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Breaking: Explosion In Grandview, TX

Posted on 11/30/2013 9:27:16 PM PST by My Favorite Headache

Emergency trucks rushing to County Road 418...an oil plant has reportedly exploded. Reports up to 90 miles away of houses being shaken.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: energy; explosion; grandview; oil
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To: batterycommander

I beg to differ...

I live in San Antonio and I have a basement!

Admittedly they are rare due to the difficulty of digging one out and building a house on top, but there are a few.

Most Texas houses are built on concrete pads...


161 posted on 12/01/2013 12:04:21 AM PST by coldoc
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To: cableguymn

The local soils are not conducive to basements in general.


162 posted on 12/01/2013 12:10:26 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Cvengr

Heh.

I am in Texas and a landowner. Family came here in the 1870s and the homestead is still with us and that’s 1000 acres.

I was trying to figure out the OP’s definition of landowner and their relation to the potential blast sight.


163 posted on 12/01/2013 12:16:06 AM PST by FAA
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To: FAA

;^)
Good to read it neighbor.

Born and bred Texan, but out west for now.

Family homestead was 20 sections, but on the wrong side of the caprock. He should’ve moved further south for the same terrain to keep the cattle safe in the winter. That would’ve been the Permian Basin.

I guess they got their little cabin in the sky. Sorry to read the report.


164 posted on 12/01/2013 12:23:29 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: All
Grandview, Texas: Explosion Rocks Home, ‘It felt like a bomb hit’


(Johnson County Emergency Management)

165 posted on 12/01/2013 1:20:30 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: cynwoody
Thanks for posting that Google Earth link.

Large house w/ multiple gables and dormers set way back from the road, on a low rise (as shown by mowing pattern), can't even see the house except maaaayyyybe way off in the distance from the highway, have to move along the road away from the end of the drive to have a chance to look over that way. Overhead is about the only view.

166 posted on 12/01/2013 1:22:51 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: FAA
One mentioned already is that space is not a premium here.

Developers in Houston are trying to fix that. We're down to our last 1.5 million square miles of coastal plain, something like that, gotta think ahead. </s>

They want to get people used to living in 400 sq ft. rat cages and paying a thousand a month, like Tokyo and San FranCrisco and Noo Yoakk. ("But .... it has amenities .... and New York living isn't Oshkosh!" [/snile])

167 posted on 12/01/2013 1:51:27 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: batterycommander
There are no basements in Texas.

While basement homes are not common, I know of two different subdivisions between Dallas and Ft. Worth which have houses with basements.

168 posted on 12/01/2013 1:57:19 AM PST by TexasRedeye (Eschew Obfuscation)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

WHOA


169 posted on 12/01/2013 1:58:28 AM PST by txhurl
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To: lentulusgracchus

For the people who felt the blast- A mile from my house, right off of highway 916 by CR 418, a new, large 2 story log cabin with a basement exploded and was heard/felt up to 90 miles away! After the explosion area was FINALLY found, the neighbor of the house was nice enough to let me and my brother stand in his field- about 150 yards away- with the camera men from the major news channels (Watch the news- they interviewed us! Channels 4, 5, 8, and 11!). The neighbor said there was no fire. Ever... After the blast, which put a crack in their ceiling, they drove miles around trying to figure out where it was. When they got back, a while after the explosion, they realized it was dang near in their backyard... By the time we got there it was completely lit up with huge lights- with investigators, cops, and even the feds everywhere. The huge, new, nice house is now literally a pile of rubble, with no burn marks anywhere. The neighbor said the people who owned the house were home occasionally (their car is in the driveway tonight) and they were older- around 60s. The smoke that filled the air right afterwards was STRAIGHT gun powder smelling, and the house looked like it was a planned demolition. By no means am I saying it was planned, but a pretty interesting and weird situation without a doubt! It sounds like a perfect meth lab blew up in a basement scenario, but why would it smell like gunpowder? Not a gas explosion (no fire). I’m pretty clueless and curious about what happened! And it sure is darn eerie to think about.


170 posted on 12/01/2013 2:01:52 AM PST by jordanbeach
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To: jordanbeach
Who were the people living there? Could have been Witness Protection Program protectees ....? Cartel money launderers? Retired CIA people?

Unless the guy was one of the world's most serious reloaders.

171 posted on 12/01/2013 2:06:42 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus

“...reloaders”

Everyone in the local area: Start recording everything you see on the local news. Every station you can.

I have a hunch where this could go.


172 posted on 12/01/2013 3:30:35 AM PST by PastorBooks
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To: batterycommander

Had?


173 posted on 12/01/2013 3:30:58 AM PST by matt04
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To: FAA

In the North East they are being buried at new construction sites frequently.


174 posted on 12/01/2013 3:33:53 AM PST by matt04
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To: HonkyTonkMan

Hate to see industrial accidents/failures like this. Get into the habit of looking behind the curtain first before you settle into a failure or accident


175 posted on 12/01/2013 4:07:39 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: jordanbeach
First off it would take a large amount of smokeless gun powder tightly confined to cause this type of explosion.

More likely some thing that smells close but isn't or there were some pounds of it the burnt off causing the smell.

But then I suppose the owner could have had a couple hundred pounds of it in a solid steel welded case unlikely.

176 posted on 12/01/2013 4:42:39 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: PastorBooks

Waking up here on the East Coast. Absolutely no news coverage of this explosion. None whatsoever. Total news blackout. Even went to Google and searched for “Texas Explosion.”


177 posted on 12/01/2013 4:53:01 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: is_is

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XuWSK9A_A1M&desktop_uri=%252Fwatch%253Fv%253DXuWSK9A_A1M


178 posted on 12/01/2013 5:37:36 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: batterycommander

“It’s Texas, When it rains it rains a lot and would flood a basement. Besides, This ain’t the Northeast where space is expensive. Most Texas homes don’t need the extra space for a basement or for a second floor, for that matter. We have plenty of room to build one story on a cement slab.”

Add to the fact there is a very large seam of limestone running through parts of Texas,,makes digging a basement very expensive.


179 posted on 12/01/2013 5:58:08 AM PST by austinaero
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To: jordanbeach

Drone Strike?

Obama’s Fault


180 posted on 12/01/2013 6:00:39 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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