[texbirds] Re: TEXAS CITY DIKE CLOSED(?) DUE TO BARGE COLLISION
- From: PJS <pjsmolen@xxxxxxx>
- To: Joseph Kennedy <josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 12:38:55 -0500
Very sad news about the oil spill.
I've not seen any other mention of hydrogen cyanide in the news reports. I
would not expect that hydrogen cyanide would be part of an oil spill.
Pam Smolen
Houston
> On Mar 22, 2014, at 6:52 PM, Joseph Kennedy <josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There is oil leaking including hydrogen cyanide which sent some fishermen
> to the hospital. Very large barge but they said that the oil is a thin
> skin. But the dike is closed and with little winds there can be gas
> anywhere and when the front starts to arrive there could be gas on bolivar
> so check weather etc.
> The barge is sunk so 1,000,000 gallons will need to be offloaded etc and
> that can be hard to do with a leaky vessel as sparks can occur at anytime
> when things bang together. Purportedly only one tank was hit. The usual
> iphone pictures were taken of the crash but they missed the crash end of
> the barge and only had the unhit end in the frame.
>
> The barge appears to be closer to Bolivar and the dike and is sunk but
> parts are above the water.
>
> It happened at noon and very little on the evening news. When the front
> arrives, the wind etc will push everything toward pelican island and then
> out the channel as the current will go out with the wind.
>
> If you were at the end of the dike, you can see a little space between the
> sunken barge and the tip of Bolivar. It happened at 12:30 but not much news
> due to the weekend.
>
>
>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 6:14 PM, <Stenmead@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> It was very foggy this morning, and I left the house at about 9am and could
>> not have seen it with the fog. But will check on it in the morning, too
>> foggy now. There are Oystercatchers nesting just north of the dike, sure
>> hope it did not reach them, or any wildlife for that matter.
>>
>> Stennie Meadours
>> San Leon
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 3/22/2014 6:08:48 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
>> mirampellerin@xxxxxxx writes:
>> Just now watching T V news when I saw information about the closing of the
>> TC Dike because of leaked fuel from a collision of a barge and a tanker in
>> the AM fog. They did not mention when it is expected to open again.
>>
>> Mira M. Pellerin
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