TX City chemical levels too high to be read by equipment

[Lisa0825]

Source: ABC Houston local affiliate KTRK

"TEXAS CITY, TX (KTRK) -- We have new information on what was being released into the air after a power outage affected a chemical plant and three refineries in Texas City."

"The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality now says the air on Tuesday morning in Texas City was so toxic that monitoring equipment couldn't go high enough to detect it all. The meters were pegged. That despite the fact we were told by at least three separate Texas City first responders that monitors didn't find anything out of the ordinary following the flares."



Read more: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=8095805

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I live about 2 miles from these plants. I had to stay inside with the AC off until 1pm. I have very drafty windows, so sheltering here probably didn't help anyway!

[plumbob]

1. I've lived in the oilfields of west Texas most of my life, and these lying

bastards will try to get away with anything they can.

They know damned well what's in it, and it's toxic.

Here's how you can recreate this at home - first, buy a kerosene burning stove, but fill it will crude oil. Don't vent the stove and light it up!

Those combustion products are what are in the air.......

And yes, it will kill you. Slowly, over time, emphysema, COPD, and so on, or immediately due to suffocation.

[w8liftinglady]

13. exactly. I see the guys in their 40's and 50's who have paid the price

as a nurse who deals with pulmonary patients- most of my patients are ... surprise,surprise... one-time oil field workers in Midland/Odessa and other points..

[freshwest]

2. This crap eats the paint off car and houses and keeps respiratory tracts inflamed year round.

The OCAW merged after disaster capitalism struck them in 1999 and the lost most of their workforce. So who's protecting workers and the people nearby?

Guess it's those self-regulating oil companies, you know, Bush said they'd do it right. Perry says they'll do it right. Good job, as always. And shut up, ya socialist Democrats.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. I grew up in Stinkadena. It's a wonder I can breathe at all.

My daddy was an organizer for decades with the O.C.A.W.

He was also a pipefitter, and an attorney, thanks to night school on the G.I. Bill.

They used to have a bumper sticker that said "The grass is greener in Pasadena".

We kids of course said,
"the air is greener in Pasadena". We don't trust breathing it unless we can SEE it.

:rofl: :shrug: :banghead:

Stinkadena: A Good place to be FROM.

[Gman]

9. Whenever we'd drive through Pasadena

we'd play "Name That Hydrocarbon"! As if we could.

[madrchsod]

4. there was an area in chicago where the air etched the chrome bumpers

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. I knew it. Those fucking liars!

They had a shelter in place warning going on and at the same time they were denying dangerous levels of toxins in the air. It made no sense. Those sorry, murdering, fucking liars! If anyone wonders why Texas is so hell bent on not providing health care for it's working poor, you need look no further than this. They're making people sick here and they don't want to pay for the damage they're doing to their bodies.

[Lisa0825]

7. Yeah, I kept thinking that if it was so "unnecessary," maybe I'd go ahead and go to work....

But then I suspected something like this would come out, so I decided it was better to stay inside as warned.

[freshwest]

8. Do all the detoxing you can, too.

[Spinny Liberal]

6. I wonder how many will b*tch

about regulation when they're carrying around an iron lung.

[PDittie]

10. Why don't you

come up here and stay with us? You shouldn't be breathing anywhere near that shit.

[humus]

11. dealing with the suppliers

"a people who are entirely lacking in economic self-determination,
either personal or local, and who are therefore entirely passive in
dealing with the suppliers of all their goods and services, including
political goods and services, cannot be governed democratically--or
not for long."
Wendell Berry

"We assume that we can have an exploitive, ruthlessly competitive,
profit-for-profit's-sake economy, and yet remain a God-fearing and a
democratic nation, as we still apparently think of ourselves. This
simply means that our highest principles and standards have no
practical force or influence, and are reduced merely to talk."
Berry

"...our country is not being destroyed by
bad politics, it is being destroyed by a bad way
of life. Bad politics is merely another result."
-- Wendell Berry

The message is plain enough, and we have ignored it for too long:
the great, centralized economic entities of our time do not come into
rural places in order to improve them by "creating jobs." They come
to take as much of value as they can take, as cheaply and as quickly
as they can take it. They are interested in "job creation" only so
long as the jobs can be done more cheaply by humans than by
machines. They are not interested in good health--economic or
natural or human--of any place on this earth.

[TalkingDog]

12. Where is that dome they dropped on Sprinfield?

Oh, that's right, Homer blew it up.

[DuaneBidoux]

14. Unfortunately prevailing winds for ths time of year take it right to Houston.

I doubt if we'll never know how bad it may have been nor whether there will be real side effects.

On the other hand if you research childhood leukemia stats for the nation as a whole you will see that this coastal area with its hundreds (literally) of refineries have the highest rates of cancer in the coountry.