Big Explosion

So here we are in the kitchen on January 28th, making Lion's Head Meatballs (Chinese) at about 9:30 at night, and BOOM!!!! I mean the loudest noise ever, shook the whole house, dog and cats scrambled for cover, the whole bit! We had no clue what that BOOM was, and Robb quickly washed his hand, and ran outside. All I could think was something huge exploded. I didn't know if a plane crashed in our backyard, a tree fell on our house, or a power plant blew up...should we start to evacuate? This was so much stronger than any of the recent earthquakes that we had. So, outside all the neighbors were wondering what that was too, and no one could see anything. All of a sudden, more firetrucks, police cars, and ambulances that I even knew existed, were whizzing past our street all to stop about a 1/4 mile down the road. So, next thing I knew, Robb (Mr. Loves Destroyed in Seconds) was getting in the car to drive to where the emergency vehicles were stopped. Despite my better judgement, off he went, through the development behind our house, and called as he was running through some peoples backyard so he could see. He said, "a house blew up! There's nothing left!" Sure enough, that's what happened. Turns out a house just down the road filled with natural gas completely exploded, and there was nothing at all left. The houses around them had their windows blown out, garage doors blown off, and the one directly next door has to be rebuilt as it was blown off it's foundation! There were 2 older people in the home at the time of the explosion, and 2 passer-by's rescued them. The man was literally sitting in his recliner and around him the house was just leveled. Amazingly he is still alive, but his wife who was buried in another room, didn't survive the blast after being taken to the hospital. The most amazing thing was that they later found their dog, in what was the basement, completely unharmed. Here's some pictures we took in the daylight... Craziest thing we ever saw!