[Redcloak]

Not meaning to sound alarmist, but I think that we've just been hit. Fox News is talking to a former supervisor(?) who worked at that facility. It's a storage area, not a refinery. There's nothing there that could generate the conditions necessary for an explosion. (Unlike a refinery which is heating the product.) It's also cold there. Shots from a news chopper show snow on the ground. Cold further reduces the chances of an explosion at a storage facility. It also looks like the site of the incident is right on the water; a place where it's more than possible to approach the facility. Driving a vehicle into the plant isn't easy, but piloting a small boat up to it is another matter.

[Semper Paratus]

It could be a diversion. Hope nothing else happens downtown.

[cgk]

My thinking exactly. Didn't the expert say that a residential area, although it's "rural" is 1/4 a mile away??

Mrs K

[HairOfTheDog]

Good grief. They don't have to strike. We give them credit for everything anyway.

[Lion's Cub]

In the Hampton Roads area of Va. (Norfolk/Va.Beach), our Exxons have been out of gas for days because of all the snow to the north of us. This may turn into more than a minor inconvenience.

[LonePalm]

Probably Not. I watched a refinery fire in Catanya Bay, Sicily, ni 1979 from my ship at a distance of about 1/2 mile. Very impressive. Unfortunately refineries are very dangerous in and of themselves. Odds are that this was just an accident.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[mabelkitty]

Remember last week during Valentine's Day there was a small boat floating around the Golden Gate Bridge and the cops were investingating it? The boat just disappeared and nobody knew what happened.

Now we may have figured it out!