I understand what you feel because, I had witnesses one such explosion in Assam(India) some 10 years back. It is amazing, how the Fire Crew and the Law Enforcing Personnel the world over take over their tasks in the most demanding time and places.
In the high school, we thought a car ran into the building! BSHS is nothing but a huge pile of bricks, and still was shaken up bad enough to knock the cieling tiles out of the vocational building.
man i still remember this day... i was workin at wal mart when it happened... all the shopping carts lined up literally lifted off the floor and slammed down... broke all the sliding doors... thank God nobody was killed
Hey guys, don't forget the people in the refinery control room! If they hadn't kept their cool and shut everything off, this would've been about 100x worse. I was at school when this happened. In Forsan, TX. About 10 miles from the refinery. We heard and felt the boom. And God played a major part in this too. He was there watching over all of this. I thank Him everytime I think about it. This was scary.
I live about mmm 6 miles from it.. It actually blew things off the walls.. Everyone survived thank goodness!! What a miracle! It was super scary after the initial explosion because we thought more than 200 were dead. If a certain tank was to explode it would have obliterated about a 20 miile radius of Big Spring. The fire dept and police did a wonderful job! My father in law is a police officer! Shows you have brave they were to work so close!
We were in a RV park about 2 miles down the road and my wife though some one had ran into our trailer, We were on the way to CA from NC and it took us for ever that day to be able to leave the area with all of the detours that were set up. How no one was killed is a true wonder, we had arrived in the area the night before and had driven into town for dinner and I had remarked to the wife that is was nuts having a refinery right next to a main highway
@ethanbaby30 I'm sorry, but unless that tank has an actual equivalent of a few million tons of TNT, which I'm 1,000% sure it doesn't, that would not have happened to Big Spring.
@iluvincitingviolence I wasnt exactly sure what "equivalent" of anything was, but I do know for sure that the fire department and a number of other volenteers were keeping close eye on one of the large tanks. I was told that if the fire reached that specific tank it could cause devastation. Alon is next to a gas plant. Maybe that was what they were trying to keep away from. Either way it was so scary!
Hi Guys
I understand what you feel because, I had witnesses one such explosion in Assam(India) some 10 years back. It is amazing, how the Fire Crew and the Law Enforcing Personnel the world over take over their tasks in the most demanding time and places.
Milan Chatterjee from India
chatterjeemilan 6 months ago
that was close
0524cami 1 year ago
In the high school, we thought a car ran into the building! BSHS is nothing but a huge pile of bricks, and still was shaken up bad enough to knock the cieling tiles out of the vocational building.
super911fernando 1 year ago
i was sick and fell off the my bed
isaac5603 1 year ago
man i still remember this day... i was workin at wal mart when it happened... all the shopping carts lined up literally lifted off the floor and slammed down... broke all the sliding doors... thank God nobody was killed
babiblu888 1 year ago
I live in El Paso and I felt it, LOL, and that's about 350 miles from the incident
ir10031981 1 year ago
@ir10031981 hahaha your funny (sarcasticly if you didn't get it
TheKmk173 1 year ago
Damn yall. That sucks.
Busdude97 2 years ago
i live in snyder,texas and the ground was shaking here and its 45 miles from big spring
klk1900 2 years ago
I was at Parkplace retirement ceneter when I heard the blast. I thought that maybe settles Hotel might have been blown up...
korndawl 2 years ago
Hey guys, don't forget the people in the refinery control room! If they hadn't kept their cool and shut everything off, this would've been about 100x worse. I was at school when this happened. In Forsan, TX. About 10 miles from the refinery. We heard and felt the boom. And God played a major part in this too. He was there watching over all of this. I thank Him everytime I think about it. This was scary.
bamzle92 2 years ago
@bamzle92 i felt it to ohh and goooo STANTON :P
TheKmk173 1 year ago
Big Spring not Big Springs
Cinderfinrella 3 years ago
I live about mmm 6 miles from it.. It actually blew things off the walls.. Everyone survived thank goodness!! What a miracle! It was super scary after the initial explosion because we thought more than 200 were dead. If a certain tank was to explode it would have obliterated about a 20 miile radius of Big Spring. The fire dept and police did a wonderful job! My father in law is a police officer! Shows you have brave they were to work so close!
ethanbaby30 3 years ago
Hi
We were in a RV park about 2 miles down the road and my wife though some one had ran into our trailer, We were on the way to CA from NC and it took us for ever that day to be able to leave the area with all of the detours that were set up. How no one was killed is a true wonder, we had arrived in the area the night before and had driven into town for dinner and I had remarked to the wife that is was nuts having a refinery right next to a main highway
Wayne & Linda
oldncredneck 3 years ago
@ethanbaby30 I'm sorry, but unless that tank has an actual equivalent of a few million tons of TNT, which I'm 1,000% sure it doesn't, that would not have happened to Big Spring.
iluvincitingviolence 8 months ago
@iluvincitingviolence I wasnt exactly sure what "equivalent" of anything was, but I do know for sure that the fire department and a number of other volenteers were keeping close eye on one of the large tanks. I was told that if the fire reached that specific tank it could cause devastation. Alon is next to a gas plant. Maybe that was what they were trying to keep away from. Either way it was so scary!
ethanbaby30 8 months ago
A true blessing that on one was killed. My father and step-mother live in Big Spring and heard and felt the explosion and feared the worst.
DrMortician 4 years ago