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leaking propane tank explodes in box truck in Addison - see comments
Penske box truck exploding in Addison, IL this morning on Wood Dale Rd. The fire department says four homes were damaged and one was left uninhabitable. They say one of the walls of the box truck hit the front facing wall of the home pushing it 2-4 feet inward. Debris spilled out for one to two blocks including clothes and furniture. The homeowners were inside at the time but are not hurt according to fire. Officials say the driver of the truck was seen walking around the truck when responders arrived. They say the cause was a propane tank leak. Driver was taken to the hospital with THANKFULLY non life threatening injuries.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/truck-explosion-addison-illinois-cleanup-continues-propane-tank-wood-dale-road-lake-street/16541290/
yaddiex3
They probably won't get the deposit back on that truck.
RenaissanceFaireMan
codeacrobat
LariCheltsy
Frogblender
Did anyone else have a coffee can demo in science where it had a small hole top and bottom and was filled with gas then the top hole lit.
After a while the flame burns off enough gas (and pulls in enough oxygen for the gas mix inside to be a perfect(enough) mix for the flame to flash inside and blow the lid off as it all burns at once and launches the lid into the ceiling.
Reminds me of that.
Trimule
Propane is dangerous shit. In the Lake Tahoe area during big winters when some vacation homes are totally covered (just a big white lump), the line leading from the large outside propane tank can break. The gas is heavy and works its way under and into the house, Something electrical (clock, phone etc) sets it off. Huge muffled "WHOOOMP" and it's destroyed. Has happened repeatedly. True story........
MmmmmSoup
How the f did he survive
somnif
The driver is in a separate metal box from trailer, which is a fair amount of protection from a ~relatively~ low energy explosion like this.
MiloandMurlosMom
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Zuegma197777
SecretAgentSuperBooger
TheChunguskaEvent
mrsdowneyjr
Propane and propane related injuries
PinkyTheUnicorn2
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Tenugui
KAPTKipper
This is why movers don't move tanks.
PacMan4Life
Keanu must have dropped the Speed below 50mph
SorryThatUsernameIsUnavailableAgain
Erm except Sandra Bollock was driving :P
PacMan4Life
FlapQueen
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MacAlba1314
soon
Thanks for posting this. I was surprised by the clarity.
joot
I cannot believe the driver survived that.
TheCarpe
A lot of the energy of the explosion was probably disbursed by blowing the sides and top off the box truck, as opposed to the much sturdier cab. I bet he won't be hearing right for a while, though.
NR97420
That's gonna be an expensive bill
jridley
Especially since he violated the contract by transporting propane in the back. Insurance might not cover it.
TheOneThatGotBanned
hetnkik999
Man, Hollywood is spending too much time and money on special effects if this is what a truck exploding actually looks like.
WouldYouNot
Uninhabitable? After explosion on street, meters away from house? Wall fell inwards? Is every home in US made out of cardboard?
DarknessOfIce
Basically. Wood frames, drywall inner walls, and vinyl siding... There's not a lot of strength there. "Uninhabitable" is a surprise, but serious damage isn't
joot
Was he trying to take it out of the neighborhood, or is the video sped up? Wtf is he going so fast on a residential street?
UnitConversionBot
4 feet ≈ 1.2 metres
alaest0r
The hero we need
tenbeershimself
So that’s what blown to smithereens looks like
Isosyn
Way too soon to be saying non-life threatening injuries. Blast Lung is a slow presenter. Proximity to an explosion is a very tricky thing to say 'yeah, you'll be fine' about this soon after the event. Lung effectiveness can decline over time and the guy needs to be monitored for at least like two days assuming nothing comes up in that time.
YoWilykat
This is why rental trucks has warning not to store anything flammable or explosive onboard. Leaking gas can build up inside enclosed box then blow up with spark. This guy will owe Penske and that 4 houses compensation for his carelessness. Hope he has a good insurance, a condemned house will be expensive to replace
jackal696
Probably insurance is void on that but hey whats wrong with a lifelong debt that will never repay
YoWilykat
In USA, his credit rating will be trash for years. No mortgage for a new home, no car loan, etc. All he could do is get a loan from a shark with a risk he'll end up with cement boots if he's late with repayment.
jackal696
Wow cement boots and loan sharks. You in usa don't mess around
SnakesInBowties
Yikes!
Thorketil
Escapist83
Did they have a propane grill in the back just.. going?
Hexidimentional
probably left the tank in their bbq, and didnt close the valve, expecting the bbq itself to maintain seal. Static build up in the truck ignites gas in the lines and backflows into the tank and, boom.
Acc87
Pure gas would not explode like this, the explosion was so sharp that a rather perfect air-fuel mixture must have existed inside the truck. More likely half a bottle had leaked inside the volume of the box truck already.
hiyo365
Hot dooog. (s)
charondaboatman
Probably didn’t turn the tank off and bumped the valve or hose driving down the road and loosened the connection. Gas built up in the truck box and, “boom”, some little spark or static set it off.
RecurringNightmare
that was a very sharp "boom", they must have hit pretty close to the optimal propane-air mixture to get that clean of an explosion, plus that truck must have been pretty sturdy to offer some compression and produce almost a bomb there...normally for a pure accident one would expect a deflagration to happen that might rip the roof of the truck open and produce a nice fireball rising skywards, but this was a clean detonation, holy shit...
JustSomePersonThere
Your username is perfect given what an unlikely combination of circumstances would lead to a detonation instead of a conflagration. You’re right, you gotta have a perfect stoichiometric mixture for this kinda boom.
KoRplussomeletters
Bonus points for using the word "stoichiometric".
JustSomePersonThere
Aw thanks!
😊
LoremAmetIpumSitDolor
Yeah, let's transport a flammable gas in an enclosed space so that if there is a leak, it can slowly but surely reach the perfect stoichiometric mixture with oxygen for maximum ignition potential... Some people...
JSinNOLA
Eruditely said!
ToasterDent
This is why we should teach high-school students how air-fuel bombs work.
JSinNOLA
Maybe that's a bad idea...
frankzappascat
How would you suggest transporting it? Separate trailer? What if you live in an RV and have propane heat, stove, shower?
LoremAmetIpumSitDolor
RVs store gas tanks outside for this very reason. They have canister holders in a number of possible areas along the outside of the RV. So, transport it any way you can but such that it is never fully enclosed.
Hexidimentional
also those box trucks generate a fuckton of static electricity and are entirely insulated from the ground, great ignition source
allmycommentsareGold
This makes me seriously reconsider how I transport propane tanks . . . .
Tarelgeth
Open air. If there's a leak, you want it to be able to dissipate, not saturate an enclosed space.
arajad
Or just reconsider propane tanks, period...
Vortexhelios320
Got it; only fuel your home with gasoline stored in an army of little Styrofoam cups!
arajad
Ah, the homemade napalm solution.
ToasterDent
Tie them to ropes and drag behind your car.
Mithi
How about: not in a confined space?
jackal696
As an internet researcher and somewhat of a expert at everything that goes on in the world. Yes
jargonmon
NEVER EVER transport propane tanks (or any compressed gas tank) in an enclosed container.
Propane is obviously the most common for most people. So don't put them in your trunk. Back seat with a seatbelt or on the floor. Never in the trunk.
KAPTKipper
I use a milk crate, then tank in the crate, seat belt attached to both.
frankzappascat
Never ever? What if you are in an RV and use it every day for heat, stove, shower… Just be safe and careful. How else would you get propane from shop to house?
mossmoths
Windows down too so if it leaks you don’t pass out behind the wheel.
YoWilykat
And open windows, even a little crack will keep any leaking gas from building up to boom level
backrideup9
Enclosed container.....like a car? That's literally 99% of the way propane tanks are transported. Back seat on the floor is just as "enclosed" as a trunk.
Mithi
Your passenger cabin has windows and ventilation
LuminoZero
Which keeps the propane leaking from the can from reaching an explosive air/fuel mixture.
SevTai
Guy up in Jersey blew himself up by accident somewhere around 2004ish like that. Lit a cigarette before going to work & his truck exploded.
SevTai
Was about 5 blocks from my place at the time. Took him & his truck out & damaged at least 3-4 of the houses he was parked in front of.
Chrondeath
Er....what is it that makes the inside of my car not "an enclosed container", in this scenario?
VodkaReindeer
I believe there is air circulation for the passengers. That's why you smell the poop if you drive next to a freshly fertilized field.
ChareAndFlaff
Remember to open a window, I guess?
myeyesthegogglesdonothing
Wait until you hear about doors and windows that aren't in the trunk of a car.
misterobservant
You can crack the window down so even if it is leaking not as much gas might accumulate. (Just a guess)
coreydeangibson6
The difference is that you can smell the leak.
Tarelgeth
Unless it's nitrogen.
nefroye
Yep.
Beanholio
This is why the Uhaul contracts forbid any inflammable materials be transported.
Tunica
The truck probably ran on propane
LokiShade
They usually run on gas (petrol).
PunnyTiger
"...anyway, that's how I learned flammible and inflammible mean pretty much the same thing.'
Rodville
Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. American English is weird.
grumpydwarf
FTA they mention that Penske has the same provision in its contract
stiklikegiant
Inflammable means flammable???
unluckyandbored
Yep!
ServerMonkeyKing
Inflammable means explosively flammable. The dangerous Michael Bay kind of flammable.
greencrayon
Every damn time 😂
REVOLVER0CELOT
Thats why you use non-flammable
Detoc
It's not what you wouldn't think it wasn't, is it?
YoWilykat
English idiosyncrasies
NickRivieraMD
what a country!
UnoriginalPieceOfRepeatingShit
Hi doctor nick!
NickRivieraMD
tp0d
Hi Dr Nick!
NickRivieraMD
TheWhiteBarry
Username checks out
Eragoon
yes, "inflammable" came first as "capable of inflaming (=being set on fire)", then the "in" was dropped to get "flammable" (maybe to avoid inflammable vs. nonflammable confusion (causing inflammable vs. flammable confusion...))
there's "in-" stuff that means "not" (like indirect is not direct), and there's "in-" stuff that means "in, into, etc." (like inside is the inner side of something)
Feralkyn
It came from a french word initially, not from the word "inflaming"--the word was the verb for "to set alight" iirc
Eragoon
"inflammable" *means* "capable of inflaming/being inflamed", and came to English from the French "inflammable" (same meaning)
the same root stuff is also where English got "to inflame" from
(and "inflame" means "to set alight/on fire/etc.")
Feralkyn
It came from Inflammare which is the verb. Yes, "to inflame" came from the same root, but it's "inflammable" because french. To note, to actually set something on fire is not "inflame" (that's "to make angry"); it's "enflame"
SenselessSentiments
"Flammable substances can be set fire to (with a source of ignition), while inflammable can catch fire by themselves (without needing a source of ignition)." - source below.
SenselessSentiments
https://compassfuels.co.uk/flammable-vs-inflammable-vs-combustible/
SenselessSentiments
https://www.uksafetystore.com/resource-hub/hazard-safety/types-of-flammable-hazards
tankerofquetzals
That difference hasn't made it to the dictionary, so best not to rely on it being widespreadly true:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/flammable-or-inflamma">e">https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/flammable-or-inflammable
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/inflammable
SenselessSentiments
Yeah, it's true that I couldn't find this distinction in the dictionary. But I do find dictionaries to be a bit slow to catch up to real life usage of words, especially technical terms (speaking from my experience in STEM fields). But yeah, I wouldn't rely on it to be universally known.
Shaodyn
Oddly, yes. English is a horrible nightmare language.
myotheralt
English is the language that beats up other languages in the dark alley and dogs through the pockets for loose gerunds.
mithiwithi
I like to say it's three dialects standing on each other shoulders and wearing a trenchcoat..
nisupapatampoco
I really want to rant more about this. I’m going from teaching reading in Spanish to teaching in English and I’m scared so I keep saying how dumb English is and people just look at me blankly. Someone please commiserate with me!!
zHurk777
I before E except after C. Accept it. Except for some words it doesn't work. But some it does.
Shaodyn
One of the things that irritates me is how each letter can make so many different sounds. In Spanish, you know what sound each letter makes because it only has one. English has multiple for each letter and the only way to really tell which one is being used is memorization. There's not really any "circumstance A means sound A, circumstance B means sound B", etc.
gorbal
Cerca
myotheralt
There are three "C"s in Pacific Ocean. They are pronounced differently.
Akurei00
English is more of a mutt than most other languages, pulling bits and pieces for many of its standard words. The combinations make it confusing
French does a lot of "let's not pronounce any of these letters." For instance "oiseau" is pronounced like "wah-zoo".
And at least English doesn't (mostly) have gendered words. Sure, there's like "actor" and "actress", but those are less common rather than every noun having an arbitrary gender that you just have to memorize.
All languages are weird.