A
Florida homeowner got an
explosive surprise over the weekend after a
lightning strike triggered a blast that
destroyed a toilet.
Marylou Ward and her husband were sitting in their Port Charlotte home as a thunderstorm rolled through on Sunday when she said she heard a "boom" that was "the loudest noise I ever heard."
“We smelled smoke and I looked outside,” Ward told WINK News. “It was the smoke from the septic tank that was coming.”
When she stepped into her bathroom, she discovered the toilet was now in hundreds of pieces. A plumber from A-1 Affordable Plumbing Inc. told the couple the lightning strike ignited methane gas that built up in the pipes and septic tanks. Methane is typically emitted during the breakdown of sewage in waste systems.
And why I never use the toilet during a thunderstorm. 
