21 Apr, 2010: Oil tanker fire from 30,000 feet

Left St. Petersburg, FL on Southwest Wednesday afternoon. We flew over the gulf to Houston, and along the way, I snapped these pics of the oil tanker fire with my cellphone. We flew almost directly over it, although at the time, I had no idea what had happened. I just new it was a large fire.





Arrived at Austin about 11 p.m. Prepared quickly for a multi-day chase and tried to get some sleep.