Big Spring texas refinery blows up

[bspride]

Hey i live out in Big Spring and at about 8:15 A.M. Central Time the refinery that is located outside of town blew up...This is terrible...it the single biggest smoke cloud i have ever seen! Just want to say pray for those who lost there lifes and for those helping in recovery efforts...I live a couple of miles from the refinery and it shook stuff of the shelves...Please keep them in your prayers.

[bspride]

here is a pic i took with my phone...Like i said im a couple of miles from the oil refinery...

[Curmudgeonx]

f*ck me, that looks bad.

Looks like the Associated Press just picked up the story about 5 minutes ago.

[C4]

cool except price of gas will go up

It's not even on the news??? yet

[bspride]

heres is a pic at 9:00 A.M. the smoke is drifted so much i had to add these two pictures together...thats why it looks weird...but you get the picture! They say you can see the cloud of smoke in Midland Texas which is 30-45 miles away

[autoload]

cool except price of gas will go up

It's not even on the news??? yet

WTF dude? There is nothing cool about that.

[InkL0sed]

This forum is my primary source of news...

[bspride]

CNN picked it up heres is a video i found
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/18/refinery.blast/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

[MeDeFe]

This is yet an other ploy by the american terrorist government to sudue the citizens by striking fear into them, soon they will claim it was an attack by Norwegian nationalist terrorists who have a vested interest in keeping the price of oil high. War against Norway will ensue, shortly after the other scandinavian countries including Finland will join against the imperialist superpower that is the US of A. Because Europeans hate Microsoft and love Linux they will support the scandinavian alliance financially as well as by sending them military equipment, while the Americans are occupied elsewhere Iran will finally declare war on Iraq and invade it, the country will be overrun in a matter of days and the Iraqi will "unanimously" vote for becoming a part of the Iranian Empire or be shot. Russia and China will be standing on the sidelines and hedging their bets while the American troops struggle with the unfamiliar terrain and hit-and-run tactics of their adversaries, in the end the conflict will be a draw, every party will declare itself to be the moral victor.


You take my word for it.

[Stymie]

Wow, I didn't hear about this. I have relatives that live in Big Spring.

[oggiss]

heres is a pic at 9:00 A.M. the smoke is drifted so much i had to add these two pictures together...thats why it looks weird...but you get the picture! They say you can see the cloud of smoke in Midland Texas which is 30-45 miles away

Holy crap! :/

[bspride]

miraculously only 4 people sustained non-life endangering injuries!

[itiq]

miraculously only 4 people sustained non-life endangering injuries!

woo, really, atleast that toxic cloud is drifting away from your area!

[bspride]

yeah the cloud is drifting into the farmland away from the population.

[itiq]

yeah the cloud is drifting into the farmland away from the population.

ooh, poor farm animals, tainted feed anyone?

[bspride]

not really...more like uncultivated land since cotton season is over...nothing really going on...maybe some plowing at the most...you idiot Canadians don't know much, eh?

[itiq]

not really...more like uncultivated land since cotton season is over...nothing really going on...maybe some plowing at the most...you idiot Canadians don't know much, eh?

, yeah this Canadian anyway, if you can see my avatar I'm far from any trees at the moment, the only plowing I know is plowing snow and chicks, the latter is more exciting!