At approximately 2:40, Monday afternoon, June 7, 2010, a Hood County, Texas, natural gas facility exploded south of Granbury, near Pecan Plantation, killing three.At least 10 people are missing. So far.
There was a loud explosion, with a rumbling noise, like a tornado.
A massive fireball and big plume of black smoke could be seen for miles.
Early reports are that workers hit an underground natural gas pipeline while digging.
Area residents reported continued thunder like rumbling after the initial explosion.I do not know what natural gas company is responsible, but they are working to shut the gas flow to the damaged pipeline.
It may be late in the evening before the natural gas fire is controlled.
Firemen from 8 different fire departments have surrounded the site of the explosion. Parkland Hospital, in Dallas, is expecting burn victims to be brought to their specialist burn unit.
Something like this can happen, and yet there are people who can not understand why people like Steve Doeung and the others who live on Carter Avenue objected to Chesapeake Energy running a non-odorized, high pressure natural gas pipeline under their homes.
I heard nothing at my location, about 65 miles northeast of Granbury.
More details when I hear them.
It was an electrical crew digging and they hit a natural gas pipeline. More updates are coming in :-)
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ReplyDeleteAll the local TV stations here are covering it live. Are you seeing that in Wink? First I heard it was Johnson County. No, it's Hood County. By Cleburne. No. Instead south of Granbury. The confusions of fresh news.
This catastrophe was covered by the three major networks' evening news, CNN, and yahoo news. This pipeline is about twice as large as the one proposed for Carter Ave. residents, but the rural residences are nowhere as close to the pipeline or as tightly packed together either. So if such an aweful thing were to happen on Carter St., even with just a 16-inch pipeline (remember CHK originally wanted to place 24-inch size and HELD FAST ON RUNNING AS MANY LINES AS POSSIBLE under those little yards), the likely results include obliterated--as in creamated bodies, so no need for autopsies--bodies and homes where the explosion/s occur with related damages from flying building materials/concrete and re-bar from the city streets and spreading fires NOT ONLY FROM THE EXPLODED PIPELINE but from the grid of smaller utility gas lines connected to the whole neighborhood and the nearby electrical lines. Of course, there will be exploded water and sewer (eeew!) lines spewing forth their contents. Traffic for the north central Texas area could come to a standstill as the nearby I-30 is within that "kill zone" and the I-35W mixmaster is just 1&1/2 mile away. The good part is that even people in the mid-cities and possibly nearby counties can see the drama by just looking since Carter St. is located on top of one of the highest geographical locations in FW. Note how first- responders could do very little since they lacked training and plus the heat makes it impossible to get anywhere close, unless some major fire suits are available.
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