Overturned Tanker Forces Shut-down of Turnpike (Explosion - fire in Dallas)

KTVT - CBS11 Fort Worth ^ | 12/10/05 | --

[PAR35]

Witnesses tell CBS 11 News they heard a huge explosion and saw a mushroom-shaped cloud in the sky up to 100 feet above the accident.

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According to reports, a gasoline tanker overturned, which ignited the gasoline and subsequent smaller grass fires, and forced the shut down of both east and westbound traffic on the turnpike.

[PAR35]

Update - fires out, evacuations apparently never carried out. For locals - George Bush, just east of Preston.

[No Blue States]

Thats what I love about FR.

Im in Alrington 25 miles west and had no idea this happened. Sounds like its under control.

[PlanoMike]

Saw the smoke from my house some 9 miles away !

[cpdiii]

Bush's fault, he did it with the assistance of the evil genius Karl Rove.

[RightWhale]

a mushroom-shaped cloud in the sky up to 100 feet above the accident.

Not the mushroom cloud that reaches 5-10 miles. The shock of the real thing is going to destroy the metaphors of the present MSM generation.

[1066AD]

So that's what it was !

[AZLiberty]

I saw one like this as I was flying into San Diego Wednesday morning. It looked really spectacular from the air. The plume of smoke was a static version of a tornado, rather than a mushroom. It left a black band across the sky east of San Diego all afternoon.

[ScreamingFist]

The shock of the real thing is going to destroy the metaphors of the present MSM generation.

You have that right FRiend....Bravo, the largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated by the US, yeilding 15 Megatons, twice that predicted......

The blast gouged a crater about a mile wide in the reef. Within seconds the fireball was nearly three miles in diameter. The illumination from the blast was visible for almost one minute on Rongerik, an island 135 miles east of the burst. It trapped personnel in experiment bunkers and engulfed the 7,500 foot diagnostic pipe array. Physicist Marshall Rosenbluth was on a ship about 30 miles away. He remembers that the fireball, "just kept rising and rising, and spreading... It looked to me like what you might imagine a diseased brain, or a brain of some mad man would look like on the surface... And the air started getting filled with this gray stuff, which I guess was somewhat radioactive coral."

[ScreamingFist]

It was equal to the force of nearly 1,000 Hiroshima bombs.



· It created a fireball four miles wide that vaporized the entire test island and parts of two others, leaving a hole in Bikini's lagoon one mile wide and 200 feet deep.



· It destroyed most of the buildings on an island 14 miles across the lagoon to the south.



· It was so powerful that it caused the concrete detonation bunker on Eneu Island, 24 miles away, to move off its foundation.



· At Kwajalein, 250 miles away, there were high winds, and the buildings shook as if there had been an earthquake.

[ken in texas]

I never even noticed it, and I'm about 3 miles north of that location. Heard a lot of emergency vehicle activity, but that's not unusual given the accident rate at some of the intersections around here. :-)

[devane617]

PlanoMike, I live off Coit, between Hedgecoxe and McDermott, and saw the smoke from my house.

[Cvengr]

I believe that was the one that bothered the scientists the most. Some conjectured a chain reaction might begin consuming all the oxygen in the atmosphere, but that conjecture hadn't been resolved prior to the actual test. The scientist's then were more concerned with the testing procedure that might allow something more devastating to occur, unchecked. (yeah, yeah, I know, more devastating than a H-bomb,..but that was the justification behind many of the scientific community's objections to nuclear testing.)

[Cvengr]

Well I'll speak the pregnant question,...
considering there were fire bombing sprees in Britain, a tanker in Dallas, I believe a petrol plant in Britain, and France is still dealing with some 50 torched cars nightly, and the British Molotov bombings received a condoning nod from AlQuada quotes of binLaden, ...how much of this is coordinated, and how much is happenstance?

[1rudeboy]

How do I find photos of that specific blast?

[PAR35]

how much of this is coordinated, and how much is happenstance?

Too much tinfoil. It is natural for a tanker truck to explode on a straight, level stretch of highway on a cool, clear, sunny day. Blowouts cause fires all the time - just like that bus with the hurricane evacuees a couple of months ago.

"The truck driver, 44-year-old Lincoln Porter of Dallas, told investigators he was driving eastbound when he heard a back tire blow. He looked in his rearview mirror and saw the tire in flames."
http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/121005dnmettanker.162c5ce6.html

[Cvengr]

Thanks

[PAR35]

I'd actually buy a story of a refinery blowing up on its own before I'd buy the story about the truck. Refineries do tend to randomly explode without much help. When is the last time you saw a flat tire cause a massive explosion and fire outside of the Dallas metroplex?

[cpdiii]

"How do I find photos of that specific blast?"

Go to Google images and type in "Bikini Hydrogen Bomb"