Major explosion in Beirut
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first one might have been fireworks, but the second one looks like something else with that redish color
Good lord.
Just before and as the blast went off!
Frames from one of the vids. Definitely a secondary explosion in the adjoining storage building.
Not going to post, but saw a vid on twitter of mummified bodies sprinkled throughout the area around the port. As expected.
looking forward to the Lebanese CSB root cause video
Sorry, should have read all the posts.
Will agree that something was on fire next to the grain elevator, then exploded, then half a second later, the elevator explodes.
For non-farm folks, a grain elevator is simply a vertical concrete silo to store grain. Machinery in it takes the grain to the top in "buckets" on a conveyor belt, and this machinery is called an elevator. Grain gravity flows out the bottom.
In handling grain, organic (carbon containing) dust is formed. In certain concentrations, it's explosive.
The grain elevators are reinforced concrete, very thick with tons of rebar. To explode one into powder, as seems to be happening, that's a hell of an explosion.
Will agree that something was on fire next to the grain elevator, then exploded, then half a second later, the elevator explodes.
For non-farm folks, a grain elevator is simply a vertical concrete silo to store grain. Machinery in it takes the grain to the top in "buckets" on a conveyor belt, and this machinery is called an elevator. Grain gravity flows out the bottom.
In handling grain, organic (carbon containing) dust is formed. In certain concentrations, it's explosive.
The grain elevators are reinforced concrete, very thick with tons of rebar. To explode one into powder, as seems to be happening, that's a hell of an explosion.
From later pictures, the grain elevator is still standing, I believe.
The big explosion came from the red warehouse close to the initial fire, not the grain elevators.
CanyonAg77 said:
Sorry, should have read all the posts.
Will agree that something was on fire next to the grain elevator, then exploded, then half a second later, the elevator explodes.
For non-farm folks, a grain elevator is simply a vertical concrete silo to store grain. Machinery in it takes the grain to the top in "buckets" on a conveyor belt, and this machinery is called an elevator. Grain gravity flows out the bottom.
In handling grain, organic (carbon containing) dust is formed. In certain concentrations, it's explosive.
The grain elevators are reinforced concrete, very thick with tons of rebar. To explode one into powder, as seems to be happening, that's a hell of an explosion.
And that's why you don't smoke near a grain elevator.
Apparently (if you believe the reports), they stored fireworks and nitrates near one...Champ Bailey said:CanyonAg77 said:
Sorry, should have read all the posts.
Will agree that something was on fire next to the grain elevator, then exploded, then half a second later, the elevator explodes.
For non-farm folks, a grain elevator is simply a vertical concrete silo to store grain. Machinery in it takes the grain to the top in "buckets" on a conveyor belt, and this machinery is called an elevator. Grain gravity flows out the bottom.
In handling grain, organic (carbon containing) dust is formed. In certain concentrations, it's explosive.
The grain elevators are reinforced concrete, very thick with tons of rebar. To explode one into powder, as seems to be happening, that's a hell of an explosion.
And that's why you don't smoke near a grain elevator.
Watch carefully, first explosion is not the elevator, but I'm pretty sure it exploded milliseconds after.eric76 said:It looks like a grain elevator, but the explosion appears to be very close to them but not the "elevator" itself.AzAg80 said:
Looks like grain elevators. They have been known to spontaneously explode, think the dust is very combustible.
Lebanon is going through a massive financial crisis and now this. That place is falling apart and was once a gem in the ME
See my pic. The warehouse in red is secondary explosion site.
I swear that looks like the elevator going up about the 2 second marklunchbox said:
Slo mo
Hiroshima and Nagasaki it is not, and not even close.lunchbox said:
Slo mo
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
This is the type of stuff that happens when dangerous goods aren't segregated properly.
When transporting explosives and oxidizers on a ship, you need 48m between the two and they sure as hell can't be in the same or adjacent cargo holds.
Understand this is on the shore vs ship, but I'd say poor terminal management is to blame.
When transporting explosives and oxidizers on a ship, you need 48m between the two and they sure as hell can't be in the same or adjacent cargo holds.
Understand this is on the shore vs ship, but I'd say poor terminal management is to blame.
Live feed. Looks like part of the elevator is still there.
It will be interesting to see what the rating of the explosion is.Quote:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki it is not, and not even close.
Clearly you can't accept that it wasn't the grain elevator that was the big explosion. What will it take for you to see otherwise? All video evidence thus far is pretty clear that it was the building in front of the elevator that exploded.CanyonAg77 said:I swear that looks like the elevator going up about the 2 second marklunchbox said:
Slo mo
Username checks out.
Won't even rate 1 kiloton.CanyonAg77 said:It will be interesting to see what the rating of the explosion is.Quote:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki it is not, and not even close.
Probably around 250 tons of TNT equivalent would be my guess.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
Iran should not have tried cyber attack to poison Israel's water supply. Iran is lucky they did not succeed.
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