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.
#%&*$#, 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.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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"...
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,,