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Related: About this forumFlorida woman says toilet explodes after lightning strike
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. A Florida woman says lightning destroyed her septic tank and caused a toilet in her house to explode.
Marylou Ward tells television station WINK News that the sole toilet in her Port Charlotte home was shattered into hundreds of pieces on Sunday.
Ward says the explosion was the loudest sound shes ever heard, and that she also smelled smoke. She says a plumber told her lightning hit the methane gas that was built up in the pipes from feces.
Ward says shell have to get the toilet and septic system repaired, but shes thankful no one was injured.
Read more: https://www.jacksonville.com/news/20190806/florida-woman-says-toilet-explodes-after-lightning-strike
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Florida woman says toilet explodes after lightning strike (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Aug 2019
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drray23
(8,043 posts)1. Why does this kind of stuff always happen in Florida??
Historic NY
(38,189 posts)4. Shitty plumbing.
rurallib
(63,324 posts)2. That would, literally, scare the shit out of you.
Blue Owl
(55,012 posts)3. Let's hope the next incident is in Mar a Lago
The odds are good that toilet would be occupied...