That Georgia Sugar refinery explosion

[malaise]

seventeen people are missing, six confirmed dead, 82 persons injured, many in critical conditions. This is a major disaster and looking at the persons being interviewed I'd say they are mostly Afro Americans.

[tekisui]

1. Wierd stuff going on.

No less than 5 domestic tragic events competing for airtime. Shooting/stand off in LA, Shooting in MO city council, a shooting at a tech. college, the sugar refineery explosion and the aftermath of the tornados.


The sugar explosion is barely mentioned.

[murray hill farm]

2. I agree! Very little coverage.

I live in Brunswick, GA..about 70 miles south of the explosion...and there has been some local coverage...most will wait til the 6pm news. CNN is out of Atlanta, but very, very little coverage. Yet is should be major, major coverage. There was more coverage this am about 2 stolen takers out of some warehouse someplace than of this tragic and horrendous explosion. Whats the deal?

[Zoigal]

3. The explosion was definitely downplayed...

The company's stock going down was the main headline...
not the casualties. Poor people. z

[malaise]

5. Really sad

Pity Britney didn't work there - MSM might give them more coverage.

[CottonBear]

4. CNN is covering hte story as is the BBC. Here's a BBC link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7234144.stm

Many people have been taken to the burn center in Augusta and the hospital spokesman ( a physicians assistant in the burn unit) said that 15 were on ventilators and the mortality rate is very high for the type of burns that they have. The family members are urged to visit because the patients with extensive burns will probably die soon. :(

It is a horrible tragedy. :(

[malaise]

7. Imagine finding better coverage on BBC

Something's seriously wrong with MSM.

[ben_meyers]

9. Front page on Arizona Republic

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0208refineryblast06-on.html

[malaise]

11. Lots of people will now be unemployed as well

How sad is this.

[NightWatcher]

6. the plant's employees are almost 50/50 black white. Local news thought that 300 would be hurt/killed

when it first broke last night. I saw dozens of ambulances screaming towards the area from downtown.

[malaise]

8. Thanks for the info

I didn't even know they still had sugar refineries in Georgia.

[NightWatcher]

12. it's a huge one and it is the worst smelling place I've ever been

the smell of raw sugar falling into the machinery along with the refining process. It would gag a maggot. Plus the air and dust there eats the paint off of cars. Each day employees drive through a quick car wash just inside the exit of the plant.

[KoKo]

10. That Sugar Refinery has been in Savannah since the 1930's....

It's amazing that all of a sudden "dust" would have ignighted and caused such an incredible explosion.

Article sites a couple of OSHA violations but given what Bush has done to deregulate everything and cover up inspections, one would wonder if the plant had just deteriorated from lack of oversight during the Bush years.

My dad worked there in the 1930's. Came out of college (after working his way through) and the depression hit...so working there shoveling sugar was all he could find to do. That's why I know how long it's been there.

Really sad so many people burned and injured.

[malaise]

13. We're sugar islands although many

have shut down the cane industries and the refineries. I must have toured most factories on several islands. Still love that molasses.

I'm guessing that the Georgia factory was refining sugar from brown to white. I hate white sugar. We only use brown sugar.