my windows started rattle

[Robalo]

Sounds like some fun stuff-that would take care of hardheads without even touching them to remove from a hook (but you'd lose the hook also!).

[2112]

Is that the stuff that goes through your skin and eats at your bones?

Ya, Yan. How would you know. Did you do a MSDS search?
Some gorey details.

A realease of liquid HF can carry 20 miles and stay low to the ground severly screwing with plant and animal life.
To get some on you can be disasterous. Actually, it does eat thru soft tissues and when it gets to the bone, it is the calcium in the bone that finaly neutralizes the acid but then its already to late. The acid that ate into the bone created a toxin that poisions the blood and kills the subject.

We have HF treatment kits in the control roon. Milk of Magnesea for ingestion.
A calcium solutin and a nebulizer for inhalation and some kind of calcium paste for contact and oh ya, rubber gloves.

[shallowist]

Is that the stuff that goes through your skin and eats at your bones?

YES!! that's the truly nasty stuff. not just your average everyday, don't get this on you there..

All you operators need to keep that stuff in the pipes and tanks where it belongs..

[Milkjug]

Our elephant in the room are 3 huge spheres of HF-Hydro Flouric acid..

Is that the stuff that goes through your skin and eats at your bones?

[dbarham]

They were all trying to get in across the st from baypport blvd

[dbarham]

I was working at celanese today when I arrived around 9:30 am all the news vans were trying to get in there

[FlatoutFishin]

Scarry **** eh, FoF?
Our elephant in the room are 3 huge spheres of HF-Hydro Flouric acid...Check the MSDS on that shiet!
Also make that stuff that killed all those poeple at the Union carbide plant in Bophal India several years ago, oh boy!

You know, I just realized, while I was sleeping, I heard a thud like a big truck was on our street. Like maybe a garbage truck, but our trash pickup isn't until tomorrow...that must of been it.

That acid is some bad mojo Bert!

[2112]

Scarry **** eh, FoF?
Our elephant in the room are 3 huge spheres of HF-Hydro Flouric acid...Check the MSDS on that shiet!
Also make that stuff that killed all those poeple at the Union carbide plant in Bophal India several years ago, oh boy!

[FlatoutFishin]

Good News, Well better than it could have been. I heard abou this on my way in this evening and called one of my buddies that works next door. No one was hurt. I worked in the plant next door for 5 years and the one guy that went to the hospital for observation was a kid that hired in while I was there. I was told that he is fine, was standing behind a vessel that saved his arse!!!! Everything in the area is charred. Blew the tank possibly over 100 yards from it's intended location.

So the good news part was that the only person in the area, who I know personally, is just fine. they are either still trying to determine the cause, or just not ready to tell the world what happened. Better than the last explosion in our area. I made a phone call that afternoon to a friend who worked at BP, and he told me he couldn't talk because they were busy trying to get an accurate body count. Man, I'm glad I don't do that stuff anymore!!

Glad no one was hurt seriously...price you pay to try and earn a decent living on the Gulf coast I guess.

[shallowist]

Good News, Well better than it could have been. I heard abou this on my way in this evening and called one of my buddies that works next door. No one was hurt. I worked in the plant next door for 5 years and the one guy that went to the hospital for observation was a kid that hired in while I was there. I was told that he is fine, was standing behind a vessel that saved his arse!!!! Everything in the area is charred. Blew the tank possibly over 100 yards from it's intended location.

So the good news part was that the only person in the area, who I know personally, is just fine. they are either still trying to determine the cause, or just not ready to tell the world what happened. Better than the last explosion in our area. I made a phone call that afternoon to a friend who worked at BP, and he told me he couldn't talk because they were busy trying to get an accurate body count. Man, I'm glad I don't do that stuff anymore!!

[reeltime]

sure they ain't talking about the city council

[bountyhunter]

League City spokeswoman Kristi Wyatt said residents in that city were complaining of having funny taste in their mouths.


Monte: What have you been doing?

You never know with Monte........

[Robalo]

Was the American Acryl Plant in Bayport. From GDN:

The explosion happened at about 9 a.m. at the American Acryl chemical plant in the Bayport complex operated by the Port of Houston between Seabrook and La Porte in Harris County. Two people were hurt in the blast and were being treated at Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital and were last reported in good condition, KHOU-TV reported.

Emergency management officials said that an unknown amount of acrylic acid and Toluene were released during the explosion.

Residents in the shelter in place communities were asked to stay indoors and seal their windows and doors and turn off the air conditioning and heating systems.

Schools in those communities were also under the shelter in place order and parents are instructed that their children are safe and that classes are continuing on schedule. The Clear Creek school district had 28 campuses sheltering in place, spokeswoman Janice Scott said.

The Dickinson school district also put all of its campuses east of I-45 under a shelter in place order, spokeswoman Tammy Dowdy said. That order was lifted at about 10:40 a.m.

Two sections of state Highway 146 near the entrance to the Bayport terminal were shut down.

Exposure to acrylic acid can cause severe skin irritation and breathing problems. It can also cause severe eye damage. Toluene can cause breathing problems and minor skin irritations.

League City spokeswoman Kristi Wyatt said residents in that city were complaining of having funny taste in their mouths.


Monte: What have you been doing?

[FlatoutFishin]

I was sleeping but didn't hear amything...Im over near Clearlake Shores and League City line.

[WestEndAngler]

Could be I'm hearing things through the grapevine