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Subject: Shades of Snowplow Extra

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Rob

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Date Posted: 09:27:35 04/18/13 Thu

The brief news stories about the fertilizer plant explosion in West, TX reminded me of the fear that existed about the possibility of a similar explosion in that story.

The setting (a small town or village) is a factor in common, but of course, other conditions were very different :)

Rob

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[> Subject: Re: Shades of Snowplow Extra

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Jim Scott
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Date Posted: 20:49:43 04/18/13 Thu

Check Google or Wikipedia for the Texas City Texas disaster that happened 66 years and 1 day before the West, Texas disaster. Two ships loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer blew up at the dock and flattened the city. Windows blew out 40 miles away in Houston. Many hundreds died and hundreds had no bits left to identify and were forever listed as just missing. By far the worst industrial accident in U.S. history.

Jim
>The brief news stories about the fertilizer plant
>explosion in West, TX reminded me of the fear that
>existed about the possibility of a similar explosion
>in that story.
>
>The setting (a small town or village) is a factor in
>common, but of course, other conditions were very
>different :)
>
>Rob