Houston Building Explosion
 

We are OK. We are about 2-3 miles from the explosion and a lot of the roads around here are a mess with the closures near the site.

Looks like a gas leak filled a manufacturing/warehouse facility, eventually it ignited. Lots of the buildings around here are steel/sheet-metal.

Mrs. Beard was in the bathroom when it occurred. I slept through it.

Unfortunately, Houston does not have zoning, which means the backside of the business has residential neighborhoods.

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Amazing how much damage an out of control Mustang can do.

I cycle right by that building every single weekend and its only 4 miles from my house. It shook m
y house so hard (again 4 miles away) I thought it was thunder.

I live on the top floor of a 5 story apt building 10.5 miles from the explosion and it woke me up. I thought someone had come home drunk and plowed into the wall in the parking garage. I was planning to walk the garage today looking for damage. It was a very solid jolt that shook the building (at least the part that I'm in). The missus slept through it.

Thank goodness it happened at ~4:30am when there aren't many folks out and about. I'm sure it would have been much worse if it had occurred during rush hour.

I assume we felt it because of the size and height of the building. I'm guessing folks in 1 and 2 story homes around us may not have noticed.

Weather radar picked the flying debris


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Glad you guys are ok.

I had a meeting scheduled for 12:00 today a few doors down from there. Customer called and said don't show up. We don't even know if we have a building any more.

Wow, like I said, glad it was 430am vs later.

Glad you are okay. Saw this on the news and you were the first person I thought of! Had no idea you'd be so close.

Now reporting at least 2 dead

It seems like there's a fair amount of damage to nearby homes.
Gallery from the local paper showing damage on homes.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Massive-explosion-rocks-west-Houston-Friday-15000793.php

My wife said something about someone's ceiling collapsing on them and having them pinned until someone came and pulled it off of them.

It's a shame that we're having cold weather. It looks like lots of the folks in that area are poor, and now have some issues that are going to make their homes harder to keep warm.

I woke up to a faint bang and heard the house creak a little. Looked at the clock 4.:26 am. I live 30 miles away!

I went to high school 2 miles away from the explosion.

Glad you Houstonians are all OK.

We've had the floods and fires. What next the locusts, frogs and red rivers?

Wait, We already have those too...

So I guess next it is Boils...

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed there have been a LOT of these gas explosions in the last 6 months to a year? Commercial buildings and homes.

A new way for terrorists or anarchists to blow stuff up without having to make a bomb? Just cut a gas line and get away from the scene and wait for the boom.

Probably not... I'm sure the FD investigators would see a cut gas line, right? Vinnie?

widebody911... LOL @ the "Hey sweetie" note.

https://alabamaliving.coop/article/40-years-after-the-kopper-kettle-explosion/

I was living in Alabama when the Copper Kettle blew up. I had driven past it just the day before. After the cleanup I still remember a radio commercial for something that said they was a few doors down from "the Auburn crater"

It always seems weird that the stinky gas leaks can go for so long and not be reported. We had on in OKC area not too long ago that the homeowners called the gas company about a gas leak. As they pulled up the house exploded.

Oh, man ... do NOT post pictures.

I'm still stuck that there is no zoning...