Largest fireball I ever Saw!!!

Thank God the driver lived! How absolutely horrible for him to have gone through that!

 

I was sent a picture via e-mail showing where a farmer digging post holes hit a buried gas line. They never found the farmer and the explosion took out 2 houses about 200 yards apart. There was a big brown spot about an 50 acres wide. I once seen a gas leak blow the roof of a house on top of a grain elevator. They where afraid the elevator would blow. There was only a hole where the house had been. This was in Minneapolis.

 

excuse me for asking this...but should not the gas company know better than to place such a volitale gas line on or through a farmers land without warning him?

This seems reckless on the part of the gas company...

I wonder how deep the gas line was?
And was the farmer using hand held manual hole diggers or a tractor driven gas powered one?

I mean it's kinda scary to think this kind of explosive power runs just feet or inches below you...

 

probably what the farmer did before he vanished.........

i'm just sayin'.

 

I agree with you ghostchild it wouldn't cost much for them to mail out a letter or card telling owners gas lines run through their properties. Land is sold and new owners might not be aware. But before you dig you are suppose to call a number and make sure your not digging into some kind of line.

 

I mean I could just see some grounds keeper gas man (like Bill Murray in Caddy Shack) kinda sneaking off into the bushes after the explosion, realizing they forgot to erect the 'no digging here' sign...D'oh...

 

guy's you fella's obviously have never heard of "call before you dig". They have these systems set up for a reason.

 

Gas lines are buried everywhere this happens several times a year.