In a true one-in-a-million scenario, a Florida couple got the surprise of a lifetime after a lightning strike near their septic tank ignited methane and caused an explosion so significant it destroyed the toilet.
The homeowner, Marylou Ward, described it in an interview with WINK News as the loudest noise she’d ever heard. “We smelled smoke and I looked outside. It was the smoke from the septic tank that was coming."
The couple’s toilet was in pieces, and local plumber A-1 Affordable Plumbing informed them that lightning had ignited the methane built up in the pipes and septic tank. All told,
