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There is a big BOOM in your home, upon inspection you find 1/3 of your home is gone, your first thoughts are?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) July 12th, 2013

You are sleeping, bathing, watching TV, etc, and an earsplitting boom literally shakes your home; pictures fall off the wall, décor knocked from shelves. When you go to the direction of the boom to investigate, you find ⅓ of your home has been blown away; there isn’t anything bigger than a phonebook you can see, it looks like the place has been shredded. Nothing is burning, it is just gone, blown away. What is your first thought?

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talljasperman's avatar

Tornado’s.

OneBadApple's avatar

God dammit…..is W president again ??

Sunny2's avatar

What the f…! Where are the kids?

Michael_Huntington's avatar

Holy shit!
Is my squat rack okay?!

Bellatrix's avatar

The bloody army have got their artillery facing the wrong way again! There’s a big army training area close by. Sometimes we can hear gun fire or mortars (or whatever it is) going off.

SuperMouse's avatar

Earthquake. Where are the kids?

ETpro's avatar

Ya missed me you nearsighted MF!

filmfann's avatar

What was the wife trying to cook this time?

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Roswell all over again.

hearkat's avatar

My first thought is to figure out where my loved ones are – 2 and 4 legged.

johnpowell's avatar

Grab external computer drives that have my pictures, movies, music, and documents on them.

No pets or loved ones so data comes first.

gailcalled's avatar

I told MIlo to stay away from those pilot lights.

Berserker's avatar

I’d come on Fluther, and ask if it was normal.

Pachy's avatar

Thank God my cat and I (and anyone else who might have been in my house at the time) weren’t in that third!

bea2345's avatar

I knew the annex would fall down one day – wait, did Alicia return from New York last night?

cazzie's avatar

I have known of those types of explosions and they were LPG tanks exploding. I don’t have any in my house, so I would think something fell from an airplane because we aren’t too far off the local flight path. My very FIRST thought would be absolute panic until I found my child in one piece and in my arms, alive.. THEN, I would start thinking about what caused the damage.

SadieMartinPaul's avatar

The gas line exploded.

This actually happened to a girl in my high school. In the middle of the night, she woke up outside, after she’d been thrown clear of the explosion. Amazingly, she wasn’t injured at all. Tragically, her house was gone and most of her family had been killed.

ucme's avatar

Sketchy.

hiraeth's avatar

@SadieMartinPaul A part of me feels awful for the girl and a part of me is amazed that she is such a deep sleeper.

As for my thoughts, I think the first one would be “Explosion”

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