It's not a disaster. It's a fire at one tank in a big tank farm. Nobody has died, nobody has even needed medical treatment. When it's put out, the site will be cleaned up. Probably the used foam will be put in dump trucks and landfilled somewhere away from groundwater.

Ya know, the Sunday after Thanksgiving last November, there was a terrible storm in the central Midwest, with ice, snow and high winds. Twenty-nine people died, and no doubt many more were seriously injured. And yet this event got no attention. It wasn't sexy, and there was no evil corporation to point a finger at.

And yet the storm is more worth talking about than the fire, because we can all do something to avoid driving in an ice storm. We can't do much about operating a tank farm.