What goes BOOM in the night? About 10:20pm last night, there was a deep resonating boom and our house shook. There were fireworks going off in the distance and I hypothosized that maybe someone had set off a single (illegal), really big firework. Grant worried that our air conditioner had exploded or that something else in the house had exploded. We searched all around, though, and couldn't smell any smoke. Grant went outside to look at the roof as best he could. I checked our closets, remembering the horrible commotion made the last time one of our overcrowded wooden bars had snapped loose from its brackets beneath the load of hanging clothes.

Darcy was bleary-eyed...awakened by the noise that shook our house. She said she thought that Doug must have fallen out of bed! I checked. Doug was still in bed and sleeping so soundly that I had my doubts that he could have fallen out and then crawled back in without awakening!

I wondered briefly if there had been an explosion at the gas company (miles from us). A few years ago there had been an explosion there that lit up the whole sky and we could see the burning continue late into the night from our window...even though we live a long ways away. We looked off to the east...but, no glow was visible in the night sky.

This morning, Grant found out that a house in town exploded last night. We live more than six miles away, but still felt the reverberations from it. The house was empty at the time, so no one was hurt. (The owner was visiting friends in Lee's Summit at the time of the explosion.) They still don't know what caused the explosion...but it obliterated the home completely.

Update: The explosion was caused by a leaky propane tank. Nearly all of the homes out this way run off propane. Here are some photos of all that is left of the house (notice debri that was thrown up into the trees, even). (oops...blogger is having troubles again and uploads of photos aren't going through...will try to post the photos later!)  ¶ 7/07/2006 07:08:00 AM