Beirut Explosion

A firework warehouse next to nitrate storage feels about as plausible as a bat next to a pangolin if I'm thinking out loud. 

My conspiracy theory is Israelis sabotaging secret Hizbollah rocket/munitions stash. Those videos are nuts

Yeah that wasn't a firecracker..

  On 8/4/2020 at 9:40 PM, yekker said:

Yeah that wasn't a firecracker..

https://youtu.be/jiWrfVM-NjI

  On 8/4/2020 at 8:53 PM, 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.

The warehouse nextdoor probably held all of the raw materials to make fireworks, including a giant cache of the stuff that goes boom.

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.

  On 8/4/2020 at 10:50 PM, 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

So is it true that it just went boom and nobody died? In that case I like it, I like explosions

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

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.

Did anyone say it was a nuke? 

  On 8/4/2020 at 11:14 PM, 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).

I’ve got friends in Beirut, and still no news of them... 

  On 8/5/2020 at 12:34 AM, IDEM said:

Not quite. At least 27 dead, 2500 injured (and counting).

70 dead, about 4000 injured now

  On 8/5/2020 at 1:34 AM, aencre said:

I’ve got friends in Beirut, and still no news of them... 

aw man that sucks, hope they're fine 

  On 8/5/2020 at 12:27 AM, Soloman Tump said:

Did anyone say it was a nuke? 

  On 8/4/2020 at 7:00 PM, bendish said:

 

 

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There are definitely people saying that on Twitter. Those people are idiots. 

  On 8/5/2020 at 3:34 AM, chenGOD said:

There are definitely people saying that on Twitter. Those people are idiots. 

It was a babby nuke..

  On 8/5/2020 at 1:34 AM, aencre said:

I’ve got friends in Beirut, and still no news of them... 

Praying for everyone's safety

  On 8/5/2020 at 3:52 AM, yekker said:

It was a babby nuke..

Babby form how?

A guy filming while driving.

https://v.redd.it/teesdxxgi2f51


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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.

Jots down: "Never live near any docks".

  On 8/4/2020 at 9:32 PM, 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.

Someone just held a fart in too long imo

Sorry

Those videos are insane, feel awful for all the casualties.

  On 8/5/2020 at 10:51 AM, 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.