Epic incompetence and likely criminal activity could have wiped an entire town off the map.
The entire town of Doyline, Louisiana has been evacuated after the discovery of some 6 million pounds of explosives improperly stored, stacked and strewn around a massive storage facility. Oddly, back in October a massive explosion rocked the facility, but it was only last week that investigators went to the site in a "follow-up" and then realized that millions of pounds of M6 artillery powder were left outside or in roofless buildings.
At first, residents were told it would just be a short evacuation, but now that officials have been on the site of the explosives, residents are being told to stay away until ... whenever.
Some 27 tractor trailer loads have been removed and stored in safer and appropriate facilities, but more work, obviously, is needed.
Explo Systems, which runs the site, has been very quiet on the issue, and the owners are on their way back from South Korea.
Residents have to consider themselves lucky that the first explosion back in October was small and did not reduce the town to a hole in the ground. Why did it take more than 6 weeks after the explosion to notice millions more boxes and crates, especially since so much of it was just left outside of buildings?
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