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Rokkit
09-13-2002, 10:58 AM
Which might not mean a whole lot to you Houston people, but I actually live in Freeport. Bad enough we dealt with flooding only last weekend...now I hear there are probably casualties at the plant.

I live a good 10 minute drive from the plant. And it still felt like something ran into my house. I think this entire three-city radius (Freeport, Clute, Lake Jackson) felt the explosion...
Buck Turgidson
09-13-2002, 11:00 AM
That's terrible. What does the plant produce?
BrianKagy
09-13-2002, 11:01 AM
Well, explosions, for one thing.
Castor27
09-13-2002, 11:05 AM
Isn't BASF the company that doesn't make products. "They make products better" ?


CK
MadMax
09-13-2002, 11:09 AM
listening to 740AM this morning...they're saying the plant produces nylon among other things...

no word on casualties just yet...

sounds like a pretty big explosion, from all reports...there were reports of an ammonia leak leading up to it.
Nomar
09-13-2002, 11:10 AM
Originally posted by BrianKagy
Well, explosions, for one thing.

Now Brian its early in the morning so I can excuse this one lapse. He meant to say:

Well, explosions , for one thing.


:D
Rokkit
09-13-2002, 11:15 AM
Bad enough, whatever you are seeing on NBC, ABC, etc....we can't. Just happens to be problems with the cable apparently. What a day for that.

Supposedly the explosion came from a rail car - a tanker - in the plant. There were reports that they were actually trying to put out a fire before it exploded....which means casualties are a strong possibility.

My father happened to be driving down Hwy 332 when it exploded. Said the fire from the blast must have shot 200 ft. into the air.
MadMax
09-13-2002, 11:19 AM
740 is reporting that there are no known casualties...i hope that is good news
A-Train
09-13-2002, 12:05 PM
Originally posted by Castor27
Isn't BASF the company that doesn't make products. "They make products better" ?


Looks like they should have made their plant a little better...
MadMax
09-13-2002, 12:07 PM
Originally posted by A-Train
Looks like they should have made their plant a little better...


ummmm..the explosion came from a rail car...that was within the plant
Dr of Dunk
09-13-2002, 12:34 PM
Originally posted by Buck Turgidson
That's terrible. What does the plant produce?

I think BASF is one of those companies that makes a lot of stuff. I know they used to make cassette tapes.
arkoe
09-13-2002, 01:25 PM
I remember a plant explosion eleven or twelve years ago that happened in Huntsville. It knocked me off my couch as a seven year old in my Sugar Land area home.