Texas City has a sad history of disaster....like back in 1947

[jandrok]

I'm posting a pretty good link here to details surrounding the little known 1947 Texas City disaster.

http://www.local1259iaff.org/disaster.html

Bill Minutaglio also chronicled the disaster at length in his excellent book "City on Fire: The Forgotten Disaster that Devastated a Town and Ignited a Landmark Legal Battle".

Most folks that aren't from Texas don't realize how important Texas City is to our national economy. I actually worked in Texas City for a while back when I was in retail, working for Foley's. I opened the Foley's at the Mall of the Mainland back in the mid-90's as the operations manager.

There are tons of interesting stories to be heard there, much history to be told. My heart goes out to these folks.

[flamingyouth]

1. I've seen the History Channel documentary on this tragedy

It's very well done, yet horrible to watch. :(

Thank you for the link - that is an interesting page with lots of amazing photos.