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To: Bill Ounce who wrote (183)	12/13/1999 12:23:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (2) of 198

c.s.y2k: doomer goes kaboom (this is prety funny) From: "John Galt" <consulting@NOSPAMc7.com> Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000 Subject: Doomer goes Kaboom Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:10:18 -0500 Organization: ICAN.Net Customer [...] Not so long ago there was a thread about the evils of laws that limit how much gasoline can be stored in one's house or garage. Here's an example of why such laws exist. [...] - JG * * * * * * * full story at: freep.com Propane blast destroys house of man stockpiling for Y2K December 12, 1999 BENTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- A man who was stockpiling food and fuel to prepare for possible Y2K problems escaped serious injury after some of the propane gas he was storing in his basement exploded. The Friday blast pushed out sections of the cement-block foundation, bowed walls and sprayed shards of glass over Alonzo Anderson's lawn, but he suffered only singed hair and a burn on his cheek. "I don't know how he survived," said Lt. Ken Doroh of the Benton Township Fire Department. Officials in the Berrien County community said the explosion was caused by gas leaking from one of several 120-pound propane tanks Anderson planned to use for heat if utilities failed Jan. 1.

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