2,750 Tonnes Of Ammonium Nitrate Exploded: Lebanon PM On Beirut Blasts

https://www.ndtv.com ^ | 08.04.2020 | WorldAgence France-Presse

[roadcat]

33% of Lebanon is Christian.

Judge Jeanine Pirro is of Lebanese Christian descent, born in NY. Lots of Christians in Lebanon.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Clay Moore]

My mom said the Texas City explosion shook their house about 80 miles away.

[DesertRhino]

Yeah, it actually was. Even that orange color of the vapors matches that.

[volunbeer]

Hezbollah routinely hides munitions among populated areas so that Israel will kill civilians if they strike. This is a fact.

There was a fire and they claim it was burning fireworks although it is quite possible they were the rockets Iran gives them to attack Israel with. Hezbollah would not want to get rid of an oxidizer they could use to make car bombs and other large bombs with either - they are single-minded about destroying Israel.

A recipe for disaster...... if Antifa ran the US we would see the same kind of stuff - then again, we had a city in Texas that gave zoning permission for a nursing home to go across the street from a fertilizer plant so we are not immune from bad decisions either.

[dsrtsage]

Muslim countries have the worst luck

[UNGN]

LOL! Rhetorical Question: Who stores 2,700 tons of any explosive in a downtown port?

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.

[DesertRhino]

Humidity makes it more unstable.

[Flick Lives]

“This warehouse has gone 2,191 days without an accident”. ((oh crap))

[AndyJackson]

2,700 boggles the mind.

It should. That's 3 kilotons. Little Boy was 15 kT.

[cookcounty]

Ms Gabrielle, (forgot her last name) often seen on FOX is also Lebanese

[chemical_boy]

Molten Alumimum from the fire probably came in contact with pile of ammonium Nitrate. crude Ammonal

[combat_boots]

Brigitte

[Clay Moore]

“The “fireworks fire” at the base of the Elevator was pretty convenient, though.”

That is similar to what the description of the fire on the Grandcamp prior to it detonating.

[McGruff]

Should have stored it in the Bekka Valley instead.

[Texas Fossil]

I disagree. Not first time.

[noiseman]

”Give a monkey an AK...what could go wrong?”

Oh man, I can’t stop laughing at that GIF. A perfect metaphor for so many things wrong with our world today.