Plant Explosion at TCP Port Neches

[BowTech2010]

I'd get out if you can smell it.. when the wind shifts out of the south my family is leaving ..

I see you live in BC. Where about? We are also watching the wind and praying for the best outcome for everyone.

[BowTech2010]

Williams is allegedly on site with foam now. Hope that’s true.

Did they not have foam on site?

[brianlg31]

Prayers for all involved and trying to get this undercontrol

[jds247]

I see you live in BC. Where about? We are also watching the wind and praying for the best outcome for everyone.

I'm on turner road off 1442 right by the energy plant..

[Strummer]

Yes sir . I know they make butane and store Mtbe for us as well as supply us methanol.. butadiene and styrene also..
I do know the tanks closest to the high school is our storage tanks..
If I had to guess I'd say butane in the spheres .. I dont know the expansion rate but it will be bad ..

They buy a lot of lng from us .c4 mix ,iso butane.

[BowTech2010]

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[Strummer]

Probably butane in the spheres. It has to be kept under pressure. If they go BLEVE, it’s gonna destroy the high school and anything else within a mile


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If a sphere goes it will be a lot bigger the a mile . Stuff has about a 250 to 1 expansion rate . If it goes boom it will be worse the the explosion in West a few years ago .

[BowTech2010]

I'm on turner road off 1442 right by the energy plant..

Gotcha. Not too far from me. I'm off 408.

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[Strummer]

Did they not have foam on site?

Heck the foam system was probably destroyed during the blast . When the unit I work in blew up the deluge system was pretty much no help at all. All the pipe in the rack was damaged and the foam system lost power so no pumps to dump foam .

[longhorn_cop]

Hope they get everything under control.

[BowTech2010]

Heck the foam system was probably destroyed during the blast . When the unit I work in blew up the deluge system was pretty much no help at all. All the pipe in the rack was damaged and the foam system lost power so no pumps to dump foam .

True. Didn't think of that.

[tvc184]

Any new developments?

Can you relay the gist? We are outta town

Nothing much new about the situation that I heard. Shelter set at Ford Park. Air monitoring doesn’t show any dangerous levels at the 20 or so sites tested. The mandatory evacuation area is still 4 miles.

[ethic1]

Prayers for those affected.


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[lovemylegacy]

Any new developments?

No

[lovemylegacy]

Heck the foam system was probably destroyed during the blast . When the unit I work in blew up the deluge system was pretty much no help at all. All the pipe in the rack was damaged and the foam system lost power so no pumps to dump foam .

Same thing happened at TPC. The deluge pumps cant keep up either.