If you had one of those BLINK doorbells...

It might have recorded something like this... 

 

A doorbell  video camera captured the moment a California home was blown to smithereens in a thunderous gas explosion that left six people injured on Thursday morning. 

Footage circulating on social media depicts a scene that one resident compared to a “war video,” with a massive blast shaking a suburb of Hayward, sending plumes of heavy smoke into the sky and echoes of a reverberating boom. If you look very closely at the very beginning of this short video, youll see the moment the excavator hit the gas line.

I had something almost exactly the same happen on one of my remodeling jobs back in Jersey about 15 years ago. The guy who came out to do the markout for the underground stuff somehow missed a high-pressure gas line, and when we were digging the trench for the new foundation - WHAM. 

It didn't - thankfully - explode, but it did sound like you were standing next to a jet engine. That was some seriously scary shit. You never seen a 55+ guy (me) run so fuckin' fast in your life...

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