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Originally Posted by Malsua (Post 2354722)

For what it's worth, I know the lady whose court yard villa was struck by lightning during that storm a month or so ago.

She's 97 years old, saw the flash, heard the boom and went back to watching TV.

Fortunately, she's a spry 97 and has great neighbors who have the door code to her home.

They came in and informed her that her home was on fire. They got her right out of there.
The power never went off!

I'm a Home Inspector and was asked to inspect the home 3 doors down that is for sale so she could stay in the same neighborhood.

On my way out, I grabbed a 360 camera view of the lightning and subsequent fire damage. You can spin the view any direction you'd like as you watch.

You can view it here:

https://youtu.be/ttEo3DZnhok?si=PsFU9Pjp4Z4pWO7S

Thanks for the pictures. Looking at the fire damage, it appears the fire may have started or accelerated over the garage based on how the entire garage ceiling fell basically in one piece. That home has the old yellow CSST flexible gas pipe. It would be interesting to know from a professional.

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Originally Posted by Altavia (Post 2354776)

Thankful for good neighbors but devestating for the homeowner I'm sure.

Any hints where it struck/started?

It clearly hit above the garage, specifics beyond that are impossible for me to tell, although one of the neighbors might have seen the hole before it burned.

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Originally Posted by jrref (Post 2354804)

So the home I inspected 3 doors down does not have gas.

Looking at the 360 video, that's a heat pump air handler, not a furnace with AC coils.

I'm 99.99% sure there is no gas piped into that home. I have only inspected only a few dozen homes right around that particular area and I don't recall any of them having gas. You start running into gas further north, further south and to the west but not right there in those homes built in the 90s.

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Originally Posted by Malsua (Post 2354824)

This is interesting. Are you talking about the house in Sunset Pointe or Charlotte? Because I know someone who lives about 900 feet from the home that burned in sunset pointe and he and all his neighbors have gas. But I do know that some people have removed the gas from their house because of the CSST gas pipe problems years ago.

Edit: looking at the video again, that looks like the house that burned in Spanish springs.

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Originally Posted by jrref (Post 2354832)

the house that burned in Spanish springs.

Yes, this house is on La Jolla circle, off Rio Grande, Spanish Springs area.

Built in late 98 or early 99.

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Originally Posted by Malsua (Post 2354845)

Yes, this house is on La Jolla circle, off Rio Grande, Spanish Springs area.

Built in late 98 or early 99.

Ok those don’t have gas