50,000 residents under evacuation orders due to a failing tank with some nasty stuff at an aerospace outfit in Orange County. Real threat of immanent explosion or leak.

https://abc7.com/live-updates/garden-grove-chemical-tank-emergency-leaking-toxic-chemicals-orange-county-will-spill-explode-officials-say/19152918/

Our house was on the SE corner of Lampson and Gilbert.

Two blocks out of the mandatory evacuation zone. That's crazy.

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Orange County? Be more specific

Texas?

California?

Florida?

Indiana?

North Carolina?

New York?

Vermont?

Virginia?

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There's a garden grove in all of those as well?

Methyl methacrylate. Not fun. Tank is heating uncontrollably. They are hoping the tank fails and spills before it explodes.

Garden Grove Ca... holy schneikees... I lived very near that facility for almost 4y. Prayers for the citizens impacted.

Dealt with MMA for 20+ years. It is generally one of the worst actors out there, save possibly ethylene oxide.

Hopefully the good guys won't waste this opportunity to eviscerate NewScum and his band of merry pranksters. It's all fun and games for them until it gets very real!

Great job Cali!

MMA polymerizes (reacts with itself to form solids) if stored improperly. The polymerization releases heat, which causes the reaction to accelerate. So part of the problem is the contents are now a mix of solids, hot vapors, and liquids, likely with trapped encapsulated pockets of liquids that are still reacting. They're spraying the outside with water to cool the tank. But the tank has likely already been damanged from internal pressure and heat. It's also very flammable and the vapors are a strong inhalation health hazard. Best case scenario the tank stays intact and the material all reacts out and cools down.

Currently in Laguna.

Waiting to hear a big boom at any point

this facility is a major cog in the MIC. Could ground some domestic and other aircraft with a broken supply chain

I'm a handful of miles upwind from Garden Grove (in Cerritos)...we are paying close attention, but not concerned about ourselves or our property. I'm heading over to the gym in Cypress (closer to GG) momentarily.

Not a good idea to have anything vital in California.

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Hill Country Ag said:

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Garden Grove Ca... holy schneikees... I lived very near that facility for almost 4y. Prayers for the citizens impacted.

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Went to Lampson for 8th grade and GG Argonaut for 9th grade.

Don't know if you've been back in a while, but took my sons to the UCLA game from Hell and it's not the green vibrant place it used to be. Such a dump.

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I delivered phone books to the neighborhood next door to that facility in 1983. Makes you think.

Bucketrunner said:

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Not a good idea to have anything vital in California.

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consistent weather and ww2 caused the boom. Many are finally moving, but I think its very difficult to change addresses when dealing with FCSM or CAGE businesses

and this failure doesnt appear to have anything to do with CA law, just an unreliable contingency plan coupled with post Plaisades fire overreactions

Must smell like Lou dog there.

kubiak03 said:

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Must smell like Lou dog there.

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OC reddit claims the looting has started

80085 said:

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kubiak03 said:

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Must smell like Lou dog there.

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OC reddit claims the looting has started

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If true, The Community rarely fails to disappoint.

ErnestEndeavor said:

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Methyl methacrylate. Not fun. Tank is heating uncontrollably. They are hoping the tank fails and spills before it explodes.

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I've heard of worse plans... wait... no, I haven't...

Im a pretty conservative guy, prob more than most in here, but a runaway PID and a polymerized fluid clogging the emergency drain valve has nothing to do with politics

We'll find out details when CSB releases their video. I suspect they weren't following their own policies on storing the fluid safely. Need to maintain O2 levels, inhibitor levels, manage temps, and turn over product frequently. I doubt politics caused the error.

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this facility is a major cog in the MIC. Could ground some domestic and other aircraft with a broken supply chain

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An explosion would be of incalculable damage to the program I work on.

Frankly, if GKN is shut down for even a week, it's a huge problem. They are sole source on some of our transparencies.

This will almost certainly shut down GKN's ability to cast acrylic for a long time. Thankfully. the transparency manufacturing building is on the other end of their complex. As long as they can get stretched acrylic somewhere, they can keep making transparencies for us.

BTW - I visit this facility once a month. Was supposed to go week after next. I'm guessing that trip is off.

Newsome to blame Trump's EPA in 3, 2, 1 . . .

I guess this is a UK company. Is this just more degradation of UK culture, competence, and know how?

YouBet said:

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I guess this is a UK company. Is this just more degradation of UK culture, competence, and know how?

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GKN is a holding company. This is the old Pilkington Aerospace.