[RummyChick]

Anyone familiar with gas leaks? The concussive wave was reported to have been felt miles and miles away into Hancock county
Conspiracy websites are going crazy over this.

Btw, I have no idea if this has been posted because the search function no longer works for me. What's the deal with that?

[hinckley buzzard]

IDK anything about this event but I do know that around this time of year natural gas or propane explosions seem to proliferate, as systems start to fire up that have been neglected all summer long.

[Donkey Odious]

Walter White.....please pick up the white courtesy phone.

[JRandomFreeper]

Wow. That was an earthshattering kaboom.

Holy carp.

What a mess.

/johnny

[Stonewall Jackson]

Wow! That was one nasty explosion.

[JRandomFreeper]

On reflection... no crater, limited burn area (yeah 3 houses is limited for a boom that big).... I call FAE, whether intentional or accidental.

/johnny

[Kakaze]

Well I'm 4 miles from this, the rumor goes, gas explosion, meth lab, and in the local pub this afternoon......a hit because whoever this owner is was sneaky.

I'm sure more rumors will follow, local FOX 59 just said the 2 dead were a Greenwood School teacher and her husband.......thats all I know for now.

This report is worth what you paid for it.

[piasa]

Doesn't look like a very old neighborhood. Back when I was in college there school was surrounded by homes that were about 30 to 35 years old. One summer in particular was quite exciting as every couple of weeks a house would go kaboom because of aged and corroded lines, and the phones would ring off the hooks when everyone in town would call the school to see if one of our experiments had caused the noise.

I wonder who lived in the house in this case? Seems too new for there to be an issue but with parts made in China, or really dumb workers installing things, who can be sure? Maybe some prepper's stash went off, or maybe Obama's bdy Ayers has been building bombs again..

[Dusty Road]

We had one blow up about two blocks over and that damage looks similar. It took out all my nth facing windows and did considerable damage to surrounding houses. That house was only about 1200 square ft, the one in the pic looks much larger. And elderly woman lost her life in that one but it's pretty sure she passed before the explosion.

[Sawdring]

My brother’s next door neighbor’s house blew up and killed the owner. He sent his wife and newborn to a hotel for the night because of the smell and the gas repairman was supposed to come over and investigate it first thing in the morning.

[Cboldt]

There are gas leaks, and there are gas leaks. In one case, the gas leaks out of the distribution network. That gas has the ethyl mercaptan (skunk) smell added, so leaks can be detected by human smell. But the earth sometimes leaks gas on it's own volition, and that stuff is odorless. I don't know if there is any natural gas in that part of Indiana.

Maybe a fire caused a pressurized tank (no leak) to explode.

[elkfersupper]

I seem to recall the police bombing their own employers in Philadelphia, PA some 25 years ago with similar results and more fatalities.

Not insinuating anything, just a reminder.

And yes, a natural gas leak is very capable of producing a kaboom of this magnitude.

[circlecity]

I live about 3 miles from the explosion and it certainly woke me up at 11:13 last night. I thought someone had ran a car into the front of our home because the house shook. My son is a nurse and one of his nurse collegues owned the house that exploded. She had been having trouble with her gas heat all week and Citizens gas had been out working on her gas lines just three or four days before the explosion. She was gone from home since Thursday night and not home when the explosion occured. Thus, it certainly appears to be a gas explosion. She did, however, get a call from police asking if she had any enemies or anyone who might want to do something like this to her but I think they are just covering all the bases for the inevitable lawsuits which will be forthcoming.

[elkfersupper]

The best defense against this sort of thing is something called “sprawl”, which the left everywhere absolutely hates, because it involves spreading out a bit.

[dljordan]

“Anyone familiar with gas leaks? The concussive wave was reported to have been felt miles and miles away into Hancock county
Conspiracy websites are going crazy over this.”

I was sitting in my forth grade classroom when the entire back of the house across the street disintegrated in a gas explosion. It made quite an impression on me. That was in 1959 and to this day I’m always alert for leaks.

[RummyChick]

just pinging you to let you know a Freeper has the inside story on the explosion in your neck of the woods. At least I thought you lived in Indy. Anyway, read the thread for the details

[PA Engineer]

Anyone familiar with gas leaks?

Yes. Have been at a number of them during my early engineering years. This could be gas. I am looking at the type of house construction and am not surprised at the damage.

[BenLurkin]

Search no longer works but FR stopped crashing.

[trebb]

When I was in Korea, a jet fuel tank went off. Sudden dull pressure and low tone whump. It was hard to figure out the direction because it seemed that the whole world had changed pressure all at once. It turned out it was 3/4 mile from where I was. Don’t know how far away it was felt, but would assume it was a noticeable event for a few miles around.