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Are all the board members in the Houston area ok? Local TV news is reporting a massive explosion an

UncleWigglyUncleWiggly Posts: 2,467
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Just north of Beltway 8 down near Missouri City. They are reporting it is so intense it's showing up on Doppler Radar has a storm. Please let us know how everybody is.



Jerry

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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    Jason must be baking coins again!image
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • LouisLouis Posts: 3,687
    It was an Oil and Chemical Plant Southwest of Houston in Missouri City, the explosion was felt over 20 miles away. The resulting fire is enormous. image
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  • SportsModeratorSportsModerator Posts: 1,624 mod
    No evacuations. Marcus Oil and chemical plant has blown up. No casualties so far. Windows as far as 10 miles away blown out.

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  • DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭
    I probably live 12 to 15 miles away, as the crow flys.

    I heard and felt the explosion and now the sky is so overcast that no light can be seen in that direction from my front yard.

    I can definately smell it in the air if I go outside. I have been down in that area before, that whole part of town is chemical/oil plants. It goes on for miles.

    Doesn't appear to be any fatalities at this point. Bet on a lot of people living in that area being displaced for a night or two.
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
  • ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
    Still kicking.
  • UncleWigglyUncleWiggly Posts: 2,467
    Talk about double trouble. It's a chemical plant that turns petroleum into high quality wax.
  • nepbrs44nepbrs44 Posts: 600 ✭✭
    Some small injuries reported from broken glass..........I live about 12 miles sw of the explosion and I felt a little tremble.
    Bill.

    Bust Half & FSB Merc Collector
  • jbstevenjbsteven Posts: 6,178 ✭
    my AT toning lab went up in flames.

    I will be looking for a new job on Monday.



















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  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    glad to hear no fatalities were reported.
    pretty horrific explosion.
  • UncleWigglyUncleWiggly Posts: 2,467


    << <i>my AT toning lab went up in flames.

    I will be looking for a new job on Monday.



















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    I'm honestly concerned for those members who are affected by this.



    Jerry


  • NeptuneNeptune Posts: 2,221
    houston chronicle story
  • LouisLouis Posts: 3,687
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  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OK here in the Galleria area...

    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • poorguypoorguy Posts: 4,317 ✭
    Dayyumm. I hope everyone's alright.
    Brandon Kelley - ANA - 972.746.9193 - http://www.bestofyesterdaycollectibles.com
  • dizzleccdizzlecc Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭
    Anybody got any marshmellows.

    The only damage here is that most of the local stations are covering the event and frosty the snowman gor preempted.

  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Since the company uses oil I'm sure that we will all feel it in the gas tank in a couple days. (Even though the company does not refine oil into gasoline, and that oil is down about $14 a barrel from its high.)
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    Heard it and felt it. We're probably 6-7 miles away from it.

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