Neighborhood house explosion

Talk about the most random and scary thing that happened last night around 3:00am. Jason and I are sleeping in bed and suddenly out of nowhere this giant explosion sounding noise rattles the entire house. It happens once and then again a few seconds later. I'm talking loud, the whole house shook kind of rattle. Several seconds later, we heard it again, but now it sounded really far away. The noise scared the crap out of me and I think it rattled Jason a bit too. Thankfully, we didn't hear a peep from Brianna who was completely asleep in her crib. We didn't notice anything wrong with our house and since the noises were becoming more faint, we somehow managed to fall back asleep. I, of course, had dreams that the trees near our house were going to be falling over and hitting our house. Pleasant dreams, I know. The next morning, Jason and I searched the local newspapers and news channels looking for any kind of information on the explosion. Was it a seriously strong thunderstorm? Something happening at the nearby Navy or Coast Guard bases? Canons going off? All of the things that we thought of seemed unrealistic. I mean what kind of thunderstorm moves away that quickly and why in the world would the Navy or Coast Guard bases be doing anything at 3am? When we got home from work, I had a facebook post from my cousin who recently moved away from this area. She said she had heard of the house fire and wanted to make sure everything was okay with us. Both Jason and I looked at each other and said "fire?" I then got back on the computer and searched the local news...sure enough the headline was a house fire. We saw the address of the house, mapquested to our home and yup that's what the explosion was. According to mapquest our homes are 33 seconds apart. The house that burnt down is right up the road from our home, approximately 4 homes away from ours. We both drove past the house the next day and couldn't believe the damage or the fact that all residents of the home made it out alive and unharmed. Thankfully no damage was done to our home or any of the nearby homes. The pictures and the news articles are scary! Apparently, the owner had a car, several oxygen tanks (for an elderly mother), fireplace ashes, and was smoking all in the garage. I can't understand why someone would have so many explosives all in one garage. I'm just so thankful that nobody was injured, especially from our family. Looking at the damage, I'm sure the whole house will have to be demolished and re-built. What a shame...it looked like it was a gorgeous home to begin with.

News article about the house fire:
http://www.theday.com/article/20120220/NWS01/120229997/1017#.T0L3LrCAAAc.facebook