I'm sure most of U heard about or heard/felt the big explosion/fire at the chemical plant Fri. night in SW Houston.

Well, I live about a mile from there and it scared the crap out of me! I thought the heater in the attic blew up! The first thing I could think about was getting my IROC out of the garage before the house burnt down.

After a quick check of the house, I discovered it was not anything in the house/attic, but it kinda educated me about where my priorities are! I guess in all reality, there should have been other things that were more important, but....

It did knock one of the shop lights in the garage down and broke the bulbs, but everything else was OK!

Craig

 

I saw that on the news here in colorado yesterday. What plant was it?

 

don't remember which exact one, I heard the name just passingly on the news later that night. the wife and I drove by the fire while it was still cookin' and that really looked like it was just ruining someone's whole day. we could see the flames from miles away on the beltway and the smoke cloud was enormous!

I know what you mean Zap, those explosions can make your heart skip a beat! I thought something horrid happened over here not that long ago when a rig transporting some sort of chemicals blew the back off of its trailer not a 1/2 mile from my place! Windows shook, walls vibrated, I didn't know what the hell to think!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by calereeves
I saw that on the news here in colorado yesterday. What plant was it? [/QUOTEI forget the name of it now, but it was a small plant that produces wax from a petro base. Whatever actually exploded was not the big problem. All the stored wax was melting and running all over the place and then igniting--that was the hard part to put out.

Craig

 

i think the name of the place is marcus petroleum .
i was at work when it blew. we had just finished closing the shop & were in the office at the time. the shop is a good 15 miles away at griggs & lawndale, we heard a boom & it rattled the walls in the shop pretty heavily. i didn't find out what it was until i saw it on the news that night, the news said people heard it over in dayton.

 

I was a few miles away from the Oklahoma Federal Building when it got blown up. talk about heart skipping a beat. I thought we had just gotten nuked or something.

 

I saw it when the news broke Friday, heart started pumping. Spent years in Disaster Response, currently live in Texas City......Go Figure.....

Glad your'e safe.

Dave

 

wow, that definately would have freaked me out on about 30 different levels! glad yer okay though and btw, love the sig!

 

thanks man! your the 1st person to ever comment on it. I have to give credit where credit is due, JACKO & AirPak made it for me.

 

Now theres a real man, get the car out first, worry about everything else later.

So what happened to the plant?

 

that's right by my house...

the next day supposedly hwy 90 was a mess

I didn't go that way and chance it though

 

Blew up--BIG fire--all over the news last weekend!

 

If that's right by your house, then U must live pretty close to us. You'll have to cruise by sometime and say hello.

We live in a house about a block north of Hillcroft and W. Airport.

Craig