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Originally Posted by madcorgi View Post
Sounds like a sudden spike in line pressure when they were working on the lines. My first thought was that somebody had hacked into the distribution network to crank up the pressure.

Scary stuff.
It is as I suspected. The gas main pressure was too high. The way the regulators work, if the pressure is too high, the relieve the pressure. If it keeps being high, gas will keep going out. Then the gas hits something flammable, like a pilot light, and BOOM!
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