West Fertilizer Co. West, Texas

[txrob779]

I thought I would shed some perspective on this in case someone is interested.
I just spent 20 minutes painting a visual picture for my son, rocket779 (12yr) about this.

Tim McVeigh, used 5000lbs of anhydrus ammonia fertilizer mixed with diesel fuel to to do this:

West Fertilzer has on hand, at any given time 250,000 TONS of this shit in 2 storage silo's. One tank exploded with an extimated 100,000 tons of product in it and that is why in Amarillo, Texas 350 miles away registered a 2.1 earthquake when it went off. Thiis is also why there is A Bomb looking destruction in a 1/2 mile radious.

HOLY SHIT

BTW- We live 50 miles NW of West....and I was just there farting around looking at historical markers when I drove home from an Austin GTG that was impromtu.....bummer

 

[levelmanroger]

Yeah - it's really bad down there. Took out nearly half the town.



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[cybee]

Awful news but glad our forum Texans are alright.

I'm not a fertilizer expert but considering how much of this stuff has to be stored can't a less volatile mix of fertilizer be made?

 

[45acp]

Awful news but glad our forum Texans are alright.

I'm not a fertilizer expert but considering how much of this stuff has to be stored can't a less volatile mix of fertilizer be made?

Anhydrous ammonia is very cheap, and very effective. It's probably the most commonly used industrial fertilizer. You could dilute it I guess, but it would still be combustible and you would just need to store more.

Saw that Czech Stop was open today, serving emergency responders and victims. Thought that was really cool.

 

[txrob779]

The news interveiwed a guy from Texas A&M University. He said that it requires a perfect storm for this shit to become volitile and explode. It is a very stable product. So stable infact that OSHA and the EPA don't even inspect the plant unless there is a reason to do so. This was an absolutle perfect storm, that most likely never happen again, anywhere anytime soon. Just a wild ass, weird set of circumstances. I see this deal a lot like a commercial aircraft crash. As the NTSB investigates, they find a bunch of human errors, over a specific pattern of circumstances that eventually led to the crash of the aircraft. Meaning they don't just "crash" by accident. Same shit here....

 

[txrob779]

Bump

 

[45acp]

Hard to find much on the news with the manhunt in Boston, but latest reports from West indicate around 35-40 people still unaccounted for. Really horrible news for such a tiny community.

 

[Wacker23]

That terrible. Not seeing this on the news. I would like to know more. Was this just really an accident or is there anything else to it?

 

[45acp]

That terrible. Not seeing this on the news. I would like to know more. Was this just really an accident or is there anything else to it?

At the moment there's nothing to indicate it was anything other than an industrial accident. Law enforcement is investigating until they are sure that's the case.

 

[txrob779]

Industrial accident....cant see a terrorist, domestic or whatever nuking a little 2400 population Texas town. Correct, 40ish missing and presumed dead, 11 of which were West's volunteer fire fighters and such. A real weird bummer.

 

[Mobius]

There is to be an official press release here at around 4 pm Texas time. Not sure if they will push this one back like the one they were going to do yesterday or not but, stay tuned.

 

[45acp]

Latest report is 12 bodies recovered, 60 people still unaccounted for. This is horrible.

 

[d4m.test]

Deepest sympathies to the families and people of West, Texas, who no longer have much of a town. Donations will be made to the American Red Cross for their assistance to these people.

dave