Tuesday afternoon just down the block from our apartment around 2:00 pm a crew pushing pipe under the street struck a natural gas line on the corner of 50th and Arden. They quickly notified the police and the surrounding area was evacuated just in time, as around 4:00 pm the house on the corner of the street exploded in a ball of flames leaving nothing but a gapping hole in the ground.
Margaret was at work in Arden Hills and I was in Mankato. So we weren’t immediately aware of the disaster.
Apparently the punctured gas line had leaked into the sewer line and backed up in the house.
these first photos courtesy of FOX 9 News linked story here:
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/minnesota/edina-house-explosion-feb-23-2010
We walked down a day or so later and looked closely at the mess. There is virtually nothing left standing and the house next door was severely damaged as well. We took a few pictures of the devastation.
The Gas company trucks are still monkeying around in the sewers trying to flush the remaining gas out.
The house next door
Miraculously no one was hurt. Even the little dog that was home in the house at the time of the explosion escaped without injury somehow.
One day you have a million dollar home in Edina the next day:
Life is like that!
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