xxx Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 A firework warehouse next to nitrate storage feels about as plausible as a bat next to a pangolin if I'm thinking out loud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 My conspiracy theory is Israelis sabotaging secret Hizbollah rocket/munitions stash. Those videos are nuts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Yeah that wasn't a firecracker.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDEM Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 37 minutes ago, yekker said: Yeah that wasn't a firecracker.. https://youtu.be/jiWrfVM-NjI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 1 hour ago, chim said: What kind of fireworks does that? I guess all of them put together? It's possibly what was being stored in the building next door and not the fireworks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdamAnchorman Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 The warehouse nextdoor probably held all of the raw materials to make fireworks, including a giant cache of the stuff that goes boom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Al-Jazeera is reporting that it's stored ammonium nitrate that went boom https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/large-explosion-rocks-lebanon-capital-beirut-200804153400078.html A similar explosion involving ammonium nitrate happened in Tianjin, China in 2015. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adamovich Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 13 minutes ago, zkom said: Al-Jazeera is reporting that it's stored ammonium nitrate that went boom https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/large-explosion-rocks-lebanon-capital-beirut-200804153400078.html A similar explosion involving ammonium nitrate happened in Tianjin, China in 2015. yeah Tianjin was horrible too, 173 people died there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv5g2MhPT5I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nr6Tlu0EvM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 So is it true that it just went boom and nobody died? In that case I like it, I like explosions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t yst r Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 In 2000 the Dutch town of Enschede was blown up after a fireworks factory caught fire. People just stood around because they thought it was a paper factory. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_etfXcbguZw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braintree Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 A nuclear device would be at least ten times the size of that explosion. Nukes also knock out electronics in that shockwave since they emit EMPs. It looks like an accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Did anyone say it was a nuke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDEM Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 1 hour ago, dingformung said: So is it true that it just went boom and nobody died? In that case I like it, I like explosions Not quite. At least 27 dead, 2500 injured (and counting). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aencre Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 I’ve got friends in Beirut, and still no news of them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adamovich Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 1 hour ago, IDEM said: Not quite. At least 27 dead, 2500 injured (and counting). 70 dead, about 4000 injured now 1 minute ago, aencre said: I’ve got friends in Beirut, and still no news of them... aw man that sucks, hope they're fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 3 hours ago, Soloman Tump said: Did anyone say it was a nuke? 8 hours ago, bendish said: There are definitely people saying that on Twitter. Those people are idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 16 minutes ago, chenGOD said: There are definitely people saying that on Twitter. Those people are idiots. It was a babby nuke.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thumbass Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 3 hours ago, aencre said: I’ve got friends in Beirut, and still no news of them... Praying for everyone's safety Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 3 hours ago, yekker said: It was a babby nuke.. Babby form how? Spoiler Just in case anyone isn't aware yekkers is joking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignatius Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 A guy filming while driving. https://v.redd.it/teesdxxgi2f51Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendish Posted August 5, 2020 Author Share Posted August 5, 2020 In Nicosia, Cyprus - this was very loud, the air pulsed and house shook, and we are 150 miles away. Lebanon has to rebuild so much - politics, society, infrastructure. Devastating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Jots down: "Never live near any docks". 13 hours ago, xxx said: A firework warehouse next to nitrate storage feels about as plausible as a bat next to a pangolin if I'm thinking out loud. Finnish morning TV kind of off-handedly said that it was ammonium nitrate storage that had been neglected for years and people didn't even know about it's existence but I don't know where they got that information. So, it might be that whoever was storing fireworks didn't know about the existence of the ammonium nitrate right next door. Given that Lebanon generally has high levels of corruption it doesn't sound too implausible to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amen Warrior Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Someone just held a fart in too long imo Sorry Those videos are insane, feel awful for all the casualties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 2 hours ago, zkom said: Jots down: "Never live near any docks". Finnish morning TV kind of off-handedly said that it was ammonium nitrate storage that had been neglected for years and people didn't even know about it's existence but I don't know where they got that information. So, it might be that whoever was storing fireworks didn't know about the existence of the ammonium nitrate right next door. Given that Lebanon generally has high levels of corruption it doesn't sound too implausible to me. Yeah, this seems to be the case, a recipe for disaster. Terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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