Huh, so it’s not really as hazardous as the evacuation might lead you to believe. It’s a mild irritant and it’s flammable, but it’s not going to outright kill you unless you inhale a lot of it or have existing respiratory problems, or if it builds up somewhere and is ignited.
Still, precautionary evacuations aren’t a bad idea.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
on 23 May 17:41
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The reason for the evacuation is that it’s a very large tank (6-7,000 gallons) with broken valves and potential for runaway heat buildup, leading to possible explosion, between very large tanks of volatile chemicals. They’re keeping it stable-ish by directing a constant stream of cold water on it while trying to find a safe way to vent and/or drain it.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
on 23 May 17:43
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Yeah, i don’t want to be close when a tank designed for this amount of a flammable chemical gets under enough pressure to blow up.
Strangely, this stuff has a boiling point of 101°C - had expected it to be lower if hot weather is enough for such an event, even the vapor pressure at standard conditions is only about 19% high than water.
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I’ve seen too many Sci FI shows where a chemical leak is the cover story to believe this
Found RFK’s new swimmin’ hole.
We took this trip to Garden Grove,
Smelled like methyl methacrylate inside the van,
Oh yeah…
This ain’t no funky record party,
Five dollars at the door…
It’s already on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_methacrylate#Environmental_issues_and_health_hazards
Those wiki mfs don’t MISS! 😤
Huh, so it’s not really as hazardous as the evacuation might lead you to believe. It’s a mild irritant and it’s flammable, but it’s not going to outright kill you unless you inhale a lot of it or have existing respiratory problems, or if it builds up somewhere and is ignited.
Still, precautionary evacuations aren’t a bad idea.
The reason for the evacuation is that it’s a very large tank (6-7,000 gallons) with broken valves and potential for runaway heat buildup, leading to possible explosion, between very large tanks of volatile chemicals. They’re keeping it stable-ish by directing a constant stream of cold water on it while trying to find a safe way to vent and/or drain it.
Yeah, i don’t want to be close when a tank designed for this amount of a flammable chemical gets under enough pressure to blow up.
Strangely, this stuff has a boiling point of 101°C - had expected it to be lower if hot weather is enough for such an event, even the vapor pressure at standard conditions is only about 19% high than water.