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Tuesday Views: 18 August 2026

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LOCAL: “Almost Blowed Up”, by I.M. Tensionspan.

The previous owners of the house moved out. We were touring with the realtor prior to the closing paperwork when we noticed the stove was missing, a brand-new gas range oven with five eyes and digital display. Where’s the stove. Realtor: 🤷‍♀️I “accepted credit” to buy an oven. I should have asked for more. Expensive! I lost hundreds of dollars. Then things turned weird.

The delivery guys would not hook up the oven because they saw no cut-off valve by the oven. I looked and confirmed no cut-off.

So why wasn’t the house full of gas? Were we breathing in odorless gas? While we were moving in? Good thing I had an electrician service the house a couple of weeks prior to tie up live wires. Boom!

When the previous owners “ripped the stove out”, they opened the gas line. They took the cut-off valve along with the stove. Gas pours into the kitchen. How do I know? The neighbor told the gas guy. She reportedly ran out of the house yelling she “effed up, she effed up, gas is filling up the house!!!” and people were scrambling and shouting to find a way to shut it off.

The neighbor ran over and cut the gas regulator on the outside, then hurried into the basement to cut the gas at the old cut-off valve. It wasn’t until I looked at tutorials online the next day for a DIY install did I notice it was THAT cut-off. I thought he was talking about a flow pressure valve.

We called an emergency in to the gas company. I cancelled the truck. The guy checked the lines and the tech was super nice enough to hook up and test the stove and water heater. So, a neighbor saved our house, and a Peoples Gas technician ensured we were safe there. Our house nearly blowed up. Little House All Over the Prairie.



So, our move is protracted nonsense eating an additional two weekends. UPDATE: New tactic to get around the loss of movers: three carloads a day, an hour of installs and arranging of stuff a day.

I am on a bear hunt move. I can’t go over it. I can’t go under it. I’ve got to get through it.

SCIENCE: without ethical leadership, science generates misery for the well-being of the increasingly few. The dystopia of inequity is just a premium price away. Just a bunch of hot air. Consideration of gusts, blasts and prolonged velocity bursts in supersonic overpressured jets | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Oxford Academic

Placing squishy slides under a dolly load makes it incredibly stable, even in the rain going off curbs and up ramps. Science you can use.

DRONE: My son gets to fly drones at his new middle school.

Art: Art theft is rife. It’s like that these days.

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