CNN is now reporting that four schools may be evacuated in Sugarland, Texas due to a chemical leak and vapors leaking from some sort of tank.  No word yet on what the chemical is or why the problem happened.

News helicopters have been ordered out of the airspace.

Regarding the other story at the Port of Miami....

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-b0b
(...watches with interest.)

Here's one that will get you guys thinking.

First some background:

RDX, the primary explosive in C4, is not detectable.  As such, the military and civilian companies add a "marker" called DMDNB to C4 to make it detectable.

Natural gas, of course, is an odorless, colorless gas.   Because of this, gas producers add a "marker" called Mercaptan which gives it the rotten egg smell.

Now, if your goal is terror, couldn't you get the same results by releasing huge amounts of Mercaptan in one location (NYC), and trace amounts of DMDNB in another location (Miami)?

Further, if you wanted to pull off an actual attack, wouldn't it make sense to "strain" the detection and response infrastructure with some false alarms beforehand to soften things?

-b0b
(...beat Stewie to the conspiracy theory.  Yay!)