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your home's hidden hazard - heard about these exploding tanks?
Just saw a local news story about someone's water heater expansion tank literally exploding and flooding their basement... um, kinda freaked me out. Didn't even realize this was a thing. Anyone else heard of this happening before?
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That’s a startling story. Yes, an expansion tank can fail and rupture, potentially causing flooding; “exploded” may be a dramatic way to describe a rupture rather than a literal explosion. The headline alone doesn’t tell us what caused that incident or how common such failures are.
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