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And this tweet says there was a second explosion: https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/…
I would like to go back to cute picture of cats soon please.
West Fertilizer Co near Jerry Mashek Dr, West, TX 76691
Also, I have no fucking idea what "Operation Turban Cowboy" is, google only returns hits for a recent Family Guy episode called Turban Cowboy.
And finally, the comments on the google reviews page all seem to have been posted after the explosion. Every recent post says it was "in the last week" - even the ones posted 5 minutes ago.
You're a moron and an asshole.
This was an entire plant full of essentially the same stuff that Timmy McVeigh blew up OK City with. I can't even imagine. Glad I don't live in that town. Former town.
Jesus Fucking Christ
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That is literally the dumbest thing I have ever heard. I was totally wrong - you aren't a moron; you are as crazy as a rat in a tin shithouse.
Texas has very relaxed zoning laws (Houston has NO zoning laws at all). They could build a land mine factory next to a day care legally if they wanted.
Or Google the Bhopal disaster: 5000-10,000 killed by a chemical leak at a pesticide plant. Union Carbide also blamed sabotage to avoid culpability for the event. Yet we continue to cut regulatory oversight of industry in the name of liberating commerce from the oppressive clutches of Comrade Government. Trust me, rats shitting in your peanut butter is the least of our worries. Welcome to the jungle - ain't no amount of Upton Sinclairs gonna fix this mess. My best advice is to not have kids and enjoy the sunset before the strychnine-clouds roll in.
@17, same difference. Have you ever BEEN to Texas? There's nothing between West and Topeka except 500 miles of patchy brown grass and one really big airport. Hell, you can see North Dakota if you stand on the roof of your car.
@9, well, the plant PROMISED everybody there wasn't anything dangerous there, which is good enough for the State of Texas. I'm going to guess that the neighbors are going to make whomever owns the former West Fertilizer Co., who appears to be a fellow named Donald R. Adair, wish he had died in this explosion. There could be a hundred dead by the time they get this sorted; it could even go off again. I wonder how on earth a town even survives a thing like this.
I can't stomach the thought of turning on the TV and watching the clip on orgasmic repeat.
I hope this town recovers. Maybe they can build an ammonium perchlorate plant in its place to replace the jobs that will be lost at the fertilizer plant.
"The Dallas Morning News reported that West Fertilizer had told the Environmental Protection Agency that it presented no risk of fire or explosion.
The newspaper said it had seen documents in which the plant said it stored large amounts of anhydrous ammonia, but the worst scenario envisaged was a release of ammonia gas that would harm no-one." - from the BBC.
Houston has a homosexual mayor. So there's that....
@ 30, yeah, because Chernobyl and Fukushima aren't possible here, and storing nuclear waste does not require absolute perfection and honesty from the companies charged with the task.
People are dead, Theodore. Did you really have to shit all over the post with your tangent?
How is asking for a realistic threat assessment when building such places close to where people live off-topic? Because no one cares that these places get built in neighborhoods, but everyone loses their shit when an incredibly safe power plant gets suggested.
But by all means, please do not stop claiming we should be more concerned about hypothetical dangers than real ones.
It's not surprising to me that in Texas they'd be stupid enough to build a town against a factory that explodes. Because any sort of chemical plant can explode through a freak accident or even minor "appearing" mistake.
That doesn't mean he could have anticipated such a huge explosion, or any explosion, as @ 40 thinks he should. But we don't need to invent excuses for him.
The current state of the danger? The WHO claims that there remains only a tiny uptick in the odds of certain types of cancers only for people who were very close to the plant, and none for people farther away than them.
I would rather live next to a nuclear power plant than any manufacturing plant or coal powr plant/mine. Anyone who knows anything about nuclear power and nuclear waste, besides lessons gleaned from "The China Syndrome" and "The Simpsons" would agree.
Actually, the Fukushima disaster is a good example here. The Fukushima units were isolated, so when they failed, the public impact was reduced. They also had an emergency plan that ordered the evacuation of the people before they released radiation. The two items of an isolated location and having an emergency plan can make up or mitigate for a lot of other fuckups.
You are a pain to talk to. You see everything in black and white terms (I recognize this because it is a psychological condition) and automatically revert to extreme views (the black or white) when something is in between. Your critique would be no different if the nuclear plant was in the middle of town and there was no emergency plan.
It is useless to discuss industrial safety with you. I was comparing Fukushima comparatively to the Texas disaster, and all that you could do was flip your 'kneejerk' switch and start attacking me for pointing out how differences in an approach to safety can lead to different consequences. You owe me an apology.