A woman and two men - one in his 20s and the other in his 50s - were injured and are being treated in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.It is thought that two of the injured were members of staff and the other was a customer.People living nearby talked about hearing a great big boom on Wednesday night, and most of the village’s main street had to be cordoned off.The pub had recently been refurbished into a hotel.It is thought the explosion could have been related to a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder.There did not appear to be any suspicious circumstances.One local resident came across a man who said he may have caused the explosion.Gary Downs told BBC Scotland: He was all covered in blood and completely delirious going ‘it’s my fault, I forgot to turn the gas off and I need to phone my boss and tell him what’s happening’.But his hands were all covered in blood and I took his phone off him saying ‘look, you’re in a state of shock, just concentrate...
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Today and Friday morning should be free of any major snowfall, but it will be a different story Friday night and Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.
Meteorologists predict 2-4 inches of snow on Friday evening and another 2-4 inches on Saturday.
The good news is it looks like it will be plain snow and not freezing rain, said Bryan Tilley, a meteorologist with the weather service in White Lake Township.
You can slow down on snow.
About 1.5 inches of snow fell between late Wednesday and about 6 a.m.
today, Tilley said.
The snow fell so fast that road crews likely had a hard time keeping pace, Tilley said.
Temperatures today will be in the 20s and the sun is expected to shine through the clouds in spurts in the late morning, he said.
The storms that hit the area are moving south toward the Downriver area and into Ohio, Tilley said.
They will be replaced by new ones that are bringing the weekend snow and an Arctic blast that promises to drop...
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Wesley Spang, an engineering expert hired by Farmers Insurance.
8 are the first of seven affected households to file suit against their insurance company for denying coverage.Dave and Kathei Hendrickson allege in the $2 million complaint filed Dec.
Flynn of Farmers Insurance.Insurance company experts, city engineers and others have all cited an unnatural water saturation of the hillside as the most likely cause of the landslide though, as most of the evidence was washed away in the slide, the true, specific cause will likely never be fully known.Records from the citys Water Bureau show an excessive use of water since the last meter reading on July 31 about 20,000 extra gallons, according to Dr.
10 in Multnomah County Circuit Court that Farmers Insurance Company of Oregon had been, at times, calculatingly malicious in its refusal to pay for any damage resulting from the landslide which demolished the Hendricksons house and nearly everything in it.Kathei Hendrickson...
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