I have been in Beirut many times in the last few years and only blocks from
the docks. It's all very scary. I have friends there who are all ok but
schools and churches were destroyed. They are putting out appeals for
help. I can't even imagine.
Tina
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:24 PM Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been looking at the video and stills of the Beirut explosion, as
> well as reading articles on the BBC World News. The most startling photo
> is that of the beached freighter in the foreground and the demolished grain
> elevator in the midground. That grain elevator deflected most of the blast
> energy and saved the apartments in the background from being demolished.
> The death toll could have been significantly higher.
>
> There was 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in that warehouse that had
> been confiscated from a freighter back in 2014 or thereabouts. That's 2.7
> kilotons, so it's no wonder that the explosion had the characteristics of a
> nuclear detonation.
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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