Indy blast: 2 homes destroyed, more afire

[AngryOldDem]

36. They don't know what caused it because the gas company can't get to where it happened.

I was reading comments on the Indianapolis Star site and a couple of people mentioned that when houses are vacant, thieves will sometimes take the outside gas hookups, which could result in leaks. Don't know if any of these houses were vacant but that could also be a cause.

Someone else here mentioned decaying gas pipelines. That is my thought as well. Nope, crumbling infrastructure is just not important enough of an issue to take seriously. But, Citizens Gas said it had no reports of odor in the neighborhood before it happened; I would think that with a blast this large there would have been some prior warning.

Locally, nobody knows much else than was was reported earlier this morning.