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    • Fing hell, that's going to cost a fortune to fix. Beirut has some of the most expensive properties in Med/World if I'm not mistaken? Perhaps Leb coast generallyNairn
    • I wonder how far out the windows are fucked 'til. Poor bastards - going to be a shitty few weeks sleep for quite a few thousand people.Nairn
    • >Beirut has some of the most expensive properties in Med/World
      Maybe not in proximity of a fireworks factory ? Is it the downtown?
      drgs
    • Central district is nearby (apparently, wtf do I know?) but glass getting blown out I'm thinking must go on for km. Again, I know fuck all.Nairn
    • Wait! I'm forgetting the inverse square law.
      Still, a good distance. Mind you, it's ground level, so shockwave should 'mostly' go upwards.
      Nairn
    • This is why it's not a nuke. If you want to set off a nuke, you put it in a skyscraper.Nairn
    • Those are some office buildings for sure, but seems odd to have a firework factory right in the middledrgs
    • that's just the road next to the port. most of the damage was done in that area.
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    • from what i've read there was storage of fireworks in proximity to storage of a mass of embargoed (wer) nitrates.
      not sure there was a factory?
      Nairn
    • i think this'll be the first time in a long time that i give some paltry amount to a charity for this. Poor motherfuckers. So random, so absolutely fucking.Nairn
    • 2020 just keeps giving. 4 months left.shapesalad
    • Lebanon's Prime Minsiter Hassan Diab has said it is "unacceptable" that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate were being stored in a warehouse.OBBTKN
    • @sted - yup, you're totally right. Not sure what i was thinking. Big white block is RIGHT next to it. Can't imagine what it's like in there.Nairn
    • 2,7kt!!OBBTKN
    • The Oklahoma Bombing apparently used about 920Kg of ammonium nitrate, so this was just under three times as big a bomb, inadvertant as it seemingly wasNairn
    • I'm now thinking that it's not entirely outwith the scope of some dedicated fucker to get a few tens of tons of this stuff and just drive it into a city.Nairn
    • @Nairn nanah, i also had to puzzle out whats going on. the warehouses were on fire on both sides of that building what looks like a massive grain silo.
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    • A container of this stuff, with a sensor that works out elevation and once it's onto a hoisting crane out of port BOOMPH. Rotterdam or Algeciras, gone.Nairn
    • Aye, I didn't realise they were silos of some kind.. https://imgz.org/iAd… Seems like a bit of a stroke of luck for people behind them..Nairn
    • Whatever it was, it wasn't on a boat. Ship here looks remarkably unbothered. Warehouse destroyed, I assume.
      https://imgz.org/iaP…
      Nairn

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