Posted on 09/15/2023 3:35:38 AM PDT by EBH
One of the containers involved was carrying perchloric acid, which is used in explosives as well as a variety of food and drug products, Tysver said. The car that exploded had been stationary for a couple hours beforehand, authorities said.
Joanna Le Moine, deputy director of the Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency, said officials are monitoring the situation and the weather to determine which direction the smoke will go “to help keep responders and citizens safe out of an overabundance of caution.”
The railyard where the explosion happened covers 2,850 acres (1,153 hectares) and stretches as wide as eight miles (13 km) at one point. A few years ago, an eight-story tall observation tower was built to allow people to watch thousands of railcars be sorted from one train to another on Union Pacific’s key east-west corridor.
One of the volunteers who was working inside the Golden Spike Tower Thursday told the North Platte Telegraph newspaper that he saw a “big ball of flame” billow up while he was talking to someone.
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we are not at war.
Just not going to believe my own media these days.
Accident...right?
Noting to see here, move along. Just a coincidence. Can’t release details .. under ongoing investigation. Move along.
Yes, it appears someone is blowing things up, doesn’t it?
Railcar Spontaneous Combustion
“What is the most explosive acid?
The explosive characteristics of Picric acid were discovered early. In 1885, experiments with picric acid were conducted in Lydd, England and the English adopted it as an explosive material called Lyddite in 1888. It was used extensively in bombs and grenades during World War I (7).”
Damn,... no WEF here !
-fJRoberts-
North Platte is where Buffalo Bill’s ranch is located. Mostly wide open spaces and prairie around there. If something had to explode that is not a bad place for it to occur.
The car that exploded had been stationary for a couple hours beforehand, authorities said. Just sitting there static and goes off??
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An easy target from above.
Green laser?
Far too many infrastructure fires and explosions to be accidents.
Nazis didn't get it done, but it looks like Team Bootyjudge is going to succeed where the 3rd reich failed.
To keep people out of the broader evacuation zone, North Platte police said,
Nebraska Department of Transportation workers posted barricades in late
afternoon on both West A and West Front streets at Lakeview Boulevard.
But U.S. 30 reopened to traffic about 5 p.m., and a text notice was issued about
15 minutes later saying the fire was out and the evacuations had been lifted.
Prepper ping
Has the epa and bootyjuice declared it a non event yet?
It is a major rail hub. wide open spaces or not.
clog the rail system
clog the panama canal
hack the trucker system
Dinwiddie...C’mon man put the points together even though any of my posts get pulled out of the headlines.
gee...what supply chain
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