Reports of multiple deaths and many injuries, as well as extensive damage. No word on a cause yet that I know of. The area is being evacuated due to the potential of a second explosion and severe Haz-mat issues.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/us/texas-explosion/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 (http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/us/texas-explosion/index.html?hpt=hp_t1)
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Yeah, this video is crazy (wait until about :30 sec):
CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Fertilizer Plant Explosion Near Waco, Texas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROrpKx3aIjA#ws)
Reportedly, the explosion has several of the initial first responders being unaccounted for. After viewing the video above, it's easy to understand why. Godspeed to them and the others there.
A number of lessons to be gleaned from the video above.
A good reminder that the Oklahoma City blast was caused by a truck with three or four tons of fertilizer in it.
In VN, it was usually plastic explosives, but they made one Hell of a noise, too.
Wise man once say, "If you can hold your thumb up and still see the incident, then you're still too close." :o :o
Or, as a curmudgeon changed it, "if you can hold your thumb up, check other limbs, if the thumb was the only one blown off, consider yourself lucky..."