Re: Texas City

[Ed Dumas <a4a48835 at telus_net>]

>  Ammonium Nitrate is a very good fertilizer, but from 
>  waaay back its use or misuse as an explosive is well known.  Anybody else 
> old 
>  enough to remember Texas City?  It was an accident. 

Wow. Living up here in Canada I was not familiar with this event, so I
looked it up at:

http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/metropolitan/txcity/index.html

Quite horrific for sure. Kind of gives you a basic respect for the stuff
we work with in our tanks.

Ed Dumas