Locals will recall that on June 13th, lightening struck this gas tank in the photo above. It exploded into flames, fueled by a million gallons of oil inside the 50 thousand barrel tank. This tank was one of 72 in the area, owned by Colonial Pipeline of Georgia. With the fast, efficient work of the firefighters, the fire was contained and isolated to this one tank.
We've wanted to get out and photograph the tank farm for a while now. Today, we are using this photo for ABC Wednesday on the dreaded X day. X is for eXXXXXplosion.
I'm glad this didn't happen in Louisiana.
Posted by: Bill B | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 07:27 AM
YIKES! Must have been something to see. Glad to see the blast appears to have been contained.
ROG, ABC Wednesday team
Posted by: Roger Green | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 09:32 AM
Hi!
Awesome picture. The firefighters were great keeping it contained. Have a great day!
Sherrie
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Posted by: Sherrie | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 10:32 AM
Is there any place where nothing like that happen? Our little boiling planet.
Posted by: Irina | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 10:42 AM
XXXcellent!! Lucky to be contained to one tank. Prayers answered. MB
Posted by: MaryBeth | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 11:10 AM
Oops! Amazing the firefighters were able to contain it! I can imagine the sound as lightning hit the thing. Florida, they say, is the lightning capitol of the world -- the other night in the space of an hour or so, there were 35,000 lightning strikes near the Orlando area!
Scary!
Posted by: Jacob | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 12:00 PM
I can imagine the blaze, honor to the brave firefighters!
Posted by: VP | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 02:17 PM
What an incredible post, a remarkable picture, and the tank, in and of itself stands as a tribute to the firefighters.
Excellent Example of X-manship!
On behalf of the ABC Wednesday Team, Thanks for participating this week. Hope you can join us again next week.
Troy
Posted by: Troy | Thursday, July 01, 2010 at 01:00 AM
It's amazing the firefighters were able to contain the fire to one tank!
Posted by: Louis la Vache | Thursday, July 01, 2010 at 09:05 AM