Posted on 11/30/2013 9:27:16 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
Emergency trucks rushing to County Road 418...an oil plant has reportedly exploded. Reports up to 90 miles away of houses being shaken.
Long driveway off FM 916.
I live quite far from there, north of Dallas, not much wind here. But if he saw smoke, then chances are that is what he thought he smelled.
There are no basements in Texas.
Thanks :-)
Nice place.. one thing I don’t see.. a propane tank.
Could it be under ground? I highly doubt it was in the house.
Remember last year’s Greenwood, Indiana House Explosion that resulted in 33 destroyed/torn down houses, 1500+ damaged, dozens injured and two killed, in an insurance scam on an about-to-be-repo’d home?
That was a much smaller structure than this house seems to be, and it slammed us hard, though we live many miles away. I remember it well....
Someone said that house had a basement.
I gotta ask, why are their no basements in TX?
Who’ll make them pay?
Someone said that house had a basement.
I gotta ask, why are their no basements in TX?
Sheriff just said they are fixing to do a search for bodies
(from facebook)
It’s Texas, When it rains it rains a lot and would flood a basement. Besides, This ain’t the Northeast where space is expensive. Most Texas homes don’t need the extra space for a basement or for a second floor, for that matter. We have plenty of room to build one story on a cement slab.
This is Minnesota. My basement is below the lakes water level 300 feet away.. Basements can be made to keep the water out.
But I understand the spreading out thing.
because of frost up where we can’t just slap a house on a floating slab..
Last year, sitting in a restaurant in Milwaukee, a house exploded across the river. We thought a plane had crashed on our building. It was a gas leak. In that case, I think the homeowner survived, but the home was not incinerated either.
Very scary.
I am praying for the family in Texas.
If the Amish decided to target an oil plant, I ain’t keeping my mouth shut. Politicize that up the wazoo.
Another “gas” explosion like the one in Idianapolis a year or so ago?
“I gotta ask, why are their no basements in TX?..”
Variety of reasons. One mentioned already is that space is not a premium here. We just build out or up. Another, in my part of the state, is that bedrock is only 3-4 feet below the surface of the ground. Doesn’t make for good basement territory unless you blast and that’s expensive.
We do have old cellars and modern storm shelters here but few if any are completely sunk below the surface. Most protrude several feet above the ground which presents much less of a target to a tornado than the regular home.
that makes sense.. if it’s that hard to dig, eff it. build up :)
Where i live you almost have to wait for the ground to freeze. This area is one huge sand box, and it’s deep.
Digging a basement is hard because the hole keep falling in on you while your digging.
>>And I have seen the aftermath of a gas leak explosion and they are incredibly bad.
2nd that. We had one near my house when I was in the 6th grade. Completely leveled 2 largish suburban houses (say 2000 SF +/-). Our house was about 1/3 mile away, and insulation “came out of the sky like snow” according to my mom and a neighbor lady. 3-4 people died.
If the log cabin had a basement and propane, propane is heavier than air. Basement could have filled with vapor from a leak until it encountered an ignition source, and then KABLAM!
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