Toilet explodes in Florida home after lightning strikes septic tank

[Sedalia Dave]

Toilet explodes in Florida home after lightning strikes septic tank

 

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A Florida homeowner got an explosive surprise over the weekend after a lightning strike triggered a blast that destroyed a toilet.

Marylou Ward and her husband were sitting in their Port Charlotte home as a thunderstorm rolled through on Sunday when she said she heard a "boom" that was "the loudest noise I ever heard."

“We smelled smoke and I looked outside,” Ward told WINK News. “It was the smoke from the septic tank that was coming.”

 

 

[Utah Bob #35998]

When we lived in Florida lightning struck a tree in the neighbor’s yard, followed the roots to a tree in my yard, then followed the waterline under the house, came up and and exited through the wall in the master bathroom shower. Looked like a 75mm howitzer hit it! Fortunately no one was in it at the time. Another 5 minutes and I would have been in there. I was on the road and just about home but I was famished and decided to hit the Mickey D’s drive thru. A burger saved my life!

Who says they’re unhealthy?  ;)

[Texas Lizard]

3 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

When we lived in Florida lightning struck a tree in the neighbor’s yard, followed the roots to a tree in my yard, then followed the waterline under the house, came up and and exited through the wall in the master bathroom shower. Looked like a 75mm howitzer hit it! Fortunately no one was in it at the time. Another 5 minutes and I would have been in there. I was on the road and just about home but I was famished and decided to hit the Mickey D’s drive thru. A burger saved my life!

Who says they’re unhealthy?

Notice you don't live in  Florida any more...That the reason for moving....

 

Texas Lizard

[Utah Bob #35998]

11 hours ago, Texas Lizard said:

Notice you don't live in  Florida any more...That the reason for moving....

 

Texas Lizard

I kinda liked lightning storms.

Didn’t like overcrowding, traffic, liberal politics, crime, humidity, loud mouthed immigrants from the Northeast,...should I go on?

[Texas Lizard]

1 minute ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

I kinda liked lightning storms.

Didn’t like overcrowding, traffic, liberal politics, crime, humidity, loud mouthed immigrants from the Northeast,...should I go on?

Accept for the humidity, I know just what you are talking about...Stuck in California...

 

Texas Lizard

[Sixgun Sheridan]

 

Yeah, bad Mexican food will definitely do that to ya.

[Utah Bob #35998]

1 minute ago, Texas Lizard said:

Accept for the humidity, I know just what you are talking about...Stuck in California...

 

Texas Lizard

I forgot hurricanes. Thunderstorms on steroids. 

 

[Texas Lizard]

2 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

I forgot hurricanes. Thunderstorms on steroids. 

 

And all we do is shake and roll around...

 

Texas Lizard

[Utah Bob #35998]

1 hour ago, Texas Lizard said:

And all we do is shake and roll around...

 

Texas Lizard

I remember them. Used to live in Concord. The reason my mom decided we were moving to Florida when I was 8.

[Red Eye Jim]

Darn those green house gases.

[Utah Bob #35998]

16 minutes ago, Red Eye Jim said:

Darn those green house gases.

It's all Swamp Gas in Florida. Gets blamed for UFO and Skunk Ape sightings.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

They had a septic system that fed into a public sewer?  It makes sense to me but is not among my experiences.

[Utah Bob #35998]

36 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

They had a septic system that fed into a public sewer?  It makes sense to me but is not among my experiences.

Where does it say that??

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

13 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

Where does it say that??

 

It doesn’t but there is a picture of a manhole cover. I suppose that could be over the septic tank but not what happens here

 

 

[Utah Bob #35998]

31 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

It doesn’t but there is a picture of a manhole cover. I suppose that could be over the septic tank but not what happens here

 

 

That’s a plastic septic tank cover. Manhole are always in the street. Septic tanks are real common in Florida. Sewers not so much.

[Michigan Slim]

Yep. That's a honey pot lid. 

Manholes are in the easement. Could be the street, along the road or through back yards. But ALWAYS heavy cast iron.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Mine is under about 8 inches of dirt which is common here. I’ve never seen a surface level lid.

[Sedalia Dave]

19 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Mine is under about 8 inches of dirt which is common here. I’ve never seen a surface level lid.

 

See a lot of them in this part of Texas. Black Land Clay means anaerobic systems that use leach lines don't work. So most homes have septic systems with 3 tanks vice 1. Tank one is anaerobic treatment and tank 2 is aerobic treatment. Once the water makes it to tank 3 it is treated with chlorine or an equivalent chemical and is held there until a pump on a timer empties it via a sprinkler head(s).

 

In the summer it makes for very green grass.