Originally Posted by Bob Dole:
Last Tuesday it was 0. Today it’s 70 and the windows are open. Crazy.
we're still in summer down under and in our neck of the woods people have their heat on now. i refuse to turn ours on yet.
not cold like in the states, butt fuck!
people already talking about this comig winter being one of the coldest on record... still won't come close to you guys, but for here, it could be earth splattering :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bwana:
I was talking to some buddies that are engineers and rotating equipment supervisors at some of the TX refineries last week. Some of them say they wont be operational again, for another 30 days.
Exxon Mobil Corp.’s Baytown and Beaumont plants, Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s Galveston Bay refinery and Total SE’s Port Arthur facility, all face at least several weeks to resume normal operations.
Those refineries just aren't built for that kind of cold. Combine that with intermittent power issues and bad things happen. Cooling water and dead leg freeze ups, are generally the first issues that come about in those cold conditions.
Well that’s.... horrible.
Jesus. Sounds like shit can get fucked it up in a hurry. I’m half waiting to see one go boom on the news. That would be the logical next step. [Reply]
