HolyKow my home town just blew up!

That is really a shame. I too have enjoyed a few beers at the Rocking R. Hopefully everyone is okay.

 

WOW... That must have been harrowing...

Sounds like lots of folks will be working for a while to return services.

 

If Bush were in the White House he'd blame it on Bin Laden.

 

Sorry to hear about this Kow, what a bummer.

BTW: did you have a chance to see the HBO movie "Taking Chance"? The Montana portion of the movie was filmed in Bozeman, although they called it Billings, I guess the mountains in the background at BZN looks better on film than rim-rock and an oil refinery.

 

You have an alibi?

 

Probably a gas leak. Hope everybody made it out ok

 

I think I bought some off sales from there years ago.

 

Does anyone know the cause?

Tom

 

Good grief! And an earthquake to boot! What did a nice state like Montana ever do to deserve this?

 

Kow was from there.

It was probably the militia working on "stuff".

 

Hmmmmm indeed

There could still be a perfectly kosher explanation for two natural gas explosions.

However, my bulls*** detector is going off. You can only push coincidence so far, before saying Wth is going on here

 

Gas explosions are odd things. They can develop a lot of power while having a low expansion speed. I have read of cases where buildings were destroyed while the occupants were left standing naked, but otherwise unhurt.

While I was living in Kalamazoo, a work crew was using a mole to run a pipe from the curb to a house. On the way in they nicked the gas line without realizing it. The gas followed the new hole into the basement of the house, and filled it until the pilot light of the water heater lit it off. I remember see a picture of a foundation and a refrigerator - nothing else left standing. That must of been an interesting report to file.

Tom