Legally PG&E was told by the courts to rebrand to Pressurized Gas Event, but they won on appeal after they killed hundreds of people due to poorly maintained, vegetation round powerlines. They are so versatile!
I read in the article that PGE found the leak, then said it wasn’t a problem. Fire department was sent away, then 2 hours later the explosion happened. How is this the fault of the construction crew?
I wouldn’t discount it. I mean why tf would they not check where they are piercing the ground in a developed area. That’s the most obvious consideration even if it WASN’T their profession, and the law. They didn’t even check?? They just pulled the pin on a grenade and tried to see how long they could wait?
The article suggests they failed in their duty to evacuate the area around the leak, so, even if they aren't at fault for the main event, they're at fault for that. These guys are always in it. And they're never held accountable. Then they pass the cost of the lawsuits back to all their victims. That company needs to cease existing. California should seize their assets and just take over the operation. And I say that knowing how inefficient and lousy the state government is -- which should be telling about PG&E.
Many years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night (I'm a light sleeper), because I felt... something. The windows had rattled slightly, but it was like a bass had played a loud quick note or something. My wife was upset, of course, and said I was imagining things. Next morning I found out there was a residential gas explosion 4.5 miles away.
Theory is, the resident had been fiddling with the gas supply as part of a DIY. Nobody in the immediate vicinity was hurt, just a lot of damaged houses, and the news only said they "confirmed" the resident was deceased. I can't imagine what that must've looked like.
That's eerily similar to my mother's story of when we lived in Guadlajara, Mexico. Years ago, my family and another family were going to go to a museum for the day. My mom suddenly changed her mind abruptly saying she just had a bad feeling.
There was a huge explosion downtown, around the area we would have been at. She says she felt a small shock, and something inside her told her she was in danger.
You know….its kind of amazing to me that we haven’t figured out how to harness energy without burning things yet. Yeah I get alt energy industry exists but it’s barely making a dent. It’s like we picked up a burning stick in the woods 100,000 years ago and said “yeah we are good now.”
that's the thing though, that's what harnessing energy is... controlling things that want to go boom (release their energy) and try to make it only release that energy where, when, and how you want... when you lose control of that and it releases that energy on its own terms... things usually go boom!
usually, the forms of energy that give the most "bang for your buck" (pun intended) are things that fall into the "may go boom" category.
About 13 years ago my wife and I were driving to a travel agent to book our honeymoon, and we heard a boom over the music in the car. Turns out a house 2 miles away blew up because a gas crew nicked a line, and the gas went towards a house along the outside of the pipe and blew it apart when it got to a flame.
From what I understand, and I may be wrong, but the construction company broke the gas line closer to 7:30am.
So if PG&E is being truthful, and had the gas shut off by 8:00am, thats means the wind was blowing just right to fill that house with gas for approximately 30 minutes.
If PG&E is not being 100% truthful, thats means the house filled with gas for at least 30 minutes, if not longer until it was truly shut off.
The actual explosion was from 1 of the residents getting in the kitchen and firing up his stove for breakfast.
"The Alameda County Fire Department says crews were dispatched to the 800 block of East Lewelling Blvd. for reports of a natural gas leak. Firefighters arrived on scene at 7:50 a.m. and officials said they were cleared by PG&E crews at 7:55 a.m.
Just a couple of hours later, at 9:38 a.m., firefighters were called back out to the same location after reports of an explosion and fire."
What you saw in the air is shingles.
European homes would crumble too. There are plenty of history books showing crumbled homes from smaller explosions in WW2
1.) You don’t know what explosions took place before the photos you refer to.
2.) A typical bomb (which was designed to create as much damage as possible unlike the gas explosion) of the 2nd WW was between 50kg and 1000kg, typically half of that was the weight of the explosives. I do not see the explosion (and the mass of the involved explosives) in the video anywhere near that.
3.) Aerial bombs have a huge amount of kinetic energy in opposite to this gas explosion.
4.) What I see is that the house is gone, so maybe the whole house was made of shingles? Nothing’s left.
The San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred at 6:11 pm PDT on September 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California, when a 30-inch (76 cm) diameter steel natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded into flames in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood 2 miles (3.2 km) west of San Francisco International Airport[4] near Skyline Boulevard and San Bruno Avenue.[5] The loud roar and shaking led some residents of the area, first responders, and news media to initially believe that it was an earthquake or that a large airplane had crashed. It took crews nearly an hour to determine it was a gas pipeline explosion.[6] As of September 29, 2010, the death toll was eight people.[7
You might think so because of the perspective, but consider that chunks of that roof made it maybe 50-60 feet into the air. By the 7 second mark it's all on the ground. From the angle it sort of seems like it's floating, but it's actually travelling straight up around fifty feet and then back down to the ground in less than 6 seconds.
Fun fact, European brick and morter blows up too! We had a few apartments in my city explode a couple years ago into a pile of rubble and kill 3 residents.
https://abc7news.com/amp/post/crews-battling-large-building-fire-smoke-hayward-reported-explosion/18276111/
Construction crew did not call 811 and hit gas line.
That construction crew just filed for bankruptcy because their insurance, if they have any, is going to laugh in their face.
I don't know if this is a case of "We have ONE rule!"
But it's a case of "We have like FOUR rules and that's number 3 you idiots."
Wear a hardhat, be sober, call 811, profit
Another rule they broke
That's what you think. If it's big enough they'll just make another company, buy the old companies assets, and keep on truckin'.
It's pge, the same power company that blew up San Bruno a few years ago. They raised rates to cover the costs.
Sounds like y’all are getting a rate hike in your near future then.
Is that what the movie The Lost Bus is based on? McConaughey flick. I remember some energy company was at fault in the movie.
Not the same fire, but the same power company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Fire_(2018)
Legally PG&E was told by the courts to rebrand to Pressurized Gas Event, but they won on appeal after they killed hundreds of people due to poorly maintained, vegetation round powerlines. They are so versatile!
Pge didn’t cause the explosion smarty pants. They were on site responding to the call of the gas leak for only a few minutes when this happened.
Damn, The Burbs was pretty spot on with their rendition of that.
I read in the article that PGE found the leak, then said it wasn’t a problem. Fire department was sent away, then 2 hours later the explosion happened. How is this the fault of the construction crew?
I came here to say “meth”, so thanks for clarifying 😂
I wouldn’t discount it. I mean why tf would they not check where they are piercing the ground in a developed area. That’s the most obvious consideration even if it WASN’T their profession, and the law. They didn’t even check?? They just pulled the pin on a grenade and tried to see how long they could wait?
Meth isnt explosive.
What youre thinking of is mercury fulminate.
I got the reference, well played.
Knew it had to be related to PG&E somehow. They're responsible in some way for more disasters in California than Nature itself.
I mean, this wasn't PGE's fault for once
The article suggests they failed in their duty to evacuate the area around the leak, so, even if they aren't at fault for the main event, they're at fault for that. These guys are always in it. And they're never held accountable. Then they pass the cost of the lawsuits back to all their victims. That company needs to cease existing. California should seize their assets and just take over the operation. And I say that knowing how inefficient and lousy the state government is -- which should be telling about PG&E.
As a PG&E customer that gets screwed on rate hikes on the regular, can confirm.
That crew is screwed now
Oh geeze. I hope everyone injured makes a quick recovery. 🥺
twice?
I figured that’s why happened when I saw that excavator standing there, LOL.
I have a video of the driveway company I hired hit the gas line with a front loader, not nearly as abrupt or chaotic
That contractor needs good insurance or a really fast car.
If they have a really fast car, they should probably have good insurance anyway
He got a fast car, but I got a plan to get us outta here
How? You're just working at a convenience store
managed to save just a little bit of money
Okay, but how far will we have to drive?
Won't have to drive too far
Just 'cross the border and into the city
Perhaps the two of us could secure employment
yeah you'll get a job and I'll get promoted
After this explosion, we'll first have to move into the shelter
I remember when we were young
They're a contractor so they drive a white Ram 2500
Neighbors seem to be having a blast.
This one simple trick blew them away
Probably mist them.
"The roof! The roof! The roof is on fire.. and flying in the air!"
"There goes the neighborhood! And over there, and some more over there!"
The home makeover show is getting out of hand
(Re)move that
bushouse!I’m pretty sure Ty Bennington actually blew up a house one episode
He did. It was a big ish ranch house
“It’s a teardown.”
"Let's tear it to the studs!"
Gender reveals are getting out of hand
It’s a binary house:
First it was a house.
Then it was not a house.
The chances of winning the lottery are 50/50
You either do or you don't
🤣🤣🤣
"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck." is the correct reaction to the neighbor's house blowing up.
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Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?
Many years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night (I'm a light sleeper), because I felt... something. The windows had rattled slightly, but it was like a bass had played a loud quick note or something. My wife was upset, of course, and said I was imagining things. Next morning I found out there was a residential gas explosion 4.5 miles away.
Theory is, the resident had been fiddling with the gas supply as part of a DIY. Nobody in the immediate vicinity was hurt, just a lot of damaged houses, and the news only said they "confirmed" the resident was deceased. I can't imagine what that must've looked like.
That's eerily similar to my mother's story of when we lived in Guadlajara, Mexico. Years ago, my family and another family were going to go to a museum for the day. My mom suddenly changed her mind abruptly saying she just had a bad feeling.
There was a huge explosion downtown, around the area we would have been at. She says she felt a small shock, and something inside her told her she was in danger.
Lasagna.
You know….its kind of amazing to me that we haven’t figured out how to harness energy without burning things yet. Yeah I get alt energy industry exists but it’s barely making a dent. It’s like we picked up a burning stick in the woods 100,000 years ago and said “yeah we are good now.”
Technically, man has used fire for over 1 million years... but whats a missing 0 between anonymous friends :)
that's the thing though, that's what harnessing energy is... controlling things that want to go boom (release their energy) and try to make it only release that energy where, when, and how you want... when you lose control of that and it releases that energy on its own terms... things usually go boom!
usually, the forms of energy that give the most "bang for your buck" (pun intended) are things that fall into the "may go boom" category.
About 13 years ago my wife and I were driving to a travel agent to book our honeymoon, and we heard a boom over the music in the car. Turns out a house 2 miles away blew up because a gas crew nicked a line, and the gas went towards a house along the outside of the pipe and blew it apart when it got to a flame.
A gas crew blew up the house? That’s something
Wow! No deaths is absolutely insane. 6 people taken to hospital for injuries. Hopefully they all recover well.
phew that's crazy. I hope they can sue the pants of this company for every medical bill they have in the future.
Probably a natural gas explosion. Those are so scary.
An unnatural gas explosion is even more scary
Still not as bad as a supernatural gas explosion
And not as sexy as an All natural gas explosion.
I really love cooking on a gas range burner....
but electric does have some benefits, and no risk of catastrophic explosions is one.
This is an amazing sequence of events. source ABC News
Fire crews dispatched for reports of a natural gas leak. Firefighters arrived on scene at 7:50 a.m
officials said they were cleared by PG&E crews at 7:55 a.m.
I assume this means that PG&E crews said the natural gas leak was shut off by 7:55 am. (am I wrong in this assumption?)
at 9:38 a.m., firefighters were called back out to the same location after reports of an explosion and fire.
Six people were taken to hospitals for injuries
Does this mean that the construction crew broke the gas mains twice?
Does this mean PG&E crews said the site was OK before it really was?
From what I understand, and I may be wrong, but the construction company broke the gas line closer to 7:30am.
So if PG&E is being truthful, and had the gas shut off by 8:00am, thats means the wind was blowing just right to fill that house with gas for approximately 30 minutes.
If PG&E is not being 100% truthful, thats means the house filled with gas for at least 30 minutes, if not longer until it was truly shut off.
The actual explosion was from 1 of the residents getting in the kitchen and firing up his stove for breakfast.
Thanks for that detail.
Not smelling that level of gas seems surprising to me.
Asking the questions the journalists need to!!
This is the best comment so far, laying out what happened along with good questions.
Creating an open concept
Yeah it's open plan now.
Actual Abrupt Chaos.
Bravo.
But i hope everyone is okay.
God dammit Jesse!
Ooof, you can see a person just barely making it out on the left. That is terrifying.
Was it a gas leak? The whole house was obliterated.
Construction crews were digging and hit a natural gas line
Looks like that dude came from on tbe neighbors property
In b4 MAGA blames this on Newsom's woke construction regulations.
MAGA really is rent free in your head 🤣
Everybody is sick of trump’s shit my man also it’s a joke and you got triggered by it which is fantastic.
Cuz everyone knows that anytime soon
That little lady Katy
Goes
Kaboom
Hellloooooo nurse
Just a couple of hours later, at 9:38 a.m., firefighters were called back out to the same location after reports of an explosion and fire."
Always interesting what US houses are built of.
What you saw in the air is shingles. European homes would crumble too. There are plenty of history books showing crumbled homes from smaller explosions in WW2
1.) You don’t know what explosions took place before the photos you refer to. 2.) A typical bomb (which was designed to create as much damage as possible unlike the gas explosion) of the 2nd WW was between 50kg and 1000kg, typically half of that was the weight of the explosives. I do not see the explosion (and the mass of the involved explosives) in the video anywhere near that. 3.) Aerial bombs have a huge amount of kinetic energy in opposite to this gas explosion. 4.) What I see is that the house is gone, so maybe the whole house was made of shingles? Nothing’s left.
Cardboardhouse goes boom
PG&E are at it again.
Insurance company: we will not pay the damages due to negligence.
Well! fuck that house in particular!
The AI videos got me looking at videos like this 50 times just to make sure it ain't fake.
Meth Lab?
Natural gas
Omni man?
It did look like it pushed up from the basement
A basement? In California?
Basement doesn't really rule out gas or meth. But given the size of the explosion, my money is on a gas leak.
Construction crews were digging and hit a natural gas line
That's what she said.
No, thanks.
Live, laugh, meth blast.
Better call Saul...
How that guy in the digger lived is insane.
Oh.. so that’s like a thing that can happen. Cool.
This warrants more fucks than the man delivered.
And that my friends is how you get a bad case of tinnitus and a new job.
That person by the white truck will need new pants
Maybe a new job depending on what he was up to
True
Gas leaks are always a serious danger …
That's how you give Brittany a heart attack.
Was it PG&E again?
Are your houses made of cardboard?
Shows that someone never played with fire as a kid
Now if the state would finally separate from the mainland…
"So, about that pool you wanted... we have good news"
If u are unfamiliar with PG&E history:
The San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred at 6:11 pm PDT on September 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California, when a 30-inch (76 cm) diameter steel natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded into flames in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood 2 miles (3.2 km) west of San Francisco International Airport[4] near Skyline Boulevard and San Bruno Avenue.[5] The loud roar and shaking led some residents of the area, first responders, and news media to initially believe that it was an earthquake or that a large airplane had crashed. It took crews nearly an hour to determine it was a gas pipeline explosion.[6] As of September 29, 2010, the death toll was eight people.[7
Gas is an amazing thing likes to go kaboooom at the most easiest of opportunities
Looks like a new build now.
Is this a new Micheal Bay movie.
A Four Fuck explosion. A rarity, but not unheard of.
It blowed up good.
Real good.
If I were there... "I think I peed a little..." 😳
The contractor after pressing the button: "Damn, so it was 13 not 30 kg of explosives I should've placed according to the task".
"Aw shit Jerry, you had just ONE job to do....."
https://tenor.com/bcb4m.gif
"Where is Mark?"
Heisenberg strikes again!
The live action version of Invincible where they tried blasting Omni Man in a house.
"OK so that was a gas line. My bad guys. Wanna take lunch?"
“Do you think Dixie was in there?”
I suspect Shadow Company are responsible
This is what happens on the new BF6 map
I don't see Carter
That's awful—hoping everyone pulls through okay. Stay safe out there.
Holy crap, that explosion looks straight out of an action movie. Everyone okay?
Whoa, that explosion looks like a bad action flick gone wrong. Stay safe out there!
👀
Cardboard houses are so funny
Just a fairly typical day in the SFBay area.
Was it the jewish space lasers again? Quick! Call Marjorie Taylor Greene!
There goes the neighbourhood
Shitter's full
HAAMMOOOOOND!!!
American houses are like cardboard boxes. Almost looks fake how much paper there was thrown in the air
That’s called shingles. We saw the aftermath of WW2.. European house crumble just as bad in explosions
what a meth
average gender reveal party
Whoa, that explosion looks straight out of an action movie—glad no one was seriously hurt!
Damn, that explosion sounds like a total insurance nightmare—glad everyone's okay!
Why do they make their homes out of paper?
Me after NNN:
The last trailer of "Now you see me 3"
Welcome to Kaboom, California
It was the bean dip
House looked like it was made out of match sticks.
Taco Bell strikes again
Just Carl and Donut fucking around.
ICE making a search.
Well at least they unblocked the toilet.
This is cardboard and styrofoam, no? Falls so slow.
You might think so because of the perspective, but consider that chunks of that roof made it maybe 50-60 feet into the air. By the 7 second mark it's all on the ground. From the angle it sort of seems like it's floating, but it's actually travelling straight up around fifty feet and then back down to the ground in less than 6 seconds.
SCIENCE, BIATCH!
Uh
That is why I always say: safety in the meth lab is paramount.
God dam it Carl I told you that was too much dairy
“Do you think Daisy was home?”
There's a yo mama joke in all that chaos
It's like a paper house exploding, murica
Fun fact, European brick and morter blows up too! We had a few apartments in my city explode a couple years ago into a pile of rubble and kill 3 residents.
I guess European explosions are more dangerous for the surroundings because heavier things are catapulted in the air (though not as far away).
Someone pull up the aftermath of WW2.. Those eurotwat houses totally withstood all those explosions right?
Looks like meth prices in the neighborhood are going up again
looks like those AI videos