Timothy Birdnow

A natural gas leak was the likely cause of a house explosion that completely wrecked five houses and damaged many others in a suburban community in St. Louis county. Five people were injured.

Florissant is a large city in north St. Louis County (St. Louis city is not in St. Louis county, by the way, but is a free city, it's own county) and I grew up not far from there. The blast occurred along the Florissant/Black Jack boundary.

The cause of the explosion is unclear but police ruled out terrorism or meth cooking and have tentatively tagged it as a natural gas leak.

Spire is the gas company (which took over for Laclede Gas) and they have gone on a rampage, tearing up whole blocks of street as they have revamped their pipes and whatnot. I despise them, as I despised Laclede before them; they are high-handed and abusive. I just had a big problem with them; they wanted to send a man in to check the meter to see if it needed changing and he did and said everything was fine, I wouldn't see them for another three years. I kept getting letters from Spire saying I needed to let a man in to check the meter AFTER it had been checked. One day I got in the shower and had no hot water - they turned my gas off because I "didn't comply" with their order when in fact I had. When I called they said "oh, that was to CHECK your meter but we also want to replace it with a new meter". What they want to do is replace it with a "smart" meter so they can throttle back my gas usage if they so desire. This had nothing to do with safety but with their desire to exert greater control over their customers. A pox upon them!

So this is the kind of incompetence and bureaucratic malaise that gave us exploding houses in Florissant.

This also tells me that America truly is becoming a third world nation, unable to do the most basic things any longer do to the politicization of every aspect of life. Spire is too busy harassing good-paying customers and not actually checking the safety of the product they are sending into the world.

No doub they will ask for a rate increase to cover the cost of being more vigilant in the future - and many politicians will be all for that in their scramble to make it appear they are doing something about the incompetence of Spire.

So now customers of Spire and ex-Spiring. That is the America Joe Biden and the liberals have wrought.

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