re: Explosion Felt In Houston

...and I bet you contorted your body to accommodate both of ‘em .

Again, if you were that close, you were deep in REM-land.
We would’ve experienced the same thing, and it felt like what I would imagine a volcano blowing its top to feel like; and it sounded like a bomb detonating.

I’m so glad it wasn’t worse.

Now we all just need to avoid the flu ....

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Crazy those houses are that close to a facility that uses that flammable of a gas.

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I was an EMT as an undergrad at A&M.
As is the case with all first responders, we regularly held mock disaster and triage training drills.


In College Station—and few who aren’t first responders and city officials even think about this—the biggest fear for which they plan isn’t a mass shooting or terrorist attack; it’s the train (which runs smack dab through the middle of campus several times a day, right between Kyle Field, Blue Bell Park, and Reed Arena) derailing, with a full Kyle Field or other big event taking place.

If people knew the stuff that was being transferred in those train cars on the reg, they’d never leave their houses for that side of town again.

Didn’t hear anything in Timbergrove.

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If people knew the stuff that was being transferred in those train cars on the reg, they’d never leave their houses for that side of town again.

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If you know your hazardous placards you can tell, although they are often stenciled right on the car what they carry. Most hazardous cars are captive to one commodity.

Anhydrous Ammonia is really common. 100+ tons of it per car.

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it’s the train (which runs smack dab through the middle of campus several times a day, right between Kyle Field, Blue Bell Park, and Reed Arena) derailing, with a full Kyle Field or other big event taking place.

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They actually allow trains to roll through campus on football game days?

Anyone in Humble, Texas felt it ?

Yea...they allow them during baseball games over here too. But I've never seen one on football game days.

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They actually allow trains to roll through campus on football game days?

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Interstate commerce.

There is/was a big pro golf tournament every year on the north side of the Twin Cities that we ran through. Had a temporary whistle ban through that area.

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Timbergrove too. Must be a hard sleeper.

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My neighbors were saying it worked them in montrose