“No more pooping while it’s storming outside.”
Wise words indeed.
A Florida woman says lightning struck her septic tank on Sunday morning and caused the toilet in her home to explode.
Florida lightning strike causes toilet to explode, homeowner says. “I’m just glad none of us were on the toilet." https://t.co/FcAdUxy54u pic.twitter.com/KCMrJyBQfk
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) August 6, 2019
The toilet in the Port Charlotte residence was shattered into hundreds of pieces, but no one was injured.
Marylou Ward and her husband were in bed at the time.
"It was the loudest noise I've ever heard," she told TV station WTHR.
A-1 Affordable Plumbing Inc. explained in a Facebook post that the lightning ignited the methane gas in the sewer pipes and caused the explosion.
"Methane gas is gas caused by the number two," Affordable Plumbing owner Jordan Hagadorn told USA Today. "The natural gas is from crap, literally."
Affordable Plumbing also shared pictures of the messy scene, proclaiming there should be “no more pooping while it’s storming outside.”
Ward told WINK News that the indoor plumbing was destroyed.
“I’m just glad none of us were on the toilet,” Ward told station. “That’s the main thing.”