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Huge Explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant near Waco
60 to 70 people dead
100s more injured
Apparently the blast was heard 45 miles away
Local Hospital treating 66 people, 38 of them seriously injured
could be as many as 200 injured, 40 critical
Can't believe Arista's missing all this.
Wake up Arista
Hearing up to 50 properties been flattened by the explosion.
CNN saying 3 people dead, sky news saying 60 to 70
Sheriff saying 50 - 75 homes are damaged, over 100 injuries, there is fatality's number not known yet, going to do a search house by house tonight
billy123
18-04-2013, 05:13 AM
Looks awful i have been keeping an eye on this i think it was a local news station that made the 60-70 dead claim. Sky seem to be backing away from that claim now but who knows.
I think this was the vid the news channels are using.
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Live audio stream of local police and fire department radio:
http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/ctid/2677/web
Nedusa
18-04-2013, 05:17 AM
Apparently the whole of the top floor of a nursing home was completely destroyed. Not sure why a nursing home was sited only 100 yards from a fertiliser plant ??
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How's your ear drums?
Nedusa
18-04-2013, 05:48 AM
This reminds me of the explosion at Buncefield oil storage plant in Dec 2005, that explosion was also heard up to 50 miles away and registered 2.5 on Richter scale.
lostalex
18-04-2013, 05:55 AM
awww, that little girl sounds terrified. poor thing.
billy123
18-04-2013, 06:18 AM
awww, that little girl sounds terrified. poor thing.Yes not sure it was a place to be with your daughter but saying that it looks like they must have been around a mile away no way could anyone have expected an explosion like that.
Nedusa
18-04-2013, 11:30 AM
It must have been some explosion to cause deafness (presumably temporary) to someone standing over a mile away..!!!!
lostalex
18-04-2013, 11:38 AM
It must have been some explosion to cause deafness (presumably temporary) to someone standing over a mile away..!!!!
she obviously wasn't deaf cause she responded to her dad asking "are you okay"?. so although she said "i can't hear" obviously she could hear, at least enough to respond.
It's interesting that in the video you see the explosion happen long before the sound actually hits the car. So they must have been pretty far away. It's a good example of the difference between the speed of light vs. the speed of sound.
Brother Leon
18-04-2013, 11:46 AM
Wow. Iran, Iraq, A load of earthquakes, Boston and now Texas. What a terrible week..
The Waco explosion happened as locals prepared to commemorate the 76 men, women and children who died in the 1993 siege.
Up to 15 people are feared dead and more than 100 injured following the blast at the fertiliser plant in the town of West, 20km away from Waco.
The Waco siege ended 20 years ago this week, with a blaze that killed 76 including two pregnant women and more than 20 children.
The siege began on February 28, 1993, when the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) attempted to execute a search warrant at Mount Carmel Center ranch, a property of the religious group Branch Davidians.
It ended 50 days later on April 19, when the FBI launched a final assault.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/waco-explosion-happened-eve-siege-1838886#ixzz2QoZGm1qG
Boston Bombs - A Coincidence ?
lostalex
18-04-2013, 11:48 AM
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/waco-explosion-happened-eve-siege-1838886#ixzz2QoZGm1qG
Boston Bombs - A Coincidence ?
yes.
are you going to join the Branch Davidians now?
Vanessa
18-04-2013, 11:51 AM
I heard about this on This Morning. How tragic! :(
Really sad news. So dangerous
yes.
That certainty could come back to haunt you if there's a connection between all three and the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995, when Timothy McVeigh detonated an explosive-filled Ryder rental truck parked in front of the building, motivated by his anger at what he perceived as its mishandling of the Waco Siege (1993) and the Ruby Ridge incident (1992), which began following an April 18, 1992 fly-over by a helicopter which, allegedly, was fired on from the property.
lostalex
18-04-2013, 12:12 PM
That certainty could come back to haunt you if there's a connection between all three and the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995, when Timothy McVeigh detonated an explosive-filled Ryder rental truck parked in front of the building, motivated by his anger at what he perceived as its mishandling of the Waco Siege (1993) and the Ruby Ridge incident (1992), which began following an April 18, 1992 fly-over by a helicopter which, allegedly, was fired on from the property.
why would it haunt me? It would still be a horrible tragedy. Frankly it's a horrible tragedy whether it was just an accident at a chemical plant(which it was) or if it was some psycho Branch Davidian. I don't see how either way it would make me feel bad about myself.
How exactly would it haunt ME in any of those scenarios?
why would it haunt me? It would still be a horrible tragedy. Frankly it's a horrible tragedy whether it was just an accident at a chemical plant(which it was) or if it was some psycho Branch Davidian. I don't see how either way it would make me feel bad about myself.
How exactly would it haunt ME in any of those scenarios?
If you're certain that the date of the occurrences is just a coincidence, I'll be back to remind you that you were wrong, so very wrong, if there proves to be a connection ..... :idc:
arista
18-04-2013, 12:36 PM
Yes that Factory should have been smaller
to much in one area - bad planning
Also near a Rest Home?
who runs that town?
lostalex
18-04-2013, 12:39 PM
If you're certain that the date of the occurrences is just a coincidence, I'll be back to remind you that you were wrong, so very wrong, if there proves to be a connection ..... :idc:
If i'm wrong then I will be surprised. all of the evidence so far looks like just another accident at a chemical plant though.
I don't see any reason to link it to any political group.
If i'm wrong then I will be surprised. all of the evidence so far looks like just another accident at a chemical plant though.
I don't see any reason to link it to any political group.
SO you're CERTAIN that links to previous major incidents (3 of which ARE linked) on or about 18/19 April, are just coincidence ..... :thumbs:
BTW, I didn't mention "political group" ..... :nono:
Nedusa
18-04-2013, 01:32 PM
she obviously wasn't deaf cause she responded to her dad asking "are you okay"?. so although she said "i can't hear" obviously she could hear, at least enough to respond.
It's interesting that in the video you see the explosion happen long before the sound actually hits the car. So they must have been pretty far away. It's a good example of the difference between the speed of light vs. the speed of sound.
Yes.....and her father wasn't affected because he reponded to her so I guess she was probably in a state of shock experiencing this at such a young age...!!!
lostalex
18-04-2013, 01:34 PM
Yes.....and her father wasn't affected because he reponded to her so I guess she was probably in a state of shock experiencing this at such a young age...!!!
what are we arguing about exactly?
Yes that Factory should have been smaller
to much in one area - bad planning
Also near a Rest Home?
who runs that town?
Hillbilllys
Nedusa
18-04-2013, 03:09 PM
what are we arguing about exactly?
We're not arguing we're agreeing......!!! (rare , I know)
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