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Nashville bombing aftermath captured in dramatic photos, videos
NY Post ^ | December 25, 2020 | By Bruce Golding

Posted on 12/26/2020 2:31:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The Christmas morning bombing in Nashville left a wake of destruction that was captured in dramatic photos and videos that made downtown Music City look more like Baghdad or Beirut.

Cellphone footage shot shortly after the massive blast caught victims wailing in panic and screaming for help as flames consumed vehicles parked along North Second Avenue and black smoke filled the sky.

The explosion, which could be felt for blocks, rocked the city just as dawn was breaking around 6:30 a.m.

Officials said cops were already at the scene, having responded to a report of shots fired about 30 minutes earlier.

When they got there, officers found an RV playing a recorded message that warned “a potential bomb would detonate within 15 minutes,” Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said during an afternoon news conference.

A YouTube video, which Vice Mayor Jim Shulman seemed to confirm as authentic during a CNN interview, has audio of a female voice repeatedly saying, “If you can hear this message, evacuate now” just before the blast.

Witness Betsy Williams told CNN she remembered hearing the sound of gunfire at around 4:30 a.m., and then a “computerized message” from the RV.

“Evacuate now,” Williams recalls the female voice repeating several times.

She later heard the voice counting down, prompting her and her wife to run away from their apartment nearby.

“This vehicle will explode in 15 minutes,” the countdown said, Williams recalled to CNN. Then, “This vehicle will explode in 14 minutes.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: blast; bomb; nashville; tennessee
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To: WinMod70

I got my Government issued single waterproof camping tent from Joe n Heels Government Surplus Store

Even got a zipper closure

Hmmsss... Could not get chemo so had to get black..

Ok, this zipper does not open from the inside

Aarrgghhhhhh


21 posted on 12/26/2020 3:47:42 AM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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To: srmanuel

Let me know about the Las Vegas shooting and the Nashville explosion asap..........


22 posted on 12/26/2020 3:51:56 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

No one was warned? Just she and her wife?


23 posted on 12/26/2020 3:52:51 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What time was that picture taken?


24 posted on 12/26/2020 3:53:19 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Beware the media industrial complex )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can they make out a person driving it?


25 posted on 12/26/2020 4:04:30 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: yldstrk

And another male was individually interviewed a long way from the scene, bit over his shoulder on a blown out street scene there is a few people and one line police car.... Blocking road..

No tape. No control point for ingress, nothing...how do we know where it was, the hooters sign still lt and hanging out on the building opposite the blast radius, with all the surrounding buildings having been face stripped of cladding.

One, fan blast radius..hmmsss

Two, buy shares in the sign maker who builds bomb proof display signage.


26 posted on 12/26/2020 4:05:40 AM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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To: Swiffer_Ralf

Now for the real reason to look at the hooters sign,

Right hand side of sign see the gray black tangled mass of wire ribboning down the face of the building...

That Network cabling, the ugly blown flat and ejected out the hole above it is a comms server rack system and the reason it was not blown across the road, the cables, held it.

Oh the hole it came out of ???

Fee the facia rebar other white strands lower side of top hole, they have been blown Out, not In from and impact.

This was a two stage attack. IMHO.

REGARDS.


27 posted on 12/26/2020 4:15:30 AM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

THAT should NOT be hard to find the owner of.....right??


28 posted on 12/26/2020 4:25:28 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: srmanuel

I doubt an Islamic Group would have warned people, or blow a vacant building. This was a planned attack on a data center.


29 posted on 12/26/2020 4:28:48 AM PST by Paperpusher
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A friend who lost his AT&T cell phone coverage asks why AT&T was not the target?


30 posted on 12/26/2020 4:33:04 AM PST by depressed in 06 (63 in '22. Now, more than ever! (I didn't take into account Mittens, Collins and Murkowski.))
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To: Ann Archy
THAT should NOT be hard to find the owner of.....right??

Yep, probably stolen.

31 posted on 12/26/2020 4:43:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Swiffer_Ralf

Are you speaking English?? Lol


32 posted on 12/26/2020 4:51:45 AM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: srmanuel

My guess is that whoever did it was “On the FBI’s RADAR screen” for some time and they did their usual, “let it happen so it looks like the FBI is indispensable” deal despite all the carnage it knowingly allows to happen.


33 posted on 12/26/2020 5:06:11 AM PST by trebb (Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
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To: Swiffer_Ralf

Lot of debris in the middle of the street.


34 posted on 12/26/2020 5:18:57 AM PST by OldCountryBoy (You can't make this stuff up!)
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To: OldCountryBoy

So what is in Nashville that needed to be blown up?

Has CNN blamed Trump yet?


35 posted on 12/26/2020 5:23:35 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: OldCountryBoy

Yes. I did a few dig abouts on explosions, ytube has a lot, basically the blast area has more than one concussive area, I mentioned before, either side of the building face vehicles seem to have been blown into the street 90 degrees from the building face, and mass debris in those areas.

One blast does not travel now a building face then take a right angle turn.

Next thing... Look at the tree trunks. Look for burnt sides, , any fallen, where from.

Which direction do they lay.

Expansive gasses go out in a circle. They don’t wander about like a drunken monkey at the zoo.

I know we got IED experts and clearance experts here, they may chime in. Though loose lips sink ships.

Respects


36 posted on 12/26/2020 5:27:07 AM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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To: WinMod70
I am in favor of an RV tax to be used to subsidize the less fortunate that can only get by with tow behind campers.

But what if the tow behind is a vintage, frame up fully restored 26' Airstream?

37 posted on 12/26/2020 5:29:02 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Covenantor

I don’t know. A couple of ugly, chubby lesbians might enjoy interviewing potential Hooters girls.


38 posted on 12/26/2020 5:29:41 AM PST by redangus (N tgat)
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To: a fool in paradise

Excellent question, seems to have become oldcnews in underca minute, Zero news on anything about him after initial reporting.


39 posted on 12/26/2020 5:35:22 AM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

They were staged “ actors “ bet if a search was done in that area for her name on a voter role it would not come up,

Not that I don’t believe she would lie, damn now I gotta wash my mouth out with soap.

CNN

It’s a lie.


40 posted on 12/26/2020 5:38:43 AM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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