Texas dairy explosion leaves at least 18,000 dead...

[tn1911]

Cows that is... 1 person critically injured.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-dai...ically-injured

The Castro County Sheriff’s Office confirmed with Fox News Digital that the cows were in a holding area before being brought in for milking when the blast occurred at the Southfork Dairy Farm in Dimmitt.

Very few cows in the holding area survived, officials told local outlet KFDA.

"Your count probably is close to that. There’s some that survived, there’s some that are probably injured to the point where they’ll have to be destroyed," Castro County Sherif Sal Rivera told KFDA.

Price of milk will be double by sun up.

[Averageman]

I had no idea this was even possible.

"The speculation was probably what they call a honey badger, which is a vacuum that sucks the manure and water out and possibly that it got overheated and probably the methane and things like that ignited and spread out and exploded and the fire,"

[prepare]

The food industry sure has suffered a lot of losses this year. Just bad luck...

[lowprone]

Probably just a coincidence !

[mack7.62]

Holy crap our milk comes from a 18,000 cow dairy herd, that's a lot of milkin'

[Averageman]

Holy crap our milk comes from a 18,000 cow dairy herd, that's a lot of milkin'

I had a friend that lived on a Dairy Farm. His Dad had a small herd of meat cattle and he was also a Meat Cutter.
A relatively small herd of dairy cattle like 200-250 is an entire day of work for you, everyday, no breaks, butt busting labor.
When his Dad got sick or was out of town, so I would go down and help him, hard, hard work.

[SteyrAUG]

Someone just went out of business for good.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Not saying that it won’t have an effect, but Texas isn’t known for milk… and there are over 9 million dairy/milk cows in the US….

[Averageman]

Not saying that it won’t have an effect, but Texas isn’t known for milk… and there are over 9 million dairy/milk cows in the US….

Yeah, there's a lot of truth in that, but...
Have you ever heard of such a thing? I understand the tiny possibility, but... thats a reach.

[StainlessSteelRat]

I'm struggling to imagine WTF could cause a large enough blast to kill 18k cows on a dairy farm. Not saying it isn't possible but sheesh..... musta been a hell of a mess.