A few years ago, as my crew was eating lunch in a restaurant, I looked out the window to see a U-Haul truck being filled at the gas station across the street. I also saw what appeared to be gasoline in a pond under the truck.I ran across the street and found the pump had clocked over 150 gals. delivered into what was probably a 25 gal. tank and was still pouring out onto the ground. Keeping my distance from the truck, I looked for the operator and saw a young guy on the phone inside the station. I threw a snowball at the window of the station to get his attention and some gesturing alerted him to the situation.
There would be no fast and hard science to calculate the fuel-air mixture in a situation like this and if any ignition source would have found it's way close to the pumps, there would have been a disaster. It's for reasons like the above that I don't bring a flame (operating RV fridge) into a gas station.
