No conspiracy theories...but strange that Texas had two major explosions today

[Horse with no Name]

Last edited Wed Apr 17, 2013, 10:55 PM - Edit history (1)

http://www.12newsnow.com/story/22002630/three-people-burned-at-exxon-mobile

and now this one:

NON WEATHER: A fertilizer plant in the town of West, on I-35 in Central Texas, had an explosion that was felt as far north as the DFW area. We will have more info as details come in.


Edited to add link
http://www.12newsnow.com/story/22008068/explosion-at-fertilizer-plant-injures-several-in-west

[HubertHeaver]

1. That would be big enough to take out the entire town. West isn't that big.

[blogslut]

2. I had no idea there was a West, Texas

And, naturally, it's located in North Texas, while the region known as WEST TEXAS is at the top of the state.

[Horse with no Name]

5. And Eastland is in west Texas.

[X_Digger]

10. Yummiest colaches in Texas, too. (A shop called the Czech Stop) n/t

[Horse with no Name]

11. I LOVE the Czech Stop

best kolaches you ever dared to eat!

[X_Digger]

12. I'll go 30 miles out of my way just so that I *happen* to be near there. :) n/t

[Horse with no Name]

13. Aye

[susanr516]

16. I carefully plan my trips

Just to make sure I get to the Czech Stop at lunchtime.

This is so sad.

[LeftInTX]

18. It was home to a meteorite a few years ago

We kept wondering, "What town in West Texas had that meteorite"?

[Llewlladdwr]

3. I'm sure we deserved it.

DU never tires of telling me how evil and backwards Texas is....

[bluestate10]

7. No one deserves to be exposed to dangerous situations. Keep fighting to make Texas blue.nt

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. The refinery explosion isn't a surprise.

I don't mean to sound heartless, but they blow pretty often down there. This one just hurt more folks than usual.

West's explosion that's a bad one. All that town has is like 2500 people living off the fertilizer plant work and kolaches tourist trade.

[Horse with no Name]

8. I have been watching the news and they have been flaring

and there have been some weird activity in the refinery community since Sunday.

But I am sure that those circumstances aren't related because then OSHA would have to be involved and I am pretty certain that the oil companies wouldn't deliberately put their employees at risk....

This is from a local TV station website on Monday...
"Pertaining to reports of an explosion in Bridge City... dispatcher there tells us officers have not been able to find the source... they will continue to be on the lookout throughout the night... but at this point, they just don't know what it was."

This was on Sunday....
http://www.12newsnow.com/story/21975885/refineries-monitor-air
"Total and Motiva refineries in Port Arthur say the air quality is safe following a day of flaring activity due to a power outage, Neither company could confirm Sunday what chemicals were being burned off but say air monitoring was taking place throughout the day. "

http://www.12newsnow.com/story/21973481/sub-station-fire-leaves-some-in-port-arthur-without-electrictiy

PORT ARTHUR -

Some Entergy Texas customers lost electricity due to a problem at a substation located on 39th Street. The problem was reported around 9:30 a.m. Sunday.

Entergy Spokesperson Debi Derrick told 12News by phone the incident was originally reported as a fire, but was a 'short circuit event.'

"We did determine that there was no actual fire. Sometimes electrical events result in an arc or a flash and that can be misinterpreted as a fire," said Derrick.

Refineries in the area had to flare as a result of the power loss.


This had no link but was on Sunday...
"Heavy flaring reported at PA refineries - what are you seeing? We are trying to get a hold of local refineries as to why there is so much activity, but Entergy is reporting over 12,000 people without power this morning."

[bluestate10]

9. Refineries have lots are volatile gases around, a pipe leak with the right environmental conditions

can blow the whole place up.

[FSogol]

6. WOOT Deregulation! Some company saved a few bucks.

Hope no one got hurt to insure big profits.

[DBoon]

14. You can't expect business hostile govment regulations in Texas

Where free enterprise blows free, and so do the chemical plants

[Horse with no Name]

15. I agree

which is why I found the stuff leading up to the major explosion in Port Arthur today troubling.

An explosion that nobody knew anything about...an "event" that wasn't really a fire...etc



Nothing to see here....


Scary stuff. At least it is to me.

[NightWatcher]

17. An even bigger explosion occurred 66 years ago today!

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0416.html

[LeftInTX]

19. OMG - We they were just discussing the Texas City disaster in another thread

It was the worst industrial accident in US history. No idea it was April 16th.