[Ansteorra] west Texas explosion

Sher M runa.herd at earthlink.net
Mon Feb 18 14:43:59 PST 2008


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pavel" <pavelcossack68 at yahoo.com>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] west Texas explosion


> Lady Gwyneth,     The explosion bounced me out of bed this morning.  It 
> took a few minutes to locate where it originated and by that time it was a 
> black mushroom shaped cloud over the refinery.  Even though it looked like 
> an A-bomb had gone off the general concensus was that the refinery had 
> blown.  From the force of the shock wave I am astounded that there were no 
> reported fatalities and only four non life-threatening injuries.  Our 
> house is about 4 miles west of the plant.  By 20 mins after the explosion, 
> there were flames shooting several hundred feet into the base of the 
> rising smoke cloud.  A quick check with shire members has everyone well.
>       The plant is mostly computerized, so there were no people in or 
> close to the site of the explosion.  CNN is carrying the story with much 
> better pix than I was able to get.
>  Pavel
>  Crossrode Keep
>  (Big Spring)




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