Did any one see on the weather channel, or the news, the other day, that story about a house destroyed by a gas explosion? Did you notice the LACK of any flame in the explosion? Or the absence of fire afterwards? How many stories have we seen on the news in the last couple of years about gas explosions where one house goes BOOM, and then half the neighborhood goes up in flames? As a marine combat engineer I am reasonably familiar with the affects of various types of explosives, and I can say with a fair amount of certainty that that WAS NOT A GAS EXPLOSION! I watched that video several times, and it had ALL the earmarks of a detonation of military grade high explosives, a relatively small puff of black smoke that rapidly disappeared, a very high speed and widely dispersed debris field and NO FIRE! Gas explosions look like the average Hollywood version, ie, great big fireball and lots of flame as an after affect. Black powder, HUGE clouds of WHITE SMOKE! Anyway let me know what YOU think!
1371USMC wrote:
Did any one see on the weather channel, or the news, the other day, that story about a house destroyed by a gas explosion? Did you notice the LACK of any flame in the explosion? Or the absence of fire afterwards? How many stories have we seen on the news in the last couple of years about gas explosions where one house goes BOOM, and then half the neighborhood goes up in flames? As a marine combat engineer I am reasonably familiar with the affects of various types of explosives, and I can say with a fair amount of certainty that that WAS NOT A GAS EXPLOSION! I watched that video several times, and it had ALL the earmarks of a detonation of military grade high explosives, a relatively small puff of black smoke that rapidly disappeared, a very high speed and widely dispersed debris field and NO FIRE! Gas explosions look like the average Hollywood version, ie, great big fireball and lots of flame as an after affect. Black powder, HUGE clouds of WHITE SMOKE! Anyway let me know what YOU think!
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Do you have a link to the video?
archie bunker wrote:
Do you have a link to the video?
UNFORTUNATELY no! But I may be able to find it on UTUBE and get back to you. I had recorded it on old fashioned VHS!
1371USMC wrote:
UNFORTUNATELY no! But I may be able to find it on UTUBE and get back to you. I had recorded it on old fashioned VHS!
:lol: I can look for it. I was just being lazy!
I thought I was the last living creature still using VHS!! :lol: :lol:
archie bunker wrote:
:lol: I can look for it. I was just being lazy!
I thought I was the last living creature still using VHS!! :lol: :lol:
BTW, the house was UNDER RENOVATION when the explosion occurred!
1371USMC wrote:
Did any one see on the weather channel, or the news, the other day, that story about a house destroyed by a gas explosion? Did you notice the LACK of any flame in the explosion? Or the absence of fire afterwards? How many stories have we seen on the news in the last couple of years about gas explosions where one house goes BOOM, and then half the neighborhood goes up in flames? As a marine combat engineer I am reasonably familiar with the affects of various types of explosives, and I can say with a fair amount of certainty that that WAS NOT A GAS EXPLOSION! I watched that video several times, and it had ALL the earmarks of a detonation of military grade high explosives, a relatively small puff of black smoke that rapidly disappeared, a very high speed and widely dispersed debris field and NO FIRE! Gas explosions look like the average Hollywood version, ie, great big fireball and lots of flame as an after affect. Black powder, HUGE clouds of WHITE SMOKE! Anyway let me know what YOU think!
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You and eagleye13 will get along great.
Were you there?
JMHO wrote:
You and eagleye13 will get along great.
Were you there?
No, the video was played several times on the weather channel, where I caught it with my morning coffee!
1371USMC wrote:
No, the video was played several times on the weather channel, where I caught it with my morning coffee!
I saw it too, but I wasn't there to make a judgement call that it WAS NOT a gas explosion.
JMHO wrote:
I saw it too, but I wasn't there to make a judgement call that it WAS NOT a gas explosion.
AGAIN, no fireball, no fire, no gas explosion! The visual evidence speaks for itself! While it MAY have been a commercial explosive, it was DEFINITELY NOT GAS! A gas explosion of that magnitude would have raised a fireball several hundred feet in the air!
I think the size of the explosion depends on how long the gas was leaking before detonation. If the leak was small and brief, you might see what the video depicts. If the leak was large and prolonged, the explosion would be enormous. I knew a person whose house exploded back in 1973 - he turned on a propane heater in his garage rhen went into the house to get a match and got involved with something else and forgot the gas was on. Sometime later, somone else opened the door to the garage, which was next to the gas-fired hot water heater, which had a pilot light. The gas ignited, destroyed his house completely and shifted 7 houses in his neighborhood off their foundations. They had to be demolished and rebuilt!
JMHO wrote:
You and eagleye13 will get along great.
Were you there?
No kidding. Another conspiracy theorist.
I saw the aftermath of a house that had exploded because of a natural gas leak, when I was a boy. Such events are rare, so I remember well what it looked like.
There was no residual fire. The explosion blew the walls out and half the house was collapsed, but the explosion also blew itself out. The fire was contained to the gas itself, of course, and was snuffed out by the outward explosion.
So yeah, if the local fire department said this was a gas explosion, I'm good with that.
Blacksheep wrote:
No kidding. Another conspiracy theorist.
I saw the aftermath of a house that had exploded because of a natural gas leak, when I was a boy. Such events are rare, so I remember well what it looked like.
There was no residual fire. The explosion blew the walls out and half the house was collapsed, but the explosion also blew itself out. The fire was contained to the gas itself, of course, and was snuffed out by the outward explosion.
So yeah, if the local fire department said this was a gas explosion, I'm good with that.
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Do you have any demolition experience? I think not, so I will not engage in an online pissing contest with you, some thing I have noticed in my relatively short time on this forum, that you excel at and appear to revel in!
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