re: TPC Plant in Port Neches Explosion: Port Neches, Groves, and parts of Nederland Evacuated

grew up about a half-mile from that plant as the crow flies...it went up once when i was a kid, too. my dad ran the QC lab at Gulf/Chevron in Orange, and when plants would go up he'd boost me on the roof of the house so i could see which refinery it was.

the next day at school at PNG, we'd guess who was hurt or killed by who was absent knowing where their dad worked.

TPC (f/k/a Neches Butate) is literally across the street on the southside from PNG high school...our school used to have the highest cancer rate of AML, CML and Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma in the US for that age group due to the butadiene they'd spew.

That RING video definitely implies a BLEVE.... Anyone have info or updates?

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BLEVE

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Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion for the non-plant baws like myself.

Think of a propane tank containing liquid propane, if the tank ruptures then the propane met with standard temp and pressure boils off rapidly producing a huge volume of explosive gas just looking for an ignition source.

Wow they did. Not looking good

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Another view of the explosion

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That one looks like a rocket launch explosion.

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That one looks like a rocket launch explosion

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That would be the tower launching thru the air

Another view of the secondary explosion

Not sure what's going on with the link

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2312244449066190&id=100008419716445

Crazy shite. Hoping and praying everyone is ok

But what is pissing me off is all of the "this is what deregulation looks like" comments. frick those people.

This has nothing to do with regulations. Regulations don't effect safety or environmental concerns.

Also stupid they have closed the area to traffic.

That one works. Sweet Jesus. I was about to close the link and it went up like the space shuttle.