VIDEO: Pool equipment explodes in Texas after frozen solid

PLANO, Texas — Security footage captured some pool equipment exploding right after a homeowner turned away one day after winter weather hit North Texas. Terry Roden lives in Plano and shared some surveillance video showing his pump exploding up into the sky. This happened on Sunday as freezing temperatures came to the North Texas area.

Roden said his freeze stat, which is a temperature sensing device that prevents coils from freezing, didn't kick into his pool equipment the night before the explosion. So, the following morning, Roden said he picked up an industrial heater and set it near the pump. Once it thawed out, Roden turned on the pump.

Roden said it then spooled up, causing the top of his filter pod to break loose and cause the explosion in the video. "It spooled up and then the top of my filter pod broke loose and looked like Elon Musk launched a rocket from my house," Roden posted on X..