Anybody near Dimmit see this? Dairy blew up

[Moonpie]

 

[Ozzman]

Reading through the feed, people are saying that this is not the first time a piece of our "food supply" chain has been destroyed/attacked this year.

This is news to me... I hope this wasn't sabotage, or done on purpose.

My question is what in the heck does a dairy farm have on-site that could cause an explosion like that?
Sure, a grain silo or fuel storage might blow up with mismanagement, but not to the extent that it is comparable to Trinity. The black/dark grey smoke is an indicator of a petroleum-based fuel source, not a bio/natural gas/methane explosion.

Wishful thinking; I hope someone in the media looks into this more and does not sweep this story under the rug.

 

[Byrd666]

I guess I'm woefully uninformed because I really thought the only stuff out that way was oil/petroleum and sand. Had zero clue of any dairy plants out there.

 

[Vaquero]

Lot's of dairys up there.
Irrigation out of the Ogallala aquifer for raising hay and alfalfa.
Not uncommon to have tons of nitrogen rich fertilizer on site.

 

[vmax]

Yeah..cows milk is highly flammable

 

[toddnjoyce]

Cattle fart methane. We’ve been warned about this.

 

[S13]

MOOAB

Boom

 

[Sam Colt]

Ammonium Nitrate and uric acid in bulk.

 

[Fishkiller]

Some of these big corporate dairy farms have huge cooled tanks to store the milk. Ammonia refrigeration is common. Ammonia can go boom.

 

[popsgarland]

Cattle fart methane. We’ve been warned about this.

Then the cattle shouldn't have had a smoke break area near where their fart break area is.

 

[toddnjoyce]

Then the cattle shouldn't have had a smoke break area near where their fart break area is.

Sure, blame it on the farmer for putting the smoke break and fart break areas next to another. I don’t know about you, but at some point cows have to take responsibility for their own actions.

 

[Eastexasrick]

There is no crying in baseball, and no exploding cows!

 

[General Zod]

Officials: Thousands of cows likely dead after Texas dairy farm fire

One group says it might be deadliest barn fire in the U.S.

www.mysanantonio.com

One person severely injured, no people killed...18,000 cows incinerated. Holy crap. And the fire marshal apparently suspects methane buildup touched off by overheating electrical equipment.

 

[toddnjoyce]

Called it.

 

[General Zod]

Bad idea to have a cow near an open flame. They learned that in Chicago back in 1871.

 

[Hoji]

Just another coincidence. Move along. Nothing to see here.

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

If farting cows were a problem Orca Winfrey and Whoppy Goldberg would have exploded long ago.

 

[Ozzman]

WOW!

Approximately 18,000 cows were blown into Hamburger Helper...

Let's see, at approximately $3,000 per head, that's at least $54 million dollars of losses (not including the building and hardware)...
Ouch!

 

[popsgarland]

Sure, blame it on the farmer for putting the smoke break and fart break areas next to another. I don’t know about you, but at some point cows have to take responsibility for their own actions.

Well, I think that at this point in time, it's a moo t point..

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

Milk this thread for all it's worth.