Was in Austin earlier today. Heading back towards Dallas we passed through the small town of West. I could see fire and smoke off about a mile east of the highway. I was just two miles north of West when...



The whole car moved over about 3 feet and I almost ended up in the grass. The driver window sounded like someone threw a huge brick into it. I'm surprised it didn't shatter. I wouldn't be surprised to find the window tint was the only thing that kept it in once piece. It was the loudest pair of explosion I ever heard. Sounded like a 4th of July concussion bomb exploded inside the car twice. Two big booms in rapid succession. I didn't know if I should stop to check on the car or floor it and hope that I lived.

I chose to floor it. Got home, made a quick inspection of the car and it seems to be OK, but 4 hours later and I'm still shaking.

 

Holy ****!!!!!

 

that's a hell of a thing to go through, and yea, keeping your foot in it is the best course of action. Glad to hear you're alright.

 

My buddy and his fam live in Waco right by there. Said it sounded like a bomb exploded, that the north koreans were attacking.
I would kept my foot down and gone home!

 

That should give you an idea how loud it was. Waco is 20 miles away.

 

Yeah that was some crazy S....from what i am seeing on the news! Prayers to the families that lost loved ones there.

 

looks like some of the same vid they have on msn only that dude wasn't in a mustang, and it only exploded once.
http://now.msn.com/explosion-at-texa...ities-injuries

 

The explosion was MASSIVE
Videos and pictures covered my feed on facebook and it was pretty ridiculous

 

WOW!!! Glad you're OK! That was scary!!!

 

I was probably 3-5 miles farther away than that. The first video I posted wasn't mine, I was driving northbound on I35 at the time. Even being more than 3 miles away the shock wave was enough to almost blow me off the road.

I heard two explosions. People out in Hillsboro and Waco reported multiple explosions.

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-fertiliz...052446435.html


The video only shows one blast. I heard two. People farther away heard three. The only thing I can figure is that the low, dense cloud cover reflected the blast back down to the ground, and the shock wave bounced up and down like a rubber ball in a box.

Apparently the blast registered as a 2.1 earthquake on the richter scale

 

Omg! That's crazy!!! I hadn't heard of this yet

 

wow, reminds me of this video.

 

Glad you are OK!

 

My goodness glad you're ok!! Just heard about this! Praying for all those firemen killed and the people injured

 

Pure craziness! What a terrible thing for the people in and around that area.

 

Glad you're alright.

 

Thanks to everyone who said they are glad I'm OK. Say a prayer for the people in West through, they need it.








It's going to take hours to clean the brown stains off my car seats.

 

Glass is pretty strong in compression the way its shaped and manufactured on the side windows and on the windshield. Much stronger than if it would have been flat and the tensile strength of window film is pretty low, it might have prevent the shattered glass from collapsing inward but I doubt it did much to improve the strength of the window.

 

Glad you're ok that was one massive explosion. Prayers to those, and their families that are still missing, injured, or perished.

 

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