Ok...so here's the story. Yesterday, around 3:00, a natural gas pipeline exploded in Parker County, TX (about 15-20 minutes from where I live). For those who don't know, natural gas pipelines are very much connected to what I do for a living. That's how the natural gas I get the rights to drill for is transported to market and sold.
This sort of thing only happens when people don't use common sense when dealing with combustible substances...such as natural gas. In this particular situation, some idiot was digging around with a backhoe looking for another gas pipeline. Well, he found one....three actually, and they all exploded and caused what you see in the attached picture.
I drove out to see the remnants of the explosion yesterday afternoon, but alas, I forgot my camera. But this is what my picture WOULD have looked like....had I remembered to bring my camera.
The significance is this: right across the street from my house, there is a *dum dum dummmmmm* natural gas pipeline. Let's all cross our fingers and hope that no one decides to do anything stupid around that one, such as dig around it with a backhoe.
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