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In reply to the discussion: There's an Unbearable Chemical Smell Hovering Over Parts of Houston, and Experts Are Worried. [View all]2naSalit
(86,323 posts)31. There is enough toxic crap...
just in the dirt around those refineries and chemical manufacturing plants to kill anyone exposed on a good day, with the flooding anything can happen including leakage from the tank farms in the area, these are vast acreages of toxic cocktails, nobody should be within miles of that stuff and now that it's in the water, the fumes will carry far beyond the actual sheen found in and on the water. There will undoubtedly be a massive spike in cancer rates but also many immediate to real soon deaths from exposure... I wonder if any of that will be reported.
This was a decades long disaster waiting for this day to happen... and here we are. The possibility for explosions is extremely high, just short of inevitable.
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There's an Unbearable Chemical Smell Hovering Over Parts of Houston, and Experts Are Worried. [View all]
bathroommonkey76
Aug 2017
OP
This is horrible! Not only are those fumes possibly poisonous if inhaled, they could also be
smirkymonkey
Aug 2017
#2
Is it too cynical to think that the refineries just dumped a load of crap into the air?
gratuitous
Aug 2017
#4
If it's the asphalt refinery I have done but e the owner and he'd as soon kill everyone
elehhhhna
Aug 2017
#12
I used to live near a refinery and they could be filmed releasing pollution into the bay at night.
58Sunliner
Aug 2017
#29
Despite the fact that all the gas that's being delivered right now was refined to three months ago
elehhhhna
Aug 2017
#13
Fenceline communities cant ... evacuate so they are literally getting gassed by these chemicakls
L. Coyote
Aug 2017
#25
Job killing taxes and regulations have forced them to release the chemicals
IronLionZion
Aug 2017
#28