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They just did a thing on Hazardous material. Sorry, don't beleive anything that was put out
The regulations that govern Haz Mat are first of all, different in each state, County and City. MSDS sheets (Material Saftey data sheets) are distributed to cities because of the city,state or county laws. There are 6 different classes just for explosives. some vehicles don't have to have a placard because of the number of lbs or gallons carried , a placard is that dimond shaped 1 foot by 1 foot card on the side of truck that has a number on it along with a classification. It would be so easy to distroy a chemical factory and kill 1,000s if not million of people down wind.
The chemical plants in Sugar Land have high expantion foam systems in there where house, 30 seconds and the entire wherehouse is full of foam. and it doesn't have to be a alarm that sets it off. There are chemicals the one part per 100 billion will kill you, you can't see 1 part in a 100 billion. .
When it comes to hazardous materials, Hears some advise, do not, I repeat , do not stay, do not beleive anyone, do not stop for police, even at the point of a gun, get you and your family as far away from what ever it is as possible. That sounds pretty drastic, well, let me tell you, Hazarous materials a as dangerous as anything you will ever run into and they come through your community every day. 99.9 persent of the time you should do just what a police officer tells you, but if you know its haz mat, leave, no matter what the officer says or does.
Ive talked to much.
Ron


Ps.
Hears another little tid bit of info, EVERY DAY, the chemical companies invent over 100 NEW chemicals that do not have a MSDS sheet and only the person who said "hay , I wander what I would get If I mixed these two chemicals with these two"knows what they are .