BEIRUT

[MECH-lift]

Lebanon explosion: Thousands injured across capital Beirut | CNN

A massive explosion ripped through central Beirut on Tuesday, killing dozens of people, injuring thousands and blowing out windows in buildings across the city.

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[oldngray]

A lot of "fireworks" in that warehouse. They must have been planning a big celebration or something like that.

 

[MECH-lift]

A lot of "fireworks" in that warehouse. They must have been planning a big celebration or something like that.

looks more like a terrorist attack

 

[Fred's Myth]

looks more like a terrorist attack

Or an anti-terrorist attack.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

A lot of "fireworks" in that warehouse. They must have been planning a big celebration or something like that.

They are saying it was loaded up with seized high explosives from ships and containers.
They played the Twitter video below that showed a fire and then the big explosion ... the shock wave was WOWZER!

Homes as far as 10 kilometers away were damaged, according to witnesses.
One Beirut resident who was several kilometers away from the site of the blast said her windows had been shattered by the explosion.
"What I felt was that it was an earthquake," Rania Masri told CNN. "The apartment shook horizontally and all of a sudden it felt like an explosion and the windows and doors burst open. The glass just broke. So many homes were damaged or destroyed."

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1290674572073644034

 

[floridays]

WOWZER

I like that Old Rat.

That word shows some youthful exuberance.
Nice choice of words.

 

[Eat Sleep Fish]

CRAZY explosion! We are certainly close to the end of it all. Call me crazy if you like I don"t care. I have thick skin and can take it.

 

[floridays]

We are certainly close to the end of it all

I agree.

 

[vantexan]

Beirut? He de best damn baseball player ever lived! From Robin Williams "The Best of Times."And

On edit: They should have storing those explosives outside the city if this was an accident.

 

[oldngray]

It sounds like it was an ammunition storage site for Hezbollah. That the Lebanese government has know about for years but predictably did nothing about.

 

[vantexan]

It sounds like it was an ammunition storage site for Hezbollah. That the Lebanese government has know about for years but predictably did nothing about.

But what the heck was in there that blew up that big? A lot more than just bullets. Just think what would've happened in Israel by now if they hadn't put up that wall.

 

[Operational needs]

But what the heck was in there that blew up that big? A lot more than just bullets. Just think what would've happened in Israel by now if they hadn't put up that wall.

They’re saying ammonium nitrate was being stored there.

 

[rod]

They are saying it was loaded up with seized high explosives from ships and containers.
They played the Twitter video below that showed a fire and then the big explosion ... the shock wave was WOWZER!

Homes as far as 10 kilometers away were damaged, according to witnesses.
One Beirut resident who was several kilometers away from the site of the blast said her windows had been shattered by the explosion.
"What I felt was that it was an earthquake," Rania Masri told CNN. "The apartment shook horizontally and all of a sudden it felt like an explosion and the windows and doors burst open. The glass just broke. So many homes were damaged or destroyed."

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1290674572073644034

Speak American

 

[Operational needs]

Speak American

6.214 miles.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Speak American

Good ways off!

 

[vantexan]

They’re saying ammonium nitrate was being stored there.

Must have been a lot more than what destroyed the OKC Federal building.

 

[Box Ox]

They’re saying ammonium nitrate was being stored there.

Stored at the port for SIX YEARS? Hmmmmmm!

Dozens killed, thousands wounded in Beirut explosion: Live

Officials expect death toll to rise after huge explosion rips through Lebanon’s capital.

www.aljazeera.com

“ The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear. Officials linked the explosion to some 2,700 tonnes of confiscated ammonium nitrate that were being stored in a warehouse at the port for six years.”

 

[PT Car Washer]

Must have been a lot more than what destroyed the OKC Federal building.

Oklahoma City bombing was like 2 1/2 tons of ammonium nitrate and other stuff. Beirut was 2,750 tons as reported.

 

[vantexan]

Oklahoma City bombing was like 2 1/2 tons of ammonium nitrate and other stuff. Beirut was 2,750 tons as reported.

Amazing that it was caught on camera. Scary to think what Hiroshima was like after seeing that.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Amazing that it was caught on camera. Scary to think what Hiroshima was like after seeing that.

Much worse!