Felicia McDaneld submitted this photo taken during the explosion in Tacoma.
Posted on 10/06/2007 5:05:45 PM PDT by Ramius
Felicia McDaneld submitted this photo taken during the explosion in Tacoma.
THAT’S a fireball!
Big ‘splosion in Tacoma, right at 5 and 16.
WA ping?
A local news station played some amateur video that looked like it caught the whole explosion. It was enormous.
Both I-5 and 16 are closed in both directions. May reopen soon, but they’re still talking about needing to control the fire to keep a couple of propane tanks from lighting off.
Traffic’s going to be a mess for a while. Glad I got on the road when I did. I went right through there a couple of hours before the ‘splosion.
Whoa...
Huh... watching it on NWCN now...
Whoa. No kidding? What a mess.
wow. seven posts and nobody’s blamed it on illegals yet.
that is, 11 posts, but hey, who’s counting.
Nah, illegals don’t usually blow up like that. It was probably a propane tank. :-)
NWCN says a propane truck was filling a propane tank and there was a guy welding nearby.
Ouch...that’s just...not a good idea!
The sign says “No Smoking”. Didn’t say a ~thing~ about arc welding!
‘splosions’ Ping!!
Ha! I just pinged SirKit and spelled it the same way as you, and I didn’t even seen your post! Looks right nasty, that’s for sure. We were watching a TV show last night called the “World’s Scariest Explosions”, or something like that. That’s the first thing I thought of when I read the article; especially about the possibility of more ‘splosions from the propane! Ironic, isn’t it, that this is a state of the art place, but what does them in is this plain-jane volatile gas? I hope it didn’t damage the operations too severely.
THIS was a HUGE explosion....we were out walking near our home, about 12 miles away, as the crow flies.....and we heard this, and wondered what was going on.....people near the explosion must have lost their hearing and been knocked around.
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