A massive manhunt and siege in West Texas now?

[freshwest]

91. I remember a bad pipeline explosion in what was then the lovely town of Brenham.

There are a lot of dangers that people don't know about. As I saw more things being handed off to the cheapest contractors, more accidents were happened. That started with Reagan, cheap labor and all that crap.

OSHA was weakened, so many things were lost when Carter was put out of office. We have a generation that never knew the kind of working conditions we once had, and how serious the regulators were about safety. And we didn't have such widespread wage theft as now.

From that first video, it appeared the fire was in a field outside the main buildings and the wind was high and it got into the areas with explosive materials, I doubt a sprinkler would have stopped it. The way the place blew was really something.

At this point I hope that those in rural areas and others, will be able to pressure these owners to do the right thing. It doesn't seem government workers are getting any respect down there.

I'm really appalled at what I head in the news. Everytime I go down to visit, it's not bad. But it just feels different, the emphasis isn't the same at all.