New video of Texas explosion and damage to area.

[dixiegrrrrl]

My stomach lurched...looks just like tornado damage....houses, apts, horrible damage.
That little town has suffered a massive blow.

[benld74]

1. Surreal indeed. Prayers to all involved.

[Brickbat]

2. Two things.

People, if you're recording on your phone, record horizontally.

Man, that guy with the camera is a dick.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. lol..I wanted to reach out and twist his filming hand.

[progressoid]

6. Youtube will have to make a vertical player.

[Buzz Clik]

4. Skip ahead to 6 minutes.

The first six minutes are simply driving to the scene.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Over bad roads, I noticed.

Same problem with the towns all around here...too small to be able to afford a lot of road repair.

[MADem]

9. Are the roads all that bad, or are they driving over strewn debris? nt

[Cleita]

10. When I lived in Texas, during Ann Richard's administration, one

think I noticed is how good the roads were even in rural areas. I guess nothing has been done since then.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. I was watching the 2nd time....lots of patching on the road.

Could be some debris as they got closer, too.

[MADem]

12. Those poor folk--the roads are the least of their worries.

I hope they have a viable national guard out that way--those first responders must be overwhelmed. That's a huge impact area, ripe for looting, sad to say...and so many injured.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Pretty horrific stuff. Are they still saying 5-15 deaths at this point?

The apartments looked utterly devastated.

[LeftInTX]

8. Thanks for posting

The scenario going through their minds: It's a train derailment. It's a plane. Then, the remote possibly of a bomb.

Although I didn't see much of first responders at the scene, fortunately, it seems like they had easy access to the residential area. I assume the nursing home is across the street from the apartments.

[kentuck]

13. This is horrible...

I don't know how the death count can only be 10-15 people with this much destruction?? Devastating. Like an atomic bomb.

[Blue_Tires]

14. Brings back memories of PEPCON