tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post5819335429838745346..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: ka-BLAM!Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-11997727882321592992012-11-14T05:13:56.992-05:002012-11-14T05:13:56.992-05:00So, Tam it wasn't the govt. try to take you ou...So, Tam it wasn't the govt. try to take you out for shooting down one of their drones earlier this year.<br /><br />Good to know?<br /><br />;-)Josh Kruschkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288700371539530398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-15223875214442588242012-11-14T00:57:52.982-05:002012-11-14T00:57:52.982-05:00I saw what you did there, TBeck. No, I would most...I saw what you did there, TBeck. No, I would most definitely not let Mr. (or Sergeant) Williamson work on my HVAC systems, unless I were quite certain I was on his good side.<br /><br />I mean, I don't want no phosgene coming out of the A/C ducts into my bedroom.Justthisguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17277333206171756636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-78116828240289076502012-11-14T00:50:01.317-05:002012-11-14T00:50:01.317-05:00Heh! She said "stoichiometric."
I min...Heh! She said "stoichiometric." <br /><br /> I mind the time a near neighbor got blown out of his apartment by a gas explosion, and the guy from Atlanta Gas Light said that the fella was lucky it was a rich explosion; he got kinda scorched, but was otherwise just slightly bruised.<br /><br />Hmm. I must try that fuel-air trick with the flour.Justthisguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17277333206171756636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-4755512093237098732012-11-13T15:16:31.011-05:002012-11-13T15:16:31.011-05:00Residents of one of the posher neighborhoods in Wi...Residents of one of the posher neighborhoods in Williamsburg used (in the 90's, anyway -- no idea these days) complain about the reular (mostly weekends) explosions coming from the direction of the nearby "naval base" (Camp Peary)*. Always got told, "Exploding transformers. Really."<br /><br /><br /><br />* AKA "The Farm" to fans of spy novels. Geodkythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17340718574781403778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-75719845195413351292012-11-13T13:30:01.804-05:002012-11-13T13:30:01.804-05:00lets see,now... crows are tatical black... IMPD ha...lets see,now... crows are tatical black... IMPD has been alleged to have a bit of a bottle tipping issue whilst on duty... <br />'reasonably sober crow flies'kinda fits the meme, no?Opinionated Grump (Rich in NC)https://www.blogger.com/profile/05260811958299261825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-39285607862837348192012-11-13T13:09:18.029-05:002012-11-13T13:09:18.029-05:00Tam, I have difficulty imagining you as Smurfette....Tam, I have difficulty imagining you as Smurfette.Crucishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15441911110953212619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-41921846322006270572012-11-13T10:18:47.062-05:002012-11-13T10:18:47.062-05:00We had a fire department here in Parker's Prai...We had a fire department here in Parker's Prairie MN that did that once. Poor fireman flipped a light switch and was left standing in a pile of rubble where the station used to be! Blew the brick structure clean to steel girders and it's foundation. Tremainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05082851293732617816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-87578976670248542422012-11-13T06:15:28.735-05:002012-11-13T06:15:28.735-05:00SmurfetteSmurfetteMSgt Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00035771485514432736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-49513839646300608782012-11-13T01:06:09.433-05:002012-11-13T01:06:09.433-05:00Silly girl.There was obviously a Terrorist Enemy o...Silly girl.There was obviously a Terrorist Enemy of the State rumored to be in residence, which is pretty much all it takes to get some USGI ordinance shoved down one's chimney.<br /><br />Note that the Official Indy Gas Utility says "Nope! Not us! Really!"<br /><br />See? QED terrorists.<br /><br />Glad you were 15 crowmiles (cowmiles?) away. We'd hate to lose you.<br /><br />-Scribbler's DadScribblersDadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-65108392145460141722012-11-13T00:28:53.487-05:002012-11-13T00:28:53.487-05:00Lonnnggg time ago (think Nixon), I had an after wo...Lonnnggg time ago (think Nixon), I had an after work gig helping shovel snow off vacation home roofs at Tahoe. Heavy winter for lake level Tahoe, 5-6' of wet heavy snow on the roofs. One evening we're going at it, there was a huge "WHUMPFF" and the roof just sort of fell out from under us. The walls had blown outward, the roof fell and the pink blown in fiberglass insulation drifted down for what seemed hours. Luckily the snow dampened the upward effect of explosion and our fall,and no one was hurt. We quite literally walked off the roof onto the ground. Homes in the area at that time, were heated either by oil or propane in above ground tanks and with some exposed exterior plumbing. Propane is heavier than air and "puddles in low areas.If you have a small outside leak it usually doesn't matter too much because it normally dissipates in the open air. In this case the snow acted like a lid and it flowed through the pipe penetration into the crawl space under the home. It built up until it hit an ignition source & lit off. A bunch of houses blew up that year and the building code was changed to require the house connection to have a snow load proof cover over it.Joe in Renonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-45081795545580267452012-11-12T21:10:09.176-05:002012-11-12T21:10:09.176-05:00Mossy: Well, I didn't, until you mentioned him...Mossy: Well, I didn't, until you mentioned him...joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14981428927321701616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-37597325627854321052012-11-12T20:42:23.817-05:002012-11-12T20:42:23.817-05:00Is it just me, or, when readding this, did you hea...Is it just me, or, when readding this, did you hear Marvin the Martian saying, "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!"Mossyrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05271482192516787351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-56727507704708328752012-11-12T20:04:05.974-05:002012-11-12T20:04:05.974-05:00It happened in Torrance:
TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) - ...It happened in Torrance:<br /><br />TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) - A total of 115 homes and apartments were<br />damaged when a home tented for termite fumigation filled with<br />natural gas exploded, showering the neighborhood with debris, fire<br />officials said.<br />Damage from the blast early Tuesday ranged from broken windows<br />to collapsed ceilings, said Tad Friedman, a spokesman for the<br />Torrance Fire Department. The cost of the damage had not been<br />determined.<br />Despite the force of the explosion, only 10 people had minor<br />injuries.<br />"I felt the blast at my home two miles away," Friedman said.<br />"I knew it would be miraculous if there were no fatalities."<br />A witness told fire investigators on Wednesday that the blast<br />sent a bright orange, mushroom-shaped fireball into the sky and was<br />followed by several more explosive flashes with a greenish tint.<br />Debris was found as far as 100 yards away.<br />The City Council declare a state of emergency for the beachside<br />community and set aside $85,000 for cleanup. Torrance is about 20<br />miles south of Los Angeles.<br />One of the damaged homes belonged to John Williams, who watched<br />Wednesday as a steady stream of engineers, utility workers and<br />insurance adjusters made their way through his home across the<br />street from the scene of the explosion.<br />The blast shattered many of the windows in the home Williams<br />shares with his wife and two adult sons. It also blew off the front<br />door and brought the ceiling of one bedroom crashing down.<br />"We've all been outside today wandering up and down the road,"<br />he said. "It's amazing the way people are taking it. It's like,<br />OK, we had a problem, let's go fix it. We're all lucky that nobody<br />was really seriously hurt."<br />An initial inspection indicated that Williams' home had no<br />serious structural damage. However, it will be several days before<br />his family can move back in because the utilities were knocked out<br />and must be repaired.<br />Along with many of his neighbors, Williams and his family are<br />staying at a local motel.<br />Meanwhile, investigators with the Fire Department and The Gas<br />Co. sought to determine how the home filled with gas. An official<br />with The Gas Co. said it appeared there was a crack in a pipe that<br />fed natural gas into the home. But it was unclear how or when the<br />crack occurred.<br />"We were at the home two days prior and there was no evidence<br />of a crack or any indication to the meter reader that there was a<br />problem," said Peter Hidalgo, a spokesman for The Gas Co.<br />Friedman said the gas may have been ignited by fans used during<br />the fumigation or by other electrical devices. The chemical used<br />for the fumigation was sulfuryl fluoride, which is commonly known<br />as Vikane and is not flammable, he said.<br />A total of 33 homes were damaged in Torrance, including the one<br />that was destroyed. Another 82 homes and apartments were damaged in<br />nearby Redondo Beach.<br />The owners of the home where the blast occurred, identified<br />through property records as Robert and Helen Mimura, were not there<br />at the time and could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.<br />The home was being fumigated by El Redondo Termite Control of<br />Gardena. Leo Grizzaffi, an attorney for El Redondo, has said<br />company officials were trying to determine what had happened.<br />He said the work at the home was being done by a subcontractor,<br />Network Fumigation and Exterminating Co. Inc. of Anaheim. A call<br />placed to Network was answered by someone who said the firm had no<br />comment.<br /><br />(Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press <br /><br />Ulises from CAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-50730692880792368142012-11-12T19:53:48.517-05:002012-11-12T19:53:48.517-05:00In other new, a dab of precious irony.
http://ww...In other new, a dab of precious irony. <br />http://www.toledoblade.com/State/2012/11/12/Ohioans-food-stamp-aid-to-be-cut.html<br /><br />OT but it might give you the same chuckle it gave me.TurtleBurtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-68213229368661814182012-11-12T17:23:05.315-05:002012-11-12T17:23:05.315-05:00My father tells a story from his childhood in the ...My father tells a story from his childhood in the 1920's of an elderly woman with excessive facial hair who sometimes watched him and his siblings when both of his parents needed to be elsewhere. One evening the gas stove malfunctioned. When she went to prepare dinner for them and lit the stove with a match, there was a small explosion. When we asked him if she was alright after the explosion, his response was "Alright? Best she looked in years!" <br /><br />On a serious note, about a mile from where I grew up, a two story house blew up from a gas explosion. The blast completely demolished the house from the concrete foundation upward severely damaged the adjacent houses. No one was home at the house at the time of the explosion but the neighbors were home. Seeing the small size of the pieces of debris and the large radius of the debris field was disturbing to me.Ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-87249317720818258142012-11-12T17:06:02.533-05:002012-11-12T17:06:02.533-05:00The drone was obviously launched from the faciliti...The drone was obviously launched from the facilities at Beech Grove!Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16207808793722026516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-45663434780298844712012-11-12T16:22:14.613-05:002012-11-12T16:22:14.613-05:00Hey Anonymous,
I've been in Omaha for the las...Hey Anonymous,<br /><br />I've been in Omaha for the last 49 years and can't say that I remember grain elevators ever exploding with frequency.FilthyMcNastyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13887592247786236604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-84131525642886669972012-11-12T14:46:25.607-05:002012-11-12T14:46:25.607-05:00"Stoichiometric or Theoretical Combustion is ..."Stoichiometric or Theoretical Combustion is the ideal combustion process where fuel is burned completely."<br />Once again Tam expands my vocabulary.<br /><br />What's the motto of the Philly PD?<br />Tora! Tora! Tora!<br /><br />Having seen what a gas leak explosion does to an entire cul-de-sac the photos don't surprise me.Stretchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-30614848305945074662012-11-12T13:16:47.231-05:002012-11-12T13:16:47.231-05:00Why do you assume a drone? F-16s and F/A-18s carr...Why do you assume a drone? F-16s and F/A-18s carry JDAMs. Maybe DoD is trying to get ahead of sequestration by unloading some assets to local law enforcement.<br /><br />A guy on the ridge I live had a huge burn pile, which he doused with gasoline. Then he found he didn't have a lighter, went into the house to look for one. Eventually he came back out, after the gasoline had been merrily evaporating, lit off the - BOOOOM!<br /><br />Rattled windows all over the ridge. He survived and didn't even look much like Wile E. Coyote. To this day people still talk about the time (Redacted) set off his fuel-air bomb.Steve Skubinnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-6973969288416252492012-11-12T12:47:25.668-05:002012-11-12T12:47:25.668-05:00Buddy of mine went to check on a neighbor lady who...Buddy of mine went to check on a neighbor lady who complained her furnace was on the fritz. He went in through the outside basement door just when she turned on the basement light. Next thing he knew he was in the next door yard, trying to put his hair out. Blew the house off the foundation. Neighbor lady needed clean shorts but was otherwise unhurt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-23848206926359062682012-11-12T12:46:41.893-05:002012-11-12T12:46:41.893-05:00Thank goodness. I had to check here to see if you ...Thank goodness. I had to check here to see if you two were alright...Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07205733272086398217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-24606936024422655082012-11-12T12:40:58.197-05:002012-11-12T12:40:58.197-05:00"Sober crow"... LOL snorting coffee HURT..."Sober crow"... LOL snorting coffee HURTS! And I've gotta wipe off the screen (again), but at least coffee is a good cleaner, right??? And glad it wasn't y'all!Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-44170170783401400772012-11-12T12:30:32.474-05:002012-11-12T12:30:32.474-05:00Here in Minnesnowta it's code to have the last...Here in Minnesnowta it's code to have the last 5 feet or so of the gas line (usually from a carbon-steel pipe) run to the stove. It has to be a newfangled corrugated cupro-nickel thingy, which takes the place of what used to be just a coiled-up roll of copper line (I guess they had too many breakages of those).<br /><br />As I noted over in Roberta's comments, it's been fairly common for somebody to steal that line, and fail to crimp the end (or shut off the valve) and deliberately light up the house to cover their tracks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-18251649740994503452012-11-12T12:00:56.842-05:002012-11-12T12:00:56.842-05:00Probably just some HSLD Operators doing real-world...Probably just some HSLD Operators doing real-world pistol training. Check YouTube under "360 degrees" or something, I'm sure it's in there.Joelhttp://www.joelsgulch.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-77382149566480513492012-11-12T11:33:47.083-05:002012-11-12T11:33:47.083-05:00A number o f years back, I was heading out to the ...A number o f years back, I was heading out to the car and the ground kind of surged; thought I heard a boom or rumble, and figured that since I didn't see any debris or smoke, it was probably someone's basement meth lab.<br /><br />Couple days later, I find out it was an earthquake...<br /><br />"Meth lab" is always a suspicion here - when you have folks going to the county luckup for visits - and driving their mobile cookery.Ygolonacnoreply@blogger.com