Posted on 08/12/2015 11:03:18 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta
Footage circulating online appears to show a massive explosion in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, the cause of which is not yet known. The explosion reportedly occurred at the Tianjin Binhai New Development Zone at about 23:30 (15:30 GMT). Pictures and video footage shared on social media suggest a number of people were wounded by the blast. Several nearby tower blocks are without power, according to the Chine
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I was never a party to a splodey like that.
Thankfully.
I know many consider google evil. But I am very impressed with the ability to right click a picture and search for similar across the internet.
Well I guess THAT is going to be a Superfund Cleanup site.
I have a tennis acquaintance who is half a billionaire and likes to go to China because they treat him like a friend of their when he goes.
Describes to me the inside as being people who are mostly outside when they are not working because their sleeping area is about half the size of a middle class closet and that is their home, a small box basically.
Not a good way to live, and they also made toxic about 60% of their drinking water, so they have to take other real estate over out of necessity.
I think they have to go to war at some point to survive.
Wow.
Umm..
Are the Big Rabbits all accounted for??
Pretty awesome, isn’t it, in a terrible sort of way? But I guess that’s how God works when He wants to bring a lot of people Home.
Those people are lucky that the shock wave from the blast didn’t shatter the window.
“Well I guess THAT is going to be a Superfund Cleanup site.”
Probably means the end of large-scale LNG transport, as well. Sounds as if this is what went up in the second explosion:
First Phase of Floating Natural Gas Plant in Tianjin Completed
No problem cutting off hands there for thefts as well.
I doubt it was gas. Looks like something was burning at first then the explosion occurred. Gas normally goes boom once if finds a spark no fire preceding it.
Tianjin Floating Natural Gas Terminal, just opened.
How does a brand new facility experience such a catastrophic failure?
“I doubt it was gas. Looks like something was burning at first then the explosion occurred. Gas normally goes boom once if finds a spark no fire preceding it.”
The first explosion was near the Tianjin Floating Natural Gas Terminal (”Gas Station” just opened months ago), and it sounds as if that is what exploded next.
“Paging T. Boone Pickens..
Mr. Pickens, please pick up the burning courtesy phone!”
“How does a brand new facility experience such a catastrophic failure?”
In CHINA???
Firefighters injured, trapped and missing
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