icepick wrote:
This turned out to be one close call:

http://www.kptv.com/story/25118846/natural-gas-explosion-reported-in-plymouth-wa

Despite one springing a leak from the blast, neither of the facility's giant storage tanks exploded.

I see mention of the Columbia River again.... isn't that the river where the Hanford Nuclear plant is leaking radiation into?

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~