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This is a really sad event for the locals considering Waco is a rather small town of about 126,000 people, the plant hired a lot of people. I think the saddest

This is a really sad event for the locals considering Waco is a rather small town of about 126,000 people, the plant hired a lot of people. I think the saddest part of all of this is the comments on most of the news articles you read about the explosion (including the one linked). People are drawing all sorts of conclusions from it being related to the Boston bombing incident to it being an attack by North Korea and arguing over trivial-political nonsense that doesn't even relate to the story. The explosion is probably one of the scariest things you'll ever see, imagine being within a mere few hundred metres of the explosion and the amount of G's that would be emitted, for survivors who were close by I couldn't imagine anything more terrifying. My heart goes out to the locals in Waco and those who've lost family/friends.

iSnow 14y ago
>The explosion is probably one of the scariest things you'll ever see Come on, please could we stop losing perspective here? It is by far from one of the scariest things that have happened in my lifetime, it is a tragedy for those afflicted by it - but accidents like this probably happen every few months somewhere in the world.
- DigitalSea 14y ago
  Maybe not scary watching it via a Youtube embed... Nobody is losing perspective, I can't imagine anything scarier than being inside of or close to a fertiliser factory housing toxic chemicals exploding, can you? Except maybe being a victim of an atomic blast, but that doesn't happen everyday. Factories housing deadly chemicals don't just explode every few months, I don't recall the last time I heard of anything like this happening. Calm down.