Our train derailment and fire of last week is a mere pinprick compared to
this.
>
>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.
>
>
>> 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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