dpb wrote:
On Jan 18, 5:00 am, Jimw wrote:
I find this hard to believe. This house was in foreclosure, the heat
was turned off, and a pipe broke filling the house with an estimated
100,000 gallons of water. The outdoor temperature was MINUS 40 deg. F
The entire first floor (if not more) of the house filled with ice,
which was coming out of windows, light fixtures, and through the
siding. Here are the links to the photos from the tv news channel.
...

Looks to me more likely than filled house full of water that it ran
down wall cavities and came out everywhere there was an opening. I'm
sure there's water inside but doesn't appear to be a solid ice block
on the inside of the windows nor would I expect it wouldn't have blown
out a wall somewhere w/ that much weight/lateral loading. New meaning
to "leak test", however...

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First I thought there's no way that much water could run in the house,
but at 10 gallons per minute you could get to 100000 in a week. And the
house would collapse from the weight.

But there's no way to actually freeze that much water in a week or two
of cold weather. There's way too much latent heat of fusion to
overcome, plus the house (and the outer layer of ice) would insulate it.

So I'm still calling "BS". I'm also glad I don't have to clean up the mess.

Bob