Blue Rhino Lake County Florida propane facility explosion

Scary thought, that.

Thanks, Sentinel. LOUSY before and after comparison. They aren't the same resolution and it's impossible to tell how much of the area covered on the right (after) was in the left (before) picture. The painted rectangles give some bit of reference, but...

Agreed!

BOOM,

Can you tell me exactly where. My parents live in Lake county. They are 'up Nort' right now.

Karl

Karma - You make huge profits overcharging for under filled tanks, then karma kicks you in the head and your fill plant blows up.

Karl Townsend fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Tavares, Karl. Only one adjacent property was slightly harmed when a

The plant was decimated, (53000 20lb tanks on premises, most full or with some gas in them) but the bulk tanks did not pop. One of the two 30Kgal tanks did suffer a slow leak, but they successfully burned off the contents last night on a to-purpose burn stack.

Lloyd

And another thing the Sentinel got wrong was that these were 20# tanks, not 20 gallon. BIG difference: 300%!

Pete's probably right about the karma thing. I can refill for under $6 today, not $25-30 for the Rhinos. I'm considering getting another tank for backup...

Propane here is $3.40 a gallon. So I get mine filled for $15.50 I have (10) "5 gallon" tanks (two of which are needing to be exchanged for the new style)

My forklift tanks are 7.9 gallons and they cost me about $27 a fill IRRC I have 3 of them

Must be nice to have cheap propane. Sigh

Off Hwy. 448, near Hwy. 561. Zoom in for a view of the area before the fire.

$1.45/gal here. I was pleasantly amazed when I heard that a few weeks ago.

It would be even nicer if I went through it quickly.

It would be nice if I went through it less quickly...sigh

HOLY S*IT BATMAN! I'd convert all my vehicles to dual-fuel! (A sure way to spike the price on propane!)

I was complaining to Roger that there must be a leak in the forklifts' Propane systems and he said there was...it's called the carburetor. It seems they should be rated in feet per gallon!

Ayup!!

Amazing - In front of the Home Center or Supermarket they have the filled propane bottles safely stored in cages, so even if one leaks and catches fire, and starts cooking the bottles till the pop-offs open... They can't go anywhere.

Now you'd think they have the same basic system to slide a whole pallet of stacked bottles at a time into caged sections of pallet racking at the bulk plant yard, so if there's a fire it stays in one place. No loose bottles to go flying off and lighting off new sections. But the reality...

Gee, if I sold pallet racking I'd be down there trying to make a sale. And looking to retrofit the rest of their yards, too.

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If I went through it quickly, it would mean that I had a forklift. That couldn't be all bad, huh? ;)