West Texas fertilizer plant fire/explosion
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Moving this out of the "Boston marathon bombing thread".
WW3 sounds about right, wow that was one hell of a blast...
Pics from NPR's blog coverage: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/18/177722739/texas-fertilizer-plant-blast-killed-several-injured-dozens
WW3 sounds about right, wow that was one hell of a blast...
Pics from NPR's blog coverage: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/18/177722739/texas-fertilizer-plant-blast-killed-several-injured-dozens
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They also had a nursing home nearby and an apartment building (2nd photo). Brilliant minds running that town.
Damn, 25 miles away? I've often thought of what it would be like if a nuke went off within 10 miles or something of where you live. Probably still destroy your house.
Interesting seismogram, you can clearly see the blast up in the top-right.
Oo a ball of fire let's go see it.. my first thoughts would be get far away from that so far... then maybe look.
Crazy devastation hope all is well on the polycount front we have a bunch of Texans here don't we?
Best of luck, this is a crazy year so far.
No kidding, poor girl will probably have permanent hearing loss.
A fire off in the distance, how were they supposed to know it would explode like that? A reporter followed up with them and she's doing fine.
What?
Oops I meant, "I hope no one near by was staring at the fire through their windows..."
When that meteor landed in russia a bunch of people had glass windows explode in their faces.
Actually they had a interview with the father on NPR. She was the one who asked to go see it. They didn't know that a secondary explosion was going to happen.
(Her hearing has recovered btw).
http://www.local1259iaff.org/disaster.html
Ugh, soo sad. You can see the first responder's vehicles at the curb, lights blazing. The shockwave just destroys them.
HOLY. SHIT.
That second video too. The explosion and choking smoke seem to have actually put the fire out... unreal... left behind a mushroom cloud!
Thank you.
http://gizmodo.com/5697423/psa-please-turn-your-damn-cellphone-sideways-when-recording-video
Not just explosions but some pretty innocuous stuff can get deadly pretty quickly.
People die each year while "walking down the silo", a process of helping a silo to empty out by climbing in doing whatever you need to to keep it flowing. Once its up over your knees you're screwed, especially if there is a bathtub vortex effect going.
It's also illegal to work under anything stuck to the sides of the silo (pressure and moisture) often leave a thick coating that peels off later after its empty, but people do it anyway.
Umm, people in in Oklahoma (and here in Michigan, where unfortunately the bomb was made).
It was actually ammonium nitrate tanks that exploded. Your basic garden fertilizer would never ignite.
And I agree, turn the damn phone sideways. It drives me nuts.
I feel so bad for the families of those first responders. Those guys never had a chance, and my heart hurt when the explosion hit in that second video, where you could see those guys were there