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Anonymous
I’m not on this particular street, but we all have gas. I’m surprised there’s a house without gas in this area. I’ve been in dozens of friends homes within a mile of this house. Luckily this house was a corner lot and had a bit more land. Imagine if it had been directly next to its neighbors? I want to know how neighboring houses fared. They said the debris field is large. |
Anonymous
There was a pool in the backyard heated by propane. No natural gas line to the house. I grew up in the house two houses down and still know plenty of neighbors. The neighbors I grew up knowing in that house left in 2015 so I don’t know the people who owned it most recently. It’s my own assumption that the pool was still heated by gas. |
Anonymous
| Will also add to above comment — my parents and the neighbors brought gas to the neighborhood in 2000s (I don’t remember exactly). The previous owners were not interested in natural gas to the house so they did not put one in. The natural gas line in the neighborhood literally stops just before their house. Source: it was a huge point of contention for my parents/surrounding neighbors who wanted access to natural gas. |
Anonymous
Propane has twice the energy density. So, it must be competitive or people wouldn't use it. |
Anonymous
| Felt it in the Kentlands |
Anonymous
| Was the propane tank outside and leaking into the basement? |
Anonymous
Yes it was outside. |
Anonymous
It was underground… “ to a 500-gallon underground propane tank that crews found leaking into the home.” |
Anonymous
I’ve only ever heard of people using it when they want gas but don’t have access/are not tapped into a natural gas line. In my experience it’s pricey. Plus you have to get it delivered to your house, you don’t want the tank to run too low in the winter, the price fluctuates a lot, if you don’t own your own tank you’re stuck paying the rate set by the company who owns the tank (this is actually a very common scenario in Loudoun)… |
Anonymous
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Loudoun County FD posted that anyone that would like to donate toward the impacted firefighters can do so through their foundation. You can note “for the Brown family” on the donation if you’d like the donation to go toward Trevor’s family. A donation without that note will go toward the other injured firefighters.
https://lfrf.org/ |
Anonymous
| There's a GoFundMe for the homeowner, and also one for her roommate who was renting a basement room. Unfortunately the roommate did not have rental insurance and lost everything, she came from another country several years ago for a new start and was a terrible turn of events.. |
Anonymous
I hope she sues the shit out of the homeowner for not maintaining her home and gas tank. |
Anonymous
What evidence do you have of that? |
Anonymous
| It is really upsetting that the homeowner has earned double of what she asked for in her Go Fund Me, but her roommate, a recent immigrant to this country has only $8000 in donations. https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/money-being-raised-for-resident-of-deadly-sterling-house-explosion/65-ceb1ed84-deb5-43f1-b535-d52584d8b418 |
Anonymous
I am a little closer in (east of the neighborhood) in Great Falls, right off Route 7, and we do not have gas. A gas line goes about half-way down the street that enters our neighborhood, then it stops. No one beyond that has gas. It would cost us $50,000 per home to get the line extended (the neighborhood asked). However, the neighborhood right next to us (newer homes) has gas. Strange! |