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re: Epic Christmas Eve 1989 WAFB 10 PM news broadcast
Posted on 9/26/15 at 9:42 am to dewster
Posted on 9/26/15 at 9:42 am to dewster
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t was a huge explosion...especially for being centered in an urban area. A lot of windows were shattered in Baton Rouge and Port Allen.
Cracked our huge front window in PA. For some reason I remember watching the Detroit Lions on TV and avoiding getting dressed for mass when a "bomb"went off. Odd driving across the bridge with a huge black cloud over N. BR
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Posted on 9/26/15 at 9:50 am to Icansee4miles
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And yeah, the guys that are still around get very somber talking about that day. It's never easy losing a coworker, even one you don't know very well.
Forgot the guys name running the course last week, knew his stuff when talking on this subject. Basically said it was what led him to give back in the way he is. Had to be like driving in to hell with all the fires raging.
Posted on 9/26/15 at 9:51 am to The Boat
Loved that shite about the looting.
Roemer calls out the local NG.
Litchfield announces plenty of space in the prison and Polozola suspends order on jail overcrowding authorizing law enforcement to "pack them in."
Sure was nice when law and order trumped PC.
Roemer calls out the local NG.
Litchfield announces plenty of space in the prison and Polozola suspends order on jail overcrowding authorizing law enforcement to "pack them in."
Sure was nice when law and order trumped PC.
Posted on 9/26/15 at 10:22 am to udtiger
Posted on 9/26/15 at 10:32 am to fightin tigers
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Huge learning experience about blocking in both sides off a pipeline. The pipeline in question was freezing up (if I remember correctly).
Also huge learning experience regarding treating a vehicle being in or next to a flammable area as low energy hot work.
Posted on 9/26/15 at 11:23 am to TheDude321
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Like I said, it was below freezing for a record time period in B.R. when that happened--like 80-something straight hours of 32-degrees-or-less. Water pipes were freezing up and bursting all over town. I think that record still stands today.
That winter was one of two times I remember the LSU lakes freezing over.
Posted on 9/26/15 at 6:06 pm to member12
There were a lot of big stories. I wonder if there were any other evening newscasts with that many.
Posted on 9/26/15 at 7:30 pm to The Boat
As someone else mentioned, that's prob the single greatest collection of news stories ever featured on wafb.
Does anyone else notice how professional and even keel a news broadcast once was compared with today? No "OMG, Exxon had a big scary blow up, but first let's hear about the latest weight loss findings".
Does anyone else notice how professional and even keel a news broadcast once was compared with today? No "OMG, Exxon had a big scary blow up, but first let's hear about the latest weight loss findings".
Posted on 9/26/15 at 9:14 pm to The Boat
Vernon Roger is probably with a prostitute wearing a diaper
Posted on 9/26/15 at 9:48 pm to lsucoonass
That's a sophomoric and unnecessary comment.
Posted on 9/26/15 at 10:04 pm to udtiger
Sister was in the guard and got called out. We were in Pointe Coupee and felt it. Family owns and also was very busy for a while.
Posted on 9/27/15 at 12:17 am to vodkacop
Years later I was working at the Baytown Complex and we discussed this incident with a guy that was on shift that day. That is hard stuff.
This post was edited on 9/27/15 at 12:28 am
Posted on 9/27/15 at 12:19 am to vodkacop
Years later I was working at the Baytown Complex and we discussed this incident with a guy that was on shift that day. That is hard stuff. No man should lose his life at work.
Posted on 9/27/15 at 12:26 am to Lefty Diego
Was Marsanne Golsby always that crazy and terrible? She had me lmafo-ing.
Posted on 9/27/15 at 12:30 am to The Boat
And WAFB used that same anchors desk well into the 2000s. I wonder when they started using it. They got a lot of life out of that set.
Posted on 9/27/15 at 6:20 am to The Boat
Good to know Clarence Buggs actually used to talk at a moderate pace. Nowadays, he might average six words a minute.
Posted on 9/27/15 at 7:16 am to RealityTiger
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Also huge learning experience regarding treating a vehicle being in or next to a flammable area as low energy hot work.
It wasn't in or near an operating unit. He was on a main road in the refinery where a tunnel goes under the railroad tracks. Like others have said, the freezing temperatures had caused a leak and the hydrocarbon settled in the tunnel. When he drove through there, the truck became the ignition source. That was the initial explosion then the pipe band above was the big one. There was a maintenance shop a hundred yards or so away that was blown to pieces. If it hadn't been Christmas Eve, there would likely have been several people in there who would have died as well.
Posted on 9/27/15 at 8:43 am to udtiger
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Roemer calls out the local NG.
Yep. Roemer sure did back up his promise to get shite containalized.
Posted on 9/27/15 at 9:47 am to The Boat
I was in the yard with my dad putting oil in my new ATV when the explosion went off. Mixed emotion day.
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