Which might not mean a whole lot to you Houston people, but I actually live in Freeport. Bad enough we dealt with flooding only last weekend...now I hear there are probably casualties at the plant. I live a good 10 minute drive from the plant. And it still felt like something ran into my house. I think this entire three-city radius (Freeport, Clute, Lake Jackson) felt the explosion...
listening to 740AM this morning...they're saying the plant produces nylon among other things... no word on casualties just yet... sounds like a pretty big explosion, from all reports...there were reports of an ammonia leak leading up to it.
Now Brian its early in the morning so I can excuse this one lapse. He meant to say: Well, explosions , for one thing.
Bad enough, whatever you are seeing on NBC, ABC, etc....we can't. Just happens to be problems with the cable apparently. What a day for that. Supposedly the explosion came from a rail car - a tanker - in the plant. There were reports that they were actually trying to put out a fire before it exploded....which means casualties are a strong possibility. My father happened to be driving down Hwy 332 when it exploded. Said the fire from the blast must have shot 200 ft. into the air.
I think BASF is one of those companies that makes a lot of stuff. I know they used to make cassette tapes.
I remember a plant explosion eleven or twelve years ago that happened in Huntsville. It knocked me off my couch as a seven year old in my Sugar Land area home.
