BS: Houston petrol disaster [2019]

Subject: BS: Houston petrol disaster [2019]
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Mar 19 - 07:50 PM

Are you keeping an eye on Houston
with the petrochemical fires and fumes?
I'm worried for Houston, really worried.
This sounds worse than the media has let on.

Subject: RE: BS: Houston petrol disaster [2019]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Mar 19 - 08:55 PM

You bet it does!

Subject: RE: BS: Houston petrol disaster [2019]
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 25 Mar 19 - 02:00 AM

Hmmmm, hope my former Houston and Baytown colleagues aren't affected.

Subject: RE: BS: Houston petrol disaster [2019]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Mar 19 - 05:58 PM

So the water in the Houston shipping channel,
with a residential neighborhood called Deer Park nearby, now has
"hazardous concentrations" of "volatile chemicals", nine contaminants in total identified from testing.
Fuel is being siphoned out of the damaged tanks, and the fuel that escaped is being drained out of a ditch ... near "Tidal Road." Then there is the Lynchburg Ferry crossing, now closed to autos.

Subject: RE: BS: Houston petrol disaster [2019]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Mar 19 - 06:11 PM

And then, there is the air.

When the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality speaks up,
it ought to mean something.
Monitor readings yesterday showed
benzene levels at 190.68 parts per billion
near the sight of the storage tanks for petrochemicals.

"This is a catastrophic emergency."

Subject: RE: BS: Houston petrol disaster [2019]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Mar 19 - 06:19 PM

Even the Insurance Journal is paying attention,
calling the event
"the unfolding Intercontinental Terminals Co. calamity."

Subject: RE: BS: Houston petrol disaster [2019]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Mar 19 - 06:31 PM

I'm old enough to remember Bhopal.
The horrors of Union Carbide at Bhopal were in 1984,
before the Mudcat manifested itself online.

Three-way split of company thwarts prosecution of criminal liability

Subject: RE: BS: Houston petrol disaster [2019]
From: BobL
Date: 26 Mar 19 - 04:29 AM

At least there wasn't a big explosion like as at Buncefield.

Subject: RE: BS: Houston petrol disaster [2019]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Mar 19 - 05:48 PM

Wisdom of disasters grow at the great cost of depression.
Even God, if omnicient, would choke to death on all of the calamity,catastrophe,collapse,debacle,fiasco,flood,fire,hazard,holocaust,mishap,tragedy,woe,adversity,affliction and cataclysm, man made or otherwise in this world.

To survive the wisdom of disaster awareness a new wisdom is needed for empathetic people to protect their psyche. For the tenderfoot or tender fingertips of a musician, callouses grow very slowly.
To be one the safe side;
I suggest you master your fear of the weather first and then go slowly. Only then will you have the wisdom to be at peace with the wisdom that there is no safe side.

Subject: RE: BS: Houston petrol disaster [2019]
From: leeneia
Date: 29 Mar 19 - 01:26 PM

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.