Bus crash in South Carolina with Navy personnel on board.
Fox News now saying 4 dead (3 sailors and bus driver.) Reports that tractor-trailer swerved into bus.???
I found this while googling Emergency Preparedness. Please google and see for yourselves the amount of recent info. on the subject. The description in this article reminds me of the posting on Wyoming from the past few days, regarding the rumbling in the ground.
Hundreds Evacuated (Oil Well Blow Out in New Mexico)
By Stella Davis/Current-Argus Staff Writer
Mar 11, 2004, 11:59 pm
http://www.currentargus.com/artman/publish/article_5277.shtml CARLSBAD, NM — Hundreds of residents evacuated areas of south Carlsbad after an unexpected penetration of a natural gas pocket at an oil drilling rig site caused a blowout Thursday.
A 10-man crew on the drilling rig escaped unharmed, said Frank Navarrette, assistant chief of the Carlsbad Fire Department…..
At the drilling rig site, in the 4100 block of National Parks Highway, a thick, brown, fog-like odorous cloud made the lower portion of the drilling rig almost invisible…
The situation, which began around 9:30 a.m., worsened two hours later as the weather changed and the gas cloud spread. Authorities began to evacuate an expanded area of south Carlsbad, which included offices, businesses, homes, schools and motels…..
Witnesses at the scene said the first release of gas sent dirt and debris spewing about 75 feet into the air. They said the noise was equivalent to a jet coming in to land.
As the morning progressed, reports started coming in that some residents needed medical assistance because of the fumes they had inhaled. Concentrations of natural gas can cause respiratory problems, fire officials said.
“It sounded like a jet airplane landing,” Lowe said. “We went outside and saw a black liquid-type substance spurting straight up into the air. It was spurting well over the height of the drilling rig. Then there was a big dust coming up from the ground.”
Navarrette said the initial fear was that the drilling operation had hit a pocket of hydrogen sulfide gas, which is deadly if inhaled. But officials later said there was no release of H2S.
“It sounded like a thunderstorm or a hurricane. It shot up in the air and blew south,” said Johnson, who is from Sun City West, Ariz. “I’ve never heard anything like that in my life.”
Navarrette said, should the wind change overnight, there could be more areas evacuated.
“The danger is not over until they are able to cap the well,” Waller added