I think it was probably a bad thermo coupler.
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07-02-2019, 09:30 PM #7
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Everything dies, baby that's a fact.
Originally Posted by Peruvian
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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07-02-2019, 10:27 PM #8
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But maybe everything that dies someday comes back. Originally Posted by Danno
So, the takeaway seems to be to use the insurance money to rebuild.
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07-03-2019, 01:50 AM #9
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And meet me tonight in Atlantic City
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07-03-2019, 04:59 AM #10
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Dang.
We had one blow up here a few years back. The explosion leveled the house, severely damaged the houses to either side (killed a couple), and blew out windows all over the neighborhood.
Turned out the homeowner and her conman boyfriend blew it up for the insurance money. They loosened a gas fitting, put some metal in the microwave and set the timer, then went to the casino for the weekend.
They in jail now.
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07-03-2019, 07:14 AM #11
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One lady killed.
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07-03-2019, 07:17 AM #12
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A neighbor has to have this on video from a doorbell /security cam...waiting to see that
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07-03-2019, 07:24 AM #13
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This happened near me when I was growing up. I woke up one morning and it looked like giant dandelion fuzz had settled in our yard. Turned out that a house maybe a mile away as the crow flies had exploded from a gas leak. It was a pretty new house in a nice subdivision. The couple who lived there were killed. Gas has always made me a bit nervous since.
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07-03-2019, 07:31 AM #14
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Happened down the street from my office and my friend is a Charlotte Fire Fighter and I got the texts from the scene in real time. The house was completely leveled with only the center part burning. The husband who is a doctor was recovered early and the wife was in the basement. The house was about 6300 square feet and yes it was completely leveled. He is a gulf war vet and so when he says it looks like a bomb went off, i believe him. I think it was a gas explosion as well.
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