Fertilizer Plant Explosion Near Waco

[Tabascocat]

Yeah, I lived down in Kemah for awhile. Used to drive by Texas City regularly. It was still on the 'Hazardous Cargo Route'.

Nice, I worked on the waterfront while going to college. Landry's, Flying Dutchman, Aquarium, etc. I opened most of those restaurants back in the day, except the Dutchman. My old boss now owns T-Bone Toms.

 

[crashintonickdm]

Sendinpositive thoughts and prayers to all fellow cowboy fans down in Texas. This country is reeling right now

That explosion is simply horrifying

 

[SMASHMOUTH9473]

I live on the North side of Waco. About 10 miles South of West. Heard the explosion which shook the house. Initial thought was we were being invaded. Gathered the family up and went on lockdown status. Heard sirens going off. Upon being informed that it wasn't what I initially thought I put my guns away. Its almost 2 AM and my phone has finally quit ringing.

 

[Tabascocat]

I live on the North side of Waco. About 10 miles South of West. Heard the explosion which shook the house. Initial thought was we were being invaded. Gathered the family up and went on lockdown status. Heard sirens going off. Upon being informed that it wasn't what I initially thought I put my guns away. Its almost 2 AM and my phone has finally quit ringing.

Keep the family safe, winds are expected to change to North which might be toxic. Not much detail coming out this late.

 

[NorthTexan95]

Damn, we stop there every trip to and from Dallas. They have some great Czech bakeries, good road food, and nice to take to whoever you're visiting.

Awful news to hear!

On Fox News there's a picture of a Sonic with the smoke in the background. In that picture you see a corner of the Czech Stop. I don't ever recall seeing that factory but apparently it wasn't near the main interstate exit where the Czech Stop is.

 

[brickman]

May God bless the victims and their families. What a terrible tragedy.

 

[ethiostar]

This is horrible.

Thoughts and prayers to all who are involved.

 

[CowboyGil]

Thoughts and prayers going out. Kind of puts the topics we discuss on here in perspective.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Someone posted this on facebook.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Someone posted this on facebook.

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I don't think that pic is real..

I've seen a few pics of the fireball and it doesn't look like that. This is from a news site.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Heartbreaking. Prayers to all involved.

 

[Hoofbite]

Guess this is a shot of the area.

 

[muck4doo]

It's going to be a while before this is all sorted.

 

[muck4doo]

My son goes to Baylor. Talked to him last night at 11 o'clock, and he said he was still hearing sirens go by non-stop. He lives near I-35. Said he didn't hear the explosion though. He wears headsets a lot, and that's probably why.

 

[DasTex]

My son goes to Baylor. Talked to him last night at 11 o'clock, and he said he was still hearing sirens go by non-stop. He lives near I-35. Said he didn't hear the explosion though. He wears headsets a lot, and that's probably why.

My parents live in Lorena, small town south of Waco, and they were at my cousins track meet (outside) and didn't hear or feel anything. Lorena is about 30 miles south of West.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

I don't think that pic is real..

I've seen a few pics of the fireball and it doesn't look like that. This is from a news site.

You could be right. I didn't see the source the guy posted. I just dragged the picture. So, I'll take it with a grain of salt.

I did find this, which is what I imagined would happen since I was also near a large explosion, on a much smaller scale that shook the ground....

The explosion registered a 2.1 earthquake.



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It felt ‘like a bomb went off’, those who saw the deadly Texas explosion ripping through a fertilizer plant say. A video taken by a father several meters from the scene captures his child screaming ‘Daddy, please get out of here, I can't hear!'

The blast injured over 172 people; dozens are feared dead. The explosion leveled local residents’ homes, shaking doors and sending shockwaves across the community.

"It was like a nuclear bomb went off," a man who was looking for a lost relative on Willie Nelson Road told KVUE.

"There was a huge shock wave," said Mark Licknovsky, who works at the Czech Stop less than one mile away, told the station.

“I don’t know exactly what happened. I just know once Joyce and I got down there… we were on the corner of the nursing home – I jumped out and started….and went to that store, and people were just saying ‘What can we do?’ It was just like, ‘I don’t know!’ But we started pulling them [out] and they started getting people in there to help and they ran down that hall, which was totally blown up…oh God…,” a survivor of the disaster shared her experience with RT.

"That's when we knew something was serious." Local resident Keith Williams said his house was completely destroyed.

"All the ceilings are out. The windows are out. The brick’s knocked off the house. My big garage out back is half blowed in," Williams told ABC News Radio.

http://rt.com/usa/texas-explosion-witness-video-/

 

[muck4doo]

My parents live in Lorena, small town south of Waco, and they were at my cousins track meet (outside) and didn't hear or feel anything. Lorena is about 30 miles south of West.

Familiar with Lorena. Surprised people heard it in Dallas, but not in Waco or Lorena.

 

[muck4doo]

Ancient Chinese Curse: May you live in interesting times.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Officials find two more bodies at site of Texas fertilizer plant explosion

WEST, Texas—Investigators recovered two more bodies from the site of a massive fertilizer plant explosion on Friday, bringing the official death toll of Wednesday’s blast to 14 people.

At the same time, Mayor Tommy Muska discounted Sen. John Cornyn’s declaration earlier Friday that at least 60 residents remain unaccounted for after the blast. Speaking at a press conference with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Muska and other local officials described that number as an “informal” list largely compiled of reports by out-of-town relatives who haven’t yet made contact with relatives displaced by the blast.

“There are people who do not have a home,” Muska said. “They are living either in a hotel, they are living with Mama down the road (or) with their brother. The cousin from Dallas doesn’t know that. If they have a land line and they don’t have a cell phone, you’re not going to know where those people are.”

McLennen County Judge Scott Felton said the city was hopeful it would be able to “eliminate 99 percent” of the people on the missing persons list. He added that it's possible that nobody is missing.

Read the rest: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout...xas-fertilizer-plant-explosion-225901213.html

 

[SMASHMOUTH9473]

Upon watching the news on the t.v. I know the guy who recorded this. Derrick was just being Derrick and was curious about the fire when the plant exploded. His kid is ok. News stations galore are still present. Many West residents are in need of assistance but unlike most who are subjected to such a situation you dont see them with their hands out begging for goverment assistance. What you do see is good people from other surrounding small towns helping out their own. Unlike most natural disasters, those who lived close by were not given time to evacuate. Several VFD 1st responders lost their lives trying to help control the fire before the explosion. Sad day for Central Texas.