Posted on 11/28/2019 3:55:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
PORT NECHES, Texas (AP) — More than 50,000 people in southeast Texas remained under a mandatory evacuation order Thursday as a fire continued to burn at a chemical plant, one day after two massive explosions there.
Jefferson County Sheriff Zena Stephens said the evacuation order and a 10 p.m. curfew order remain in effect. Officials don’t know when people will be able to return to their homes.
“It’s Thanksgiving, a lot of people are displaced, they can’t go home,” Stephens told TV station KFDM Thursday, explaining the danger of further explosions and fire rather than air quality problems is the reason the evacuation order remains in place.
The Wednesday blasts, 13 hours apart, blew out windows and doors of nearby homes and prompted a mandatory evacuation of a 4-mile (7-kilometer) radius from the plant in Port Neches in Southeast Texas, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) east of Houston.
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Thanks.
Sounds like a miracle to me, that nobody killed that we know of...
There is an auto tour in Texas City, between Clear Lake and Galveston, with stops for a ship's propeller that is half buried where it landed, 2/3 of a mile away, and the cemetery with a lot of numbered graves...
I work in oil refineries. There has been zero change in OSHA regulations and safety rules. And here in Texas of all places, refiners still get fined for excessive flaring.
More likely antifa & c was involved in something like this
Well, with that spewing into the atmosphere, the world now has 9.75 years left.
See those spheres?
Those are high pressure storage tanks. When one of those explodes the shockwave can be quite nasty.
Not to mention "Greenpeace", ALF, and ELF.
Several things.
Smoke from the fire has been drifting over my house the whole time and it doesn't look like the wind direction will be shifting that much.
Hopefully the distance will have reduced the PPM of anything dangerous that didn't burn off to a safe level.
I worked there when it was Neches Butane.
December turnaround. Had to work Christmas day that year.
That has been the most concerning thing.
If one blows it might cause the others to blow too.
LOL, I love that scene.
Harmless fertilizer isn’t. Just ask the folks in Oklahoma City.
CC
Those crazy SE Texas guys always forget to remove the stick of dynamite from the turkey’s butt before putting the bird into the deep fat fryer.
Have some great friends 15 mi NNE of the plant. I’m sure they heard the ‘boom’
TRUreporting on his Youtube channel from yesterday, covered how DNC had complained/made statememt about this just 14 hours BEFORE the explosion.
Coincidence?
Deep state?
Great Texas City Explosion.
It was a Volunteer Fire Dept from the Petrochemical Plant which responded. My mother’s aunt was married to one of those who perished. Interesting story.
An aunt of my mother’s aunt, known as ‘Crazy Aunt Ethyl?’ (I forget) was attending the wedding reception of my great aunt and her husband. When wedding gifts were being handed out, somebody had provided them with a wedding gift of a Carribean Cruise.
The ‘crazy aunt’ insisted her niece and new husband not partake of the gift as she had previously had a dream of his demise soon after their wedding. She was said to have a spiritual gift of seeing how people would pass away, which she considered a curse. In her dream, she could see him descending into a deep body of water, looking up at the surface and drowning.
All at the wedding tried to calm her down, but she wouldn’t stop until they swore not to go on the cruise.
About a week or so later, he was playing poker with his buddies, when the group came upon the idea to go out deep sea fishing for their following week’s poker date. All were going to go to sea, but the dutiful newlywed lamented that if he joined them, he would never hear the end of it. One of the other players mentioned he wanted to go, but he had Volunteer Fireman duty which precluded his attndance. They decided the newlywed would swap shifts with him, so his buddy could go fishing, while he would use the opportunity to keep out of trouble and temptation.
When the volunteer duty approached, he got the call to respond to a smoldering fire on the ship in the Texas City harbor at the pier as it was loading up with ammonium nitrate. They responded in the early morning putting out a fire on the pier, but it appeared some of it has spread to an open hold in a ship being laden with ammonium nitrate.
They were called back again, as the outside of the hull was warming up and smoke emanating from the hold. They began by cooling down the ship for a half hour or so, when the contents detonated in what has become to be known as the Great Texas City Explosion on 16Apr1947.
They didn’t find the volunteer firemen, but a couple of weeks later a body washed ashore, identified by dental records as that of the newlywed.
The strange thing, was that the crazy aunt’s dream appeared to come true, as the coroner determined he had died from drowning as he had froth in the lungs. So even when attempting to escape one’s appointed time, it catches up with you.
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