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Re:Meta outage by sterlind on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:02PM (#39609679)
exploded? the house... exploded? like, a gas leak or something?
Re:Meta outage by Arainach on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @06:15PM (#39610316)
Drug lab is more probable than a gas leak.

Sources:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/942043/laboratory-incide... - meth lab incidents are down to about 900/yr and have been far higher in the past (presumably because the labs have moved to things besides meth)

https://rpgaspiping.com/blog/critical-safety-tips/gas-safety... (286 natural gas incidents per year) - I've tried to find a more credible source for this number but keep seeing it cited in various places and have no better source, higher or lower.

Re:Meta outage by rimunroe on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @05:15AM (#39614332)
> Drug lab is more probable than a gas leak.

I can’t tell if you’re trying to demonstrate the problem you have with your neighbors ;)

It was a gas leak, not a drug lab. The utility failed to fix things in a neighborhood where there’d been reports of leaks for years: https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/08/17/eversource-fine-gas-exp...

Re:Meta outage by rimunroe on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @05:16AM (#39614340)
Yep. The utility had gotten reports of gas leaks on that street previously and didn’t fix it.