Fertilizer plant explodes in Texas...

• WebFire

  
• Tiernan

  I love listening to the Mayor who said "...nobody saw something like this happening." Uh yeah its a Fertilizer Plant and its on fire, I'm pretty fkn sure alot of people saw this happening.
  
  And while we are on the topic of "Things That Are Too Fkn Stoopid To Believe They Are Real" what Einstein decided it was a good idea to build a Nursing Home next door to a Fertilizer Plant?
  
  This whole event is a tragedy of unimaginable proportions and I'm not unsensitive to the loss of life, but it sure looks like a whole Fkn lot of TX Bubbas made a whole Fkn lot of TX Bubba mistakes in allowing this kinda dumbass crap to happen in the first place.
• WebFire

  It's even better than that. There are all kinds of community building built near by.
  
  
• Tiernan

  WebFire;1430460 wrote:It's even better than that. There are all kinds of community building built near by.
  
  

  Like I said its Texas...if Sam Houston woulda had any sense he woulda let Mexico have it in the first place.
• gut

  WebFire;1430382 wrote:DHS should have just checked with gut on this.
  
  Texas fertilizer company didn't heed disclosure rules before blast
  
  
  http://news.yahoo.com/texas-fertilizer-company-didnt-heed-disclosure-rules-blast-064640496--finance.html

  Well, so locals may have had repeated assurances there was no danger of a big boom.
  
  Can you guess what I would say next? Right, like companies NEVER skirt safety regs. Goes back to whether you want to take a stupid and unnecessary risk, or exercise prudent caution.
  
  Would also explain the apparent insufficient disaster plan/response - obviously a much bigger blast than could have been expected and would have been prepared for.
• WebFire

  Thought this was interesting, considering some of the comments here.
  

  Until the local fertilizer company in West, Texas, blew up last month and demolished scores of homes, many in that town of 2,800 didn't know what chemicals were stored alongside the railroad tracks or how dangerous they were. Even rescue workers didn't know what they were up against.
  
  "We never thought of an explosive potential," said Dr. George Smith, the EMS director who responded to the factory fire by running to a nearby nursing home to prepare for a possible chemical spill.
  
  
  Firefighters feared that tanks of liquid ammonia would rupture. But while they hosed down those tanks to keep them cool, a different chemical - a few tons of ammonium nitrate - exploded with the force of a small earthquake.
  

  
  
  http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HIDDEN_CHEMICALS?SITE=OHFIN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-05-30-03-17-23
• said_aouita

  

  WebFire;1430460 wrote:It's even better than that. There are all kinds of community building built near by.
  
  

  
  Are they saying anyone out to the "triage" point, their were injuries?
• dlazz

  said_aouita;1450246 wrote:Are they saying anyone out to the "triage" point, their were injuries?

  wat
• said_aouita

  

  dlazz;1450302 wrote:wat

  bottom left corner theirs "triage" marked on the map. Originally I thought they were saying anyone out to the triage point on the map their was injuries.
  
  I suppose now it's just where on the map they set up a triage (emt) emergency room.
• SportsAndLady

  

  said_aouita;1450485 wrote:bottom left corner theirs "triage" marked on the map. Originally I thought they were saying anyone out to the triage point on the map their was injuries.
  
  I suppose now it's just where on the map they set up a triage (emt) emergency room.

  Jesus..did you attend English classes?
• hasbeen

  

  SportsAndLady;1450530 wrote:Jesus..did you attend English classes?

  apparently fucking not.
  
  even if you use 'there' instead of 'their' it still doesn't make any damn sense.
• Sonofanump

  dlazz;1450302 wrote:wat

  +1