Check out this explosion near my house.....

[tbone]

Here's a before pic. The place was huge. Lower left house.

 

[Cheeseheadbob]

Wow, stuff is cheap down that way. That house in a similar neighborhood in my neck of the woods would be in the 2.5 million range. In suburban DC, probably 4.5 million.

Hard to believe that nobody was killed!

I was off a bit. Zillow says the house was worth $964,000 on average.

 

[a_d_a_m]

We had a mansion go kablooey a few years back, probably an inside job but it was never proven. A little less damage, still a ton, but somehow no deaths. I live 6ish miles away, and it woke me up out of a sound sleep.
http://goo.gl/maps/PZRx6
(point A is appx. where the mansion was, point B is my neighborhood)

http://www.news-herald.com/general-news/20100620/house-explodes-in-concord-township-videos

A smaller, much more modest home has been built on the lot.