Enjoy those military retirement checks. You earned every penny.

But you have to admit the goals per contract dollar is pretty darn good. Perhaps not good enough to make up for Cody Ceci. 🙃

My iPhone has a setting to screen all calls from people not in my contacts list. I use that. There's no such setting for text messages. Just a "put them in another folder setting," but that doesn't seem to work at all.

Got to disagree with on that one good buddy. 38 years of friendship with you has been one of the better decisions in my life.

Agree. Risks too with all the trucks hauling sulfuric acid to and from the refinery.

Fortunately, Chevron doesn't use HF. In SoCal, only Torrance Refinery and Valero use HF. If there was an accident, terrorist attack, or earthquake that released HF at Torrance or Valero, the consequences could be horrendous.

Those "multiple fires" were likely flares burning off product in the system. That's what they're supposed to do. The Isomax unit exploded and burned. May have been lucky that the storage tanks didn't catch fire. Need a U.S. Chemical Safety Board investigation, but Trump is trying to defund them.

I live in Hollyglen near the park. I used to live on Arena. When I lived their during the Northridge earthquake, I got a great view of the whole sky lighting up as the refinery flares blew out everything in the system, which was exactly what they were supposed to do. No Boardroom brewery then. 😞

Unfortunately for us, refineries and the nearby Los Angeles Air Force Base are probably high on the target list for nuclear weapon attacks if a war breaks out. Probably LAX too.

The public can file complaints about the incident on the @southcoastaqmd.bsky.social web site, xappp.aqmd.gov/complaints/N.... Complaints may be used to issue Notices of Violation (NOVs) for violating the district's public nuisance regulation and other rules. NOVs may result in fines and orders.

The explosion and fire have been reported to be located at the Isomax unit, which the refinery uses for fuel distillation and cracking, part of the process of converting oil to gasoline, diesel, and other products.