Posted on 08/04/2020 10:42:26 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
Yes, it does. Mushroom cloud and shock wave. Wow.
Looked like 5 or 6 other smaller fires in the area, and perhaps another smoke flume.
Anybody claiming “credit” for the blast?
how close to Russian assets?
bomb making facility accident
it does happen
I’ve never seen anything like this. The shock wave is phenomenal.
Two new Taco Bell’s?
Do muslins celebrate the 4th of August?
Do muslins celebrate the 4th of August?
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They may now ......
Bad falafel batch.
Reports say hospitals nearby can’t treat injured because they’re so damaged.
Blew out a vast swath of buildings....deaths surely and lots of injuries.
I’m no expert but that vapor cloud just prior to the explosion looks like a bleve to me.
Wow. That was a huge explosion. What was the building right next to it? Was it something people would be in or was it a bunch of storage silos? Incredible that it looked to still be standing. Really hope it was silos and not an apartment building or hotel or office building. Otherwise the death toll is going to skyrocket. Makes me think of the Texas City explosion in 1947. That killed at least 581 people and was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster
I just finished a book on the Halifax Harbor explosion of 1917 where a ship with 3,000 tons of high explosives detonated in the harbor. That video gives me a better sense of what the explosion must have looked like.
The book mentioned that it was the largest man-made explosion (however inadvertent) until the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
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