When this was posted on Reddit recently, someone claimed this was caused by a fallen power line that made contact with a gas line. So, power flowing into the house through gas pipe and back out through equipment grounds, heating up lower resistance gas pipes in the process.

Photo reportedly taken by fire fighters or gas company employees.

Edit: I meant to type higher resistance...

unless the gas pipe melted through

That looks pretty damn likely imminent to me...

Ignoring that, the placement of the burners makes no sense.

I think in this case the power heating the pipes is not coming from this house's electrical service, so killing the main breaker probably won't help.

What is this, it's not allowed to tell people with shitty opinions to go fuck themselves? What is fREe SpeECh even for then?

Why not both

So glad my wife is not like that

You're comparing a 25 year old vehicle with a new one. Come back in 25 years and do a similar comparison with a 2024 30k EV... Or, accept that your argument has nothing to do with EVs and is just an argument against buying new.

One example is anti-vaxxers claiming vaccines are causing the increase in autism. When challenged, one possible response they parrot is "well then what is the cause?". The message is that there isn't a cause because there isn't an increase in the first place

You had me until that last group.

If you opt out of participating, you deserve whatever happens without you.

We're in this mess arguably because of all the people who chose not to participate.

Please take a moment:

They're - they are (the ' replaces the space and the a)

Their - belongs to them

There - not here

Boot the laptop from a USB memory stick that has a Linux installer on it.

They didn't mean the backdoor was (or was not) an accident. They meant the backdoor was implemented sloppily enough to be discovered and maybe that was not an accident (as in, he wanted it to be found, but still wanted to plausibly be seen as trying his best to keep those coercing him appeased)

You seem to be doing the same duality thing: "If you are against Trump, you must be pro Biden and that is just as bad!"

Sorry, I meant to type higher resistance. On my water heater, the equivalent part that is glowing in the picture is a really thin flexible corrugated gas pipe that surely can carry much much less current than the iron gas pipe feeding it before it went really high resistance. I could totally see it glowing like this with enough current. But if it is aluminum (not sure if it is), what you said makes sense.

My gas pipe to the house comes out of the ground inside a plastic protective pipe sleeve, so I can imagine it possibly not having enough of a low resistance path to earth to trip one of the cutout fuses on the primary distribution line. Granted, mine also has a big ground wire bonding it to the house ground, which I would think would help here...

/shrug I was just sharing what I read. It was supposedly the explanation as to why local breakers on the house didn't trip.

How do you think they just skipped the parts where they would state the actual alleged crimes? They in fact didn't skip that part.

Did that make it go up?

Not always

No but it can definitely work around issues like a congested link between isp and Google, resolving network-related YouTube performance issues.