7000 Evacuated From Area -Flaming Russian Ammo Dump

Pravda ^ | 10/01/05 | vanity

[genefromjersey]

Pravda is reporting this blazing,exploding munitions dump as an accident. (?)

[genefromjersey]

I had just turned 21 then.

[mvpel]

Wait until all of that Socialist-built civil infrastructure gets just a little bit older....

Even brand new apartment buildings going up right now in Russia look fifty years old. It's kind of weird.

[Christopher Lincoln]

There was a joke from the Soviet era. Q: If an earthquake like the one at Tashkent [1966] hit Leningrad, what would you have left? A: St. Petersburg.

The point was that at Tashkent, buildings from the Soviet era fell, while older ones stood.

[Thunder90]

That is because the place is still ran by (Ex) socialist and communist freaks. Putin is former KGB, it does not suprise me that the socialist system still remains in some fashion.

[Terpfen]

Thank you for making me laugh after having to deal with the gnashing of teeth this morning!

[jb6]

Flaming Russian Ammo Dump

Is this the new hang out for the homo conventions?

[jb6]

The blast caused damage 48 miles across the Bay in San Francisco."

Wow.

[chinditz]

"feinswinesuksass "(Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.)"

Thank you, I was getting very tired of saying :"Dont eat yellow snow" when some barjocky was enquiring about his tip.

[lmailbvmbipfwedu]

Not to mention the explosion of a ship carrying AN when the FO got involved with a lighting strike. Texas City 1940............. ANFO was invented..........

[Xenalyte]

I think I need hardly mention that Flaming Russian Ammo Dump would be one STELLAR name for a band.

[Junior]

How did they know it was flaming? Did it lisp and prance?

[Disambiguator]

Flaming Russian Ammo Dump

Great name for a band.

[NTW64]

LOL, sure does.

[Christopher Lincoln]

No, the British blockaded Germany, thus cutting off American trade with Germany. The last thing the British wanted to do was to stop their own trade with America.

[Christopher Lincoln]

Dimitri! If I have been telling you once, I have been telling you 23 million times NO SMOKING IN AMMO DUMP!

It's quite possible that that's exactly what happened.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Don't forget the explosions in the West Loch of Pearl Harbor that destroyed a number of LST's being loaded with supplies and equipment for an invasion (Saipan I believe). Some guys weren't using proper safety measures while loading some mortar rounds and one went off, setting off a chain reaction in the middle of twenty LST's. Some of the wrecks are still there.

[tonycavanagh]

The Soviets had more problems than most in that regard - this isn't really surprising. Sure, it could have been terrorist action, but Soviet/Russian ammo depots don't need any help to go "BOOOOOOOOOOOM!" .

Was a regular occurrence in the Cold War.

The Soviets always had these huge ammo dumps with untrained or barley conscript troops looking after them.

Used to look at aerial images of these huge dumps looking at all the hazards and mistakes made.

It was more of a surprise when they didn't go boom