Witness: Explosion 'shook the house' (pipeline explosion near Cuero, Texas)

[TexasTowelie]

Source: Victoria Advocate

An explosion in rural DeWitt County shook that nearby homes and illuminated the horizon Sunday night was an Energy Transfer pipeline, said DeWitt County Sheriff Jode Zavesky.

Officials have not said as of 10:15 p.m. whether any injuries had occurred.

The fire is in a rural area that one witness described about eight miles north of Cuero near U.S. Highway 87.

I don’t think we will be getting any sleep tonight,” said Roger Zimmerman, 49, who lives about a mile from the fire on a road named after his family. “It looks like daylight out here.”

Read more: https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2015/jun/14/energy-plant-fire-cuero/

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Video at link.

[Warpy]

1. Thank goodness this one is out in the boonies`

Looks like a hell of a big line, 30 incher, maybe.

I hope they cut the gas soon and everyone is OK.

[alboe]

2. Terrifying

I live right near the San Bruno, CA, pipeline explosion that happened a few years back and that was absolutely awful.

[C Moon]

3. Didn't something similar to this happen last year in Texas?

(I'm being Google lazy)

[TexasTowelie]

4. There was a pipeline explosion near Milford, Texas in November 2013.

Milford is off of I-35 about 45 miles north of Waco and has a population of about 700 or so with a couple of old grouches--at least that is what the sign says because I frequently left the interstate and hit the back roads in my smoking days.

[C Moon]

5. I think that's what I was thinking about. Thinking further, it may have been a fertilizer plant. Thx

[TexasTowelie]

6. The fertilizer plant explosion was in West, Texas

which is about 20 miles north of Waco. There have been a lot of things that have exploded in the past few years between Waco and Dallas near I-35. West is at mile marker 354, Milford is at mile marker 379 and there was an explosion at a manufacturing plant in Waxahachie which is at mile marker 400. Then there was the bridge collapse near Salado which is at mile marker 286. The conspiracy theorists probably think that the interstate is cursed.

[jwirr]

7. This is actually terrifying. Think about how many gas pipelines are in small and large communities

across the USA. My community is almost run totally on gas. Some of us in recent years have opted for electricity but the pipelines are still there. And they are all old lines. What was with people who installed these kind of death traps? Didn't they realize that corrosion was the most likely outcome for these pipes?

Usually it is just one building that explodes but how do they go about making sure all the pipes are replaced?

Infrastructure any one?

[TexasTowelie]

8. I have a friend in Austin

that lives on the other side of the alley where an explosion occurred two years ago and killed a man in his house. That house was destroyed and it shifted a couple of other houses off of their foundation. The residents in that neighborhood are very concerned that something similar will occur in the future.

[jwirr]

9. And they are right to be concerned. These pipes are getting old.