Does this look like a gas explosion?

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by CasterTroy

No. But having the pressure wave from an explosion twist a structure without seismic restraints (not required per IBC for residential single family in IN) like I'm sure it did, I would imagine it wouldn't take MUCH to condemn a house without it really "looking" damaged.

I'm sure there are several houses that are "OK" but would YOU sign your name on a house (as a federal disaster inspector) anywhere near the explosion and allow a family to live there, and there be even a slight possibility that the baseplates cracked at the foundation anchorbolts behind the sheetrock?

Hell knowing the way these crackerboxes were slapped together on a slab to BEGIN with I'm not sure I'd clear a house 20 miles AWAY for habitation given the potential for high winds in Indiana!

Just having all of the windows blown into the house by the pressure wave would also likely result in a house being deemed "uninhabitable."