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Showing Original Post only (View all)Look at West, Texas on Google Maps [View all]
http://goo.gl/maps/kFuakAnd try to figure out what kind of fucking idiot would allow a middle school, a high school, a playground, an old folks home, an apartment building and a couple of dozen homes within a block or two of a fucking fertilizer plant?
No matter how this plays out, this town was so lucky that the explosion happened when the schools weren't filled with kids.
Gotta love Texas, the land without all those onerous Government regulations that would keep people from building schools next to an explosive waiting to happen.
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I'm glad you got the order of things right. The plant and storage tanks were there before...
slackmaster
Apr 2013
#2
It is too bad that local planning/zoning officials cannot be sued over allowing the building of
pampango
Apr 2013
#3
People buy the homes and rent the apartments that are built in proximity to these sites.
bike man
Apr 2013
#13
chlorine leak from a train wreck in rural part of san antonio killed a couple people in 2004
sammytko
Apr 2013
#31
From what I heard, the plant had been there since the 50's. It's quite likely that...
Poll_Blind
Apr 2013
#11
A gasoline pipeline exploded at the end of my street in L.A. in 1976; 4 dead, 16 injured
pinboy3niner
Apr 2013
#33