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#4468464 - 04/01/19 05:37 PM A Close Call  
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Had the propane tank filled today. Guy usually makes me last, but today I was first on the list. Lucky me, right? EXCEPT.....

I'm sitting in the living room of my mobile home while he's filling the tank. I had mentioned I was smelling propane and he said what I always get when I say that, "It's probably just because it was low, but I'll check it." Well, all of a sudden....BOOM!!...and I can see light coming from where light ain't supposed to come from. I go to my bedroom door and the bathroom wall, which is...or was...the outside wall (about 15 feet from the tank), is gone. Well, mostly gone, anyway. Along with the sink and a good chunk of my shower stall. The toilet's still intact, but that's small comfort, seeing as it's now in clear view of the neighbor's access road.

Anyway, I can see the propane guy picking himself up off the ground and since there's no fire I jumped through the hole to make sure he was alright. Apparently he had been on his way back to the tank after shutting off the flow at the truck when it went off and he was more or less ok. (it's a good thing he wore the brown pants)

Like I said, there was no fire, for which I am thankful. I'm also thankful that he wasn't hurt, just shaken up. The company representative said that their insurance will cover repairs or (more likely, in my opinion) replacement, another thing to be thankful for. As is the fact that we seem to have finally turned the corner into Spring weather around here, so no more subfreezing temps and sub-subfreezing wind chills. But most of all, I'm thankful that this "happened" today.



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#4468467 - 04/01/19 06:16 PM Re: A Close Call [Re: vonBaur]  
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Darn vonBaur if that happened to me I'd be charging them for a new pair of drawers and trousers,,good to see no one was seriously hurt

LOL crap vB forgot what day it was the Col woke me up,Good show !!

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#4468468 - 04/01/19 06:20 PM Re: A Close Call [Re: vonBaur]  
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LOL, got me.

#4468469 - 04/01/19 06:31 PM Re: A Close Call [Re: vonBaur]  
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#4468501 - 04/01/19 10:39 PM Re: A Close Call [Re: vonBaur]  
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I had a job filling propane tanks in my twenties, no April Fools about it sometimes those things would make me a bit nervous...

#4468524 - 04/02/19 01:59 AM Re: A Close Call [Re: vonBaur]  
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Dam it. Got me.

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#4468538 - 04/02/19 07:11 AM Re: A Close Call [Re: vonBaur]  
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#%&*$#, you got me completely with that one. It was not so outrageous as to make me question anything, but so curiously strange that i couldn't stop reading. nice one.

#4468541 - 04/02/19 09:05 AM Re: A Close Call [Re: vonBaur]  
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I been had. Good one!


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#4468542 - 04/02/19 09:09 AM Re: A Close Call [Re: vonBaur]  
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No fire should have been a clue.


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#4468543 - 04/02/19 09:20 AM Re: A Close Call [Re: vonBaur]  
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I fell for one where they proclaimed a potential magnetic pole flip by 2050 - only after trying to look up the referenced source and a colleague hinting at the date of the "news"...

#4468682 - 04/03/19 05:32 AM Re: A Close Call [Re: vonBaur]  
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Got me with that one too!
I was wondering how a propane tank could blow without fire ("Dang, he's lucky...oh, nevermind.")

This BBC nature documentary with Terry Jones is always fun to watch on April 1st:
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#4468684 - 04/03/19 06:04 AM Re: A Close Call [Re: vonBaur]  
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Docjonel,,That made my morning great video..See you live in Mystic ,CT..i lived in Coventry CT,,down by Storrs for 20 years


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#4468710 - 04/03/19 01:48 PM Re: A Close Call [Re: KraziKanuK]  
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Originally Posted by KraziKanuK
No fire should have been a clue.

Yes, I kept wondering why there was a blast but no fire.

#4468712 - 04/03/19 01:52 PM Re: A Close Call [Re: vonBaur]  
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A blast dosen't necessarily produce a fire if the flames from it didn't stay long enough to ignite something but the shock wave would surely wreck things,,


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