Sam Crauwels
Daniel LakelandYou don't see this kind of spicy very often... Fortunately.
From Reddit r/electricians
According to comments, it's real, and the cause was a downed power line onto a gas main.
Pucker factor is crazy high here. At any moment these flex lines get a pinhole and you have an enormous flamethrower spurting flames tens of feet across the room.
If you ever see any kind of gas line glowing any kind of color... RUN away, preferably 1/2 mile minimum (~1km)
Jima 
@dlakelan Yeah, the only saving grace is that the fuel/air ratio is almost certainly too rich for ignition. But as you say, the slightest leak would change that. 😬
David, a Bostonian in Tokyo.FWIW, I've always been terrified of gas explosions since moving to Japan. The Japanese love restaurants with at-table gas cooking. Suicidal, I thought.
But gas explosions are incredibly rare in Japan.
It turns out Japan delivers residential and small scale commercial gas to customers at a line pressure about 1/10 that used in the US.
jeffeb3@dlakelan Make sure you take a photo first though.
@jeffeb3
Take off every zig. For great internet points!
Take off every zig. For great internet points!
Justin Derrick@dlakelan It’s not even like you could go outside and turn the valve off - it would cook you to medium rare in a second if you touched it.
What’s weird is that one of them is glowing like a neon light…. Is methane one of the gasses they use in ‘neon’ lights?
Eric S. Smith@JustinDerrick @dlakelan I think that line might have an outer jacket on it that the metal inside is glowing through.
Janis@dlakelan My mom piles s* in front of her breaker box, which of course has the main on the top where she can't reach it over the piles of s*.
Don't be my mom.
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@dlakelan that's a DROP AND RUN scenario if ever I saw one
xssfox (crossy)
Andrew@dlakelan going for that cyberpunk neon look
morb@dlakelan holy shikies
TheJen will not comply
Kimberley
Mitheral (He/Him)@dlakelan original images from the Tulia fire department https://m.facebook.com/@tuliavfd/ https://www.facebook.com/100064702688051/posts/922715066561908/
Willard Goosey@dlakelan
That is the straight up scariest picture I've seen in a long time.
That is the straight up scariest picture I've seen in a long time.
We had a nearby lightning strike close enough that the induced power line surge blew the main circuit breaker, one older LED light bulb (out of a _lot_ of LED bulbs), and a circuit board in the (gas) water heater. The flash/bang/blackout was perceptually simultaneous.
Computers, TVs, and other electrical stuff all survived, to our surprise.
@djl
Lightning is so weird. My father was at a boy scout camp and hiked back a mile or so to get rain ponchos for the group when he got to the building lightning struck the building, arced from the power box and hit him. He said it was like being lifted up and slowly lowered down... Of course it was all simultaneous but his sense of time was all scrambled. When he never showed up with the rain gear some scout leaders came to find him. I guess he survived... Or I'm a glitch in the Matrix.
Lightning is so weird. My father was at a boy scout camp and hiked back a mile or so to get rain ponchos for the group when he got to the building lightning struck the building, arced from the power box and hit him. He said it was like being lifted up and slowly lowered down... Of course it was all simultaneous but his sense of time was all scrambled. When he never showed up with the rain gear some scout leaders came to find him. I guess he survived... Or I'm a glitch in the Matrix.
Possumantha
Darryl RammDo NOT cross the streams.
@dlakelan Instead of pilot light it's pilot lightning.
@dlakelan ho . ly . shit
Michael Porter@dlakelan When you want your hot water *fast*