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re: Extremely massive explosion in Beirut.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:28 pm to MikeD
Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:28 pm to MikeD
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Texas City was an ammonium nitrate explosion around the turn on the 19th to 20th century if I remember.
Texas City happened in 1947 when ammonium nitrate that was on a ship that caught fire exploded. Over 600 people were killed and a several thousand injured.
The small fire department had their men and equipment on the scene and they pretty much vanished when it blew up.
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:36 pm to gumbo2176
The death toll is up to 135 with 5,000+ injured. I haven't seen it posted on the last few pages.
The Guardian
The Guardian
Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:37 pm to LegendInMyMind
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The death toll is up to 135
This just seems crazy to me after watching the videos.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:40 pm to LegendInMyMind
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The death toll is up to 135 with 5,000+ injured. I haven't seen it posted on the last few pages.
Wouldn't surprise me if it tops 200 before it's said and done.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:42 pm to AmosMosesAndTwins
Fires breaking out in Iraq and UAE right now.
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A large fire has broke out in the Ajman market, located in the United Arab Emirates.
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This post was edited on 8/5/20 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:53 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
Mossad putting in work.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 1:10 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
It's happening
Posted on 8/5/20 at 1:13 pm to 91TIGER
All these fireworks make me think Mossad must've recently watched V for Vendetta.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 1:14 pm to eScott
From yesterday
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Explosion at Chinese chemical factory kills six people, injures four
Posted on 8/5/20 at 1:29 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
Man...frick 2020
Posted on 8/5/20 at 1:33 pm to AmosMosesAndTwins
That ship that appeared to be small that was up on the shore line...in this photo, use the cargo containers for scale
Posted on 8/5/20 at 2:14 pm to real turf fan
Posted on 8/5/20 at 2:19 pm to John88
Holy shite
Posted on 8/5/20 at 2:38 pm to yaboidarrell
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China said only 173 people died in the Tianjin (city of 15 million) explosion. Bullfricking shite.
That is as bogus as their Covid numbers....and just about every other piece of information that comes out of that country. Tianjin is even more densely populated than Beirut, with about 6,000 people leaving within 2 km of the epicenter.
In both cases, the videos of the blasts leave me with a new respect for how powerful industrial explosions can be.
This post was edited on 8/5/20 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 8/5/20 at 2:38 pm to real turf fan
Dayum that's some crazy level devastation. I was reading up on past explosions of this nature near to population densities and the closest in comparison was probably the Halifax explosion in Halifax harbour in 1917.
Halifax Explosion
Halifax Explosion
Posted on 8/5/20 at 3:19 pm to yaboidarrell
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China said only 173 people died in the Tianjin (city of 15 million) explosion. Bullfrickingshit.
Russia maintains the chernobyl death toll at 31
Posted on 8/5/20 at 3:22 pm to LegendInMyMind
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The death toll is up to 135 with 5,000+ injured.
Wonder how many people are missing? Bet there are bunch missing that were vaporized when the big explosion went boom.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 3:23 pm to gumbo2176
quote:my dad felt the explosion
Texas City happened in 1947 when ammonium nitrate that was on a ship that caught fire exploded. Over 600 people were killed and a several thousand injured.
in Wichita Falls
Posted on 8/5/20 at 3:26 pm to OWLFAN86
"After an emergency cabinet meeting, Lebanon's President Michel Aoun announced that an unspecified number of people who managed the ammonium nitrate storage at the warehouse linked to the explosion are to be put under house arrest."
abc
Are any of them still alive?
abc
Are any of them still alive?
Posted on 8/5/20 at 3:44 pm to redstick13
What made Halifax so tragic was a combination of things:
it was a major port for shipping men and equipment to the war in Europe
it was the provincial capital
it was built with almost every building facing the Basin
it was winter, not a US winter, but a Canadian winter with a serious blizzard approaching.
Houses had single thickness glass windows.
As I wrote above: lots of blinded eyes, lots of personal dmage and a wonderful outpouring of help from many many cities, sending medical supplies, personnel, all the glass they had and all of their glazers to repair the windows of Halifax.
I doubt that many families in Nova Scotia were unaffected.
But they were repairing windows that were small. The big modern glass windows ....see what Katrina did to NOLA, and what happened in Houston when some downtown roofs were asphalt with loose rocks. THe months it tood to get replacement glass and the months to get it installed.
it was a major port for shipping men and equipment to the war in Europe
it was the provincial capital
it was built with almost every building facing the Basin
it was winter, not a US winter, but a Canadian winter with a serious blizzard approaching.
Houses had single thickness glass windows.
As I wrote above: lots of blinded eyes, lots of personal dmage and a wonderful outpouring of help from many many cities, sending medical supplies, personnel, all the glass they had and all of their glazers to repair the windows of Halifax.
I doubt that many families in Nova Scotia were unaffected.
But they were repairing windows that were small. The big modern glass windows ....see what Katrina did to NOLA, and what happened in Houston when some downtown roofs were asphalt with loose rocks. THe months it tood to get replacement glass and the months to get it installed.
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