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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Coach AI, Sep 13, 2002.

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  1. Coach AI

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    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...
     
    #1 Coach AI, Sep 13, 2002
  2. Buck Turgidson

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    That's terrible. What does the plant produce?
     
    #2 Buck Turgidson, Sep 13, 2002
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    Well, explosions, for one thing.
     
    #3 BrianKagy, Sep 13, 2002
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    Isn't BASF the company that doesn't make products. "They make products better" ?


    CK
     
    #4 Castor27, Sep 13, 2002
  5. MadMax

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    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.
     
    #5 MadMax, Sep 13, 2002
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    Now Brian its early in the morning so I can excuse this one lapse. He meant to say:

    Well, explosions , for one thing.


    :D
     
    #6 Nomar, Sep 13, 2002
  7. Coach AI

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    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.
     
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  8. MadMax

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    740 is reporting that there are no known casualties...i hope that is good news
     
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    Looks like they should have made their plant a little better...
     
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    ummmm..the explosion came from a rail car...that was within the plant
     
    #10 MadMax, Sep 13, 2002
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    I think BASF is one of those companies that makes a lot of stuff. I know they used to make cassette tapes.
     
    #11 Dr of Dunk, Sep 13, 2002
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    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.
     
    #12 arkoe, Sep 13, 2002
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