Okay now thats interesting. Are we carving the waffles into throwing stars? Leaving them out next to the banister covered in snow and maple syrup to freeze?
If you toast and then leave the waffle under a fan on low for two days you have the deadliest frisbee the northern hemisphere. At the very least most deadly in your province.
Any firearm you need your PAL license, which is an actual gun safety course and registration that you have to go take. A large portion of people that also pass the course don't actually end up buying a firearm.
We were a bunch of young punks living together in a small house. Since the house was in the middle of nowhere, we were often bored. One day, the microwave had to suffer because of it. It took almost three-quarters of an hour before the hairspray can ignited. It was still worth it, though, because there was a big bang and the microwave door flew across the yard. The rest of it was more round than gross after that. Fortunately, no one got hurt
Nah, you just get a bit of a light show from it. Plus something inside the microwave will likely get lit on fire from it. On a totally unrelated note, don’t try to microwave a frozen juicebox
My family had another close family down the street from me when I was growing up, both the parents and the dog died in an explosion like this one... terribly tragic. The three daughters had are adults and had already moved away so thankfully they werent involved but it breaks my heart to think about them losing their parents :(
“I’ve been a police officer for seven years now, and this isn’t something that happens every day. But the public does need to know that this can happen.”
VERY end of the article, that’s all they have to comment, “but the public does need to know that this can happen”. Like okay, thanks for telling us what the video clearly already confirms, “that it happens”.
You COULD have been more useful to give tips on what to check for or things to remember, how it happens, sensor alarms that can be installed, what you should check before maybe going on vacation, or any of that??
The police continue to be useless here, even when given a situation that calls for a simple public service announcement, they just “confirm” to us the one thing we could already see with our eyes. Good job.
Never said the police should be checking the gas situation…
Just maybe if you’re being quoted in an article, saying people “ought to know the danger” without highlighting what typically causes said danger, then maybe the contents of that comment are… useless at best? That’s all I’m saying.
Also, police comment on gas related stuff all of the time, issuing warnings to not leave cars or generators running inside, etc etc (example). So… is it only some gasses they can comment on, orrrr??
Here is the full contents of that example, the posted News Release FROM the Ontario Provincial Police. Notice how they even acknowledge the science behind what causes such dangers, something you are saying they are unable, or incapable of communicating to the public in the name of safety…
NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is urging all residents to avoid using barbecues, portable stoves, generators and other gas-powered appliances indoors. These devices produce carbon monoxide, a colourless, odourless gas that can be fatal.
Carbon monoxide is produced when fuel is burned. Without proper ventilation, it can accumulate inside, posing a serious safety risk. Additionally, hard-wired carbon detectors may not function during power outages, leaving you unaware of rising levels.
For those seeking heat or a warm meal, the OPP advises residents to visit friends or family members who have heat and power, or to attend a warming or relief centre in your area. Information about these centres is available on township websites. You can also call 211 for information specific to your area.
For those with power, the OPP encourages you to reach out to neighbours, family and friends. Check on those you care about and invite them over to warm up. A hot beverage or a warm meal can go a long way for those without power.
The OPP understands that residents may become frustrated as they await power restoration. Safety remains our top priority. Please do not put yourself at risk by using gas-powered appliances indoors.
For it to cause an explosion that big it must have been leaking for hours or even the entire day, at wich point I doubt anyone was home to even smell it. Insurance isn't going to like this though
Whole house was blown to pieces. IF there were people inside, they likely died in their sleep long before the explosion. It's exploding simultainoursly out several windows.
Fun fact, too much natural gas in a contained environment, like a house, will not explode. Just like too little will not explode. You need between 4 percent by volume and 14 percent by volume to ignite, anything outside of that range and nothing happens.
It WILL explode in a house. I think you misstated your perfectly valid point. In a contained environment, IF it pushes enough air out that the concentration goes above the upper explosive limit, it will not explode. It's a big If and there are missing houses and buildings showing it does not always work out that way.
A flame is a self sustaining reaction between an oxidizer(usually air) and a fuel. If you have all fuel, there's no oxidizer to react with. You need enough reactions to happen to heat the next bit of fuel/oxidizer enough to keep burning. With a very rich or lean mixture, the heat generated by the reactions that do happen are diluted trying to heat up a lot more mass that doesn't have anything to react with.
When gas leaks occur, people become delirious from lack of oxygen at first and either pass out or have no clue what is going on. I can point out a local case where a couple died in my town (in Canada as well). The gas leak caused one of them to become delirious and they decided to try to make coffee because they probably felt strange and didn't know why messing with the appliances caused a spark that blew up the house. The other person never got out of bed. iirc they both died in the blast.
One time during the middle of the night we had a fairly large earthquake. Sounded like someone trying to get into my apartment. So my first thought was to get my pistol and go to the door. My ex wife was like “what were you going to do? Shoot the earthquake?” I don’t know it was fight or flight instinct
If you look at the video from news source. There’s a whole side of the house ripping through the roof and the front of the camera house. Likely destroying a room facing the front. Notice there was no door to open. He probably grabbed a piece of the other house on the way out. Yikes
The sound of the explosion is quite impressive. There’s a very fast whistle and kaboom and chaos. Poor people, I hope everyone is ok. It must be hard to guess what the heck happened and what to do while you’re sleeping and wake up to this
The important parts is the man we're seeing is telling the other to leave/clear the room, but his partner says "I can't, I cant leave the room", then the man calls out about the chimney, i assume he either A. Saw that it was destroyed and couldnt help but mention it or B. Thats what was blocking the partner's path
The rest is a mix of crying out and what the fucks
It happens sadly. I'm going to assume a fault in the water heater system in the house could have been a cause, but a left-on stove is another possibility.
My ex tells me of this time when she was a teen living near base in military housing because her step dad was stationed there. Propane warehouse blew early morning and everyone's first thought was bombing so the whole street was lined with buff dudes in briefs carrying their rifles going up and down the street, there's my ex, her sister and their mom all just having a field day enjoying the show lol
This is Canada. I have a variety of firearms but if I ever ran outside with one, racked, without a trigger guard, I'd be arrested and they'd take my guns away. Even a stick in the right circumstances is illegal. Canada is horrible for self defence.
Brandishing is illegal even in the United States. I think you don't know what you're talking about, and what you're ignorantly saying, is still coming straight from your ass.
And yet open carry is legal in states that had some of the worst school shootings in memory. Don't worry, when you gun-humpers finally come round, us rational people will be waiting with open arms.
Is it common in Canada to be shirtless at home while its snowy outside?
edit:
good to know, thx for responses, as a spanish, I don't know anyone being shirtless while being awake or asleep in winter. We do it, but in summer when its like 40 celsius outside.
edi2:
Btw I dont know why I'm downvoted lol, I dont care anyway, but it's weird being downvoted for asking something.
You are right that if it was snowing and I was in a Spanish house, I would be wearing about 300 layers.
But houses in colder climates are built so that heating them is actually a realistic possibility even in the middle of winter. It's probably 20-ish degrees indoors with the heating on. Easy to sleep however you like.
Huh. I didn't realize heating was such a foreign concept in alot of countries, i get not needing it personally, but not even considering it as a possibility it wild to me (Québec)
Ugh fuck, I’m pretty sure the second person was buried somewhere. Shirtless guy says “leave the room” and he call back in pain, “I can’t! I can’t leave the room!” Then shirtless guy goes running to save them.
Better heat control, instant on and off, and gas is a lot cheaper than electricity for heat.
Millions of homes have gas appliances with zero issues. Then there are people who don't maintain appliances, use them until they fall apart, or ignore that weird smell that warns of impending doom.
We all do. The internet has raised our awareness of issues when many of them have not increased, or have even decreased. A house blowing up from a gas leak is far more engaging than a house sitting there not blowing up.
Two reasons, One efficiency and cost my gas stove costs 11usd a month to run if it was electric it would be 34usd Two it's a redundancy loose power but gas is still running you can boil a pot of water to heat the kitchen.
I would expect that injury due to cold is more prevalent than injury due to gas leak. If your concern is being able to stay alive when power is out of course.
Adrenaline does weird things.
“Run toward an explosion with a stick” is only something you’d do in fight-or-flight 😂
We're Canadian, what else do you expect to arm ourselves with!?
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Okay now thats interesting. Are we carving the waffles into throwing stars? Leaving them out next to the banister covered in snow and maple syrup to freeze?
Or are you just hungry and asking for waffles?
Yes, mostly hungry but intrigued by the concept of frozen syrupy waffle throwing stars too.
If you toast and then leave the waffle under a fan on low for two days you have the deadliest frisbee the northern hemisphere. At the very least most deadly in your province.
I just exploded laughing
sticky situation, being Canadian
Right? He probably thought it was his hockey stick and was prepared for war crimes!
We are the #7 country in guns per capita.
Dual welding beavers.
Beavers tied together like nunchucks
Hockey sticks.
Frozen maple syrup spears, obviously
Just roll your hockey stick along the maple syrup convered banister on the way off your porch. Problem solved! And plus, now you've got a snack!
Is it moose-cock?
https://youtu.be/cP5iOxF-W2Y?si=cAm9iEy8XbgcmAW2
Gigantic knives. This ain't the uk
Maple Syrup
Pleasantries?
Syrup
Maple syrup
Poutine..
He was going for the five hole
Maple syrup to slow down the assailant while you make your getaway. Don't forget to apologize for making the mess.
Hockey stick?
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Any firearm you need your PAL license, which is an actual gun safety course and registration that you have to go take. A large portion of people that also pass the course don't actually end up buying a firearm.
Maybe the stick was debris blocking the doorway and he picked it up so he could get out.
OTOH he may have thought it was an artillery barrage and he could bat the next rounds away with it.
Also "the chimney"?
I mean, if he put together it was a gas leak explosion, checking your gas fire place is a sound idea.
"The fire is shooting at us!"
I saw that episode when it first aired and holy god I’ve never laughed so hard.
Cave man protect pretty lady....oh wait I have a truck and a hot water tank.
And breathing in all the debris of the house across the street. Hope it didn't have asbestos tiles / pipe insulation.
Yeah that’s true. I’d really like to think I wouldn’t wade out into that, and try to observe from a distance.
But, like I said, adrenaline does super weird things to our bodies 🫠😂
If it was america he would probably start unloading freedom in that general direction.
This was what I imagined as a little kid would happen if you microwaved something metallic.
It does if u microwave a can of hairspray. In a smaller scale but actually it does..
How do you know this.
What du you think..
I was hoping to hear a lively story lurking behind that comment.
We were a bunch of young punks living together in a small house. Since the house was in the middle of nowhere, we were often bored. One day, the microwave had to suffer because of it. It took almost three-quarters of an hour before the hairspray can ignited. It was still worth it, though, because there was a big bang and the microwave door flew across the yard. The rest of it was more round than gross after that. Fortunately, no one got hurt
Now that sounds like a good time. I expect a campfire would have done it quicker.
One have to be first to try to get the outcome of it... I only microed CD's and lightbulbs in a cup of water...
Nah, you just get a bit of a light show from it. Plus something inside the microwave will likely get lit on fire from it. On a totally unrelated note, don’t try to microwave a frozen juicebox
...what happens if you microwave a frozen juicebox. that is...oddly specific
It turns out that they used to be lined with aluminum foil, and the outer packaging was more flammable than you’d think
https://globalnews.ca/news/10897585/northern-alberta-house-explosion-december/
No one was inside thank god
My family had another close family down the street from me when I was growing up, both the parents and the dog died in an explosion like this one... terribly tragic. The three daughters had are adults and had already moved away so thankfully they werent involved but it breaks my heart to think about them losing their parents :(
From the linked article…
VERY end of the article, that’s all they have to comment, “but the public does need to know that this can happen”. Like okay, thanks for telling us what the video clearly already confirms, “that it happens”.
You COULD have been more useful to give tips on what to check for or things to remember, how it happens, sensor alarms that can be installed, what you should check before maybe going on vacation, or any of that??
The police continue to be useless here, even when given a situation that calls for a simple public service announcement, they just “confirm” to us the one thing we could already see with our eyes. Good job.
Cops aren't the ones going in to check for leaks, that's the fire department and/or gas company. He likely has no idea what tips to give.
Never said the police should be checking the gas situation…
Just maybe if you’re being quoted in an article, saying people “ought to know the danger” without highlighting what typically causes said danger, then maybe the contents of that comment are… useless at best? That’s all I’m saying.
Also, police comment on gas related stuff all of the time, issuing warnings to not leave cars or generators running inside, etc etc (example). So… is it only some gasses they can comment on, orrrr??
Here is the full contents of that example, the posted News Release FROM the Ontario Provincial Police. Notice how they even acknowledge the science behind what causes such dangers, something you are saying they are unable, or incapable of communicating to the public in the name of safety…
For it to cause an explosion that big it must have been leaking for hours or even the entire day, at wich point I doubt anyone was home to even smell it. Insurance isn't going to like this though
Whole house was blown to pieces. IF there were people inside, they likely died in their sleep long before the explosion. It's exploding simultainoursly out several windows.
Looks like the explosion starts in the basement, which totally tracks since the gas is heavier than air.
Must have been filled to the brim, starting at the foundation.
Fun fact, too much natural gas in a contained environment, like a house, will not explode. Just like too little will not explode. You need between 4 percent by volume and 14 percent by volume to ignite, anything outside of that range and nothing happens.
adding on, this is true for every combustible gas, called the lower explosive limit and upper exosive limit. it can be pretty wide with some gases!
It WILL explode in a house. I think you misstated your perfectly valid point. In a contained environment, IF it pushes enough air out that the concentration goes above the upper explosive limit, it will not explode. It's a big If and there are missing houses and buildings showing it does not always work out that way.
I wondered why and found this ELI5 answer:
A flame is a self sustaining reaction between an oxidizer(usually air) and a fuel. If you have all fuel, there's no oxidizer to react with. You need enough reactions to happen to heat the next bit of fuel/oxidizer enough to keep burning. With a very rich or lean mixture, the heat generated by the reactions that do happen are diluted trying to heat up a lot more mass that doesn't have anything to react with.
.... dumb af question but am I learning chemistry or physics here? 🧐 Also, decent gummy so...
Fuel/air ratio science is actually called stoichiometry.
Oh wow!
Propane is heavier than air, natural gas (methane) is lighter than air. The flame front is going to originate from the ignition source is.
I’d be willing to bet it was their furnace if they had one. For both the leaking gas and the ignition of it.
"Incident" LOL.
"House Blown to Smithereens By Gas Leak in Canada" is more like it.
I hope no one was inside.
No car in that house so luckily there was no one there. If you slow down the explosion, you can tell it started from the basement
It doesn’t take much gas/time to do that and happens alot more than you’d think
When gas leaks occur, people become delirious from lack of oxygen at first and either pass out or have no clue what is going on. I can point out a local case where a couple died in my town (in Canada as well). The gas leak caused one of them to become delirious and they decided to try to make coffee because they probably felt strange and didn't know why messing with the appliances caused a spark that blew up the house. The other person never got out of bed. iirc they both died in the blast.
Love the primal reaction of "I need stick"
One time during the middle of the night we had a fairly large earthquake. Sounded like someone trying to get into my apartment. So my first thought was to get my pistol and go to the door. My ex wife was like “what were you going to do? Shoot the earthquake?” I don’t know it was fight or flight instinct
If you look at the video from news source. There’s a whole side of the house ripping through the roof and the front of the camera house. Likely destroying a room facing the front. Notice there was no door to open. He probably grabbed a piece of the other house on the way out. Yikes
The sound of the explosion is quite impressive. There’s a very fast whistle and kaboom and chaos. Poor people, I hope everyone is ok. It must be hard to guess what the heck happened and what to do while you’re sleeping and wake up to this
We hope everyone is okay too, but don’t call us ‘poor people’.
Edit: Guess the Airplane-esque “don’t call me Shirley” wasn’t captured with this one.
My dad's favorite line is "don't call me surely" I'm with you
What are they saying?
-Hergaderga.....THE CHIMNEY!"
MOIGODBABYTHRLOIGHTNINGNEARLYHITCHEWW
It sounded like Will Ferrel and John C Reilly sleepwalking in Step Brothers.
The clown has NO penis.
"John Stamos."
Shirtless Guy: WHAT THE FUCK!?
Other Person: What was that?
SG: I don't know, hun.
OP/someone: unintelligible maybe "Just a sec!" Crying
SG: Clear the room...
OP: I can't! I can't clear the room!
SG: running back inside The chimney!
OP: oh my God! Do we gotta call the ambulance (I think that's what they said)
SG: (possibly) Lori...
"What the fuck!?"
"What was that?"
"I don't know hun, stay in the room."
"eeggghh"
"What the fuck"
::crying::
"Stay in the room"
::unitelligible, something like "eee, clea--get in the room"::
::runs inside::
"The chimney!"
"Oh my god"
The important parts is the man we're seeing is telling the other to leave/clear the room, but his partner says "I can't, I cant leave the room", then the man calls out about the chimney, i assume he either A. Saw that it was destroyed and couldnt help but mention it or B. Thats what was blocking the partner's path
The rest is a mix of crying out and what the fucks
Something about building birdhouses all day long.
https://youtu.be/XNdZSeJ8xbc?t=8
Or dad sneezed
Nice, Ron.
What, I'm not allowed to sneeze now?
You...!
Wow is that a whole house exploding?
Was a whole house
It happens sadly. I'm going to assume a fault in the water heater system in the house could have been a cause, but a left-on stove is another possibility.
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My ex tells me of this time when she was a teen living near base in military housing because her step dad was stationed there. Propane warehouse blew early morning and everyone's first thought was bombing so the whole street was lined with buff dudes in briefs carrying their rifles going up and down the street, there's my ex, her sister and their mom all just having a field day enjoying the show lol
I don't think that's where the stick was....
"GAME OVER MAN!"
Impressive reaction time tbh. Managed to find a stick and stuff a pair of socks in their mouths all in under a few seconds.
I’m crying 😭
That’s why you don’t microwave maple syrup…..it’ll get you ever time!
Seriously??
Yep!
This happened in Swan Hills, Alberta almost a year ago today. No one was hurt, the house was empty at the time. Hell of a kaboom though.
So he hears and experiences an explosion like the Russians are suddenly invading his street so he.....comes at them armed with a stick......
This is Canada. I have a variety of firearms but if I ever ran outside with one, racked, without a trigger guard, I'd be arrested and they'd take my guns away. Even a stick in the right circumstances is illegal. Canada is horrible for self defence.
Weirdly however, there's an inverse relationship between how happy the law is for you to brandish vs how nice a place it is to live.
Brandishing is illegal even in the United States. I think you don't know what you're talking about, and what you're ignorantly saying, is still coming straight from your ass.
And yet open carry is legal in states that had some of the worst school shootings in memory. Don't worry, when you gun-humpers finally come round, us rational people will be waiting with open arms.
Just for context it's not winter up here all the time. Just in the winter part of the year
Is it common in Canada to be shirtless at home while its snowy outside?
edit: good to know, thx for responses, as a spanish, I don't know anyone being shirtless while being awake or asleep in winter. We do it, but in summer when its like 40 celsius outside.
edi2: Btw I dont know why I'm downvoted lol, I dont care anyway, but it's weird being downvoted for asking something.
As a Canadian who is literally in his boxers while it’s snowy outside.
Yes.
I would say it's very common amongst men to sleep shirtless regardless of what the weather is doing outside.
Yes
Just out of bed right now.
Thinking I need to go shovel the driveway (after I get dressed and scroll Reddit a little more)
Canadians have heating.
Just got up. Still walking around in my boxers/underwear.
It's minus 22°C outside.
You are right that if it was snowing and I was in a Spanish house, I would be wearing about 300 layers.
But houses in colder climates are built so that heating them is actually a realistic possibility even in the middle of winter. It's probably 20-ish degrees indoors with the heating on. Easy to sleep however you like.
Huh. I didn't realize heating was such a foreign concept in alot of countries, i get not needing it personally, but not even considering it as a possibility it wild to me (Québec)
It is common to be Canadian and shirtless period.
For a split second there at 0:05 you can hear the whoosh of the ignition sucking in the air around right before it flashes.
It is not that but yeah I heard it too, the little whistle!
Are we sure this is from Canada? Heard ZERO apologies during the video…
The guys reaction sounds like the Bobcat yeeting guy
Why does the stick that he was holding show up randomly on the ground below him? That part almost seems Ai generated to me
Why does everyone sound like Patrick?
And for my next trick, im going to make a house disappear.
Hope everyone is ok!
I'm sure they'll walk it off.
If not, they'll be mist.
That was quite the rattling explosion, I hope the occupants survived.
If you are talking about the house that exploded, I don’t think they would survive getting burned then turned to mist.
Ugh fuck, I’m pretty sure the second person was buried somewhere. Shirtless guy says “leave the room” and he call back in pain, “I can’t! I can’t leave the room!” Then shirtless guy goes running to save them.
2024
Wow! A new, efficient way to clean off the snow!
It came from the basement, right window, when paused at 0:06. o.o
"It's been an honor, sir"
Let em cook...
can anyone explain how this kind of thing occurs? Makes me slightly terrified to ever own a home that is on gas😅
"Finally, I have the cure for cancer!"
the pipe bomb the feds planted in their floorboards:
What was he going to do with the black pipe thing?
Taco Tuesday gone horribly wrong...
sees title
Me: Let me guess. Boom?
House explodes
Is the house ok?
what is that sound prior to the explosion?
Insensitive I know but since I've read that no one was hurt. That was one of the most satisfying explosions sounds I have ever heard
Thats what is hapoening if you turn the light on as a passenger in car while driving
Guy comes out with a big stick like that's going to help
He sounds like the Swedish chef from the Muppets.
I never understood why gas stoves are so common in US/Canada. Too me they just feel like a gargantuan risk.
Edit: Most likely not as common as the internet makes it up to be.
Better heat control, instant on and off, and gas is a lot cheaper than electricity for heat.
Millions of homes have gas appliances with zero issues. Then there are people who don't maintain appliances, use them until they fall apart, or ignore that weird smell that warns of impending doom.
Perhaps I get a screwed view from all the videos and posts online.
We all do. The internet has raised our awareness of issues when many of them have not increased, or have even decreased. A house blowing up from a gas leak is far more engaging than a house sitting there not blowing up.
Honestly very true.
It’s like measuring peace by reporting on all the wars that never happened.
Two reasons, One efficiency and cost my gas stove costs 11usd a month to run if it was electric it would be 34usd Two it's a redundancy loose power but gas is still running you can boil a pot of water to heat the kitchen.
I feel like the risk my house exploding is worth the extra cost personally.
But perhaps the statistics is better than what I see online. Gas fire and explosions seems rather common
I would expect that injury due to cold is more prevalent than injury due to gas leak. If your concern is being able to stay alive when power is out of course.
I suppose that is a point. Didn’t really consider power outages.
Perhaps I judge it to harshly from the reputation it has online