Posted on 06/15/2016 9:09:48 AM PDT by bgill
Officials have issued a shelter-in-place for some residents in Florence, Texas due to a chlorine leak Wednesday morning.
According to Williamson County Emergency Services, the shelter has been issued for residents living just south of the city up to and including the 500 block of Farm to Market Road 970.
Affected residents are asked to stay indoors with their doors and windows shut. They are also asked to put towels near any gaps and to turn off their air-conditioners. Officials have asked drivers to stay off the roads in the affected area.
Residents will remain under a shelter-in-place until an "all-clear" is given.
(Excerpt) Read more at kvue.com ...
Shelter in place for a Chlorine leak? It’s not like bullets that can be stopped by some walls and go in straight lines.
No joke! You go 90 degrees from the wind direction of the leak.
Is it chlorine? If it is Clorine, they don’t stand a chance. They will disappear into thin air if hit by Clorine. Now, if it’s Chlorine, they’ll only die gasping for air with severe burning of the lungs.
I learned that in Boy Scouts a lo-o-o-ong time ago.
“Shelter-in-place” sounds like you are actually doing something.
What it means is “stay where you are and cower- we can’t do anything for you”
Anybody else suspicious of this?
Ok, they’ve issued an “all clear” so whatever it was nothing.
http://kxan.com/2016/06/15/florence-under-shelter-in-place-due-to-chlorine-leak/
Many years ago some people drove away from a chlorine problem into a major dip in the road and their car stalled out in the highest concentration area... One car fuel is gasoline - another is oxygen. Chlorine replaced oxygen and the car stalled.
Hmmmm, maybe sheltering in place is a good idea...
Maybe 40 years ago a train went off the tracks in a far rural area down here and turned over a chlorine car. Two teenagers were killed by the gas. Many years later the police report is allowed to be public. Those teenagers were joyriding in a stolen car and had piled logs on the track to watch the excitement of a train wreck.
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