Fertilizer Plant Blows Up in West, Texas

Crap. Supposedly leveled portions of the town.

I have relatives in West, albeit it ones I haven’t seen in over 30 years.

Very brief video:

Updated: Explosion caught on video (might take a few minutes to load). Holy crap…

Update 2: Now embeddable video of explosion

By Lawrence Person

Lawrence Person is a science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, Postscripts, Jim Baen's Universe, Fear, and several anthologies. He also edits the Hugo-nominated SF critical magazine Nova Express, and runs the Turkey City Writer's Workshop. His non-fiction has appeared in National Review, Reason, Whole Earth Review, The Freeman, The World & I, Science Fiction Eye, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Slashdot.org. He owns such a large library (mostly science fiction first editions) he had to buy a two-story house to put it in, and then adopted a golden retriever to drag him out of his house on a regular basis. He also makes a mean batch of salsa.

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