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Posted on 9/26/14 at 10:33 am to CootKilla
Flood water causes ground erosion breaking gas line. Gas is cut off allowing flood water to enter gas line.
Posted on 9/26/14 at 12:31 pm to CootKilla
an oven under water in a flooded house.
Not all gas appliances have electronic solenoids to shut off flow.
Not all gas appliances have electronic solenoids to shut off flow.
Posted on 9/26/14 at 12:34 pm to CootKilla
CootKilla:
Water in gas lines was a huge deal for a couple of YEARS after Katrina in Orleans Parish. It really messed with restaurants - the water would bleed through a gas range burner and foul up the orifices.
Water in gas lines was a huge deal for a couple of YEARS after Katrina in Orleans Parish. It really messed with restaurants - the water would bleed through a gas range burner and foul up the orifices.
Posted on 9/26/14 at 12:49 pm to CootKilla
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How would water get into a gas line?
FWIW backflow prevention really is a big deal.
Any water main break ever and suddenly you have a loss of positive pressure throughout a lot of the system.
Any garden hose laying around in a puddle sewage or muck then becomes a suction of that crap right back into the potable water system.
That's why vacuum breakers are becoming required on garden hoses and utility tubs in a home.
I'm not a big regulation kind of guy, but this one is a real need.
Again, most of it has been around for a long time.
ETA: Full disclosure... family business sells a shiteton of backflow preventers.
This post was edited on 9/26/14 at 12:51 pm
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