posted in Asklemmy
What is the craziest plant caused damage to a human built structure you ever saw?
I saw a plants root crack an asphalt road. Plants roots are crazy strong. What is the craziest damage you ever saw plants cause? Pipes? Cables? ? ?
Replying to @greenbelt@lemy.lol
My neighbors house literally exploded because of tree in his front yard.
There was a big storm and a lightning strike hit the tree whose roots were around the gas line. The gas line exploded into the house and blew out all the windows on the first floor and dealt catastrophic damage besides. No one was seriously hurt miraculously but it was loud enough that I legitimately thought a plane had crashed.
Replying to @Jarlsburg@lemmy.world
This sounds too crazy to be true lol. Tree (root connection + lightningstrike) exploding an entire house.
Replying to @greenbelt@lemy.lol
Well it just blew the gas range and oven across the kitchen and blew out all the windows on the first floor but they had to do nearly a full remodel because of water, smoke, and explosion damage.