From: John Cuccia 

On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 01:18:10 -0600, Bill Lucy  wrote:

>I found this on a random search. I wasn't even looking for biological weapon
info.
>Amazing what you can find.

I worked in a chemical plant for a brief time in the late 70's.  The folks
there had estimates of fatalities in Baton Rouge and environs for
hypothetical releases of chlorine gas of various sized in varying weather
conditions.  The worst were with a westerly wind, which would have blown
whatever got loose over the heart of the city.  I remember maps of
predicted concentrations within the plume and the number of dead at various
spots within it.  I quit not long after seeing it .

The plant's end products were lead antiknocks (the last gasp) and PVC,
which required handling/manufacture/use of things like sodium, lead,
chlorine gas, and vinyl/methyl/ethyl chloride.  It was a godawful ugly,
smelly workplace and made me appreciate the *relative* cleanliness of the
exploration and production side of the petrochemical industry.

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