LOL! Rhetorical Question: Who stores 2,700 tons of any explosive in a downtown port?
I read on twitter the OKC federal building truck bomb was 2 tons. 2,700 boggles the mind.
It’s not an explosive, it’s fertilizer. What are you implying? That someone in that part of the world may be up to no good? Pfft, that’s ridiculous.
Rhetorical Question: Who stores 2,700 tons of any explosive in a downtown port?
Actually had a ship full of it explode in texas some
years ago. Compacted it gets unstable.
“Who stores 2,700 tons of any explosive in a downtown port?”
Pretty typical in any third-world country. This or similar total lack of safety awareness.
There is a large bulk Storage elevator that seems to be the epicenter of the explosion. People store stuff like that waiting for the price to go up. Sometimes it never does.
The "fireworks fire" at the base of the Elevator was pretty convenient, though.
If stored in unsealed bulk, high humidity can make it condense into a solid and become unusable in bulk, which may have happened here if stored in a bulk storage elevator. Then it just sits becoming more unstable.
Non Rhetorical Answer: No country where I would want to live or have a extended stay in any major city.
Perhaps it was shipped there based on an order that fell through..fake order....then set fire to nearby firework factory....joe mossad....joe hizbollah....isis....james bond....many potential culprits..were the bags labeled “fertilizer” or ammonium nitrate? Mostly peaceful portland protesters practicing? I read 800 tons AM = 336 tons of tnt....so 2750 tons= 1,150 tons of tnt...about 1/17 of the hiroshima blast. Not to mention the fission heat and strange radioactive isotopes generated. Plus a-bomb was detonated about 2,000 feet up. If beirut bomb was that high up when detonated...way more damage.