April 17, 2013
This Looks Grim
Oh no.
Just got this pic via
Galrhan on Twitter, It is said to be of the
Fertilizer plant in Waco that just blew up.
UPDATE: KTWX is saying
over 60 dead.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at
10:27 PM
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Shades of the Texas City disaster. Nitrogen compounds are fickle at the best of times.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thu Apr 18 03:53:25 2013 (PiXy!)
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Dad worked at a lot of refineries as a scale technician (if it was around Houston, he'd been there). One day, he had just left a Texaco plant when it went up, and several people were killed. Had he not finished up and left, he probably wouldn't have survived the blast (unless he was down in the scale pit, assuming it didn't fall and crush him...)
He has a disturbing number of near-miss stories, like the time he drove off the seawall in Galveston, or how ham radio kept him out of Vietnam...
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Thu Apr 18 05:01:46 2013 (pWQz4)
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Nitrogen compounds are fickle at the best of times.
If you want something truly terrifying, try ammonium perchlorate.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thu Apr 18 15:52:53 2013 (+rSRq)
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Explosion in West was a terrible disaster.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Fri Apr 19 23:00:22 2013 (RqRa5)
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