See a few photos of it now on the web. Looks like the flat storage, and perhaps a rail car, were the 2 explosions. Sounds like that would have been the AN granular fertilizer that blew, not the anhydrous amonia - those tanks appear to have survived.
Town on one side of me had a warehouse fill with LP, blew up that we heard it rattle our shed 6 miles away. That knocked a lot of houses off their foundations in the little town of 500.
Town on the other side of me had a fertilizer plant catch on fire, no explosions, but sure was a cloud of stuff and smell, and was a long long term cleanup. That setup was actually out by itself, tho my cousins lived down wind of it.
The damage to that Texas town is worse than we believe, a lot of buildings that look ok are not, their foundations will be moved, etc.
Even so all that can be fixed, it's the heavy losses that are so terrible. People off the record are saying about 60 are missing in addition to the 12 they know have parished?
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