Discussion: Police Respond To Reports Of Large Explosion In Lexington, Kentucky

The Pelosi/MS-13 gang up to their typical shenanigans.

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Sons of Liberty using UPS to resupply their troops with plastic explosive.

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Industrial accident?

Good thing Trump has really reinforced OSHA taking its budget from 204 million dollars in 2017 to 194 million dollars in 2018. Wouldn’t want workers to think their government cared.

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Truck driver was probably busy watching porn on his phone.

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Weird, it never makes my phone explode.

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My guess is natural gas leak. Seems like I hear about them more these day typically with houses. Although they usually are completely flattened.

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Dryer lint. Dryer lint fires kill 223,000 people annually and destroy untold homes and other structures.

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That’s a fire though, this was explosion.

Maybe if your laundry room got full of dust then you lit a match? Kind of like a grain silo.

and googled and got a lot lower death toll or were you joking?

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also does a number on dryers as well. My twice yearly vacuuming of the entire vent is a household task I genuinely hate. Could be worse as I clean the lint trap every time I use the dryer.

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I got my information from a press release. As far as I know the American Clothespin Manufacturing Association has impeccable credentials.

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I’m assuming that was an outrageously over-the-top joke (though it’s still not as many deaths as from tobacco). From my day job, I have to say a natural gas or other fuel leak was my first wonder, too. While they can and do flatten houses, I’m thinking in a much larger, open warehouse-type structure, like this presumably is/was, the blast (and an explosion is nothing but a very rapid fire) would typically expand in all directions and move anything in its way. For example, it could blow out nearby walls and rooves, while in the ‘open-ended’ direction, there might not be much damage or injury, other than from objects blown/thrown around (esp. if there were any people in the area).

The more-extensive damage to a house would largely be from it being smaller and containing or capturing more of the blast force. From what little I’ve messed w/ designing around potentially-explosive atmospheres, I’m aware they often have some sort of ‘blast panel’–a lighter, sacrificial part of the building designed to open up or blow out to release pressure and thereby save the rest of the structure (sort of like a relief valve).

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Great, the gold-fringed flag fuckers. Not Jack McCoy’s best day.

Might be easier to just replace the hose.

It’s metal so just a gross and dusty undertaking. I kvetch and live through it. :wink:

So one shouldn’t ship 4 crates of Mentos with 8 crates of Pepsi? Just asking for a friend. Definitely not mine.

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Thank god it was an accident and not terrorism, so we don’t have to do anything to prevent things like this from happening in the future.

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At least it wasn’t an elementary school this time.

Who needs a lint trap? I just throw a pair of jeans into every load, and the lint goes straight into the pockets.

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