Explosion hits fertilizer plant north of Waco, Texas

[fitzmulti]

I didn't see this in a search...so I apologize if it's already been posted...
but, HOLY SHIT!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/17/us/texas-explosion/index.html

and:

[DateDoc]

amazing how big an explosion it was.

[AllAboutCams]

Super crazy

[_Richard_]

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative...o-2623510.html

Coordinated Sabotage Attacks Hits San Francisco
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 21:08

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[TheFootMan5]

Originally Posted by _Richard_

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative...o-2623510.html

Coordinated Sabotage Attacks Hits San Francisco
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 21:08

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God dam....

[sphynx]

Damn, what the hell?

[fitzmulti]

Originally Posted by _Richard_

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative...o-2623510.html

Coordinated Sabotage Attacks Hits San Francisco
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 21:08

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Crazy shit...and 2 days from now is the "anniv" of the Waco seige...

[boziffous]

I live about 60 miles north of West, Texas and we heard/felt the explosion. They were saying on the news that every house within about four blocks of the plant was blown apart.

[_Richard_]

Originally Posted by fitzmulti

Crazy shit...and 2 days from now is the "anniv" of the Waco seige...

jesus.. that's a disturbing coincidence

[Spunky]

Damn, that sure was a powerful one

[fitzmulti]

Originally Posted by boziffous

I live about 60 miles north of West, Texas and we heard/felt the explosion. They were saying on the news that every house within about four blocks of the plant was blown apart.

Geesh! Wild!

[Mr Pheer]

That was a whole fertilizer plant, not surprising how much damage it did.

Remember what just a rental truck full of fertilizer did to the federal building in Oklahoma City...

[vdbucks]

I wonder how long before the media and politics get involved and claim this was "Al Qaeda"

[fitzmulti]

USGS said that blast registered a 2.1, which would be minor for an earthquake, of course, but a building explosion? DAMN!!

[sarettah]

Wilson said 50 to 75 homes were damaged by the explosion and a fire that followed, and that a nearby 50-unit apartment complex had been reduced to "a skeleton standing up". Muska put the number of destroyed homes at between 60 and 80.

Wilson said 133 people had been evacuated from the badly damaged nursing home, but it was not immediately clear how many of them were hurt.

He estimated that overall more than 100 people had been injured in the disaster.

McNamara said much of the center of town had been evacuated, and that residences nearest the explosion had been flattened.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/s...,2849100.story


Geez

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[sarettah]

Originally Posted by fitzmulti

Ricin attacks, bombings, sabotage?. We need to connect some dots here people. -Mort

Hmmm... add in "accidental" explosion that looks like a small nuclear bomb.

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[Matt 26z]

All in the past week:

Boston bombing
Risen mailed to congressman and Obama
Bomb mailed to Sheriff Joe
Fertilizer plant explosion
Sabotage of fiber optic and power in San Francisco

Could be in the name of protecting defense spending.

[loreen]

'Two people are dead; officials fear that casualties could be as high as 60 to 70' :|

[sarettah]

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[Manfap]

Shouldn´t those places be built in the middle of nowhere, or atleast not near anything residential?

[Wilsy]

Does anyone know if the person in the Video has got their hearing back?

[Supz]

Originally Posted by Manfap

Shouldn´t those places be built in the middle of nowhere, or atleast not near anything residential?

It only looks like its in the middle of anything in the pic that is very far away where the view is past the city, but in the video it looks like its in the middle of a field.

[Manfap]

Originally Posted by Supz

It only looks like its in the middle of anything in the pic that is very far away where the view is past the city, but in the video it looks like its in the middle of a field.

Didnt it wreck some houses and an apartment block?

Shit like that should be 20 miles from anything in a fucking swamp or something. Similar happened in Valencia, Spain few years back with a fireworks factory, took down 1/2 mountain.

[fitzmulti]

Originally Posted by Manfap

Didnt it wreck some houses and an apartment block?

Shit like that should be 20 miles from anything in a fucking swamp or something. Similar happened in Valencia, Spain few years back with a fireworks factory, took down 1/2 mountain.

It did. That's a very small town, and the plant was relatively close...too close.

[MainstreamGuy]

WTF? TV is reporting 2 dead... But there are more than 60 DEAD...

WACO WACO...

[fitzmulti]

Originally Posted by MainstreamGuy

WTF? TV is reporting 2 dead... But there are more than 60 DEAD...

WACO WACO...

That's because there has not been an actual "official" announcement yet...but it certainly looks to be a very ugly number.
;-(

[crockett]

Originally Posted by boziffous

I live about 60 miles north of West, Texas and we heard/felt the explosion. They were saying on the news that every house within about four blocks of the plant was blown apart.

This is the state of Texas's fault because half the cities there have no real zoning ordinances and you can have residential & business/industrial right on top of each other.

Huston is one of the absolute worst for doing that shit. You should never have houses anywhere near a fertilizer plant much less the refineries they have all over out there. This exact same shit has happened before in Texas with refineries yet they never change a damn thing.

[crockett]

Originally Posted by sarettah

Hmmm... add in "accidental" explosion that looks like a small nuclear bomb.

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The chemical used in fertilizer are very nasty shit. Timothy McVeigh used a fertilizer bomb to take out the Oklahoma City federal building years ago and it blew that building to peaces. This shit shouldn't be anywhere near houses.

[LA Crew]

A four block area is believed to have been levelled by the blast..

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by Mr Pheer

That was a whole fertilizer plant, not surprising how much damage it did.

Remember what just a rental truck full of fertilizer did to the federal building in Oklahoma City...

The Oklahoma City bombing was on April 19, 1995 on the anniversary of the final assault on the Branch Davidians in Waco Texas ... a mere miles from the same type of explosion on almost the exact 20 year anniversary.

I'm by NO means a conspiracy theorist, but it can't be a coincidence.

[dyna mo]

sure it could, that's why we have the word *coincidence*

[Dirty F]

Originally Posted by Verbal

The Oklahoma City bombing was on April 19, 1995 on the anniversary of the final assault on the Branch Davidians in Waco Texas ... a mere miles from the same type of explosion on almost the exact 20 year anniversary.

I'm by NO means a conspiracy theorist, but it can't be a coincidence.

So they do it 1 day earlier?
And how was it the same type of explosion exactly? Didn't the place burn down?

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by Dirty F

So they do it 1 day earlier?
And how was it the same type of explosion exactly?

MOTIVATION

The chief conspirators, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, met in 1988 at Fort Benning during basic training for the U.S. Army.[17] Michael Fortier, McVeigh's accomplice, was his Army roommate.[18] The three shared interests in survivalism and opposed gun control.[19][20] They expressed anger at the federal government's handling of the 1992 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) standoff with Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge as well as the Waco Siege?a 1993 51-day standoff between the FBI and Branch Davidian members which began with a botched ATF attempt to execute a search warrant leading to a fire fight (it is unknown whether ATF agents or Branch Davidians fired the first shot) and ended with the burning and shooting deaths of David Koresh and 75 others.[21] In March 1993, McVeigh visited the Waco site during the standoff, and then again after its conclusion.[22] McVeigh later decided to bomb a federal building as a response to the raids.

MATERIAL

McVeigh and Nichols purchased or stole the materials they needed to manufacture the bomb, which they stored in rented sheds. In August 1994, McVeigh obtained nine Kinestiks from gun collector Roger E. Moore, and ignited the devices with Nichols outside Nichols' home in Herington, Kansas.[34][35] On September 30, 1994, Nichols bought forty 50-pound (23 kg) bags of ammonium nitrate from Mid-Kansas Coop in McPherson, Kansas, this would be enough to fertilize 4.25 acres of farmland at a rate of 160 pounds of nitrogen per acre; an amount commonly used for corn {2000 pounds of AN divided by (160 lb/acre divided by 0.34 lb N/lb AN) equals 4.25 acres}. Nichols bought an additional 50-pound (23 kg) bag on October 18, 1994.[23] McVeigh approached Fortier and asked him to assist with the bombing project, but he refused.

[Dirty F]

Oh wait, your post wasn't clear to me. Ya ofcourse the bombing was done in a similar way.

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by Matt 26z

Sabotage of fiber optic and power in San Francisco

Odd, I live in Northern California and I didn't even hear about it.

[alex.missyouth]

Wow, that picture is incredible.

[Chris]

This happened near me.

The town it happened in only had a population of 2500 people.

5 volunteer firefighters who had been helping put out the fire before the explosion are still missing and presumed dead

60 homes are destroyed

a two story apartment/hotel building was destroyed

a nursing home was destroyed

[_Richard_]

Originally Posted by Verbal

MOTIVATION

The chief conspirators, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, met in 1988 at Fort Benning during basic training for the U.S. Army.[17] Michael Fortier, McVeigh's accomplice, was his Army roommate.[18] The three shared interests in survivalism and opposed gun control.[19][20] They expressed anger at the federal government's handling of the 1992 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) standoff with Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge as well as the Waco Siege—a 1993 51-day standoff between the FBI and Branch Davidian members which began with a botched ATF attempt to execute a search warrant leading to a fire fight (it is unknown whether ATF agents or Branch Davidians fired the first shot) and ended with the burning and shooting deaths of David Koresh and 75 others.[21] In March 1993, McVeigh visited the Waco site during the standoff, and then again after its conclusion.[22] McVeigh later decided to bomb a federal building as a response to the raids.

MATERIAL

McVeigh and Nichols purchased or stole the materials they needed to manufacture the bomb, which they stored in rented sheds. In August 1994, McVeigh obtained nine Kinestiks from gun collector Roger E. Moore, and ignited the devices with Nichols outside Nichols' home in Herington, Kansas.[34][35] On September 30, 1994, Nichols bought forty 50-pound (23 kg) bags of ammonium nitrate from Mid-Kansas Coop in McPherson, Kansas, this would be enough to fertilize 4.25 acres of farmland at a rate of 160 pounds of nitrogen per acre; an amount commonly used for corn {2000 pounds of AN divided by (160 lb/acre divided by 0.34 lb N/lb AN) equals 4.25 acres}. Nichols bought an additional 50-pound (23 kg) bag on October 18, 1994.[23] McVeigh approached Fortier and asked him to assist with the bombing project, but he refused.

be careful, they'll hunt you down screaming 'conspiracy theorist'.. especially if you start talking about WHY these guys were so pissed off.. that info doesn't even begin to cover it

[fitzmulti]

Originally Posted by Chris

This happened near me.

The town it happened in only had a population of 2500 people.

5 volunteer firefighters who had been helping put out the fire before the explosion are still missing and presumed dead

60 homes are destroyed

a two story apartment/hotel building was destroyed

a nursing home was destroyed

Really a very tragic situation.

[lucas131]

most of the people there have roots in czech republic, buh s vama bratri a sestry!

[ludballs]

Thats is some crazy messed up shit!

[CyberHustler]

[dyna mo]

Originally Posted by _Richard_

be careful, they'll hunt you down screaming 'conspiracy theorist'.. especially if you start talking about WHY these guys were so pissed off.. that info doesn't even begin to cover it

actually, there is a fantastic doc on waco that chronicles how fucked up the atf and the fbi handled this. it is well-done



don't get me wrong, the branch-davidians were responsible as well, but a lot of americans are very aware of what the government did there. but it's a big step to assume at this stage that what happened last night is related.

[crockett]

Originally Posted by Verbal

The Oklahoma City bombing was on April 19, 1995 on the anniversary of the final assault on the Branch Davidians in Waco Texas ... a mere miles from the same type of explosion on almost the exact 20 year anniversary.

I'm by NO means a conspiracy theorist, but it can't be a coincidence.

Witness already have come forward and said there had been a strong amoena smell previously that had been complained about and the night of the explosion it was very strong. The plant even lied on it's EPA application stating that nothing explosive would be stored.

Put the conspiracy hat back on, this is just the same shit that has happened in Texas in the past. They have had more than their fair share of chemical & refinery plant explosions in Texas.

This points the ugly finger at a Conservative state that thinks the "govt" puts up too much red tape and we don't need no stinking EPA. Texas is lax on it's regulations around these plants which is why so many of them are in Texas.

When shit like this happens it's gone an forgotten with nothing changing and we wait til the next one goes up in a big bang, next year or the year after.

This one was in Oct of 2011, it's a very common occurrence in Texas..



Oh and another...



and a long list of others.. but hey they don't need no stinkin regulations in Texas, don't mind the smoke people the fire will go out soon!

[Best-In-BC]

Originally Posted by sarettah

Hmmm... add in "accidental" explosion that looks like a small nuclear bomb.

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lol, yep, and any explosion I guess to you looks like a small nuke, lol, small nuke

[crockett]

Only in Texas do they allow a fertilizer plant to be only thousand feet away from a middle school, a nursing home less than 800 feet away and a hospital about 1200 feet. Not to mention houses everywhere in between. Yet a second school just over 1500 feet away.

Fucking idiots.



This is proof of darwinism right here folks..

[dyna mo]

lol, i grew up in houston/pasadena too, the lack of zoning is insane. need a parking lot? no worries, tear down that 100 year old church and pave away!

[Cherry7]

Goes to show that unregulated capitalism beats terrorism everyday !

The free market really works

[_Richard_]

Originally Posted by dyna mo

actually, there is a fantastic doc on waco that chronicles how fucked up the atf and the fbi handled this. it is well-done



don't get me wrong, the branch-davidians were responsible as well, but a lot of americans are very aware of what the government did there. but it's a big step to assume at this stage that what happened last night is related.

yea they were responsible, sure, but that's said by the people who said they fired first, while the metal door has only bullet holes/char marks on the outside of the door

i was under the impression the USA was home for all creeds

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by Cherry7

Goes to show that unregulated capitalism beats terrorism everyday !

The free market really works

Good one