It really was like a scene out of Red Dawn or something...like the Soviets had finally just decided to drop the A-bomb on Baton Rouge. A lot of people these days deny the existence of the mushroom cloud because none of the witnesses had time to photograph it (in today's world it would have been recorded with cell phone cams and uploaded to YouTube with five minutes after impact

). I certainly would have photographed what I saw if I had a camera handy.

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Posted by SG_Geaux

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Posted on 9/26/15 at 12:46 am to TheDude321

I was growing up in Pierre Part.

I distinctly remember the windows on the front of the house suddenly rattling violently and the TV clicking for no reason. Freaked me out, especially when my dad said "Either that was a tiny earthquake or something really big blew up somewhere"

A little while later we heard about Exxon.

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Posted by rattlebucket

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Posted on 9/26/15 at 8:59 am to TheDude321

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It really was like a scene out of Red Dawn or something...like the Soviets had finally just decided to drop the A-bomb on Baton Rouge. A lot of people these days deny the existence of the mushroom cloud because none of the witnesses had time to photograph it

I seent it. My childhood friend and I were jumping on ice in the ditches in SE BR near Highland/Airline area in the subdivision. We thought it was a water heater explosion

I just remember it shaking the ground it seemed and then the huge black plume of smoke. And we were 13.5 miles away(geomeasure) as the crow flies!

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Posted by PhilemonThomas

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Posted on 9/26/15 at 9:16 am to TheDude321

I have no memory of Phil Ranier talking about anything other than cancer. Crazy.

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