Demolishing a House Instantly with a Mini Excavator and an Accidental Gas Line Rupture

Yeah, this isn’t a common occurrence when a gas line is ruptured. There was a build up inside the structure.

According to the article, the explosion occurred 10 minutes after PG&E turned off the gas. So this leak was going for a while.

I missed that part, thanks for pointing it out. Looks like standard utility work was going on and nobody was at home during this time. Bad luck all around.

That leaves even more questions like why was digger still operating AFTER they knew they had caused a gas leak an called it in. I thought everything gets shut down and gas company comes with sniffers before all clear is given.

thqt is going to be an expensive mistake. Don’t they still have the call, before you dig ads?

All states have a utility marking service (811). It is a federally established and free service, because the utilities would rather send a person out to mark lines for an hour than have to fix a utility line. In most states it is the law that you call before digging a certain number of inches. Exact rules vary by state.

This was in the SF Bay Area, ultimately the ones paying will be us customers with PG&E fee hikes.

Although this occurred in Hayward, it was a contractor remodeling a home that hit a the gas line.

Back in my place, where communism ruled for half a century. Documentation of utilities, were … well some of it didnt exist some of it got lost. We had close call like this, where new roads were built around our house. Plans didnt show ALL of the old infrastructure, luckily my dad was around when they were building the area back in the day, so he stopped them right before they were about to start digging above old gas line.

Those guys mess up all the time. No guarantee the excavator operator is at fault. Ive had them mark my gas line multiple times and every time it’s off by a couple feet from where I know it actually is. One time they marked it almost 10 feet off, which is outside the hand-dig radius so they would have been at fault for a problem.

The blast was so powerful that someone’s hand was blown off and flew by the camera.

That cyan color doesn’t look healthy. They should get that checked out

it also blew all the tv channel’s watermarks clear into the other dimension

Did it give the finger on the way past like in Rise Of The Triad?

If you remember that game like I do, how’s your back feeling? I found that game at a computer show in the 90s. I loved it because body parts flew at you. It was awesome. Ha

Backs OK. [If you aren’t sure what I’m talking about. In ROTT with ludicrous gibs on, you’ll sometimes see a hand giving the middle finger fly past the screen when you use explosives on enemies](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjVJn2mUYAAgQwY.jpg)

Lmao

lol.

Dude

I see you XD

Alt f4 just closes, this house was deleted.

shift+del, it’s gone. No Recycle Bin nonsense here.

shift + del

Imagine getting a doorbell camera notification on your phone if you weren’t home and something like this happened

You’re probably just going to get “Camera has been offline for 10 minutes”

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This happened in Hayward CA. I live a block from it and was home when it happened. Fun times. No damage to my house though fortunately. Six people hospitalized but as far as I know everyone survived. Important note, it was two hours from gas line being hit to everything being turned off and about ten minutes after it was turned off the house exploded. Basically the utility company didn’t really consider where the gas may have gone when flowing freely. No notice to people in the surrounding area, no alerts. Just boom.

And POP goes the townhome!

And your eardrums.

The gas build up was within the property, if the digger ruptured a gas line surely the gas would just go around the digger. Is there more information on this event.