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  • #16
    Originally posted by DesertBerean View Post
    Can't find it now, but there was a reporter claiming a car bomb. Most of the reports are saying that there were dangerous explosives stored in a warehouse that finally blew.

    Many years ago I witnessed an explosion that was in plain view of my house - and as it turned out, very very close to our unique Marine Mounted Color Guard stables (thanks to a very fast-thinking Marine, all the horses were saved). The explosions came from cylinders of various compressed gases that were improperly stored. They were launched into the air from a fire that came from chemicals that shouldn't have been there either. People got into a lot of trouble for the incident which got maybe 60 seconds of fame on the national news.
    The Lebanese government has said that a large amount of high explosives was confiscated from a ship and stored in a warehouse. The WaPo is saying that there was something like 2900 TONS of ammonium nitrate there but it had been there since 2014.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
      If it was a bomb it might have been a bomb planted near ammonium nitrate storage. However it could also just be a fire. Let's see what the investigations turn up.

      When I was a teenager a whole fireworks factory factory exploded five miles from where we lived. It gave off that white shockwave plume people describe in the video, it is just hard to see because these are videos from 2004 and phone cameras weren't as good back then.

      There is talk of two explosions. The first was what started the fire, the second is the massive one resulting in that shock wave and mushroom cloud.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
        If it was a bomb it might have been a bomb planted near ammonium nitrate storage. However it could also just be a fire. Let's see what the investigations turn up.

        When I was a teenager a whole fireworks factory factory exploded five miles from where we lived. It gave off that white shockwave plume people describe in the video, it is just hard to see because these are videos from 2004 and phone cameras weren't as good back then.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
          There is talk of two explosions. The first was what started the fire, the second is the massive one resulting in that shock wave and mushroom cloud.
          That's in the link I posted as well.
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          • #20
            Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
            The Lebanese government has said that a large amount of high explosives was confiscated from a ship and stored in a warehouse. The WaPo is saying that there was something like 2900 TONS of ammonium nitrate there but it had been there since 2014.
            https://www.businessinsider.com/how-...ut-moab-2020-8

            The equivalent of several hundred tons of TNT, maybe 1/20th the power of the hiroshima bomb or perhaps more. No radiation though, no million degree heat. But a huge blast.

            One quote in the article says it may have been equivalent to 1 to 2 kilotons.
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            • #21
              Originally posted by oxmixmudd View Post
              https://www.businessinsider.com/how-...ut-moab-2020-8

              The equivalent of several hundred tons of TNT, maybe 1/20th the power of the hiroshima bomb or perhaps more. No radiation though, no million degree heat. But a huge blast.

              One quote in the article says it may have been equivalent to 1 to 2 kilotons.
              I heard at noon today that it was 2000 tons.

              Absolutely a horrendous tragedy.


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              • #22
                Originally posted by seer View Post
                That shock wave was unreal - don't have much hope for those firefighters...
                I heard one report that said it was heard and felt 180 miles away in Cyprus.
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                • #23
                  The videos of the shockwaves are chilling.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                    The Lebanese government has said that a large amount of high explosives was confiscated from a ship and stored in a warehouse. The WaPo is saying that there was something like 2900 TONS of ammonium nitrate there but it had been there since 2014.
                    I will be interested to hear the story of how that much ammonium nitrate had been allowed to sit there for 6 years in apparently unsafe storage conditions.
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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by leonhard View Post
                          wow
                          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Thoughtful Monk View Post
                              I will be interested to hear the story of how that much ammonium nitrate had been allowed to sit there for 6 years in apparently unsafe storage conditions.
                              So would the Gov't...they've put several officals under house arrest for duration of the investigation. I'm bothered by all I'm reading about how this issue was brought up before.
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                              • #30
                                Picture of the warehouse before the explosion (trying to get it confirmed - was just shared to me on Facebook).

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