Speaking of explosions

Breaking news with few details right now:

People in the Dallas/Fort Worth are (around 90 miles away) reported feeling the explosion.


Shit, I hope I don't get a call. I'm supposed to be off on Friday.

On the West, Texas Facebook page, there's a "Pray for Boston" photo.

Fertilizer plant?

"BRRROOOOMPT!!"

The smell has gotta be horrible.

Yeah, considering the gases involved, I'm going to call this one as accidental. And I really hope I'm right.

Apparently a nursing home has collapsed and a number of residents are trapped.

>EDIT<

Picture removed because the place I got it from mislabeled it. It was from an oil refinery explosion that happened in a different part of the state earlier this week.

CNN just had a live picture from the Dallas CBS affiliate's helicopter. You can't see much other than fire, which is starting to die down.

Earlier when Anderson Cooper did the initial word story, he was very careful to stress, "...these are preliminary reports. We don't have much information right now..."

Dumbasses.

Wow! I hope everyone gets out of there alive! That had to be scary as hell, what with the recent Boston bombing. People are probably scared out of their wits.

Someone caught the explosion on camera.

All I see on that video is a gray rectangle.

At first that's all I saw, too, but then the video loaded and played.

I'll try it again and wait longer. I waited about 30 seconds, twice, and got tired of it.

EDIT: Had to wait almost a minute, and then it played.

A local station (don't know if it's Waco "local" or one of the Dallas stations, who are all on or over the scene now) is reporting that five firefighters and one police officer were killed in the explosion.

The EMS director in that town is being quoted that 60 people were killed and hundreds more were injured.

Very sad, but believable. The others got out; the emergency people went in. And were there when it blew...

Well, damn.

Fuck.

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On the plus side my vegetable garden is immaculate this year.

If someone told me n Korea was behind this, I wouldn't be stunned.

What horrid news.

Damn,and

I know some of you associate fertilizer with shit, but this was most likely chemical fertilizer. Ammonium nitrate, urea, maybe anhydrous ammonia, it wouldnt suprise me at all if it's just a horrible accident. From the little news I've seen, it's really bad down there.

Unfortunately it doesn't take much to turn from potent fertilizer to bomb-making material. I'm interested to find out what the initiator was and how much material was consumed in the blast.

It was reported that the explosion was so large that it measured 2.1 on the Richter scale.

That's a big fucking boom!

Remember Texas City, Texas?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster