In 1947, a cargo ship carrying thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate caught fire in the port of Texas City. Minutes later, the ship exploded — unleashing a chain reaction of blasts that leveled entire neighborhoods, ignited chemical plants, and turned the city into a war zone. Known today as the Texas City Disaster, this single event became one of the deadliest industrial disasters in American history. This is the story of how one explosion changed a city forever. 🖤 Knight Phase — preserving th