Crazy Explosion at Beirut Port (video)

[MillisleBlue]

Carnage

 

[Packrat]

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

Must admit, I thought it looked like detonators going off rather than fireworks. Hoping it's not a terrorist attack.

 

[Nascent Blues]

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

There appears to be some people watching on the road (next to two parked cars). Keep your eye on the cars.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

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!

Yeah, I didn't even bother watching it until the explosion the first time. I just assumed I was already watching the aftermath.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

A good demonstration between the difference between light and sound.

 

[FCBarca]

Increasingly sounds like this was an accident gone horribly wrong. Sodium Nitrate apparently confiscated from a ship months ago and stored at the port in vicinity of where fireworks were stored. Only question is how the originating fire began

 

[kaz7]

Fucking flattened

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

procedures and all that. Jesus Christ.

 

[mackenzie]

A good demonstration between the difference between light and sound.

Christ Almighty. That's horrific :-(

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

75 years to the week of Hiroshima and Nagasaki too, ironically.