Another house in the tri-state area blowing up

We just had a house blow up in the Bronx a couple days ago and now a house in New Jersey is blowing up?
My mom lives in New Jersey she lives a couple blocks from this she said the whole ground shook

a reply to: Visualmantis

Gas leak?

Meth Lab?

BHO Explosion?

Gas leak would be my guess. It's amazing how many people will live in a building with a gas leak for months, or even years, before it's found.

originally posted by: Lysergic
a reply to: Visualmantis

Gas leak?

Meth Lab?

BHO Explosion?

The explosion in the Bronx was a marijuana-growing house

originally posted by: Visualmantis

... now a house in New Jersey is blowing up?

Well, looking at the picture, it seems pretty much that it has blown up!

Drone strike.

a reply to: smurfy

See how the 'ground zero "crater" portion' of the house is at the front in the garage? Thats a gas explosion.

What happens is old gas pipes leak into the garage space, gas is lighter than air so the space fills from top to bottom slowly with gas. When it reaches all the way down to the pilot light on the heater or water heater--- Booom!

Lots of times people 'smell gas' but go in and out of their garage often enough to keep it from building to the point it reaches down to an ignition source. Opening the garage door lets the built up gas out.

Only a matter of time. If you 'smell gas' have the gas and electric company come out, they use sniffer probes on your lines to see... its free.

a reply to: Visualmantis

I'm pretty sure Marijuana does not cause explosions. Mushrooms however could conceivably trigger one.