re: What's going on at Dow south of Addis, LA?

I live about 5 miles from Dow... When the fire stacks are rolling, on a cloudy night, it almost looks like the sky right before sunset. And depending on which way the wind blows you can hear it roaring.. Its actually kind of eery feeling, but it usually happens throughout the holidays. On Christmas eve, Christmas, New Years eve, New Years day you can pretty much expect a huge fire from the stacks.

For some reason, I don't know how accurate this is, but I think I was told once that it has to do with the amount of people who are off (maybe the lack of staff), but I don't know how that would create a bigger flame.. So I don't know if that is true.