Why yes, that is a natural gas line running to the furnace and water heater: https://www.reddit.com/r/electricians/comments/1fpo26t/not_something_you_see_everyday_evidently_this/

Not something you see everyday. Evidently this image has gone a bit viral, but this is a friend of mines house. She hit me up wondering if I knew what might cause it. The flex was pulling about 175 amps and was at 1200 degrees. There's to be a whole news story on it and everything.

Mother of god, dare I say this post..... blew up. There are a lot of questions and there is no way I can get to everyone. Basically, during a storm a tree fell on the incoming lines and it caused some fucked up high voltage things and created a new ground.

  • spectre [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    The post say s it was 175A which is substantial but still not enough to notice at a neighborhood level of they were monitoring there.

    • dat_math [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      I see, so less many US house's capacities in total current leakage? This post makes me so grateful I don't have a gas connection in my building

      edit: was that total current leaked in the whole neighborhood or just the one house?

      • spectre [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        From the post it implies that 175A was going into the house (but bypassing the meter so it couldn't be caught there)

        So yeah it would be like ~+1 maxed out house running like 10 space heaters