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Post by Turkeytop » Fri Dec 27, 2019 10:25 pm

Toilet explodes after lightning strikes a Port Charlotte home septic tank


We are getting our look at the damage left behind when a septic tank got hit by lightning, causing a toilet to explode over the weekend.

A significant amount of damage was done to the home, caused in a millisecond, leaving the family no time to react. Marylou Ward, a co-owner of the home, said it was the loudest sound she has heard.

The Sunday morning blast shattered the bathroom toilet into hundreds of pieces.

“It used to be our toilet,” Ward said. “We have nothing now.”

Ward and her husband are not only without a toilet, but the indoor plumbing is destroyed, along with the septic tank.

The odds were not in their favor as a lightning strike, in a chain reaction, led to the septic tank to toilet explosion.


“We come in here and the toilet was laying on the floor,” Ward said. “There’s all pieces everywhere. Pieces everywhere.”

Their plumber said the lightning hit the methane gases from fecal matter built up in the pipes. Ward said she thought the house was on fire.


“We smelled smoke and I looked outside.” Ward said. “It was the smoke from the septic tank that was coming.”


More than 24 hours later, there are still visible damages inside and outside of their Port Charlotte home. The explosion caused their master bedroom window to shatter and the Ward family are still finding pieces of broken yard decorations across the property and in the street.


“It just did all of that damage and exploded things into the road and so on in half a second,” said Charles Allen, the family’s neighbor.


Gratefully, nobody was hurt.


“I’m just glad none of us were on the toilet,” Ward said. “That’s the main thing.”


https://www.winknews.com/2019/08/05/toi ... ptic-tank/



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Post by audiophile » Sat Dec 28, 2019 12:22 pm

What a Gas!


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Post by audiophile » Sat Dec 28, 2019 12:23 pm

They were aghast by the explosion.


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Post by Turkeytop » Sat Dec 28, 2019 1:01 pm

They were left weeping.


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Post by Turkeytop » Sun Dec 29, 2019 10:49 pm

They felt sedimental about that good old tank.


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Post by audiophile » Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:35 am

With just one stroke, that house went to the sewer.


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Post by audiophile » Mon Dec 30, 2019 7:13 am

They are suffering from the aftereffects of septic shock.


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Post by audiophile » Tue Dec 31, 2019 5:22 am

It was a shattering experience.


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Post by Bryce » Tue Dec 31, 2019 8:11 am

FLASH...

According to neighbors privy to the details directly following the accident, the Ward's had really long feces.


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Post by audiophile » Tue Dec 31, 2019 8:27 am

What a crackpot!


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Post by audiophile » Tue Dec 31, 2019 8:37 am

Hard to believe lighting forced this family outhouse.


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Post by audiophile » Tue Dec 31, 2019 8:42 am

There was smoke outside of their Port CHAR-LOTTE home.


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Post by Turkeytop » Tue Dec 31, 2019 9:20 am

Things like this can happen, even in our effluent society.


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Post by Bryce » Tue Dec 31, 2019 11:28 am

Turkeytop wrote:
Tue Dec 31, 2019 9:20 am
Things like this can happen, even in our effluent society.
Which leaves some folks fuming. Me, I just go with the flow.


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Post by Turkeytop » Tue Dec 31, 2019 11:32 am

Their insurance adjuster was septical of their story


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