I live about 2 miles from where this happened. The blast concussion ROCKED my house. I thought something had hit the house. I was panicked. Every neighbor in our subdivision came running out of their house. The blast was heard and felt 8 to 10 miles from the epicenter. They are now saying 80 homes are damaged. 14 are knocked off foundations and a complete loss. 4 are gone.
No word on the cause yet. ATF, Homeland Security, FBI and all the locals are there.
Many in that neighborhood are in my church and go to school with my kids.
My first thought; was ‘meth lab’ or. ..suitcase bomb/or ‘some such’ in the making. (’Gas leak’ speculated; but no mention of odor of ‘gas’.) Whatever; it clearly was HUGE. Incredible.
As bad as it is; hope it was truly ‘accidental’ as to cause.
I saw a pic of this Sunday AM, and my first guess was gas leak. Has this happen in my neighborhood when I was a kid and it took out 3 houses and killed 3-4. Two of the houses were leveled like some at the epicenter of this blast.