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BASF installation is 60 miles from Houston. Which, if you've been there, is nothing. Houston is spread out all over the place. BASF is where the guard was shot. It would be a rolling fireball, depending on what they used to explode.

BASF in Freeport is huge, very huge. And the wind currents tend to be from south to north off the Gulf most of the year, in the direction of Houston.
Dow Chemical is right next door, across the street literally. Lots of phosgene and other wicked unmentionables between the two. and Dow is bigger than BASF.

1,395 posted on 01/28/2004 4:22:32 PM PST by milkncookies (Usama Bin Muhammad Bin Ladin: "El Khara Dah? You have looser lips than a whore in Marakesh")

The whole coast down there is loaded with targets from Houston to Corpus Christi...Also lots of chemical plants. Check out the naval base...I wasn't going to post this my son is down there but I am sure they already know this.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/ingleside.htm

The Navy continues the process of consolidating the operations and training of its mine countermeasures forces in South Texas under the leadership of Commander, Mine Warfare Command. Naval Station Ingleside is a vital component of this concept of operations. Currently 25 of the Navy's newest mine countermeasures ships, coastal mine hunters and MCM command and control ship, USS Inchon, call Ingleside home