Flooded chemical plant near Houston now has "black plume of smoke."

[ProfessorGAC]

59. Your Posting With An Expert

Organic Chemist (yes, advanced degrees) and statistician with 40+ years of experience.

So, just because someone on TV said it, doesn't make it a viable approach.

The easiest way to get rid of these peroxy compounds would be to react them with the materials they normally use to make them into finished product. They could do it faster even if that meant some quality rejection.

However, nobody could get there (and their operators are probably their best experts) so who was going to do it?

All that said, point me to where i defended the company's actions.

I said i didn't think a less lax regulatory environment was a contributing factor. I am not defending any decisions by the company. I just doubt that any regulators could have put in place rules that covered a contingency like a once a century storm hitting a major metro area, up to and including industrial size generators being completely underwater.