That picture appears to have been taken at point 1. Point 2 is the apartment complex and point 3 the "nursing" retirement home. This is a good perspective of it.
Posted on 04/17/2013 6:51:57 PM PDT by kristinn
A large explosion rocked the town of West, Texas, 19 miles north of Waco, on Wednesday evening.
A source tells News 8 that a large swath of the small town with a population of 2,800 has been leveled.
According to initial reports, the blast was at the West Fertilizer plant at 1471 Jerry Mashek Drive, about a half-mile east of Interstate 35.
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Titanic too and assassination of Lincoln.
The Crucifixion and Resurrection took place in April? And Jesus was born on December 25, 0000 I suppose? Oh brother....
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Actually, April is a pretty good date for that. We know it was Passover week.
http://www.judaismvschristianity.com/Passover_dates.htm
The mayor said this was also a grain storage facility and he thinks the grain may have exploded, too. Rice and soybean and wheat dust is very combustible.
Why not? What’s a few more combustibles on sight with tons of fertilizer when you allowed a nursing home, apartment building, and school to be placed within the minimum safe distance for a truck full of fertilizer on fire? Got to have that tax money!
This is a multifaceted failure, but most incredible to me was the failure of proper urban zoning based on standard risk assessments. I am horrified that a nursing home was approximately 500 feet away from such a facility. It really makes you mad when you look at it in terms of risk mitigation/assessment.
The descriptions and pictures are frightening indeed.
I saw raw news footage of a burn victim being transported. My heart sank and I am not recovered. That and the video of the explosion taken by the dad and kid.
The original fire crew that went to put out the fire has not been accounted for I just heard.
No words can express...
The scene itself is still too dangerous to investigate. Understand.
Close enough and IIRC the fire started on the 16th, the seige ended on the 19th.
Either way, its this week.
busy night in TX, prayers up for all.
I doubt they are acutally related, but the timing is interesting, like I said I am not a tinfoil hat kinda gal...
Just wondering. It has been a hellish week all over this country.
Dallas definitely has zoning. I think it makes Dallas a nicer city.
And several smaller incidents as well, the OKC battery fire, lockdown for gunman on college campuses, other bomb scares...just a wild week.
The good thing that happened was gun control went down in flames.
Seismograph 350miles away in Amarillo charted an 8.7 earthquake at the time of the blast. Prayers for all in my favorite town between Dallas and Austin.
Which one of them almost certainly killed the most people and did the most damage?
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Probably unrelated, stuff happens, but it seems a lot of stuff is happening. If any more stuff happens I will become less convinced it is just a run of bad luck.
That picture appears to have been taken at point 1. Point 2 is the apartment complex and point 3 the "nursing" retirement home. This is a good perspective of it.
8.7 can’t be right not that far away. I read 2.1 elsewhere and that makes more sense
There was a local on TV saying this plant also had grain silos. Odd I would think, but perhaps in the photo on #296 that is them on the left. Although I doubt that a grain silo would pack this type of punch.
They look like silos and not that big of an operation for it. And you are right they wouldn’t have packed that kind of punch.
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