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Well played ha.
Brilliant idea putting a school and apartments next to a fertilizer plant. morans.
They wanted to put GIANT propane tanks near my company but it would have Been about 200 yards from the school so they were denied.
That poor kid will be terrified of fires for the rest of his life.
The town of West Texas is super small. This explosion took out a ton of the town. They are still sorting everything out, but a lot of firefighters and EMT got caught up in the explosion. 
Its nice to read about how over stocked they were on the nitrate and how it was never on the US departments radar.
The fertilizer plant that exploded on Wednesday, obliterating part of a small Texas town and killing at least 14 people, had last year been storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate that would normally trigger safety oversight by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Yet a person familiar with DHS operations said the company that owns the plant, West Fertilizer, did not tell the agency about the potentially explosive fertilizer as it is required to do, leaving one of the principal regulators of ammonium nitrate - which can also be used in bomb making - unaware of any danger there.
Fertilizer plants and depots must report to the DHS when they hold 400 lb (180 kg) or more of the substance. Filings this year with the Texas Department of State Health Services, which weren’t shared with DHS, show the plant had 270 tons of it on hand last year.
so its nice to see these things go unseen and well we can have potential bombs sitting in our back yards. Now if Terrorism wasn’t enough, why not make our own on accident.
I doubt DHS would have cared anyways…
You’re not going to get terrorists in West Tx
It wasn’t so much as terrorist, but shit like this happening again. Had inspections been done, and the right course taken… which it sounds like they had past violations with a minimal slap on the wrist, this may not have been so big of an explosion. It sounds like they had way more than they should have, and the fact nothing was ever talked about to give heads up about it. Not saying terrorist are going to set these fertilizer places on fire and hope for an explosion, I’m saying who’s to know if other plants aren’t holding out on details and have unsafe storing and over excessive amounts of it. This could happen somewhere else.
On a side note, I also heard (no creditable source) that this explosion could have been prevented had the fire crew not gone at it with water. Not sure if they actually shot water or not, but that just is like putting water on an electrical fire. (sounds like poor training/lack of training for this type of problem)
Cute, but misleading at best. Whoever created that image has no clue how American government works, or is just trying to make Texas look bad to the uninformed masses on Facebook.
The bill in the Senate was filled with crap that had nothing to do with Sandy relief. It didn’t even authorize half of the funds to be spent in 2013, let alone immediately to those who were in need. Clearly voting no was the right answer. Then the bill went to the House where it was “fixed” and ultimately was signed into law by the President.
Even Mayor Bloomberg questioned the Senate bill, and he’s not exactly Senator hill-billy from Texas.
But back to pictures:
