Witness: Explosion 'shook the house' (pipeline explosion near Cuero, Texas)
Source: Victoria Advocate
An explosion in rural DeWitt County shook that nearby homes and illuminated the horizon Sunday night was an Energy Transfer pipeline, said DeWitt County Sheriff Jode Zavesky.
Officials have not said as of 10:15 p.m. whether any injuries had occurred.
The fire is in a rural area that one witness described about eight miles north of Cuero near U.S. Highway 87.
I dont think we will be getting any sleep tonight, said Roger Zimmerman, 49, who lives about a mile from the fire on a road named after his family. It looks like daylight out here.
Read more: https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2015/jun/14/energy-plant-fire-cuero/
Video at link.
Warpy
(111,480 posts)Looks like a hell of a big line, 30 incher, maybe.
I hope they cut the gas soon and everyone is OK.
alboe
(192 posts)I live right near the San Bruno, CA, pipeline explosion that happened a few years back and that was absolutely awful.
C Moon
(12,227 posts)(I'm being Google lazy)
TexasTowelie
(112,755 posts)Milford is off of I-35 about 45 miles north of Waco and has a population of about 700 or so with a couple of old grouches--at least that is what the sign says because I frequently left the interstate and hit the back roads in my smoking days.
C Moon
(12,227 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,755 posts)which is about 20 miles north of Waco. There have been a lot of things that have exploded in the past few years between Waco and Dallas near I-35. West is at mile marker 354, Milford is at mile marker 379 and there was an explosion at a manufacturing plant in Waxahachie which is at mile marker 400. Then there was the bridge collapse near Salado which is at mile marker 286. The conspiracy theorists probably think that the interstate is cursed.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)across the USA. My community is almost run totally on gas. Some of us in recent years have opted for electricity but the pipelines are still there. And they are all old lines. What was with people who installed these kind of death traps? Didn't they realize that corrosion was the most likely outcome for these pipes?
Usually it is just one building that explodes but how do they go about making sure all the pipes are replaced?
Infrastructure any one?
TexasTowelie
(112,755 posts)that lives on the other side of the alley where an explosion occurred two years ago and killed a man in his house. That house was destroyed and it shifted a couple of other houses off of their foundation. The residents in that neighborhood are very concerned that something similar will occur in the future.