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In reply to the discussion: Indy blast: 2 homes destroyed, more afire [View all]AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)59. I was going to add my uninformed speculation, but folks above beat me to it.
Some years ago in Chicago an entire neighborhood blew up because the gas company did not install a step-down valve and sent gas main pressure methane into everyone's houses. (I'm sure I'm getting the terminology wrong but the principle was a gas main has higher pressure than local services and the big mains are higher than smaller local mains.)
When I first hear this I thought it was something along those lines. But now, I am going to go with someone was making a giant OK City type bomb and it blew up too early.
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That can't possibly be an ordinary household leak.....all that damage sounds like a mainline.
nc4bo
Nov 2012
#27
Whoa. I don't think they even know what happened at this point, do they? nt
Comrade_McKenzie
Nov 2012
#5
This is a pretty packed subdivision, not much room between houses. You'd think if that were the
nc4bo
Nov 2012
#47
Same here. I cannot imagine how terrifying this must have been for those poor people.
nc4bo
Nov 2012
#30
They don't know what caused it because the gas company can't get to where it happened.
AngryOldDem
Nov 2012
#36
A house blew up in North Austin, damaging others around it, IIRC one death...
Eleanors38
Nov 2012
#44
Why in the world would anyone cook meth in a crowded subdivision? Good grief that's dumb
nc4bo
Nov 2012
#48
Between the big gas and water lines there's the electric grid, subways, railroads, bridges
nc4bo
Nov 2012
#32
Other than in war zones, this scene reminds me of the way things looked when T. McVeigh blew
jtuck004
Nov 2012
#49
Like someone went into their ammunition room (cuz every American needs a firearm room and
valerief
Nov 2012
#55
Which means, in this case, that gas is the suspected cause, not a plane
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2012
#58
I was going to add my uninformed speculation, but folks above beat me to it.
AngryAmish
Nov 2012
#59