TalcottWx Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 OT but please Google Beirut explosion. Insanity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone-68 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 2 minutes ago, DotRat_Wx said: OT but please Google Beirut explosion. Insanity Yikes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger_deF Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 2 minutes ago, DotRat_Wx said: OT but please Google Beirut explosion. Insanity Doesn't seem to be any more information than that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSC97wxnut Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 9 minutes ago, DotRat_Wx said: OT but please Google Beirut explosion. Insanity That 10-ish story building in the one of the videos was just vaporized... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderBeard Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 3 minutes ago, LSC97wxnut said: That 10-ish story building in the one of the videos was just vaporized... WTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Holy sh!t!!! Fireworks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 14 minutes ago, DotRat_Wx said: OT but please Google Beirut explosion. Insanity Looks like it was at a Fireworks plant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherX Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 6 minutes ago, PowderBeard said: WTH Incredible capture of the shock-wave. Looks like footage from years ago out in the Pacific atolls of a nuclear test. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted August 4, 2020 Author Share Posted August 4, 2020 8 minutes ago, klw said: Looks like it was at a Fireworks plant. That is phenomenal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Holy crap! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Must have been a lot of fireworks? The explosions from oil fields don’t even look as powerful as this did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 That was crazy, even that second explosion with the guy on the balcony, looks like he certainly gone blown backwards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSC97wxnut Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Aftermath video: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 There is a four year old video of a fireworks plant in China exploding. At night but similar primary and secondary explosions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8611Blizz Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 The worst place it would seem to put a fireworks factory is in Beirut. Ok maybe Kabul is worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8611Blizz Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Looking at the second video it looks and sounds like small arms rounds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 That has got to bring back some awful memories for anyone who has lived in Beirut for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 13 minutes ago, mreaves said: That has got to bring back some awful memories for anyone who has lived in Beirut for a while. Most of my bad memories from Beirut happened the following morning. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazey Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Looks like their version of our 1917 Halifax explosion. Probably going to be a high death toll and likely be a lot of eye injuries due to people looking out windows just before the blast. #NovaScotiaStrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8611Blizz Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Ammo dump. Not fireworks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazey Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 My uneducated guess is ammonium nitrate. That stuff has been know to cause huge explosions with big pressure waves in the past. Could’ve started as a fireworks fire but spread into an area that stores fertilizer. Whatever it was, the explosion was massive in scale and power. Here is a pic I grabbed of twitter. The cars are overturned facing the epicentre. They were literally pulled toward the explosion from the vacuum created by the blast. That’s a beast. #NovaScotiaStrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted August 4, 2020 Author Share Posted August 4, 2020 6 minutes ago, Hazey said: My uneducated guess is ammonium nitrate. That stuff has been know to cause huge explosions with big pressure waves in the past. Could’ve started as a fireworks fire but spread into an area that stores fertilizer. Whatever it was, the explosion was massive in scale and power. Here is a pic I grabbed of twitter. The cars are overturned facing the epicentre. They were literally pulled toward the explosion from the vacuum created by the blast. That’s a beast. #NovaScotiaStrong Close. It was Sodium Nitrate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said: Close. It was Sodium Nitrate Seeing reports that both Sodium and Ammonium nitrate were stored there. Sodium nitrate isn't explosive on it's own and would not have reacted with another chemical fast enough to cause something that big. Ammonium nitrate is the more likely suspect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherX Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 This is another awesome view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherX Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 And this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazey Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 I saw a report that there may have been 2700 tones of confiscated fert being stored there after it was seized as illegal cargo. Apparently this was back in 2013 but it was still being held at the port. Again just a story I saw on the net. Might be bs but that’s looks like a 3kiloton blast. I feel bad for them. What a disaster for a country that was already struggling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 438 new cases in Mass. Highest since June. 15316 tests. 2.86%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Looks like local schools will be 100% remote for a few months at least, very likely longer. Teachers unions putting on the full court press to not go back. Looks to be working. Wish I could not go back to work and eliminate all risk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 1 hour ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said: Looks like local schools will be 100% remote for a few months at least, very likely longer. Teachers unions putting on the full court press to not go back. Looks to be working. Wish I could not go back to work and eliminate all risk. Our union had a very mixed set of opinions. Prob mirrored the city pretty closely. Our super wanted to go hybrid (me too) but school committee voted remote. Hopefully something happens where we can go in person. I just row the ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 5 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Our union had a very mixed set of opinions. Prob mirrored the city pretty closely. Our super wanted to go hybrid (me too) but school committee voted remote. Hopefully something happens where we can go in person. I just row the ship. Yeah I personally liked a hybrid approach to start. Something like one week on one week off or 2 days and 3 days etc etc. I really think continued remote learning is going to be a disaster for growth, especially younger kids. (Not saying you), but I find it weird that teachers seem to be the only group not being asked to assume some risk returning to work. Everyone is assuming some sort of risk leaving their home and going to work, why should they be any different? As long as reasonable precautions are taken, what more can you ask? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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