I wish she would have said how far from the port she lives, but I’ll forgive her this once because she is probably STILL dazed.
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Seems like AN is about 80% as efficient as TNT. Close enough for back of the napkin work.
After a bad night I read your post too quickly and assumed you were being sarcastic with “I’m sure …” (because that’s often how you and a lot us post), and misunderstood it. I must stop speed reading everything.
I apologise. All the current shit is getting to me and I’m going back to bed.
You guys have thin skins. You know the Irish and English are aholes and the opposite just like everyone else?
Pretty sure hotel owners, in America, would be welcoming victims, after quintupling their rates.
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Katrinahousing.org got 138000 offers of free housing within the first two weeks after Katrina. People are the same everywhere - the good and the bad.
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Holy shit, that place looks like downtown Beirut.
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That crater is just massive. The former pier is now ocean.
Ammonium Nitrate needs to be more of a just in time delivery or at least dispersed storage on ag land away from people kind of thing.
Seeing that (what’s left of) the facade of the adjacent building matches the fireworks video perfectly, taking its likely authenticity from 98% to 99.9%. And the building they were standing on to take the video is, uh… completely gone.
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Is there any evidence that it’s fireworks as opposed to munitions? I wouldn’t be surprised if either had lots of smaller explosions like that.
Talked to a friend today who lives 25 min drive from Beirut. She has minor injuries from her windows blowing out! Just nuts.
Fireworks was the first story we got, and that video matches up pretty well with what can be seen/heard in other fireworks warehouse disasters. Plus they admitted to being super stupid about storing the ammonium nitrate there. Why would they bother lying about munitions?
There could be reasons to lie*, but also just the thing where the first story you hear is always wrong. I get my news from here, so I dunno, but are stories being led with “fire at the fireworks factory” or is that just something you heard once in the immediate aftermath?
*like if munitions manufactured in Iran and getting there, they may not want that known or really from anywhere. If it’s munitions it would be expected that they’d want to lie. If they were from the US or Russia, they’d want to lie.
What looked like fireworks could have been small rounds popping off, who knows.
The crater is about 500 feet (150m).
I’m just going with Occam.
I don’t see how a huge fireworks depot is Occam. That seems weird. Are fireworks depots that common?
Common enough that there are multiple videos of multiple disasters at different ones all over the world on youtube.