Texas City
Beirut
Posted on 05/17/2023 1:30:23 PM PDT by dynachrome
You have to mix it with fuel oil, and an explosive cap, to make it go BOOM.
“By all means - let’s advertise it in a story about missing ammonium nitrate! The area around Mojave, CA is crawling with those up to no good!”
Why? You think it is lying on the ground in a big pile?
It might be lying on the ground somewhere, but most likely on a corn field or whatever...
Yep, the caps are really the dangerous thing that the government keeps tightly regulated. Can’t do much with any high explosive unless you can get your hands on those, or you are one of the people smart (and crazy) enough to try and build your own.
I hauled fertilizer and gain in hopper trailers during the last oil bust.
I would load fertilizer at Port of Catoosa. Hauled ammonium nitrate many times. It is coated with a brown something that makes it hard to ignite.
One manager at a big farm supply was unloading me up in Iowa.
I committed on the color of the load. He said the coating was on there so I could haul it, and he could sell it.
Read about what happened in 1947 in Texas City, TX.
ANFO IS a nasty thing.
Have the Lebanese fixed Beruit harbor yet?
5.56mm
People think ammonium nitrate is some very dangerous substance, because the lazy media constantly conflates ammonium nitrate, a relatively harmless fertilizer, with ammonium nitrate-fuel oil, which is a cheap and dirty way to get a high explosive. That’s why some are freaking out hearing that this stuff went missing. They perhaps don’t realize you can walk into a store in any town in the country and load up your Ryder truck with ammonium nitrate and nobody will bat an eye, and they probably won’t even check your ID.
Even some that were kind of on the left know who Patriot Front is
Some bad cussin’. Not for pearl clutchers.
About 500 acres of lettuce, for one. Other crops take more or less. It's Kern County so I chose lettuce. Could have used carrots.
You’ll notice I said “relatively”. That incident is a rarity for a reason. Most people aren’t dumb enough to mix parrafin in with the AN, nor do they transport it alongside firearms ammunition.
I don’t think it combusts easily even if untreated. It can do nasty things if a fire breaks out though, so maybe they coated it just in case something else combustible on the train went up.
Yes, people will notice. My folks had a feed store and blended custom fertilizers. The were told to report large purchases that they didn’t delivery and spread on farmers fields.
Obliteration of a city is not “relatively harmless”, regardless of how rarely it might happen.
But my comment was about ammonium nitrate, not ammonium nitrate mixed with parrafin, which makes it a different substance entirely. You’re essentially talking about a different formulation of ANFO they were carrying on the ship, not ammonium nitrate.
Texas City
Beirut
He's been hiding in his basement since the last derailment. He's butt hurt.
Lol, but they didn’t get caught and no one was the wiser.
Neither of those is an example of “Ammonium nitrate by itself”.
That part of kern is desert
Make a lot of flowers along the tracks
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