NW Houston explosion

[CleverNickname 1321]

Around 4:24am.

 

https://www.khou.com/mobile/article/news/local/breaking-large-blast-rattling-windows-felt-across-houston-area/285-dfb38cd1-484e-48f3-b87c-6bac0b7f2a25

Edited January 24, 2020 by CleverNickname

[deadshank 24653]

I live about 4 miles south of the location reported.  So this hits close to home.

[mulletpelini 5214]

Boomer is worried about his 50th wedding anniversary plans for Cancun in March.....thanks for T&P's pops

[kmac30 416]

News is ridiculous right now. Showing every piece of foam and house/building parts they can find. Reports of hearing it 30-40 miles away.

[ConferenceRoom 6144]

Early reports the building is a Chinese coronavirus storage facility. 

[deadshank 24653]

7 minutes ago, kmac30 said:

News is ridiculous right now. Showing every piece of foam and house/building parts they can find. Reports of hearing it 30-40 miles away.

Houston tv news is hilarious. 

[royiv 9326]

We live in Montrose and it woke me up from a dead sleep. The dog gave a very half hearted bark and then climbed into our bed.

[Telegraph_it 3358]

Propylene tank went boom. 

[DoobieWah 1451]

I heard it. Rattled the Windows. I don't think it would have woken me up though. I'm near Woodlake so that's a pretty good distance. 

It reminded me of a natural gas pipeline explosion I heard back in the mid-90s but that happened near Hempstead. (!)

 

Edited January 24, 2020 by DoobieWah

[Lat22 4015]

I’ve hotshot stuff to Watson a dozen times. Hope nobody was working overnight. That was a big blast.

[Rip76 4946]

Just hearing about this.  Watching live video,  our Nitrogen tank is still standing.  

[Baconboy 135]

I noticed that tank is still standing. Impressive as that was a big blast. Woke up both me and Bacongirl, and hardly anything wakes her up (especially not babies crying in the night).

[NeverMarryAStripper 21909]

6.5 miles from me and my bedroom windows face that direction.  Rattled my windows and woke my ass up.

[Js1 85443]

1 hour ago, royiv said:

We live in Montrose and it woke me up from a dead sleep. The dog gave a very half hearted bark and then climbed into our bed.

What a way to talk about your wife 

[Native Horn 3504]

1 hour ago, DoobieWah said:

I heard it. Rattled the Windows. I don't think it would have woken me up though.

Does not compute.

[immortal13 4059]

5 minutes ago, Native Horn said:

Does not compute.

He was already awake

[Nivek 16946]

Boom/denzel

[Underdog 28744]

First, Ft. Worth was blowing up and now it's Houston?  

[huge 3795]

Watson Valve is a client.  We spoke to them yesterday.  Looks terrible.

[Johnny Sack 8397]

Astros probably have footage.

[SydneyCarton 48112]

I was up, heard it in Timbergrove, and felt it a little bit. People aren't exaggerating. 

[Jimbaround 975]

My office is less than a mile as the crow flies.  Apparently it shook our building pretty good and knocked a bunch of lights down on the top floor.  There's dust all over my desk and office table.

[Captainant 27682]

My bet is what brought the KABOOM was a dust explosion

Especially with it being at a metal grinding warehouse

[clapclapclap 9000]

Google Maps is up to date.  Nice picture.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Watson+Valve+Services+Inc/@29.8370053,-95.5476397,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x8640c540d03ed851:0x31e68b0b53136e2f!2sWatson+Valve+Services+Inc!8m2!3d29.8370007!4d-95.5454456!3m4!1s0x8640c540d03ed851:0x31e68b0b53136e2f!8m2!3d29.8370007!4d-95.5454456

Watson Valve Services Inc

3.6 (8)

Permanently closed

Edited January 24, 2020 by clapclapclap
And just a couple of blocks east are an HEB distribution center and warehouses

[jkates 316]

Woke my wife and I up from sleep. It felt like every door in our house slammed at once. A shock wave went through my body. Weird way to wake up. Thankfully, no damage. We're about 3 miles due south of the explosion (Gessner/Long Point). 

[Viper 12109]

18 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

And just a couple of blocks east are an HEB distribution center and warehouses

Shit has anyone started calling to see which HEB's are still open?

[Scheiss Meister 8408]

46 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Google Maps is up to date.  Nice picture.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Watson+Valve+Services+Inc/@29.8370053,-95.5476397,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x8640c540d03ed851:0x31e68b0b53136e2f!2sWatson+Valve+Services+Inc!8m2!3d29.8370007!4d-95.5454456!3m4!1s0x8640c540d03ed851:0x31e68b0b53136e2f!8m2!3d29.8370007!4d-95.5454456

Watson Valve Services Inc

3.6 (8)

Permanently closed

The "Permanently Closed" status is nice.

[tx 3 putt 77158]

I worked in that neighborhood for 15 years, so hits close to home.

i need to go eat at Juarez 

[Tylerocks 2553]

I didn't wake up but wife did....Montrose here too.

 

Do any of y'all remember the Salt Dome explosion in the early 90's?  I think it was in Brenham.

That was 70+ miles away and rattled my windows in West Houston.  Crazy.

[tx 3 putt 77158]

Damn some close friends live around the golf course and all their front windows where blown out 

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

I went to rehab .7 mile from the blast site so this hits close to where I went to rehab.

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

13 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

I worked in that neighborhood for 15 years, so hits close to home.

i need to go eat at Juarez 

Never been but you'd have a hard time convincing me it's better than Chavez. That place is awesome. 

[Storm the Field 5296]

Guarantee there are Plaintiffs' attorneys in the recording studio right now cutting radio ads. 

[tx 3 putt 77158]

Just now, MaybeACoordinator said:

Never been but you'd have a hard time convincing me it's better than Chavez. That place is awesome. 

Juarez has the best cheese enchiladas in town 

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:

Juarez has the best cheese enchiladas in town 

I'll have to try them. Two favorites right now are Spanish Village and Superica, but $20 is a bit much.

[Hanrahan 1306]

I also live about four miles south.  Thing popped me right out of bed.

[Armybrat 40853]

34 minutes ago, Tylerocks said:

I didn't wake up but wife did....Montrose here too.

 

Do any of y'all remember the Salt Dome explosion in the early 90's?  I think it was in Brenham.

That was 70+ miles away and rattled my windows in West Houston.  Crazy.

I remember hearing the Texas City explosion very distinctly. We were stationed at Fort Sam at the time so it really wasn’t even close to home.

[Jacob McCandles 202]

35 minutes ago, Tylerocks said:

I didn't wake up but wife did....Montrose here too.

 

Do any of y'all remember the Salt Dome explosion in the early 90's?  I think it was in Brenham.

That was 70+ miles away and rattled my windows in West Houston.  Crazy.

I thought it was more Columbus/Sealy area, but I remember it well. I slept thru the one last night.

[Eastwood 4394]

Seems like zoning would have avoided some damage to homes. But Houston gonna Houston.

[crash_davis 23114]

1 minute ago, Eastwood said:

Seems like zoning would have avoided some damage to homes. But Houston gonna Houston.

Houston: Zoning, what the fuck is that?

[Brisketexan 105161]

3 minutes ago, Eastwood said:

Seems like zoning would have avoided some damage to homes. But Houston gonna Houston.

One would think that the strip clubs surrounding the industrial site would shield the nearby homes from the blast.  At least, I think that's how Houston works.

[Scheiss Meister 8408]

5 minutes ago, Jacob McCandles said:

I thought it was more Columbus/Sealy area, but I remember it well. I slept thru the one last night.

It was in a little community outside of Brenham, Wesley.  A friend of mine was working in Spring Branch, and the shaking knocked a car off of blocks at the back end of their parking lot.  They didn't know about that car until that happened.  

[Captainant 27682]

15 minutes ago, Eastwood said:

Seems like zoning would have avoided some damage to homes. But Houston gonna Houston.

Nevermind that the facility didn't handle materials that required chemical safety sheets and industrial zoning. From all the reporting I've seen so far, it's a plastics and metal fabrication site working with pre-prepared materials. This is as much a failure of zoning (which doesn't exist in Houston lol) as it is of regulation and oversight.

We literally have no idea how many buildings like that are all over the city, and all over the country. Shit has been exploding/catching on fire much more frequently now that we've loosened all those pesky safety regulations though [/nocr]

[Doc Reeves 6434]

5 hours ago, deadshank said:

I live about 4 miles south of the location reported.  So this hits close to home.

Username checks outs

[UT_OB1 2224]

12 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Nevermind that the facility didn't handle materials that required chemical safety sheets and industrial zoning. From all the reporting I've seen so far, it's a plastics and metal fabrication site working with pre-prepared materials. This is as much a failure of zoning (which doesn't exist in Houston lol) as it is of regulation and oversight.

We literally have no idea how many buildings like that are all over the city, and all over the country. Shit has been exploding/catching on fire much more frequently now that we've loosened all those pesky safety regulations though [/nocr]

What?  The current theory is that it was and ethylene tank.  It would have required an SDS as well as the hazards diamond on the tank.  

[clapclapclap 9000]

1 hour ago, Storm the Field said:

Guarantee there are Plaintiffs' attorneys in the recording studio right now cutting radio ads. 

Our altruists have sprung into action:

 

[Captainant 27682]

2 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

What?  The current theory is that it was and ethylene tank.  It would have required an SDS as well as the hazards diamond on the tank.  

I'm not in a hazardous materials handling industry so I may be mis-stating out of ignorance. I thought I saw on the HOU11 broadcast that the site had no risk management plan or something like that to inform its neighbors about potential industrial hazards due to the nature of the materials they were handling? From the HOU11 broadcast below:

[clapclapclap 9000]

 

[UT_OB1 2224]

4 minutes ago, Captainant said:

I'm not in a hazardous materials handling industry so I may be mis-stating out of ignorance. I thought I saw on the HOU11 broadcast that the site had no risk management plan or something like that to inform its neighbors about potential industrial hazards due to the nature of the materials they were handling? From the HOU11 broadcast below:

That's not what that means.  Now they may have done a terrible job of maintaining their records and communicating them to their employees, but they probably would have had more than 2 minor violation with OSHA.  If OSHA was ever at their site, and clearly were due the 2 minor violations, there's almost no way they didn't have those SDSs as well as safety procedures .  

[deadshank 24653]

35 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Our altruists have sprung into action:

 

Mostyn?   Has that crook risen from the dead?