Explosion hits fertilizer plant in West, Texas

[MariettaRC]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/17/us/tex...ion/index.html

... What the heck is going on. That's two in one week, except this one was most likely an accident.

[Locked]

Video of it.

[Jon]

Some images of the cloud

CNN says 2 dead so far; reports say as many as 30~70 may be dead. Many homes are leveled.

[hadriel]

Fertilizers => Ammonia + nitrates.

I really wouldn't want to be one of those around there. Chemists run from nitrates unless they have to use them, and we use them very carefully.

Hadriel

[CrazyForDex]

Yea I read about that last night. That video is crazy

I have a feeling that people are going to relate this to the Boston bombing, but atm that seems like a stretch imo