Another explosion at KC chemical plant

[proud2BlibKansan]

Just got the word.

Here is link
http://www.kctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6058271

[Sequoia]

1. KC and the Sunshine Band?

I didn't know they had a plant!

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Did you not hear about the big explosion and fire yesterday?

It's really not funny at all.

[Sequoia]

10. No. Sorry, I was not at work to look at DU or any other news.

I'm terrible at jokes I guess. No offense.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. No problem. Thanks for the words

:hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Link

http://www.kctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6058271

[MuseRider]

3. Are you at school?

I hope they gave you the day off considering how close you are. Take care.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Of course we are here

It's my lunchtime. They just announced that kids could go home if parents come, as there was another explosion. There are police helicopters overhead. My school is on the route from the PD to the plant on fire.

I didn't see any big smoke cloud like yesterday but I will go outside and check again in a bit.

Thanks Muse. This has been no fun at all.

[MuseRider]

8. Don't go out!

Please, your eyes hurt yesterday. There is no sense doing it again today.

I can imagine what a mess it is, especially trying to teach with so much going on.

Bill said that on the way home from the hospital yesterday he could see it and smell the smoke and it was unpleasant and he was quite a way from it.

Be careful.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. I will be careful

I looked out the window and no big cloud - yet.

One of my co-workers this morning was going on and on about the EPA sending a plane from Texas and they said our air is fine. I said "well you can put a tinfoil hat on my head and laugh at me if you want, but since 2000, I really don't trust my govt anymore to be honest or to take care of me"

She froze and said "wow I think you are making a great point there"

[Sequoia]

14. Well, where is it?

I don't see anything on CNNs news page. What is KC?

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Kansas City

Plant is just east of I-35 and just south of the MO River. On the Missouri side, not in Kansas.

[Sequoia]

17. Okay, thanks. Stay safe.

Hope the radios are on it. A few weeks ago on Democracy Now they had that story about the train chemcial spill that happened about 3 years ago in N. Dakota and the radios never warned the people about it. It was really scary to hear a mother on a 9-1-1 call fearing her 11 year old daugher might be dead because she had gone outside. Never heard what happened to the child.

Stay safe. Scary times.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Here's a map Muse

http://shoplocal.planetdiscover.com/sp?address=910+N.+Prospect+Ave.%2C+Kansas+City%2C+MO+64120&aff=9&map=true&x=35&y=9

[MuseRider]

20. Isn't 35 the highway

you take to Worlds Of Fun? It goes by the Casinos.

I was looking for the Paseo bridge, that must be further South?

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. 435 is the highway that goes to Worlds of Fun

It is east of 35. The Paseo Bridge is 35, as it goes across the river.

My school is just west of 435.

[maddezmom]

24. I used to go there with my cousins when I was visiting my grandmother

Stay safe :hug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

27. Thanks

I am 4 miles away. Finally mapquested it just now.

[MuseRider]

25. Now it makes sense.

I think I accidentally took 35 one time and got messed up. OK, now I have a much better idea. Thanks.

[proud2BlibKansan]

29. The fire

is directly east of the Paseo Bridge, along the river. Maybe a half mile from the bridge.

[evlbstrd]

6. This gift just keeps on giving.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Sorry I don't follow

[evlbstrd]

26. Just that, when they think it's under control,

Boom!

[proud2BlibKansan]

28. Okay I get it now

I guess I am just a bit frazzled.

[evlbstrd]

31. I can't blame you.

[Megahurtz]

9. So what kinds of Chemicals are these

and what do they do at this Plant? Does anybody know?:shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. They make mineral spirits

Whatever the heck those are. This morning on local news they said the plant has been here since the 1920s. That was comforting - NOT.

[Hekate]

33. Paint thinners, solvents, paraffins, cycloparaffins and aromatic hydrocarbons.

I looked it up -- there's a lot more, but you get the idea.

"Mineral spirits" is probably the old name for the products, but they're the kind of thing that's very useful but you are warned not to inhale or ingest.

Our thoughts are with you Kansas City folks as you try not to inhale.

Hekate

[proud2BlibKansan]

34. Thanks!

[donsu]

18. here's a report on it

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?id=9765&lang=eng

[Pugee]

19. Don't you feel reassured that

they keep saying it is not "highly" toxic? :sarcasm:

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. Oh yeah

especially since you can smell it in the air.

[proud2BlibKansan]

30. Just found out

The fire is in a plant that makes mineral spirits. And this morning they made the custodians come in early and clean off all the desks in the school with - you guessed it - mineral spirits. :scared:

[Megahurtz]

32. Weird. n/t

[donsu]

21. 30,000 gl. tank railroad cars are near by and might explode

this info came from the link I previously provided in this thread