Chemical plants trying to stay running

WES WOLFE wes.wolfe@thefacts.com
Feb 17, 2021
Feb 17, 2021
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Work continues late Tuesday afternoon at the BASF plant off Highway 332 in Clute.

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Dow plant operations along FM 1495 continue despite challenges presented by the cold and fuel limitations.

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A tractor-trailer moves northbound on FM 1495 from Port Freeport late Tuesday afternoon.

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Some plumbing companies weren’t open as pipes burst at people’s homes Tuesday. With few other options, people wrote their name, problem and phone number on pieces of paper and taped them to the door at Luycx in Clute.

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RICHWOOD — If the pipes burst at your home during this unprecedented winter storm, you might have ended up driving from plumber to plumber trying to find a business that’s open. But burst pipes aren’t only a problem for homes. Brazosport’s heavy industry has had to scramble to deal with the historic cold and its effects on infrastructure that typically doesn’t experience such extreme temperatures.

“Broken pipes, leaks, stuff like that,” is what they’re hearing at Dingee Plumbing Contractors, office manager Aimee Davis said late Tuesday afternoon. “We haven’t really gotten into a lot of stuff that’s really going on out there, residential-wise, because we haven’t been able to do the work or help them, because we’re tied up in the plants.”