Oil tanks and lightning don't mix! Live

[OleTomTalker]

Just witnessed lightning light off an oil tank south of Runge. (Not my company's asset). Called 911 and tried stop traffic but idiots still driving thru it!

https://vimeo.com/167302231

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[OleTomTalker]

When I first pulled up


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[pblaetz]

Wow....never would have thought that lighting could fire one up?

[hammer63]

Dang! Back in '85, I was up on top of a set of tanks when lightening lit off the flame arrestor. That'll make you pucker. I couldn't get far enough, fast enough.

[kkp005]

Wow... People kept driving through all that smoke ?? Must be the same kind of folks that try driving on flooded roads.

[bta003]

We get hit about once a quarter down south it seems. Edinburg, McCook and Sad Isidro area.

[OleTomTalker]

https://vimeo.com/167303017

Come on guys!! You don't fight a fire from downwind!!! Finally, they pulled out. (Not my facility, so got no control over situation)


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[Landrover]

That's ugly!

[Bayouboy]

LOL! They are p'g in the wind with that setup.

[Catarina]

Is that a saltwater disposal?

Every bad storm down here does that to a SWD. I can count atleast a dozen disposals that have been blown up from lightning strikes in the past 4 years in the Eagle Ford alone.

[Mayhem]

Happen at the ranch next door to my lease several years ago. I have a thread about it somewhere.

[OleTomTalker]

Is that a saltwater disposal?



Every bad storm down here does that to a SWD. I can count atleast a dozen disposals that have been blown up from lightning strikes in the past 4 years in the Eagle Ford alone.

Yes

[Catarina]

Did they have fiberglass tanks on that facility? Those seem to be the best guarantee for a lighting strike

[OleTomTalker]

Did they have fiberglass tanks on that facility? Those seem to be the best guarantee for a lighting strike

They do but there are three metal tanks nearer road. They are only ones on fire

[bphillips]

Is that a saltwater disposal?

Every bad storm down here does that to a SWD. I can count atleast a dozen disposals that have been blown up from lightning strikes in the past 4 years in the Eagle Ford alone.

Yep.. Almost always a disposal if not its fiberglass water tanks on a location