Levittown is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Hempstead on Long Island. Levittown gets its name from its builder, the firm of Levitt & Sons, Inc. founded by Abraham Levitt on August 2, 1929, which built the district as a planned community for returning World War II veterans between 1947 and 1951.[1]
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Levittown is featured in Home Wrecked Home as a general placeholder of the suburbs.
It was introduced in 1 day after people when the homes of Levittown is empty, the town that invented American suburbia where man called home. The show gave information that it was built during the post-World War II baby boom and fueled by America's love affair with the car, it pioneered a new type of suburban living that took America by storm. The suburbs are mass produced and prefabricated houses which quickly multiplied into vast subdivisions and by the year 2000, half of all Americans lived in the suburbs for the first time in history. Steven S. Ross stated that it fed the imagination of Americans for clean air and places where one can raise their kids in safety.
The kitchen explode.
The classic prototype of suburbia is devoid of people but not of explosive danger because in kitchens and hot water heaters, the gas is still on. The show gave information that most American homes were heated by natural gas in the time of humans and was pumped from natural pressurized wells through 2.2 million miles of underground pipelines and compressors but it can sometimes erupted from the massive subterranean network. Travis Taylor stated that fires can be very catastrophic because it would blow methane gas into the air, mixing, and turn it into a very large blowtorch. Natural gas has no smell but mercaptan was added to give it a distinctive odor that could alert people to leaks but still it cause 2,500 home fires and explosions each year which kill dozens and injured hundreds. After people, the leaks still occur including at Levittown. Travis Taylor stated that with nobody around to smell it, all one need is a spark. The stoves pilot light provides the spark at the kitchen, causing the gas to ignite/burn, and the house in Levittown explodes.
The ice in the pipes thaws and spill the water.
In 1 year after people, the once beloved suburban homes face a new set of enemies including Levittown, where over the winter, pipes in each freeze and burst and with the spring, it thaw and the fountains of liquid destruction gush from thousand of pipes. Steven S. Ross stated that it would be a rough day on the structure of Levittown itself. After the flooding comes the mold and dry rot and the dampness also attracts carpenter ants and termites, the twins scourges of wooden homes where the presence of both sets the scene for a primordial battle hidden within the rotting walls.
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