EQ? Gas Explosion?? Something Just Shook Houses In Indianapolis!

CE, there was an article the other day posted earlier in this thread:

. Allowed back in their home if in certain areas and their home is considered livable (something of that nature)

. Went to stay with relatives or friends

. I seriously don't know about the rest, are they still camping out at the church they were moved to? I think it was a presbyterian church.

FWIW I listened to the scanner all night again last night and the number of calls for "difficulty breathing" and "unconscious person" and "heart problems", etc. was significantly lower than it was the first night. But perhaps some of it had to do with it being Saturday night on the first night? Well, I'm more hoping because I live right over here and don't want it to be a scary answer I guess.

Inside look at home devastated by southeast side explosion

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a lot of people here in franklin township are on edge, we just aren't buying the random gas leak story so our minds are going all over the place...it was unseansonally warm here in indy the days before the explosion so i'm not sure why the family with the faulty furnace would go to a hotel? as soon as the explosion went off, i logged into the channel 13 facebook page to see if anyone knew what was going on, and someone posted that they were in st. francis hospital at the time and moments later a police officer ran in stating there was a plane crash, to expect mass casualities...maybe i can scroll thru all the comments from that night and take a screen shot, i wish i had when all this was going down....i didn't know what was happening at the time...it was pretty scary.

and as stated above by OP. Some not allowed back, but were allowed in, with escorts to gather personal belongings..forgot to add that

I've been watching this thread since last night. I live at most 2 miles from the site and my entire house shook, my dog barked, my sisters bed upstairs shook as well. I was assured it was a bomb. My head felt really weird...My sisters fiancée went outside with his gun because we assumed one of the neighbor kids set off some pipe bomb or something. All the neighbors were outside looking around, we saw nothing.
I have so many questions that won't ever be answered by the officials...

LadyLucy - I am also in Franklin Township and I also heard several early reports just after it happened from friends and family calling around that a plane had crashed and even on page one of this thread someone reported that and had the location correct. That was before we knew where it had happened. Could be that people were assuming based on the explosion and the small airport over there - that's kind of what I think anyway. It would seem somewhat logical at first and an easy assumption to make.

Over here in my neighborhood we all thought it was an earthquake. There doesn't seem to be any eye witnesses to seeing an actual plane (or drone) to my knowledge either. Early that first night people were also saying there were explosions downtown but I never heard anything else about that and figured it was just that they had heard the southside explosion.

Who knows?? I wish we did! I feel a little more settled today but have been on edge thinking we might need to get out of Dodge. I've been really following the Sinkhole stuff though and my early concern was that this was related to that. I'm still not ready to write that possibility off.

Stay safe neighbor!

Lucy. It would be very nice if you could find that information about the policeman stating a plane had crashed. Thanks for sharing your info.

i'm over on thompson and arlington by the family video...it felt as a bomb had gone off right next door....i think it's a little strange how quickly they got old ballard out of bed and on live TV, i stayed glued to the television during the live coverage until they went to infomercials at 2am and they just kept insisting it was a gas explosion. i dont' know what to think...the only good thing about a sink hole would be if it swollowed up that million dollar football stadium the high school sunk all their money into, hahahaha, seriously though. franklin township is going thru some stuff right now...

Oh, LOL, don't say that - I live right by the HS! :)

from the other thread, for the OP:

Yeah, see? It really seems kind of creepy, don't you think? I wish we could just identify it as a car decal or something and move on, but after many folks searching and searching we still can't identify it.

methlab

DEATH EATERS!

I FOUND THE COMMENT!!!! man, there were ALOT of comments to scroll thru, but i found it....let me set up a photobucket or flickr account or something....

they just posted this ‎Nicole Pence has a compelling story at 5PM with a man who talked to Dion Longworth after the explosion. Dion survived initially, but was unable to escape his home. Eyewitness News has the latest on the south side explosion starting at 5PM.

Hmm... anything? Nothing? I'm not good at this aircraft stuff, can someone please take a look?

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BAE Systems to Test UAS in Indiana
Posted on September 21, 2012 by The Editor

Indiana’s National Center for Complex Operation announced that it is pairing up with its first customer, BAE Systems. The company says it intends to use Indiana airspace to test the unmanned aircraft it produces. It will also use the state’s academic resources to create safety plans for its equipment.

Oh, WOW!

The Associated Press reports the owner of the house that blew up says a faulty furnace may be to blame. Also, the NTSB has joined the search for the cause of the explosion.

However, at a news conference Monday afternoon, a spokesperson for Citizens Energy said the utility never received a call about a faulty furnace from the home in question.

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I'm not buying the gas leak theory. That's a fairly new neighborhood... so decaying infrastructure shouldn't be on the list of possibilities... as suggested in an article I read earlier today that was written yesterday. If it were a gas refinery... yes... but not in a residential area. This was either a bomb or a meteorite that came straight in. JMO.

Why would they call in the NTSB?

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comment left on news channel facebook page at 11:26 saturday night reguarding an officer running into the near by hospital.....

they said yesterday they are over all gas lines

Does this patch look like the image? (somewhat)
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Probably to determine if an aircraft was involved.

Thank you so much for finding this!

yes it does -- DRONE strike!!!

good find poster!!!!!!!!!!

yeah...if you click on channel 13's facebook wall, and scroll thru allllll the comments its a treasure trove of uninhibited first accounts...i think the first reactions that people posted are the most truefully explanations we will ever get....

Thanks for this. How strange sounding. How could he have survived but not escaped his home - yet talked with someone? Via phone? 911? We would have heard of a 911 call by now I think. Wierd. Please update if you watch the segment.

Just read through all the different comments you had highlighted on your flicker stream....definitely initially sounds like many people thought it was a plane...and even a comment about sounding like something falling from the sky...interesting to read thanks!

44th fighter squadron
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see 18th operations group also:
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