Ok, here is a bit of a news flash. Burning your home to remove ice is a bad idea. Even melting ice on your home with a blowtorch is dumb.
You would think that this was an obvious thing. That such a public safety announcement was unnecessary. Ah, but you would be wrong.
On Tuesday, in Massachusetts a man set his home on fire - by accident - as he was removing ice from the recent storm. His mode of removal, you guessed it - a blowtorch. Not only did he set his porch on fire, the 2 upper apartments of the 3-story building were set ablaze as well. And the ultimate cost was $30,000 of damage.
Now there is one positive in this story for this dumbass action. The owner who caused the fire is not being charged with arson, or anything else. That makes him doubly lucky (triple if you include the fact no one was hurt). The first is for not getting arrested. The second is for the fact that there are no laws that would get you arrested for being stupid.
So if you happen to be at home and have a blowtorch, flamethrower, Maltov cocktail, a high incendiary grenade, a phosphorous grenade, tons of magnesium strips, a hoard of gasoline/kerosene, or moonshine of quality and you notice the ice on the house - DON'T decide to burn or melt the ice off.
But if you are the neighbor of an individual that does not read my blog, and has such items in their home, and proceeds to burn it down, please do send me a video for the blog. And roast some chestnuts too.
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