Holy Damn!

[Gaazy]

A damn gas station blew up about a mile down the road from here at work. Talk about a fucking groundshaker, jesus. One of those looong ass propane tanks somehow blew and I guess the fuel tanks went with it. Looks like a fucking nuke went off.

[Xaiveir]

Call Jack Bauer.

[Gaazy]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/30/gas.st ... index.html



Also a K-5 grade school beside it, knocked most of the windows out of it. Poor kids must have been scared to death.

[araby]

jeez louise!! hope people are okay.

here in Massachusetts, the convenient store clerks are not allowed to "test fire" lighters for you, because of the risk of explosion. crazy.

[Gaazy]

Word around here is there could be up to 7 or 8 people killed but no one can get anything out of em yet. They said it was a pin sized hole in the tank somewhere and someone was coming to shut it off and repair it but he was too late.

I gotta go through there on my way to coach my ski teams race practice but they say the roads are strictly closed, by god damn im drivin through there hell or high water in a few hours because i really dont want to take the 30 minute backroad trip to that damn ski mountain.

[kaharthemad]

[Gaazy]

Just to add, I talked to a buddy of mine who is a fireman and he said they havent released it yet but they have 7 bodies so far, from people filling up too I guess

Video footage all over the local news, im surprised they dont have a pic on CNN yet, ill try to find one.

[Ginzburgh]

Yikes, people just filling up, that sucks.

[Narrock]

Maybe the tank had a slight leak, and some smacktard was smoking too close to it.

[araby]

anyone get arrested for waving firearms?

/going to hell

[Stabfase]

[Arlos]

Edit: Link didn't work. Go to the link Gaazy posted, and there's a link within the story to the video.

-Arlos

[Narrock]

I copied and pasted it into the URL, which didn't do anything. Then I pasted it into a search engine and this is what it brought up:

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[kinghooter00]

GHENT, W.Va. - Fumes from a leaking propane tank exploded inside a convenience store near a ski resort Tuesday, shattering the building into a pile of debris and killing at least four people, authorities said.

At least five other people were seriously hurt at the Flat Top Little General Store, where little remained except twisted metal and a sign showing the price of gasoline.

The blast was felt at least a mile away at a store selling skiing gear.

"I thought we got struck by lightning. The whole building shook. The power went off," said Ben Monast, manager of the Ski Shop.

Authorities said the explosion happened just as a fire truck was pulling into the station in response to a reported leak.

A retired firefighter and a paramedic were among those killed, said Celeste Hinzman, spokeswoman for the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

State Fire Marshal Sterling Lewis said an above-ground tank capable of holding 500 pounds of propane was being worked on at the time of the blast.

"It is our initial thought that the fumes entered into the building and had to have an ignition point," Lewis said.

The propane tank and the store's underground gasoline tanks did not explode, he said.

"Imagine putting off an explosion in your home and when you walked up to your home, the only thing you have left is toothpicks," Lewis said.

William Manning, a bartender at the nearby Bear's Den, said he heard the explosion at his home four miles away. Manning drove to the store because his next-door neighbor works there. He helped carry the woman to an ambulance.

"I barely recognized her. I couldn't believe it was her," said Manning, who cried as he talked to The Associated Press.

He had seen the woman earlier Tuesday when he stopped at the store to buy cigarettes, coffee and gasoline.

"I joked around with her. I joke around with those people every day. They're the best people."

The explosion blew candy and hot dog wrappers into trees 200 to 300 yards from the store, said Mike McDonough of nearby Flat Top.

Keli Akers said she was driving to her house about a mile from the gas station Tuesday when she began to smell propane. When she got home, she saw debris from the store falling into her yard.

Akers said her mother "felt a huge jolt" at the time of the blast.

Akers tried to drive to the scene, but she could get no further than a nearby elementary school because roads were closed. The school was also damaged.

"I know people there," she said. "But it's not just the people who work there. Everyone goes there. Anyone could have been there."

The gas station was about 70 miles southeast of Charleston.

[Xaiveir]

The explosion blew candy and hot dog wrappers into trees 200 to 300 yards from the store, said Mike McDonough of nearby Flat Top.

I know im probably going to hell, but did anyone else read this and think.............:YES!!!!!!

[kinghooter00]

pretty sweet... no pun intended.

[Gaazy]

Woulda been cool to see a video of the explosion I guess, but thats about it. I knew a guy workin the road block a little bit ago and he let me slip through and take a peak. Pretty devastating. He'd been there all day pretty much and said one lady was filling up when it went up, and survived the initial blast but had pretty much 100% of her body burnt up, and died in the ambulance

Sucks, I go in there every damn morning almost and get a drink and snuff. Really nice people worked in there, still dunno who was on shift though.

It could have been worse, a guy I know around here that used to work for the gas company said theres a 14 inch pipeline that runs right through there somewhere.

[brinstar]

dude that is crazy and i'm glad you're okay

[Gaazy]

Sucks, turns out I knew one of the guys that died from the gas company

[araby]

Im sorry gaazy *hug*

[Xaiveir]

Sucks, turns out I knew one of the guys that died from the gas company

Sorry to hear about that man.

[Gaazy]

Thx, never think something out of the wild like that would happen right beside ya until it does.

[Xaiveir]

Yeah, we had a propane tank blow at the Gas station next to my bussiness right before we opened. It was a mess, 4 people died in it.

[Gaazy]

Just talked to an EMS buddy, he said somehow the burnt up woman is still alive, although they arent expecting her to hold on too much longer I guess. 5 still in hospital, i think 1 or 2 might make it out from how it sounds. Hell there was even a young married couple drivin down the road a couple hundred yards away and it shattered the windows out and cut them all up

[Jay]

That gas station cast a really high level aoe spell.