Bregxit said:
JayHowdy! said:
Midland CT 05 said:
My wife works 2 blocks away, and I remodeled a condo across the street last year so I've been following this story. Fort Worth Start Telegram just posted a story where Atmos has said their gas system was not involved in the blast….
Sorry on my phone or I'd post a link, they just shared it on the twitter page.
I would assume that to mean that the leak did not happen on their side of the meter. There could have been a leak from inside the building. There was construction going on in the kitchen at the time.
What's odd to me is that you'd need a fairly large buildup of gas to have that big of an explosion. The kitchen is in the basement so that would be an area that could accumulate enough but I'd think SOMEONE would have smelled it or even had effects from that much gas before it accumulated enough for that big of a boom.
If the leak was underground and coming up through the soil, that can scrub out the mercaptan which is added to the gas to make it smell. Without that, natural gas is odorless.
I don't know the design of the building, but if it was accumulating in the walls, but little into an occupied area, that could also preclude anyone from having any effects from it.
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