Crazy Explosion at Beirut Port (video)

[bobmcfc]

he makes a good point about the silo

 

[bobmcfc]

 

[Sir peace frog]

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Anyone close to that would have stood no chance, horrific.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

This ain’t fireworks. Fireworks don’t have that much explosive power, it even close. This is something chemical/gas that’s blown up. The shockwave that rips through will have left many many dead. I expect in the coming days the death toll from this could easily be in the hundreds.

No, but presumably the same fire was responsible for igniting the fireworks and the explosion.

 

[bobmcfc]

Apparently this is the cause

 

[jimmy blue shoes]

This fuckin' year!

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Apparently this is the cause

Fucking hell. Well thank god they confiscated it to avoid anything bad happening, eh?

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I wasn’t expecting that!

My initial thought looking at just the smoke rising at first was; “that looks bad”...

Then when the big explosion happened, fuck me, jaw dropping!

 

[JASR]

Sodium Nitrate - a fertiliser precursor.

if anyone remembers reading Clive Cusslers Cyclops, a similar thing happened to Havana. + explosives and petrol iirc.