so I'm watering yesterday after driving back from pittsfield (2 hour drive ) ,And I here like a big bubblier WTF well I looked over and my sisters water hearer is leaking like the faucet was turned on ,with in two minutes I was standing in a half inch of water ,it took that long to move all the shit in the way to reach it to shut it off then I cleared all the stuff in the way and checked it out the leak was coming out of the out flow pipe , so I'm going to remove it and see if all that blew was the pipe . Last time I did a water heater it was under $200 the cheapest one I saw on Lowes website was $350 yikes so I hope it is only the pipe ,Gotta love this hard water town , Actually I did good most people only get 2 to 4 years with there hot water heaters Its been ten years since I put that one in and my water heater is over 20 years so I did good dam I hope I didn't just jinks myself