Chemical Cloud Over Sugar Land: Residents, Students Warned To Stay Inside

[orleans]

"Residents in five Sugar Land neighborhoods and students at five schools were warned to stay indoors with windows shut and air conditioners off early Monday afternoon, after a chemical spill at the Nalco Holding Co. plant on U.S. 90A.

"The shelter-in-place warning was lifted by about 2:40 p.m. – about 45 minutes after it was issued, according to a Sugar Land police spokeswoman. It had been issued for Brookside Belknap, Venetian Estate, The Hill, Hall Lake and Mayfield Park, and also for nearby schools.

"Jeannie Gage, of the Sugar Land Police Department, said she looked out of her office window at police headquarters on State Highway 6 at about 1:45 p.m. and saw what appeared to be vapor from a large chemical spill.

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"Nalco officials could not immediately be reached for information about the nature of the spill, but Sugar Land emergency management officials were quoted in a KHOU TV-11 report as saying a tanker truck at the plant had been leaking ethylene diamine."

http://www.fortbendnow.com/article/2403/residents-students-warned-to-stay-inside-after-nalco-chemical-spill

[tandot]

1. Did Tom Delay fart? n/t

[orleans]

2. maybe texan republicans don't mind all the relaxed air standards

their president gave them as governor and now as resident of the white house

[musette_sf]

4. in the Houston area,

when i was living there, when the air smelled really bad, people would say "Smells like money!" :wtf:

i know the area where this is at. this is not in swanky First Colony, but a somewhat less affluent area. Hwy 90 is not exactly a scenic route. this is what happens when you have no zoning restrictions. you get subdivisions butting up against chemical plants. nice.

[LiberalFighter]

3. He probably started his Bug Extermination business back up again

[cui bono]

5. Where is that? I take it from the ad I saw that it's in Texas somewhere?

Would be great to include that info for us "foreigners". ;)

[nealmhughes]

7. Yes, Virginia, there is a Sugarland and it is in Texas. Right outside of Houston.

Land of megamansions and Delay Repugs.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. Yes there is a Sugar Land, two words.

The Imperial Sugar plant is there, which is why it is named that. It was bought by some conglomerate, but you can still buy Imperial Sugar in the stores in Houston.

There has also been a prison there for many decades. Leadbelly (real name Huddie Ledbetter) was imprisoned there in the 1930s, I believe, when he wrote "Midnight Special", because of the trains going through there taking cane to the sugar mill.

We have lots of cool music history around here.

[JanusAscending]

8. Funny, (wierd) isn't it??

Birds dropping dead in Austin TX., and waaay up North in NYC and Jersey, foul smelling air that's source can't be identified?????:hide:

[orleans]

11. sorry about leaving out the state. n/t

[brentspeak]

6. Tom DeLay spent years tearing down environmental protection laws

[Taverner]

10. Ahhh looks like the Bug Man got back into exterminating

[MountainLaurel]

12. I assume he always carries a stench

Gas problems not necessary for that.