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In reply to the discussion: Chemical Plant Near Houston Warns Its About To Explode [View all]Ford_Prefect
(8,699 posts)It will be Bhopal on the San Jacinto.
Engineering a plant like that should have anticipated catastrophe on this scale, ie: severe and possibly extended flooding. Toxic labs are built to that kind of standard to contain equally dangerous contents. Someone got paid a lot to look the other way when the standards were written or the plant was inspected. The fact that they won't identify what those chemicals are is the scariest bit.
Explosive chemicals have toxic side effects too. Look at the military burn pits report for example. No matter why it is happening this could be as bad as Fukushima in the near term. Once those chemicals and aftermath of their burning get into the water, the air, and into the surrounding land, and downstream into the Gulf, or up into the local atmosphere, the damage will be enormous and ongoing beyond the initial event with no way to contain or clean it up. Only nuclear waste and radiation are worse.