The grumpy old guy next door to where my daughter and grand daughter used to live house exploded about 4:00 Saturday morning. 1 dead so it must be him. So far no name released. May he Rest In Peace. 1967 dart gt and a lil red express burned also. Not sure what else he had. My daughter he was a nice enough guy but always seemed grumpy. Kim. Can’t seem to post it. It says uploaded file does not have an allowed extension. Not sure what that is as I never had that happen b4
House Explosion
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I sure it was natural gas. Kim
Back in Time
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May he R.I.P 30 Years in the Natural Gas Industry I've seen far too many of those. Saw a Bedroom dresser 25 feet up a tree once.
His roof blew on to the next house
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That was one hell of an explosion then ...Damn
Wow sorry to read Kim. Sounds like one hell of an explosion!
RIP
RIP
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I seen pictures on Facebook, it was nasty
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Incredible.
. I don’t think so. I heard he pretty much kept to himself.and didn’t want anyone to look over his stuff. That was about 10 years ago so maybe he mellowed out. Kim
Wow! There was a meth house that blew up several miles away from me about 5 years ago. Literally moved my house enough to think it was an earthquake-and I live in MI. Drove by the next day and it was just a foundation. There was stuff everywhere in the trees around it. One guy was in the house and survived. So did the two cops trying to serve the warrant while standing in the front porch!!
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Well Kim RIP is all I can say. Decades ago, people were going nuts putting extra tanks in pickups. "Saddle tanks" good and bad
One day a guy came in the big parts store, and wanted to know what he needed and would I price it all out. So I determined he did not need a return line switching valve, and he elected a plain manual valve. Priced it all out, he thanked me
Couple weeks, etc, later he came in, waited for me, "did I remember him?" and wanted to buy some of the items. When I got them all and was billing them, he "had a confession." He said he just "Y'd the lines together and was really proud of that. Went out to the garage later after filling them both up, and there as ABOUT 1/8" OF FUEL ALL OVER THE GARAGE FLOOR
I smiled and said, "and THAT is why you need a valve!!"
Some of you may know I spend about a dozen years servicing HVAC/R. Lots of gas/ LPG around here along with heat pumps and oil. I HAVE SEEN SOME SCARY STUFF
One time I was called to a rental to service a gas "floor furnace" These, gas, oil, whatever, are a deal that sits in the floor and looks like a floor return grille. The entire heater hangs down below and just convects heat up. I had to get into a crawl space, make my way over there, and lying on my back looking it over.
I COULD SEE LIGHT shining down from above into the combustion chamber as there were rust holes in the heat exchanger. So I shut the gas off and pulled the stat wires off the thing and went up and told the resident.
He was all huffy and mad. "BY GOD I'LL HOOK THAT BACK UP!!!" So I went and called the back door number for one of the then WWP guys and he just went over there and LOCKED THE METER.
There's been a couple others I've nearly gotten into it with customers. One was an unsafe oil chimney situation, and the family was OPERATING AN UNLICENSED DAYCARE in the place I took no **** off that guy. I mentioned the kids, and said "If I get any more guff out of you I'll have the fire dept and PD over here and we'll see" It got fixed!!!
One day a guy came in the big parts store, and wanted to know what he needed and would I price it all out. So I determined he did not need a return line switching valve, and he elected a plain manual valve. Priced it all out, he thanked me
Couple weeks, etc, later he came in, waited for me, "did I remember him?" and wanted to buy some of the items. When I got them all and was billing them, he "had a confession." He said he just "Y'd the lines together and was really proud of that. Went out to the garage later after filling them both up, and there as ABOUT 1/8" OF FUEL ALL OVER THE GARAGE FLOOR
I smiled and said, "and THAT is why you need a valve!!"
Some of you may know I spend about a dozen years servicing HVAC/R. Lots of gas/ LPG around here along with heat pumps and oil. I HAVE SEEN SOME SCARY STUFF
One time I was called to a rental to service a gas "floor furnace" These, gas, oil, whatever, are a deal that sits in the floor and looks like a floor return grille. The entire heater hangs down below and just convects heat up. I had to get into a crawl space, make my way over there, and lying on my back looking it over.
I COULD SEE LIGHT shining down from above into the combustion chamber as there were rust holes in the heat exchanger. So I shut the gas off and pulled the stat wires off the thing and went up and told the resident.
He was all huffy and mad. "BY GOD I'LL HOOK THAT BACK UP!!!" So I went and called the back door number for one of the then WWP guys and he just went over there and LOCKED THE METER.
There's been a couple others I've nearly gotten into it with customers. One was an unsafe oil chimney situation, and the family was OPERATING AN UNLICENSED DAYCARE in the place I took no **** off that guy. I mentioned the kids, and said "If I get any more guff out of you I'll have the fire dept and PD over here and we'll see" It got fixed!!!
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WOW. Not only did a huge chunk of roof land on the neighbors house in the foreground, (to the right), an equally large portion completely cleared the chimney before landing in the middle of the roof of the house to the left.
Yes there is lots of carnage. Pretty spectacular. Kim
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I finally got to go by the site and take a few pics. Kim
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