Homeowner Blames Faulty Gas Tubing for Gas Leak During Lighting Strike

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Fire officials are warning of a possible danger in millions of homes. The warning comes after lightning struck a home in Blacklick and hit a small gas tube. Those tubes are found in homes across central Ohio.

"You could see the lightning bolts hitting," says Jeff Payette. Within seconds, he says, the initial crack of thunder sounded like a bomb going off." He saysthree bolts hit his home.

Payette and the fire department believe the lighting traveled across his gutter line, knocking out the water meter before hitting his gas meter, sending a bolt of electricity through a yellow gas tube known as CSST or corrugated stainless steel tubing.

"Absolutely I don't want this piping in my house", says Payette. He says Columbia Gas told him a hole in the gas line was caused by the volts from the lightning strike, which caused gas to fill his basement.

"As soon as I checked the basement, I heard the hissing noise and the smell was sickening", he says. His wife feared, had this happened while they were at work, their children may have walked into a home ready to explode.

"Had they opened the basement door and flipped a switch, we would have had a real tragedy on our hands", said Payettes wife, Julie.

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Homeowner Blames Faulty Gas Tubing for Gas Leak During Lighting Strike