West, TX fertilizer plant explodes, collapses nearby nursing home with it

[HomerJS]

Why would town allow nursing home and school so close to fertilizer plant??

 

[gingermeggs]

more reason to eat organic food.....

 

[gingermeggs]

Why would town allow nursing home and school so close to fertilizer plant??

It's Texas boy!
They can do anything they want, if they are connected to the rite people....

 

[nextJin]

One thing that I found interesting was some state officials telling the federal officials to kick rocks (other than the ATF) it's a Texas matter.

In almost all of the press conferences they emphasize TX.

 

[HomerJS]

One thing that I found interesting was some state officials telling the federal officials to kick rocks (other than the ATF) it's a Texas matter.

In almost all of the press conferences they emphasize TX.

also interesting that "Texas metter" places school and nursing home so close to the plant.

 

[Darwin333]

also interesting that "Texas metter" places school and nursing home so close to the plant.

Around here they have installed propane backup generators in a lot of nursing home with fricken HUGE propane tanks to power them. Ever seen a video of a BLEVE explosion? No, check it out on youtube, just as nasty but evidently acceptable.

 

[corwin]

Around here they have installed propane backup generators in a lot of nursing home with fricken HUGE propane tanks to power them. Ever seen a video of a BLEVE explosion? No, check it out on youtube, just as nasty but evidently acceptable

Oh come on now, this is supposed to be about bashing on Texas, not any shred of common sense...but really it's OK, when you're on top everyone wants to try and bring you down

 

[Engineer]

Yeah, lack of regulations, that's what caused this explosion.

No, but not following them might have.

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-fertili...isclosure-rules-blast-123833418--finance.html

1,350 times the limit allowed and not reported.

But regulations are always bad so we need to get rid of them and not follow the ones that we have. Worked great here.

 

[davmat787]

Anyone have a link to a video of the actual explosion OTHER than the one taken by the guy in the car with his kid?