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13th August 2022, 01:52 PM | #41 |
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13th August 2022, 03:48 PM | #42 |
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14th August 2022, 03:20 AM | #43 |
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14th August 2022, 05:11 AM | #44 |
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14th August 2022, 05:22 AM | #45 |
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The Mythbusters had to bypass 3 separate safety systems to make the water tanks explode.
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14th August 2022, 05:51 AM | #46 |
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14th August 2022, 07:11 AM | #47 |
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Just noticed this thread. I'm from Indiana, and my grandparents lived in Evansville until I was about five years old. I misread the title as Evansville, Indiana, which was actually correct. I checked, and there is an Evansville in Illinois, but the population is less than 1000. Evansville, Indiana, conversely, has a population of over 100,000. I see the explosion is in a different part of town from where my grandparents lived (at least where they lived when I was born; I know that they lived in at least one other house during their time in Evansville, but I don't know the address). |
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16th August 2022, 07:49 AM | #48 |
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That was 2018, in the Massachusetts towns of Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover, aka the Merrimack Valley. The cause was overpressurized gas supply lines, which caused dozens of fires and small explosions at weak points in the connections to gas appliances in homes and businesses. In 1983 there was a gas line pressure surge in East Boston, that had similar effects. |
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16th August 2022, 08:03 AM | #49 |
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1 person killed, 9 injured in Missouri house explosion; authorities say gas leak was likely cause
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...k/10335754002/ |
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16th August 2022, 04:55 PM | #50 |
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16th August 2022, 10:39 PM | #51 |
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Two words.
Gus. Fring. |
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