Jim, the neighbor is on FB and she’s saying there’s just a crater where the house was. Some theorized that if there was an LP leak into the basement it would be large enough to do that??? I don’t know, just saying what I read.
Could be. It would be a massive amount of gas to make an explosion this big. The shock wave was tremendous and I am probably 12 miles away. I’ll check for sure.
Circa 1970 at 11PM there was a hydrogen cracker in Linden NJ that blew up (sabotage?). The blast was felt 40 miles away and buildings nearby, say 10-15 miles away, swayed as if a bomb had gone off nearby. Gas explosions can be some of the most powerful explosions perhaps moreso than nitrates. Anyway, in the Linden blast both the Agents on duty at the FBI and across the street at the Army CIC offices about 12 miles away thought bombs had one off in their buildings, that was how strong the blast was. Fortunately no one was injured in the Linden event albeit there was a lot of storefront damage in near by Elizabeth.