Tonight I was out driving just before 6 oclock, dark outside, found a smooth road in houston (hard to find), and all the sudden something scary happens. The entire sky just lit up bright orange, the sky gets dark again and I can see huge flames shooting up all over. Seconds later I hear this extremely loud boom, and everything starts shaking. This boom was soo loud that it left my ears ringing just like I sat right next to the speaker at a concert. I turn the radio to the news station to see what happened. Turns out a chemical plant blew up. I was about 10 miles from the explosion too. At home about 15 miles from the explosion the entire house shook like a car drove into it. I got out to the farm where I could see the flames in the air and constantly smaller explosions every few seconds for over an hour. Pretty amazing stuff. Later on I found out that the shockwave was felt over 20 miles away and the explosion was heard as far away as Conroe, which is about 55 miles away. Amazingly, there are not deaths reported. Several injuries, but nothing severe. I guess if there were any deaths from that, they wont find any remains.

 

'The toxicity of our city.. of our ciiiityyyyyy"

It's good to see you are not a victim of the blast.. Make sure you don't grow a 4th leg...

Also, hope no one was hurt... nothing on the news here....

 

No toxic fumes from it. They said the only thing we need to be careful of is the extreme amounts of smoke. There was so much smoke it actually showed up on the radar when the weather came on.

 

Yeah, caught that on the news. Looked pretty bad. I agree %100 about the Houston roads. Even I-45 has deep holes. Did ya'll see on the news the other day where was a 14" hole right in the middle of Scott St (I think). Anyway, it was so bad it was blowing out tires and even bending rims.

 

*sings*

"...chemicals between us..."

-Bush-



I was just reading about that on the www... looks like one heck of a ka-boom.

RP

 

I live near thr junction of Beltway and I-10 and didn't feel a thing. Way closer than Conroe.

Mind you, we had started early that day