Waco

or at least the town of 'West' ... 30 km north of Waco ... another explosion; perhaps 50 dead

No David Koresh involved this time

just standard texan industrial stoopidity

maybe, but it sounds like a major disaster

LINK

The video taken by the man sitting in his car 'at a safe distance' is especially alarming.

It's been a sad day for the Fire Unit in that town, and their families, minimum.

aye...pretty awful...biggest industrial accident in the USA for 60 odd years

hope it's smaller than that one

under similar topics

'snowing in Waco'

and (perhaps appropriately for Waco) 'Wayne Outdoors Dove Hunts'

that's some strange inverted irony there

They say things come in threes. First the Boston marathon bombings, then the ricin letters to Obama and a senator, now the massive fertiliser plant explosion near Waco, Texas.

"More than 200 people have been injured and many are feared dead in a massive explosion at a fertiliser plant in the US state of Texas which flattened several buildings, local authorities and media say.
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Video showed homes for a five block radius around the fertiliser plant smashed like children's wooden toys. Many of them burned like torches."

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Nasty gear.

why are there homes close to a fertiliser plant?

Worse, there was a school and a retirement home in the same block adjoining the plant.

stooooopid Texans....maybve they just over identify with the QBanjos who live in their sister State

The One wrote:why are there homes close to a fertiliser plant?

That's a very good question.

I wonder if it really was a fertiliser plant or something more sinister.

NRA ammo stockpile?

horace wrote:stooooopid Texans....maybve they just over identify with the QBanjos who live in their sister State

I would have thought if you really wanted to stick the knife in horrie you would have compared us to states further east?

I think Texas was also the location for the second largest non-nuclear explosion in history around 100 odd years ago. And maybe they build these things close to towns because they're considered safe. Thus...............?

....tho I am surprised you would think I would ever put the knife in....I aint Casca

The One wrote:why are there homes close to a fertiliser plant?

shh .. how dare some turd worlder question the wisdom of know-all whiteys in yankdom.
all elderly and senior citizens were based quite close to the fertilizer plant. (look at the pics)
apparently the know-all folks felt that's just what they were good for.
case closed.

ineptitude, not malevolence