A Large oil tank farm has exploded from a lightning strike (BethelAcres Oklahoma) | |
Tangy User ID: 23189531 ![]() 04/20/2023 12:20 AM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | https://twitter.com/_/status/1648898764566822913 Currently, numerous emergency crews are responding to a Large fire at an oil tank battery oil storage farm after being struck by lightning and exploded at a farm about 3 miles to the northeast of the Bethel Acres area with a large fire currently ongoing witnesses reported seeing the entire sky red. ![]() |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 4812794 ![]() 04/20/2023 12:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to twitter.com (secure)] Quoting: fozzy331 Currently, numerous emergency crews are responding to a Large fire at an oil tank battery oil storage farm after being struck by lightning and exploded at a farm about 3 miles to the northeast of the Bethel Acres area with a large fire currently ongoing witnesses reported seeing the entire sky red. NOTHING like that comes up in a search, other than a natural gas plant explosion in July last year. . |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 80647809 ![]() 04/20/2023 01:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to twitter.com (secure)] Quoting: fozzy331 Currently, numerous emergency crews are responding to a Large fire at an oil tank battery oil storage farm after being struck by lightning and exploded at a farm about 3 miles to the northeast of the Bethel Acres area with a large fire currently ongoing witnesses reported seeing the entire sky red. isn't lightning protection mandatory in USA? WTF? every house in europe has lighting protection |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 84809097 ![]() 04/20/2023 01:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This or some other group, maybe anti-oil nut jobs. Pretty sure a facility like this has lightning protections. ![]() I grew up in an oil/petrochem town. Pretty much all my relatives and both my brothers and I as well as our father also, both from the construction and the operations side. I have seen big bulk tank fires, and it is pretty intimidating, one was an extra-large size one, containing gasoline additives, that got hit by lightning and ignited.So yeah, there are protections and protocols, but it is an inherently dangerous job, creating flammable fuels and other metro products. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 50091324 ![]() 04/20/2023 01:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A shame to hear. My folks were oil tank farmers. This was back in the day though, the oil tanks they grew weren't anywhere near the size they come up today, with the genetic modification and specialty mixes and whatnot. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21160452 My granddaddy was a sharecropper on an oil tank farm in southern Oklahoma. After that he was given 3.50 acres and a chicken. We planted watermelons the next year. Times was good. |
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Rev Woo-Woo User ID: 37263597 ![]() 04/20/2023 01:45 AM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They farm oil tanks? ![]() “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you." - Job 12:7,8 "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson revstargazer (at) hotmail.com |
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UseLessRepEATER User ID: 53223962 ![]() 04/20/2023 02:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies..... Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. ~H. L. Mencken~ We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~Plato~ When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. ~Dresden James~ |
UseLessRepEATER User ID: 53223962 ![]() 04/20/2023 02:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Lightning" strike or missile strike? Methinks the latter.... Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies..... Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. ~H. L. Mencken~ We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~Plato~ When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. ~Dresden James~ |
hankie Everything User ID: 85035051 ![]() 04/20/2023 02:16 AM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Lightning rods may make sense for these types of businesses, this would be hit by the lightning and grounded away from storage of this type and others. Houses generally now are grounded by the electric companies when they put in the meters. It wouldn't hurt to have extras on the homes you live in. It's an old type of thing but why shake your head at something that worked? Sorry I got a headache These are the times that tries men's and women's souls! May we come though it victorious! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 50091324 ![]() 04/20/2023 02:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Lightning rods may make sense for these types of businesses, this would be hit by the lightning and grounded away from storage of this type and others. Houses generally now are grounded by the electric companies when they put in the meters. It wouldn't hurt to have extras on the homes you live in. It's an old type of thing but why shake your head at something that worked? Quoting: hankie I used to build these tank batteries in my younger days. It's literally, like one big hunk of iron that has a ground rod 10,000 feet deep. Absolutely every piece of equipment is tied together with iron pipe that is grounded at every opportunity. there is lots of splody stuff on locations and ya don't want a static spark. |
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