Breaking live: A chemical tank in Garden Grove, California is at risk of exploding and evacuation of 40,000 ordered.

[ColonelAngus]

Yikes. Hope no one gets hurt.

This is terrible.

 

[Harry Dresden]

thats a few miles from Disneyland....

 

[1srelluc]

Jokes aside I hope they get it rendered safe......Storage tank explosions are no joke.

 

[ozro]

That tank is full of the chemical that makes that horrid smell in the vicinity of nail salons.
I say it's just a plot to raise the cost of artificial nails.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

 

[1srelluc]

When I worked for DuPont we had a 10K solvent storage tank go Kaboom. Fortunately the tank was around 2/3rds full so when it touched off it basically blew itself out.

I found the manhole cover about 200 yards away on the railroad spur into the plant! The explosion had sheared the bolts that held it in place.

We got very lucky with that one! They never did really figure out what caused it. Nobody was anywhere near it.