What is it with Texas and stuff blowing up, though? I swear, every time I turn on the Discovery Channel, it's about (a) Tenerife air disaster or (b) that shmuck in California who thought it would be clever to build a gas main right below a 15d grade or (c) massive explosions in Texas.

And, like, the first two, at least they only happened once each, right? (The second one sort of happened in stages, where, if you didn't get your house demolished by a crashing train, you got to see it blow up two weeks later.) But Texas seems to have massive explosions all the time.

Heh. Our place gets a 72, but most of the places they list are really not the businesses I would prefer to use. Our neighborhood itself is great, but we're right near a busy main street with kind of skanky and/or religious stores on it. The program assumes I'd love to use the Theosophical Library Center as my local bookstore, Food 4 Less as my local grocery store, and the Right to Life League as my local library (there's a Planned Parenthood a block from here and a huge ethnic population that skews Christian; hence the emphasis on religion).

We do have good walkable coffee, a great neighborhood park, a couple of good restaurants (who else has a vegan drive-through, fast food restaurant in walking distance, after all?), and access to the subway Gold line, however. Love my neighborhood. I do wish we were a tiny bit closer to all the good stores and such on Colorado, but I am really not complaining.

Congrats on the upcoming review, pd!

Happy Birthday, vw!

My corset is too big (no gap when laced) now that I've lost weight. That's really not a reason to buy a second one, is it?

I think they've been showing that Texas City explosion one a lot, right? Seconds from Disaster? Maybe only on Discovery Times.

Oh wow, that's scary. I don't like it when things blow up.

(Unless I'm blowing them up or watching Jilli or Cass blowing them up. Otherwise, no good.)

What is it with Texas and stuff blowing up, though?

Lots and lots of oil and gas & attendent infrastructure. That stuff kinda wants to burn.

Well, there's the one that happened in the 40s, where all the footage is B&W. And there's the one that they have color footage of from so far away that the gigantic iron drums look like soda cans flying into the air (as the shockwave rolls across the plain). And there are at least two more, than I can't remember exactly the details of.

Seriously, Texas? Maybe the oil business is not the business for you. Klutzy people don't own china shops, you know?

If it weren't TX, it would be some other state. It's just inherent ot the business.

A couple of my friend's parents worked across the border for various gas refineries, so we heard lots of stories about workplace accidents involving things going boom.

Gas explosions in Dallas on the news. With NYC, SF and now this I worry.

Any terrorist worth his salt would be taking credit for all of this.

Slacker Al Qaida, nothing sadder.

Seriously, Texas? Maybe the oil business is not the business for you. Klutzy people don't own china shops, you know?

Actually, this one wasn't oil or gas.

From the DMN

Reporter Matthew Haag spoke to Dallas Fire-Rescue Lt. Joel Lavender, who said the fire started on an 18-wheeler on a loading dock on the back side of Southwest. The fire then spread into the building, where tanks of oxygen tanks, helium and acetylene began blowing up.