Fertilizer plant explodes in Texas...

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Apr 17, 2013 11:12pm
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Apr 17, 2013 11:18pm
Damn is right....does not look good.
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Apr 17, 2013 11:32pm
Started as a fire

Watch them embedded vid. Holy f*ck.
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Apr 17, 2013 11:34pm
It looks like they removed the video.
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gut
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Apr 17, 2013 11:35pm
Automatik;1427881 wrote:Started as a fire
Sometimes accidents do happen. Timing seems a little too coincidental.

And I don't know if the Ricin attacks are related or not. But domestic or foreign, seems like we are in the middle of something very well coordinated that caught us completely by surprise.
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gut
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Apr 17, 2013 11:37pm
You remember what a truck with a few hundred pounds of fertilizer did in OK City...I can only imagine what a whole plant of the stuff would be like.
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Apr 17, 2013 11:45pm
Raw video. It's chilling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ROrpKx3aIjA


You've been warned.
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Apr 17, 2013 11:46pm
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Apr 17, 2013 11:47pm
Automatik;1427891 wrote:Raw video. It's chilling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ROrpKx3aIjA


You've been warned.

Holy fucking shit
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Apr 17, 2013 11:48pm
Automatik;1427891 wrote:Raw video. It's chilling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ROrpKx3aIjA


You've been warned.

Same video pretty much. That is absolutely unbelievable.
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Apr 17, 2013 11:49pm
That video. Holy shit.
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gut
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Apr 17, 2013 11:49pm
Yeah, he's a lot closer than I would have been to a frickin fertilizer plant on fire.

They are saying there is still another massive storage tank at risk from the fire.
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Apr 17, 2013 11:50pm
Wow. That video.
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Apr 17, 2013 11:54pm
Holy Shit. The explosion then the sound was unreal.
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Apr 17, 2013 11:55pm
God damn, what is going on in this country?
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Apr 17, 2013 11:59pm
karen lotz;1427904 wrote:God damn, what is going on in this country?

Literally just said the same exact thing to the lady.
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Apr 18, 2013 12:09am
Automatik;1427891 wrote:Raw video. It's chilling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ROrpKx3aIjA


You've been warned.
I'm one of those people that likes to watch powerful forces of nature such as lightning storms, tornadoes, fire, etc. But I feel like I'd be smart enough to realize that if a fertilizer plant or any other plant that has a propensity to blow up in a big was on fire I would not want to be close to it.

I feel bad for the kid in that video. Hopefully neither the adult or anyone else in that vehicle was injured.
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Apr 18, 2013 12:10am
gut;1427884 wrote:Sometimes accidents do happen. Timing seems a little too coincidental.

And I don't know if the Ricin attacks are related or not. But domestic or foreign, seems like we are in the middle of something very well coordinated that caught us completely by surprise.

I don't think there's anything to it. Just so happened that a fire started in a place that is flammable/explosive as fuck
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gut
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Apr 18, 2013 12:14am
ts1227;1427914 wrote:I don't think there's anything to it. Just so happened that a fire started in a place that is flammable/explosive as ****
That's what I'm thinking. Don't think someone would really try to blow it up by deliberately starting a fire. Don't know if it was in TX, but a similar incident happened back @2001, supposedly.
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Apr 18, 2013 12:15am
CNN Breaking News just tweeted that 2 people are dead.

I've seen MULTIPLE reports that at least 70 are dead.
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gut
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Apr 18, 2013 12:17am
wildcats20;1427919 wrote: I've seen MULTIPLE reports that at least 70 are dead.
Sounds like the plant may have been on fire for some time, so hopefully it was evacuated. But who knows how many people were there fighting the blaze.
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Apr 18, 2013 12:19am


Saw that this is of the plant. Doesn't look like the smoke after some of the other photos but dang.
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Apr 18, 2013 12:28am
"There's a lot of people who won't be here tomorrow."

From the Mayor.
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Apr 18, 2013 12:35am
Terry_Tate;1427921 wrote:

Saw that this is of the plant. Doesn't look like the smoke after some of the other photos but dang.
Seen multiple tweets that this is NOT from the plant.
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Apr 18, 2013 12:39am
wildcats20;1427925 wrote:Seen multiple tweets that this is NOT from the plant.

Cool, I saw it in quite a few places but like I said, didn't look like the other smoke photos I had seen so wasn't sure. Thanks for confirming.