Call before you dig!

[archeryantny]

This is what happens when you accidentally run a post hole digger into a gas main.

make sure you CALL BEFORE YOU DIG.



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[Scooby074]

Holy crap. I hope nobody was hurt but from those pics i doubt it.

 

[dqdave1]

No sign of the post hole digger. Had to be one heck of a "boom"

 

[Ryan03]

WOW!!!!!!!!

 

[tommu56]

Its weird that the car port and garage don't seem to be burnt?

The pipe might have been hit years ago and finally went.

or its still in orbit


here is some more picts link
http://www.policelink.com/topics/30588-gas-line-explosion/posts

tom

 

[archeryantny]

good observation, if you look at the big aerial picture the carport is quite a distance from "ground zero". It looks like the house took the brunt of the explosion. Does anyone have any more info on this? I just got sent the pictures, no real explanation though.

 

[sld]

Just doesn't seem right to me. That big of an explosion would require that gas was leaking and building up for quite a while and then ignited.

Heck of a lot of destruction whatever happened.

 

[Ridgewalker]

I had dig right mark down my ROW recently so I could put up some 3 strand.

Using their marks I still managed to hit a multistrand wire full of twisted pair with my PHD and then again when driving T posts. Those pix gave me the heebie jeebies! Glad there are no pipelines in my neck of the woods.

 

[irwin]

good observation, if you look at the big aerial picture the carport is quite a distance from "ground zero". It looks like the house took the brunt of the explosion. Does anyone have any more info on this? I just got sent the pictures, no real explanation though.

Here's a link to the story..it's not as informative as I'd like though.No One Killed in Gas Blast|ABC 13

 

[actionaj]

WOW, that looks like a war zone.