I understand completely. But isn't it official that some sort of 'detonation' was used by police? And do you think the culprit could have been a 'random stooge' placed there by the DS?
He said and was told the railroad placed shape charges under those cars. They dug trenches on either side put lit flares in the trenches then blew a small hole in the bottom of each tanker. This allowed the contents to ignite immediately.
All right, then. Here's more to consider. The explosions were only shaped charges to puncture the tanks to allow the drainage of the vinyl chloride. They took measures to trap the liquid and set it afire. The combustion products of vinly chloride are phosgene and hydrogen chloride. Phosgene is a poison gas and hydrogen chloride, when inhaled, will form hydrochloric acid in the lungs. Now, as bad as this sounds...it was not as bad as allowing the vinyl chloride to be released by itself. Think about that. Sometimes, the only choice available is between terrible bad and not-as-terrible bad. What would you do differently? What COULD you do differently?
I am not too impressed with the problems of "convincing" ignorant "anons" of the correctness of facts. I don't think anything I have said is "conjecture." The facts of the case have been disclosed. The facts of chemistry are available with a little search in Wikipedia. If the tanks were in prospect of failing from the derailment damage, it sounds like letting the vinyl chloride simply leak out and dissipate was a non-starter.
And there have been worse industrial accidents (e.g., Bhopal, India), so get a sense of perspective. It's not good. It could have been handled better. It sounds like the responsible parties are trying to cover it over. But there are no obvious alternatives to what they thought they needed to do for the sake of reducing risk.
Let me ask his son if something was detonated. I don't believe that to be true. Remember the original story a car hit the train? I knew immediately that wasn't true he told us yet everyone here was saying it.
I can explain the picture. Look at a train axle that sticks out through the wheel. You see the bolts and the axle sticking out.
The wheel when it was removed, the picture I saw, the entire axle that comes out was a rounded off nub. It caught fire over 30 miles out from here.
I would post the picture but the evil government lurkers could see it and wonder how the hell we got it. This puts the NS employee in danger.
I understand completely. But isn't it official that some sort of 'detonation' was used by police? And do you think the culprit could have been a 'random stooge' placed there by the DS?
More proof the police are the enemy of liberty.
He said and was told the railroad placed shape charges under those cars. They dug trenches on either side put lit flares in the trenches then blew a small hole in the bottom of each tanker. This allowed the contents to ignite immediately.
All right, then. Here's more to consider. The explosions were only shaped charges to puncture the tanks to allow the drainage of the vinyl chloride. They took measures to trap the liquid and set it afire. The combustion products of vinly chloride are phosgene and hydrogen chloride. Phosgene is a poison gas and hydrogen chloride, when inhaled, will form hydrochloric acid in the lungs. Now, as bad as this sounds...it was not as bad as allowing the vinyl chloride to be released by itself. Think about that. Sometimes, the only choice available is between terrible bad and not-as-terrible bad. What would you do differently? What COULD you do differently?
I am not too impressed with the problems of "convincing" ignorant "anons" of the correctness of facts. I don't think anything I have said is "conjecture." The facts of the case have been disclosed. The facts of chemistry are available with a little search in Wikipedia. If the tanks were in prospect of failing from the derailment damage, it sounds like letting the vinyl chloride simply leak out and dissipate was a non-starter.
And there have been worse industrial accidents (e.g., Bhopal, India), so get a sense of perspective. It's not good. It could have been handled better. It sounds like the responsible parties are trying to cover it over. But there are no obvious alternatives to what they thought they needed to do for the sake of reducing risk.
Let me ask his son if something was detonated. I don't believe that to be true. Remember the original story a car hit the train? I knew immediately that wasn't true he told us yet everyone here was saying it.
I can explain the picture. Look at a train axle that sticks out through the wheel. You see the bolts and the axle sticking out.
The wheel when it was removed, the picture I saw, the entire axle that comes out was a rounded off nub. It caught fire over 30 miles out from here.
I would post the picture but the evil government lurkers could see it and wonder how the hell we got it. This puts the NS employee in danger.
I have nothing to gain by lying.