Austin home explosion: General contractor got 'final inspection, certificate of occupancy' less than a month ago

AUSTIN (KXAN)—"Sunday was hard. Yesterday was even harder," the mother of a family whose brand-new home inexplicably exploded, posted on her Facebook page.She's posted a series of updates since the explosion left her family's home in ruin, her daughters worried, and her husband undergoing surgery, with bad burns in the hospital."I have tried to remain strong as I know it is one day at a time and sometimes it is just one minute at a time," she wrote.
North Austin home explosion. (KXAN photo