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Massive Fertilizer Plant Explosion Shakes Texas, Town Evacuated, Toxic Fumes, Up To 70 Dead - Live Stream
In the aftermath of the Boston horrors, a massive explosion has occurred at a fertlizer plant in the town of West, Texas (near Waco). This week is the 20th anniversary of the deadly seige in Waco. There are at least 10 other buildings are on fire, including the town middle school, and a large swath of the town was “leveled” in the explosion. The explosion occurred around 7:50pm local time. A fireball of nearly 100 feet high has been reported along with a massive power outage. The images and scale of this explosion are incredible and reports are coming in people still trapped. The explosion could be heard from 100 miles away in Dallas. The explosion followed the outbreak of a fire at the plant - and occurred as firefighters were working on the blaze.
UPDATE: Entire town (within a mile radius) to be evacuated - toxic fumes may be spreading
UPDATE: Hospital told to anticipate 100 people with injuries, Hospital CEO tells CNN
UPDATE: Up To 70 Dead, 38 seriously injured included blast injuries, orthopedic injuries, large wounds and a lot of lacerations and cuts.
UPDATE: *AS MANY AS 80 HOMES DESTROYED IN TEXAS FERTILIZER BLAST: CNN
CNN Reports from Dr. George Smith, the emergency management system director of the city:
Fire officials fear that the number of casualties could rise as high as 60 to 70 dead,
"That's a really rough number, I'm getting that figure from firefighters, we don't know yet," he said.
"There are lots of houses that are leveled within a two-block radius," Smith said. "A lot of other homes are damaged as well outside that radius."
"It was an apartment complex that was devastated, and the nursing home. The fire was close to a residential area,"
And from the Mayor:
"There's a lot of people who won't be here
tomorrow"
"Blast 'took out' a five-block radius"
Stunning clip of the explosion (at around 25 seconds)
(chatter this image is fake)
(h/t @Breaking911)
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Local news is reporting that Dallas Fire Department and Ft. Worth Fire Department are sending emergency crews to the scene.
Local news just spoke with woman who lives ~3 miles from the plant, and she said the blast knocked her home off its foundation.
if it's rural TX it doesn't take much to knock a trailer off of it's slab
She didn't indicate it was a trailer park... but there are plenty of those in rural Texas.
I am watching live views being broadcast from a news helicopter to the local FOX station, and you can see widespread fires and significant structural damage to nearby buildings.
If it was a trailer park, you'd have seen a tornado bearing down on it...
Where the cars are on blocks and the houses are on wheels.
News reports have witness stating they felt the blast over 40 miles away in Ennis. West Fertilizer is actually in West, TX about twenty miles north of Waco on I-35. Looks like it was a feed and fertilizer supply outfit. Wonder if they have I-35 shut down.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=West+Fertilizer+Co,+Jerry+Mashek+Drive,+We...
Local Fox News helicopter showed significant traffic congestion on local roads. Hard to tell which roads we are seeing in the images. Looks like widespread power outages there, and not much light (other than from fires and emergency vehicles etc.).
Oncor (local energy firm) says over a thousand customers without power.
Fuck. That's some serious shit.
Branch Davidians Burned Alive ?Waco ?William Cooper ? 04.22.1993
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45_mSjS2qf4 (55:21)
Yea, but the buck stopped with J.R.
Waco Massacre: 20 Years after | Brainwash Update
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CDQn_ZgJs (4:18)
Ewing?
Janet Reno.
7/17/95 Wllm Cooper The Truth About Waco with relevant Nazi preface
this is what war looks like, the duck skwacks
LOL this is nothing like war.
War is not being safe anywhere at any time. War is seeing your buddies and family members die. America has not experienced a real war since the civil war...
Al-Qaeda did it. Or someone trying to make it look EXACTLY like Al-Qaeda did it. Bomb Iran.
I say we do something completely different and bomb Luxembourg.
Don't forget North Korea, that way the American People get a twofer!
Now the last few days are starting to make sense:
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending about 200 troops to Jordan, the vanguard of a potential U.S. military force of 20,000 or more that could be deployed if the Obamaadministration decides to intervene in Syria to secure chemical weapons arsenals or to prevent the 2-year-old civil war from spilling into neighboring nations.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-us-jordan-troops-20130418,0,7018059.story
Is Hagel a HEAVY drinker? Kinda looks like it.......
If you ask Paul Krugman, this is supposed to be bullish.
WTF
http://www.worldtribune.com/2013/04/09/20000-u-s-m-16s-stolen-from-ungua...
Either somebody was paid to look the other way or the troops are arming themselves. When Rome fell the troops in distant lands were left to fend for themselves.
Heading towards Syria.
I like how the author ends his little blurb with "Be sociable, share." ;-)
6.66 sigma week.
(Someone is trying to manufacture fear...)
it does seem that way, doesn't it?
West, TX small town north of Waco. Nothing to do with the Waco branch dividian deal, sorry.
Praying for the residents of the nursing home after hearing the building collapsed.
CNN reporting nursing home collapsed nearby.
That just sucks.
This is why they don't allow any smoking in the White House...
Strange, I recall BJ Clinton enjoying cigars in the oval office with a young pillowy woman in a blew dress...
Monica was the one with a cigar in her mouth.
Friday's gold crash is carefully planned event when Asian markets are all closed, it leads to max impact to the market. This could bring out a lot of lawsuits against cme.
Look what happened when Thai gold shops reopened after Thai New Year holidays
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/345752/gold-buyers-rush-in-as-prices-plunge
Wonder if any fertilizer will be "missing" as a result of this fire?
Probably an ammonia plant. The mainstream media probably thinks ammonia is only for cleaning kitchen floors.
You know you can buy fertilizer now a days at home and garden shows without a background check. Better stock up while I can.
Large quantities are usually checked but any agricultural business will handle large quantities on a daily basis. The IRA used fertiliser bombs a couple of times. You can literally take down buildings with a truck load of oil drums filled with a mix of oil & fertiliser.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Docklands_bombing
live feed:
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/category/234333/live
dont kill a bunch of seal teams and sp ops guys and expect biz as always. expect the big news folks to get it next
That first pic is definitely fake..weather is overcast, not blue skies.
I hope they blame this on Osama. They need to bring him back from the dead for the zillionth time.
Freaky if this was purely an accident given the timing.
Those shots are amazing
Why is it always the innocent? What about Wall Street next time?
Because bullshit, while an excellent fertilizer, is not explosive.
However pig shit can be used to make gunpowder.
"Lift embargo!"
I got my Guy Fawkes mask and a bucket of water for those HFT machines ready to go.
The wealthy can afford to live far away from risk.
Looks like the work of that crazy sect the Tranche Derivatives.
We knew sooner or later their shit would blow up.
Someone asked Tranche Leader 1, "but what will it be like when the derivatives start to blow?" and the leader responded "I cannot convey the horror, but the beginning will be like the fertilizer plant today, only worse."
When I heard Texas, explosion and fertilizer, I had to think of the famous Texas City explosion where an old liberty ship filled with ammonium nitrate blew up. Largst industrial accident in US history. If you don't know about it, take a few moments. Unbelieveable in scale. The ship had gotten red hot at the water line before it blew. Windows blown out 40 miles away in Houston. Shock felt 100 miles away in Louisiana. Two ton anchor thrown 1.6 miles. Don't play with fertilizer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster
A true government coverup.
Thanks for that link. I had never heard of that accident. This really says it all:
"A two-ton anchor of Grandcamp was hurled 1.62 miles (2.61 km) and found in a 10-foot (3 m) crater. It now rests in a memorial park. The other main five-ton anchor was hurled 1/2 mile (800 m) to the entrance of the Texas City Dike, and rests on a Texas shaped memorial at the entrance."
Wow.
My first thoughts were that this compares to the Halifax explosion in 1917. The city was on track to rival New York until this event.
snipped from wikipedia:
The Halifax Explosion occurred on the morning of Thursday, December 6, 1917. SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship fully laden with wartime explosives, collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo[2] in the Narrows, a strait connecting the upper Halifax Harbour to Bedford Basin. Approximately twenty minutes later, a fire on board the French ship ignited her volatile cargo, causing a cataclysmic explosion that devastated the Richmond District of Halifax. Approximately 2,000 people were killed by debris, fires, and collapsed buildings, and it is estimated that nearly 9,000 others were injured.[3] The blast was the largest man-made explosion prior to the development of nuclear weapons[4] with an equivalent force of roughly 2.9 kilotons of Trinitrotoluene (TNT).[5] In a meeting of the Royal Society of Canada in May 1918, Dalhousie University's Professor Howard L. Bronson estimated the blast at some 2.4 million kilograms of high explosive.[6]
Was Janet Reno on a tour of the factory?
Sorry for the innocents and the good people, the workers, the firefighters.
Anyone happen to know who their insurer is?
If it were AIG, do you suppose that Secretary Lew would simply write another check for $20 billion? Come to think of it, the first thing I would do if I were AG Eric Holder would be to see if Goldman had bought another $50 billion in puts on AIG. Of course Eric Holder doesn't know what a put is but that is anther story altogether.
I don't think that the government found who bought all of the puts against the airlines a few days before 9/11.
Last I remember, SOME of the puts were bought by FBI and CIA agents... but not all of them.
Ever read the name Kongrad? Buzzy Kongrad?
Did Larry Silverstein own that fertilizer plant?
Anton Chigurh caused it as a distraction to obtain medical supplies to fix his broken arm.
(Just posted on KWTX)
http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Explosion-Injuries-Reported-At-West-F...
** I haven't heard of this being confirmed by the local FOX station, so who knows what might be going on.
Let's pray it's not confirmed.....
West EMS Director Dr. George Smith says as many as 60 or 70 people died and hundreds were injured Wednesday night in a fertilizer plant explosion in West.
Now we must ban fertilizer and pressure cookers and nails and anything metal......................
We must ban all homegrown food and are only allowe to buy commercially prepared food in the name of security, it is the only way to deal with it.................
Breaking: Southern California Nuclear Plant Attacked!
I am seeing nothing on google news in regards to this.
...next?
I picked the wrong week to stop popping blue pills.. I think the same maybe said for sniffing glue before this week is over.
Firefighters and cops died.
Volunteer firefighters.
Insurance, I bet...
60 to 70 dead 100s injured.. this is some serious shit
Are you for real? link?
Was this the plant that produced "Miracle Blow?"
Town of 2000? I'll bet this is going to end up affecting 1/4 of their population directly; nearly everyone, indirectly--not to mention the thousands of relatives around the country...
Good thing there are no Job Killing Zoning Regulations in Texas.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Texas Freedom from Regulation (and common sense) --"Where businesses are allowed to make a profit, Ya'll!"; would you like a nice pine casket with that freedom?"
What a fucking idiot... you need to be taken out back and some common sense knocked into your ignorant ass. I hope your ass blows the fuck up in some accident in whatever liberal fucking state you live in, so I can make jokes about it you fucking fuck.
(always brave in the comfort of there own home, hiding behind a computer, would love to see say some shit like this in public where you would probably lose some teeth I know if I was anywhere close you would probably be missing teeth and more)
How does any business make a profit by destroying all the merchandise, blowing up the production and killing valuable workers? I can't see any revenues deriving from that ...
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/52005
DH: How soon do you see things taking place?
RB: They already are in motion. If you’re looking for a date I can’t tell you. Remember, the objectives are the same, but plans, well, they adapt. They exploit. Watch how this fiscal cliff thing plays out. This is the run-up to the next big economic event.
I can’t give you a date. I can tell you to watch things this spring. Start with the inauguration and go from there. Watch the metals, when they dip. It will be a good indication that things are about to happen. I got that little tidbit from my friend at [REDACTED].
In the video, why does it look like a missile came in from the left side and blew out the other side?
The CIA is effective--not perfect?
I looked at it and couldn't tell what that was on the left side. It looked somewhat like a fireball building up but couldn't be sure. I don't know how to make it advance frame by frame. But, those people were rather stupid to hang around and very lucky to still be alive.
More people die from the shock wave of an explosion if not hit by fragments. They were probably saved because the truck gave them some protection.
From http://science.howstuffworks.com/blast-resistant-clothing1.htm,
I DO NOT mean to minimize the shock, pain, or suffering of so many victims we've been apprised of over the past few days BUT, I think it important to recognise that even just basic accidents present a more immediate, and deadlier hazard to us all than "TERROR!!!!" "Attacks!"
I've been driving this point home in numerous posts. One accident, or well placed attack, on a nuclear plant spent fuel cooling pool (a high density storage pool) will change the geography of this country. Ditto France, Germany, Japan, et al.
Yeah but only a Ninja Nun trained by Jedi Knights could ever breach a nuke plant:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/29/us-usa-nuclear-gaf-idUSBRE88S0F320120929
The world's by far worst nuclear accident happened on March 11, 2011 affecting Fukushima Dai'ichi units 1,2,3,4.
The U.S. has 40 of the GE Mark 1 Rube Goldberg designs still running. Only a handful of people challenged their relicensing and I was one of those peeps admitted as an expert witness.
If you ask a zombie on the street which was worse, Chernobyl or Fukushima, they'll all give the wrong answer.
Mark my words.
The cancer deaths in 5-10 years caused by Fukushima are going to be much lower than Cherynobyl. Not because Cherynobyl was worse, as you, Trampy, point out Fukushima is significantly worse. It should be 11 instead of tied with C at 6.
The reason that I believe the cancer rates will be lower is because of the amount of iodine that the Japanese people ingest. On average it is about 13 mg per day, which originates in the seaweed that they eat. This is about 86 times the US's RDA of 150 mcg per day, which is still more than the Ukrainians got on average when Cherynobyl ruptured.
Iodine is the one halogen that is necessary for us to live and pushes the other three cancer causing halogens out of our bodies (bromide, fluoride, and chlorine). I believe that we also need it to prevent cancer since it acts as a shield in our body. Our iodine RDA was established because it is the minimal amount needed to prevent hideous growths from our necks (goiters) and to prevent cretinism.
So a Fertilizer plant produces what ?
Fertilizer for crops and the bare bone ingredients for high explosives.
See, Nitrates,Oaklahoma bombing,stuff like that.
What percentage of U.S. fertilizer production will be held up by this 'Industrial accident '? How many crops will fail? how much will the US military AND Mining industry be effected by the loss of production?
So you have reduced a nations capacity to Mine for valuable Ore's, Massively reduced it's ability to produce crops and reduced the availability of it's military to produce munitions ? Amongst other things like food preservation and Whatevrrrrrrr.
Sun Tzu and Napoleon would call this military genius,striking the giant at the Achillese tendon perhaps ? I have got old and paranoid in my old age but........Something smells in Denmark. But thankfully it is just an industrial accident, Prayers to the families. Awful stuff.
Coincidences are a biatch.
Ammonia Nitrate must be detonated to be explosive. It doesn't go off when you burn it, and you can't use gun power to set it off. It needs a blasting cap, or dynamite. It is almost impossible to set off accidentally.
Your eyes must be brown, because you're full of shit.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
AMMONIUM NITRATE, a salt of ammonia and nitric acid, is a colourless, crystalline substance melting at 169 C. It is highly soluble in water and soluble in alcohol and liquid ammonia. Heating may cause violent combustion or explosion. Heating of the water solution or burning decomposes the salt to toxic fumes (nitrous oxide). Ammonium Nitrate reacts with combustible and reducing materials as it is a strong oxidant. It is prepared commercially by reaction of nitric acid and ammonia. It is widely used in fertilizers and explosives. The commercial grade contains about 34 percent nitrogen, all of which is in forms utilizable by plants; it is the most common nitrogenous component of artificial fertilizers. Ammonium nitrate also is employed to modify the detonation rate of other explosives, such as nitroglycerin in the so-called ammonia dynamites, or as an oxidizing agent in the ammonals. Ammonium nitrate is also used in the treatment of titanium ores and in solid-fuel rocket propellants, in pyrotechnics.
The times when it has gone off are when it was contaminated with something flammable, was sealed in some kind of capsule and was exposed to prolongued heat. It can happen, but as you say, it is rare. It would be difficult just to set it off with high explosives. You would need to a large bomb in direct contact with the storage vessel, such that the full strength of the shockwave passes through the material. By a large bomb I am not talking about 5kg of plastic explosive.
The distractions are coming thick and fast.
"Pay no attention to our financial meltdown preparations."
1947: A cargo ship explodes at dockside in Texas City, Texas. The blast and the fires that follow kill about 600 people and injure 3,500 more. Six decades later, it remains the deadliest explosion and worst industrial disaster in U.S. history.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/04/dayintech_0416
Ummmm.....???
http://www.okcfox.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/kokh_vid_10717.shtml
Crews on the Scene of an Explosion in NE OKC
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Firefighters and emergency personnel are investigating after an explosion in NW Oklahoma City.
The explosion occurred just before 9:30 Wednesday night at 812 N. Bryant.
Officials tell us it was a tank battery that exploded. The cause is unknown at this time. The area surrounding the tank battery is being evacuated.
Police, EMSA, and the Oklahoma City Fire Department are all on scene. There are several propane tanks in the area that are threatened by the flames.
We'll bring you more details as they come in.Crews on the Scene of an Explosion in NE OKC
Posted: Wednesday, April 17 2013, 10:09 PM CDT
Now being reported as contained, and caused by lightning. So we've got that going for us.
Do the skies look like lightning is in store to you?
Were there reports of lightning anywhere else?
Questions? Doubts?
"It was a dark and stormy night...."
--Snoopy
Well, we'll probably wake up in the morning with martial law declared, for the safety of the children, of course.
This just ain't our week.
Explosions everywhere, crazy bankers slitting throats, this is why we can't have nice things.
We Can't have nice things?
We don't, those cocksuck*rs do, and that's why they can't continue to have them. They show a complete lack of responsibility and everything else that's needed from a caretaker.
By the way have you seen the "Commissions" Report on Torture, by so many in high Gov't positions since 9/11 ? Came out same day as Boston Marathon front page news pg. 1 NY Times.
This is f*cking tragic.
I love Texas.
Holy shit... that vid is nuts. Those two are lucky to survive with just their eardrums obliterated.
Sounded like a Texas redneck, with the wife and kids in the car. He thought, Yea, I have the balls to just sit here and film, no problem. Lets just watch the fire, while people are incinerated, I didn't feel he had any intention of helping his fellow citizens. Just wanted a film to show his friends (if he has any) or to sell to a news station.
Then Ka-Fucking-BOOM..... Then, Honey you alright?
Too bad the others were there with him, maybe he would have gone closer to film the event and caught the shock-wave, first hand.
What we don't need are more assholes like him.
What's worse is he doesn't even think to hold his eyephone in landscape mode when filming it.
If you pause the video at 30 seconds, and go frame by frame (Shift key + right arrow) you can see five or so frames of the blast.
Sounded like a Texas redneck,
________________
He did the 'american' thing.
And you just did the 'chinese' thing, sounding like a douchebag, right?
You can have your eardrums rebuilt, it's a rare operation but it would restore at least a third of their hearing.
1000 meter blast radius. There is A LOT of stuff within 1000 meters of ground zero of the blast. I wouldn't be surprised if the death toll is even higher. Even the town's medical center is within 1 km of the blast.
Yeah, there, NAVY62, 1000 meter blast field.
Stuff in a kilometer range of an Anhydrous Ammonia storage facility in West, Texas?
A medical center, two schools, a rest home and many units of apartments. Won't mention the fines paid by West Fertilizer a few years back for defective safety plan.
And certainly can't question the local Planning Department's wisdom in mixing schools, medical facilities and Anhydrous Ammonia all in the same couple blocks!
google sat it.
unfuckingreal...
Surprised the PD and Fire Dept weren't in that circle as well. Or were they?
I'm surprised that they were allowed to keep a fertilizer plant that close to a populated area, especially when there's nothing but open land for miles in literally every direction.
Also, I ran some quick numbers based on a rough estimation off of the google maps image of the plant. Their main fertilizer tank is 100 feet in diameter. Assuming a 50 foot height for the cylindrical tank, that means it has a volume of roughly 392,700 cubic feet. Even if that tank were only half full of low-density ammonium nitrate (45 pounds per cubic foot), we are talking about 4,418 TONS of ammonium nitrate exploding yesterday. That's roughly equivalent to the same weight of TNT explosive which means that yesterday's blast in West, TX was roughly equivalent to a 4.4 kiloton nuclear device (a quarter the size of the Hiroshima bomb). Hence the people in Dallas who thought they felt an earthquake.
God damn globalists have the Seals working overtime this week. Banksters are starting to treat the US of A just like it was Lybia. Why wouldn't they? That is the number 1 question for National Security.
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Dirty bomb
Bullish...
http://qz.com/75738/chinese-authorities-cant-rule-out-human-to-human-bir...
Chinese authorities suspect human-to-human transmission of H7N9 avian flu
A worrying development in China’s H7N9 outbreak: There is growing evidence that the virus may have the ability to be transmitted between humans, especially close family members, and the Chinese government has admitted for the first time it’s a possibility.
You forgot the earthquake plague kicking in:
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/category/earthquake-omens/
that and the Asian war is close:
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201304160087
That clip!!!
Stops car and films a factory fire!!! Absolute madness. His daughter most likely will have burst eardrums. Incredible footage.
Can somebody explain to me why people build factories like these or other potentially explosive industries such as fireworks factories right near or in the middle of communities?
Because people are fucking idiots, that's why.
Oh yeah, I forgot. Early where I am now. I always start the day thinking that the world is a wonderful place. Then I read the news....
I personally entered all of the data for the first ever digital inventory of toxic/hazardous substances in Minnesota businesses. Given to local emergency services for situations such as this. Way back in the 80s....
You can get plume-generating software and overlay on populations, schools, nursing homes etc.
There is a lot of risk in society...generally the communities kind of grow into the danger zones, rather than the danger zones being placed into existing communities...although that also happens sometimes.
Beck's risk society. Question is, how much risk are we willing to take? Life is dangerous but what kind of risks can we avoid? Not only 'clear and present dangers' but also how much chemicals and toxins do we want to expose ourselves and next generations to?
Simple. Same reason some like to live near nuclear power plants and military bases.
Low property taxes. Short commute to work. And accidents are extremely unlikely (unless one happens near you).
Here's a pretty good list of high-fatality accidents:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_disasters_by_death_toll
Probably the highest prompt fatalities in past 100 years was the 1917 SS Mont Blanc in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
So are you telling me that in order to save a buck people expose themselves and others to danger?
Oh...never mind.
go look at that list. natural disasters tend to affect mostly poor people in middle of nowhere so they don't get much press.
industrial and transport accidents of course cause most damage in high-pop area.
Natural disasters kill a lot of people but people are also good at compounding the damage done due to natural disasters such as by building nucleair power plants in earth quake zones or economising on the maintenance of levees.
Or building the Union Carbide Chemical plant right next to Bhopal, India.
Because operating your first world facility with third world educated employees is always a good idea.
You want educated employees - train them yourself! No one ought to do it for you. Sure, if you only want to pay third world wages in a first world facility, you may encounter some problems.
The vast majority of adults in "developed countries" die of OLD AGE, primarily via cancer or heart disease with all their "complications" such as toxic medications and treatments, medical errors, etc. etc.
But people (even very good risk analysts!) always focus on the "tail" of the risk CCDF, low-probability/high-consequence: i.e., the "worst case," no matter how improbable.
It's also natural to have more fear of things beyond our control than the things within our control.
People are getting cancer, diabetis, leukemia etc. at younger ages. However, medicine is getting better at treating these diseases but that doesn't make the risk go away. People are also increasingly more infertile at younger ages. Now that is just humans. Biodiversity does not get medical treatment. We are seriously fucking up the planet.
Look up the Texas City, Texas 2300 ton ammonium nitrate explosion in the 60's. Wrecked that town, killed about everybody. It was like a damn nuke. Texas is a big state with big ports and big plants and it sometimes blows up in a big way.
I'm awfully worried for the people in the 100 houses that were blown down.
This is a lot of havoc for one week, and it's still young.
edit: found a link
http://www.local1259iaff.org/disaster.html
At any stage in industrial processes something can go wrong and eventually will go wrong somewhere. Sometimes unrelated events set off a cascade of other events leading to disaster. Somebody lax with safety regulations, somebody absent minded, bad communication and hand over, somebody had a fight with his wife. There are thousands of things that can go wrong. And then there is ill intent. If I were a terrorist wanting to blow up something, I'd take a pressure cooker to one of these places.
actually it was April, 1947
Thanks, I was shootin from the hip.
'Americans' rediscovering the dangers of industrialization and being given a recalling act of why they chose to outsource in the first place.
Welcome to an 'american' world. A cosy place to live, you'll see.
not now.
Cuz they are STUPID?
Dirty Bomb
Well what has blown up now?
How about now?
Anything yet?
USGS recorded 2.1 seismic event on the Richter scale at 8:50PM ET, even tho explosion was above ground. Nearest station 25 mi away #Texas
Can you say kaboooooooooom?
someone said on the news that a second huge explosion could still happen...depending on timing; Another vat or building full of the flamables
This is clearly the work of the Bernanke/Krugman/Bankster axis in their increasingly desperate and doomed attempt to drive down the price of gold.
Surely the Consoler in Chief will shoot down to Texas to "stand united with those affected"......surely.