Garden Grove Chemical Tank Failure Evacuation

Has Mayor Bass fled the Country again? 🤪

I think it was like 3 minutes in before the told you what the toxic chemical is 😬

But I did see my old high school in there. Rancho Alimamitos HS.

TM

That’s the home of F35 canopies and other aircraft canopies and windows.

I’m guessing they’ve got the “exotherm” issues under control and are probably working on “Spill Containment” in-case of an actual leak…that methyl shit ain’t something you want in your streams-rivers-oceans…

Shit’s gonna get real for GKN…now. 

Reminds me of the East Palestine Ohio train derailment. 

Is there gonna be a big release of toxic we don't know what?

Based on some of the responses above, it shocks me that conditions in a facility can be this degraded (potentially).

Where I work we get MSHA crawling all over the place at least twice a year and even one retaining clip missing in a random airline or bolt missing from a machine guard (when the other 10 are good) gets us a citation and fine. 

I just read there’s a crack in the tank which hopefully prevents a massive explosion. 

"State Farm, how may I help you?"

"Hi, I would like to file a claim for my RV"

"What Happened to your RV Sir?"

"Well, it was stored at this lot next to a chemical plant and the wildest thing happened over the weekend. One of the big ass tanks with toxic shit in it vapor blasted my RV for multiple days and now it smells like a combination of the worst meth lab ever combined with the worst Vietnamese cooking you ever smelt"

"Sir...read policy! No coverage for you! DENIED"

click

Paging Walter Wite

They’ve allowed a lot of people back into their homes/have made the mandatory evacuation area much smaller.

As borg has said, the news is often lagging on “cause and effect”. But, the OC County Fire folks have done a pretty damn good job of keeping the public informed. 

They may have been overly cautious and the media might have been a bit too focused on ‘worst case scenario’, but if they hadn’t and the worst case actually occurred we’d probably have more criticism of both the authorities and the media. 

Here’s something at least somewhat similar that happened up the road yesterday. 

Its hard to imagine there isn't a redundancy in valves along with a bypass.  

All the places I have worked have had double valving for exactly the occasion one becomes plugged.

It appears now to be under control, glad for the peeps living around it.

Pisto

Those are some badass caustics they are dealing with.  Acid on one end of the ph spectrum, caustics on the other....

Both can cause burns....and water don't make it quit.

I had to crawl under a house one time to run an electric cable, the only way in was a small hole in concrete blocks.  The owners had trouble with bathtub draining, so they poured a shit ton of lye (sodium hydroxide) into the p trap.  It ate through and poured all on the ground.  I wiggled through not knowing what was happening and when I finished and got home to shower, that crap burned my chest and stomach pretty bad.

Thankfully not on my face of eyes.   

0 of 10 do not recommend...  

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