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To: John Vosilla who wrote (41829)	9/22/2005 1:38:34 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Respond to of 306849

We'll see....a lot is going to depend on forward speed of the storm from here on out. Faster=closer to Houston, slower=closer to Port Arthur/Beaumont. Hopefully the latter will be evacuated, we haven't heard much about that in the mainstream news, but they could catch the brunt of this. In an earlier post on the hurricane thread I described that as "2nd worse scenario" from the standpoint of energy infrastructure damage, due to refineries there....

To: John Vosilla who wrote (41829)	9/22/2005 2:05:19 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Respond to of 306849

We'll see....a lot is going to depend on forward speed of the storm from here on out. Faster=closer to Houston, slower=closer to Port Arthur/Beaumont. Hopefully the latter will be evacuated, we haven't heard much about that in the mainstream news, but they could catch the brunt of this. In an earlier post I described that as "2nd worse scenario" from the standpoint of energy infrastructure damage, due to refineries there. In fact, Beaumont/Port Arthur/West Lousiana has nearly as much refinery capacity as the Houston metro area (though it's a bit more widely dispersed): calculatedrisk.blogspot.com Beaumont Exxon-Mobil refinery (348,500 bpd): maps.google.com Conoco Phillips-Westlake, LA (239,000 Bpd) maps.google.com Citgo Lake Charles, LA (324,300 bpd): maps.google.com