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Sorry man!

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Originally posted by BigJoe
This is definately one of the problems of communicating electronically...

Sometimes I just wish that we could all just sit down together, get to meet each other personally...

and have a long GOOD LONG DISCUSSION about all of these issues!!!

AND IN PERSON!!!

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An explosion at a West Texas gas plant near Crane on Wednesday night could be seen as far as 20 miles away and shook homes in Odessa.
There were no injuries or deaths in the explosion at the compressor station in Crane County, KOSA-TV in Odessa reported Wednesday.

"The workers had left a few hours earlier," said Darrell Johnston, acting battalion chief of the Odessa fire department. "They were very lucky."

In Crane, members of the Tabernacle Baptist Church were in the middle of Wednesday night services when they felt the blast.

"We didn't know what to think," Lee White told the Odessa American for its Thursday editions. "We heard it and we were stunned. We all just kind of looked at each other. We didn't know if it hit the building, part of the roof caved in or what."

Johnston said the fire apparently started in three massive holding tanks, which contained about 10,000 gallons each of drip gasoline, which is an untreated, unrefined gasoline directly from the ground.

"There was some liquid runoff that caught a cooling tower on fire," Crane Fire Chief Gary Collier said. "And there were some associate fires caused by the explosion that were pretty easy to put out."

Johnston said that the explosion also blew shrapnel into the air.

"There was debris all over the plant" he said. "Those containers were an inch thick. There was a lot of heavy metal flying around."

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