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Something big just blew up in baytown texas
jpsb

Posted on 12/09/2009 6:50:19 AM PST by jpsb

Something big just blew up in baytown texas


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KEYWORDS: baytown; big; explosion; kaboom; pasadena; something; texas
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To: Petronski
Yes, that's exactly what I thought.

I thought we had a chemist here. Maybe so, but the wording came from this page.

161 posted on 12/09/2009 7:55:59 AM PST by wideminded
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To: ThirdMate

My hubby works in the printing industry around a great deal of tolulene. I worry about explosions every day. He is also on their fire brigade and has already been badly burned in a flash fire.

Prayers for all those arount this mess.


162 posted on 12/09/2009 7:56:39 AM PST by kimmie7 (THE CROSS - Today, Tomorrow and Always!)
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To: 2nd amendment mama
Is that perhaps why that freeper is named, The Comedian?
163 posted on 12/09/2009 7:57:48 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: 2nd amendment mama
Did you realize that the article that you linked to was POSTED: Tuesday, September 26, 2006?

Yes, but I should have made that clear. I was assuming it was a similar event at the same location.

Apologies for any confusion.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

164 posted on 12/09/2009 8:01:06 AM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: jpsb; a fool in paradise

Here is the original messagethread, posted to FR long before the MSM reported it.


165 posted on 12/09/2009 8:03:07 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: hennie pennie

FReepers rule!


166 posted on 12/09/2009 8:04:16 AM PST by freebird5850 (O-Bomba is not the Messiah. Jesus was a carpenter and could build a cabinet!)
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To: hennie pennie

Right, I found saw it afterwards but it is linked only a few posts down from the top of the other thread.


167 posted on 12/09/2009 8:07:03 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Question authority!Who is the University of East Anglia to drive the 'Global Climate Change' agenda?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Fire under control...Minor injuries...

Mutual aid worked in the area as it should have...

I did hear a big boom a little while ago...I am at the I-45/Beltway 8 intersection...

Looks like they’ll relax the shelter in place in a little while...

Fairmont Parkway, Hwy 146 have sections cordoned off, no in or out for the most part...

I believe we’ll be fine...


168 posted on 12/09/2009 8:13:04 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus sayin')
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To: a fool in paradise
Hi there, just wanted to make sure you didn't miss the photos and interesting initial twitter reports reposted in this thread.

That was a LONG almost half hour before the MSM finally acknowledged the incident. Thank goodness NO fatalities.

169 posted on 12/09/2009 8:14:04 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: stevie_d_64

Good to hear, I pass it along because with this board, there can be people from anywhere in the area and with friends and family in any industry.


170 posted on 12/09/2009 8:15:03 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Question authority!Who is the University of East Anglia to drive the 'Global Climate Change' agenda?)
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To: jpsb

“Something big just blew up in baytown texas”

Although I Know you mean well, headlines like this with no information are sooooo uncool....as my husband works @Exxon in Baytown and now I’m freaking out a little....


171 posted on 12/09/2009 8:16:45 AM PST by DrewsMum (the greatest mistake you can make in life.....is to be continually fearing you will make one....)
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To: cripplecreek
Sounds like a ZZTop tune.

Funny you should say that!
I live about 10 miles from the blast and I heard the blast.
Blly Gibbons of Zxtop lives close to me.
If he was home I'm pretty sure he heard it too.

172 posted on 12/09/2009 8:18:04 AM PST by freedommom
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To: freedommom

Fox infobabe (Harrison what’s-her-name) just said the plant makes acrylic acid paint...


173 posted on 12/09/2009 8:21:06 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 322 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: a fool in paradise

I have the local media on in the other room...

I already expected to hear all the whining and crying for the children, and the evils of indutrial capitalism and blah blah blah...

I was not wrong...They are stretching this story out like the “Stretch Armstrong” toy...

I think I ‘ll call the Channel 2 folks in and try to spoof their “Shy is Falling” rhetoric...

They are so criminal in their pontificating it really makes you wonder if we can even believe anything they say in events like this...

Must be a slow news day...

Sorry if my sarcasm appears to have gotten the best of me...


174 posted on 12/09/2009 8:21:06 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus sayin')
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To: DrewsMum

Should he have stayed mum?


175 posted on 12/09/2009 8:21:57 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 322 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: stevie_d_64

well you can’t expect the local media to put up any challenge to Hopenhagenfraud.


176 posted on 12/09/2009 8:25:17 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Question authority!Who is the University of East Anglia to drive the 'Global Climate Change' agenda?)
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To: null and void; jpsb

“Should he have stayed mum?”

no, no, no....I didn’t mean it that way....I just hadn’t gotten to the updated information on down the thread yet... the headline just freaked me out... nothing to be done about it...I just said it was uncool.... I wasn’t trying to gripe....just panicky....


177 posted on 12/09/2009 8:30:46 AM PST by DrewsMum (the greatest mistake you can make in life.....is to be continually fearing you will make one....)
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To: jpsb

You do as good a job reporting on explosions as you do on hurricanes.

Thanks. :)


178 posted on 12/09/2009 8:33:43 AM PST by SouthTexas (God Bless our Fort Hood Troops)
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To: DrewsMum
...headlines like this with no information are sooooo uncool...

The FReeper posted this topic as soon as he/she felt the blast. There was no info at the time. Jeez.

179 posted on 12/09/2009 8:36:21 AM PST by FReepaholic (Give me ambiguity or give me something else!)
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To: DrewsMum

Yeah. I understand. I’m a Marine Corps Brat. When the only report you get is “an airplane went down” every aviator’s family goes through it. You’re afraid to open the front door for fear that it will be The News.

And per policy they won’t release any identifying information until the next of kin have been notified. All the wives and kids don’t even know if the plane was from their loved one’s squadron.


180 posted on 12/09/2009 8:37:33 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 322 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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