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Let's open the doors and step inside the McLaren Insane Asylum.

And we had talked about this.

I believe Friday morning, we were up at Choctaw, Casino and Resort up in Durant.

And we had the story on the news about the home that exploded in Lake Dallas.

So many of you know, I moved up to Lake Dallas probably six, seven months ago now.

And the house that blew up is probably maybe half a mile from my house.

It's not in my actual neighborhood, but it's the street that goes outside of my neighborhood.

It's just right down the way.

And I've walked by that little street a million times because I always go for walks or jogs

or whatever.

And I just around the area.

And I was telling you this because Friday when we got back from Oklahoma, as I mean, that's usually the way I go home every day.

I wonder what was going to look like.

Well, there is no way you were getting down that street.

That thing was shut down like they had it.

And I didn't realize this because this part didn't affect me.

They had evacuated a bunch of people that live right next to that house and in the streets that are super close to that.

Because we started to get a bunch of messages and stuff. It's really wild, man.

So I didn't know what to expect.

When I got home on Friday, after my workout, I kind of took a jog up there.

It's like, I'll just jog by since you can't drive.

Nope.

Can't do that.

They had cops.

They were like, hey, nope.

No one's in.

And I mean, I can't lie.

Why could have?

But I live right there.

No, you don't.

We evacuated everyone.

So I didn't say anything.

I was like, oh, you know, I'm trying to look and I couldn't see the house because they had a significant portion blocked off.

But I texted you this because this is the most amount of energy trucks I've ever seen in my lifetime.

In my neighborhood alone, which is not a very big neighborhood.

I mean, it's maybe three or four streets.

There are probably 30 to 40 at miss energy gas trucks.

And then once I got out of the neighborhood and realized everything else,

they took over the parking lot of the city park into every single parking spot was an at miss truck, which is maybe 50, 60 spots.

And so

Friday afternoon.

I mean, there were so many of them walking around the neighborhood.

I was like, man, this is like a sci-fi movie.

This is a trip.

I mean, you saw so many guys in these bright orange caution vest walking around the neighborhood with wrenches in their hands and they were at miss guys.

One of them comes to my house and go, hey, what's going on?

He goes, oh, we're we're taking everybody's meters off.

And so they went to the side of my house and completely took my gas meter off.

And so apparently, I guess there was a leak or there was something wrong with the gas lines in that area.

And it kind of felt like they weren't exactly sure where.

So they were.

I mean, there were 350 homes, I think they said that they were doing this too.

Oh, wow.

And I'm one of them.

That's a wide range.

I wonder what the perimeter was, like how big of a home.

I know it was my neighborhood and it was a street outside that.

I don't know if the apartment complex is I my house backs up to a green belt.

And then there's an apartment complex on the other side of the green belt.

I don't know if they were affected by this.

They might not have been.

So how did that affect you as far as your home when they took the gas meter off?

I did not have hot water this weekend.

Oh, the whole weekend?

Oh, wow.

I worked out on Saturday mornings.

But I knew that going in.

I was like, all right, that's very right.

It's cold showers good for you.

So I just try to, you know, you jump in there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Here we go.

Good thing you were hot this weekend.

Man, and you're feeling it.

And that is.

Doesn't matter Travis.

You're just shouting.

Doesn't matter.

After milling the yard, you don't go take a nice, cool showers.

No.

And I got to.

Cool.

But not ice cold.

Maybe not ice cold.

I would heat up.

Is your stove gas also?

No.

Fortunately.

Okay.

See, I would heat up water in the stove.

Own the stove.

Put it in.

And that's when I would take a bath.

Because I would rather rather take a manufactured bath with heated water than a cold shower.

Yeah.

I can't do it.

No, I can do it.

And I've done it before.

You know, say it's like a cold plant.

There's supposed to be really good.

I don't want to do that until you be like, all right.

Here we go.

No, I was telling you like the last 30 seconds or so.

So if you don't want to take cold showers, then it will help circulation and everything else.

It's just, well, I guess I'm just going to continue to have bad circulation.

So that was really the only way that it affected me.

I don't know if other homes in my neighborhood.

Are you still without hot water?

No, no, they came by.

Okay.

So yesterday morning, and this is the thing over the course of the weekend, we got all kinds

of emails from Lake Dallas Police Department.

I bet you the neighborhood ring thing was going crazy.

It was out of control.

You may have like 2000 messages on that.

I get it.

I also got the email because I also live here.

Right.

I'm right there with you.

I got it.

But they did a really good job of keeping everybody informed of, hey, this is what's happening.

Atmos Energy, they will come to your house.

They are going to tell you they are taking your meter off.

It'll sit in your yard.

You will not have gas.

They're trying to figure out what's going on.

And then at the appropriate time, they will come back and reconnect everything for you.

And do that.

And they sent a map of apparently Atmos was trying to replace the main gas line.

And if you drive down the street right outside my neighborhood, it is insane.

There's still this morning when I was going that way, a ridiculous amount of trucks.

They have dug up like every 10 feet of the sidewalk and on the side of the street.

And they are trying to replace as much of this as it sounds like as they can, especially all of it.

They're completely replacing it on the main little street.

And then the cross streets where the explosion happened.

Right.

I mean, that whole area is just dug up like crazy.

In my neighborhood, I think we're okay.

But that's what they were doing.

So yesterday morning, like at 10 o'clock in the morning on a Sunday,

it's like a loud ass knock at my door.

And I go answer it because they said, look, these technicians are coming by and somebody has to be home

that's an adult to approve them and talk to them.

Otherwise, they won't reattach your gas.

So fortunately, I was home yesterday morning.

So the guy comes the door.

He's like, hey, I'm going to put your meter back on and I'm going to test the pressure.

And then your hot water heater, I assume is in the garage.

I was like, yeah, if you can open your garage, when we all relied it,

make sure that it's running correctly and all that.

I was like, okay.

So yeah, I mean, they take that giant ass meter and reconnect it and got that going.

And then he went into my garage and got the hot water heater going.

And it's weird because in the test part of it,

and he told me, thank god he told me,

because I walked out in my garage and it smelled like natural gas.

Which of course you go, yeah, you're freaking out.

And he told me, look, I had to release some.

It's going to smell like that probably for a few hours.

You're good.

Don't worry about it.

Like this neighborhood is fine.

We just had to test everything and we're testing the line pressure and all this.

And you guys are good.

It's like, okay.

All right.

So yeah, I mean, yesterday evening,

I took a shower last night.

I would have taken a 30 minute hot shower.

And it was warm.

I was like, all right, we're back.

Just standing there, just taking everything.

But man, really weird to live that close to something that just absolutely.

I know.

And if you've seen any of the news footage on it or any of the coverage,

I mean, the house got, it's obliterated.

Like it's just splinters and pieces of wood.

And so they finally last night started to let the people that

got evacuated back into their homes.

And then this morning when I came up here, obviously, the way I go,

I take that road.

And it was open.

But a lot of still police and at misenergy presence.

And it sounds like it's going to be that way for a little while at these main

gas.

I mean, I don't really know how the grid works underneath the street.

But there's obviously main parts of it.

And those parts are just completely surrounded by people.

From what I understand, I've been working essentially 24 hours a day trying to fix this thing.

Man, I wonder if you, okay, they tell you you have to get out of your home.

We need you to evacuate, evacuate.

And you don't have any family around.

And you don't have anywhere to go.

So is it that everything is on you, though, right?

I don't know.

I don't know in that instance of atmas.

Maybe got those people a hotel or something.

I don't know.

Because it didn't, again, I wasn't evacuated.

And I don't know any of the people that live over there to ask them.

Okay.

Because I've always wondered, like, where do I go if I don't have anyone?

But it's pretty wild because so the house exploded Thursday night.

When we were up, head into Choctaw.

And so I wasn't home when it exploded.

But I talked to my neighbor about it this weekend.

And he's like, yeah, you could hear it.

I said, why would imagine?

It's not that far away.

He's like, yeah, he's like, I didn't know what it was.

People came out of their house like, what was that?

And then you see like off in the distance, like smoke and stuff like that.

When it was over there, that blew up.

And somebody's house, which is crazy freaky.

I know.

So scary.

And you just don't really have any control over it.

Something like that can happen.

And you just, I don't know.

You always, I always err on the side of caution when something feels awful.

You smell something.

What is that?

Hang on.

What's going on here?

And I think some people would just kind of take it for granted.

And things like that can happen.

But now you hear stories like that.

I think you always have to exercise that caution and say, wait a minute, wait a minute.

You smell that?

Yep.

That gas.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hang on.

We gotta.

Don't light anything.

Right.

Leave the house immediately.

And that's the thing is how scary would it have been for the people that live right there in that little area where the house exploded.

And they all got evacuated and you wonder.

To your point, hey, we need to grab some stuff.

We'll hurry up because there's obviously a gas leak.

Right.

I know.

I know you hear the explosion and you're going, oh my gosh, you just have to go.

I can't even just pat again and have no clue what the heck is a, you know, what the heck is going on.

Being on that little street or any of the homes that are right there that are by that.

I couldn't even.

You're just sitting right next door.

I mean, what would you think it was?

I assume if you're right next door, you might know what it was.

I know what it was.

Your windows are rattling and hell.

You may have a window.

Right.

That gets blown out.

But yeah, that was a really weird scene to kind of deal with that a little bit this weekend.

I mean, again, drastically more affected if I lived closer to it.

But the fact that they were coming into our neighborhood and taking it's really weird to drive down the street and see every single gas meter in somebody's yard.

Just sitting there in the yard.

Really weird.

You're not having hot water for a weekend.

You realize how much hot water you use on a daily basis.

You used a bathroom and you're washing your hands just normally in hot water.

Even if it's cold, that's cold.

Trying to wash your hands and even.

You think hot water?

I would not.

It would have had to have been a stinky weekend.

I can't do it.

I don't have to go in my parent's house or something and take a shower over there.

Yeah, I had to shower.

I had to.

I know you do, but I was like, man.

If you want to talk about running around and just barely.

I mean it out of that thing.

If I can only take a cold shower, we're not getting a lot.

We're not getting a lot accomplished.

If I have to take a cold shower.

No, you're doing it very quickly.

It's very quick.

I mean, you get in there and you just smell.

Oh, you know, and you're feeling it.

Like, I just got to breathe.

Like, so fast as you humanly can.

Soap off.

I bet I showered.

I bet it was two minutes.

Now, we have to just hit the hotspots.

Hotspots only.

It was in a hurry, man.

I was in a hurry.

But then when you get out, you feel so refreshed.

Do you?

Yeah.

All right.

You really do.

You're chattering.

You put on a onesie to get to get warm.

You feel refreshed.

Your skin feels good.

You're awake.

All right.

Here we go for the day.

I'm ready.

Okay.

Are you going to continue to take cold showers now?

No, but I.

The science on it is so good that it makes me want to try like cold plants.

Well, I've always hated science.

So.

I don't want to shower cold.

I'd rather sit in a cold plant.

You'd rather plunge it and then get out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Shower.

That's my sacred time.

I don't know why that's different.

I can't have.

No, it is different.

It is.

Like, submerge.

Like, lowering yourself to submerge and you're going to do it versus, okay, I'm trying to clean

and relax.

And now I can't because I'm in this freezing cold water.

It's made of different things that gets done in the shower.

That is disrupted if you don't have any hot water.

A lot of thinking.

You can sing.

Hey, no.

Yes.

Do a lot of things.

Sure can.

Sure can.

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