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To: ExSoldier; JustPiper; All

Hey ExSoldier...I have been checking-in from time to time but just can't keep up with the thread daily as I used to. (Homeschooling/child-rearing really cuts into my free time ;) ) I live in Northern Virginia & on I-95, just south of the "Mixing Bowl" there are several huge white silo thingys. Is this a tank farm? I see tanker trucks pulling in and out when I happen to go by that way but haven't really noticed any signage to identify it. If it is or if it is some other toxic stuff in those enormous cylinders, it'd really mess-up the evening rush hour if something ever happened to it. Anyone else know what it is?


3,077 posted on 04/01/2005 3:27:08 PM PST by Mrs. Xtrmst (All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. --Edmund Burke)
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To: Mrs. Xtrmst
there are several huge white silo thingys. Is this a tank farm? I see tanker trucks pulling in and out when I happen to go by that way but haven't really noticed any signage to identify it.

Sounds like a good candidate for a tank farm. Question: Are the cylinders tall and slender like a SILO (farm silo?) or are they squat and big like a stack of poker chips...maybe with a long staircase running up one side? Believe it or not, tall and tanker trucks all the time might be MILK or some farm product! My kin has a huge dairy farm in Bealton (well, just converted to beef) and when I spent time there as a kid, they used to tell me about those.

3,078 posted on 04/01/2005 6:11:38 PM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: Mrs. Xtrmst
Here is an aerial shot of the tank farm you described. It certainly looks like a petroleum storage facility.
3,095 posted on 04/01/2005 10:29:57 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Mrs. Xtrmst
This shot shows the 4 lane service facility for filling tanker trucks from the tank farm.
3,096 posted on 04/01/2005 10:39:06 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Mrs. Xtrmst; ExSoldier; MamaDearest; wakingup; All

Can someone please tell me when all gas stations where bought by Arabs? We overpay for our oil from the ME, then they get us for taxes here and we can't even buy American?!


3,143 posted on 04/02/2005 9:12:39 PM PST by JustPiper (NoE your Enemy !!!)
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