Yup. My dad and I both used to work for Standard Oil (now Chevron-Texaco). They had some 24 inch high pressure gas lines running thru the rural area we worked, and from time to time one would blow. Easily heard from well over five miles away, after the initial booming sound you would swear that a B-52, with all eight engines at full power, was sitting in your front yard. Scary stuff. We lost the occasional co-worker too...