[indistinct question] no, we felt that the blood best place to keep this material on the nature of the product wan the plant, we have people who would know this chemistry, know how to handle the products, we have equipment to their, based on what we would have anticipated happening, we certainly didn t want to bring these containers outs into the storm with all these people being evacuated and having a trailer stuck on the highway somewhere with it numerous people around, so we felt like the safest place to keep the containers and to protect the citizens in the area was to keep the products there. b-29 yes, we cannot share the information about the chemicals. excuse me, i m sorry. hold on, excuse me.
absolutely. so obviously our primary way of protection with our power supply, when the storm hits, we offered primary power, we brought in emergency generators to provide backup power to provide refrigeration for those products, as the floodwaters rose, those generators were compromised, and we lost the use of those generators because of the floodwaters. we actually had a third system in place, which was liquid nitrogen, we have a liquid nitrogen system on-site to provide refrigeration to these storage containers. because of the flooding in floodwaters, some of the equipment necessary to operate as that was also compromised. and then our fourth layer of protection was the refrigerated storage containers. so we brought these refrigerated storage containers, moved all of the product into these containers, which is where they
words and sort of set off, no pun intended, people in the area, who are like what is this guy doing, right? so it s an explosion but i don t understand why you guys are sort of so picky with words. was it a small explogs? when you look at the aerial view, you see the fire burning and the damage there s been done. it s clearitis more than just a reaction. you mus not have heard me say the containers ruptured. a small pop or sound of a popping sound. i don t want the people to think that these are massive explosions. we re trying to make sure that our citizens are comfortable in what s going on that they know the truth, and so with that, these are small container ruptures that may have a sound, excuse me, may have a sound of a pop or something of that nature. this is not a massive explosion. small explogs. that s what you call it. i m going to call it a container rupture.
rupture other chemicals on-site? like we said, we believe that they are in a remote enough area that we don t anticipate any other damage to property on the site. you said that the chemicals could burn is there any potential for them not to burn as they are released into the floodwaters? does that do anything to the environment? no, we anticipate that they will decompose once they start to warm up, and then they will burn. we had a generators, backup generators, backup backup generators, so i am not sure what more we could have done to provide additional layers of security. did the sled catch you off guard? how accurately can you measure the situation? how do you know that the situation isn t worth anything? so, inside these containers, there is our ability to monitor,
with those, as long as a broader area of the site is not involve involved. and what the concern is is the coldest temperature products, the colder temperature organic peroxide s, that these materials have to be maintained cold, if they start to warm up, they become unstable, and they will decompose. when they decompose, they generate heat, and then they there is the possibility of a fire and possible explosions. we do have nine containers, these materials are stored in some a box containers, like you would see over the road to storage containers, one of those containers has been involved, and the product in that container has started to degrade, that happened earlier this morning, we fully expect that the other a containers will do the same thing. in the water is still in our facility and preventing us from