Fertilizer plant explodes near Waco, TX

[SkinnySRHKID]

this is some crazy stuff. I could not even imagine how loud it was

 

[Prairie Boy]

^
Almost felt the concusion through the tube vid! Nasty stuff.

Cheers PB

 

[RetroGrow]

Ah Texas, land of personal liberty... Let us celebrate their freedom from government tyranny!

Except when it comes to cannabis.

 

[RetroGrow]

There was a guy who was ten yards away from the Boston Bombings and then went home to TX. He was driving through West, Texas when the plant exploded. Close enough that it rocked his car.

Crazy luck.

This plant deal is a damn shame. There shouldn't be anything built around those plants. Ammonia Nitrate and the like is highly explosive given the right conditions.

Hard to believe they store massive quantities of what amounts to explosives in a confined area like that. Just an accident waiting to happen.

 

[RM - aquagrower]

Hard to believe they store massive quantities of what amounts to explosives in a confined area like that. Just an accident waiting to happen.

They store massive quantities of what amounts to explosives in confined areas on every street corner. They call them "gas stations". And if one of them caught fire, it would probably go BOOM too.

This is what it is, an accedent. The explosion was a direct result of the fire. What caused the fire? Who the hell knows.

 

[huligun]

The explosives that Timothy McViegh used was Fertilizer soaked in Diesel that was set off with a stick of dynamite. That took down the federal building in Oklahoma City.

 

[xmobotx]

so like kelp meal or something and what? {you mean sour diesel? or; diesel cigars?}

would an m-80 work?

 

[skullznroses]

so like kelp meal or something and what? {you mean sour diesel? or; diesel cigars?}

would an m-80 work?

might be enough to blow your dick off, possibly your balls too, but you'd have to use lots of kelp

 

[MJBadger]

and yes it was a huge bad and stupid idea to build a fertilizer plant and a town in the same area.
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Ammonium Nitrate builds bombs , tons of the stuff in a fire will be a big bomb . My thoughts go to all the families of those killed in the explosion particuarly the firefighters that have lost their lives .

 

[oceangrownkush]

LOL yeah reading the title I thought I was about to witness a GMO tree explode.. But yeah, not funny, I hope they fry the bastards responsible..

 

[xmobotx]

so far they are figuring it's an accident so the repercussions will just be liability

at some level though i figure buying bottles of chem nuts is supporting this industry so this is a ramification of that support

of course some could rationalize their nuts dont source N from anhydrous ammonia but likely no one checked before this eh?

 

[Skinny Leaf]

Anhydrous Ammonia is for large scale fertilization. It is not used in consumer products.

It may have been the firemen that caused the explosion. That was info during the first reporting of the accident.

 

[opiumo]

Large scale resolution photos

Large scale resolution photos

Pictures from The Atlantic.

The wreckage of a fertilizer plant burns after an explosion at the plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas early April 18, 2013.
The deadly explosion ripped through the fertilizer plant late on Wednesday, injuring more than 160 people, leveling dozens of homes and damaging other buildings including a school and nursing home, authorities said. (Reuters/Mike Stone)

A fire burns in a destroyed apartment complex, near a fertilizer plant that exploded in West, Texas, on April 18, 2013. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Aerial view of the damage left behind by a massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Company, on April 18, 2013. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

One of the numerous homes damaged by the explosion, on April 18, 2013 in West, Texas. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

 

[opiumo]

A video image provided by WFAA-TV shows injured people being treated on a flood-lit high school football field, turned into a staging area after the blast in West Texas, on April 17, 2013. (AP Photo/WFAA-TV

Smoke still rises from the rubble of a house next to the fertilizer plant that exploded the day before, on April 18, 2013 in West, Texas.

A giant hole in the ceiling of the West High School gymnasium shows where an explosion at the West Fertilizer Company a day earlier launched debris through the roof, on April 18, 2013. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The explosion destroyed this playground across the street, shown from the air on April 18, 2013 in West, Texas. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

 

[PhenoMenal]

amazing photos ... shockwave must've been insane

 

[opiumo]

yeah insane shockwave indeed, not to mention all the debris blowing far away from the explosion..
there was a picture of a man holding up a picture on his smartphone of his kid in the emergancyroom, chose not to embedd it he was badly injured all across his face :/



all of the exposures can be found here.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/04/texass-fertilizer-plant-explosion/100501/