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Did y'all see what happened in my home country today?
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BarkellWH
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 RE: Did y'all see what happened in m... (in reply to rombsix)
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Very sorry, Ramzi, but glad that your relatives appear to be safe.
According to the news, it is thought that the explosion was the result of some 2,700 tons of ammonia nitrate that had been stored at the port since 2014. Ammonia nitrate is a highly volatile fertilizer that is used in truck bombs and the like. One wonders why the hell the authorities allowed storage at the port for so long.
Once again, I'm glad your relatives are safe and hope that your injured friends recover.
Bill
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Date Aug. 5 2020 13:39:35
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Richard Jernigan
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From: Austin, Texas USA
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RE: Did y'all see what happened in m... (in reply to Piwin)
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ORIGINAL: Piwin
I don't think I've ever seen an explosion that size... Truly horrific.
The largest explosion I have seen--so far--was at Medina Base at San Antonio, Texas. Adjacent to Lackland Air Force Base, atomic weapons were stored there--may still be. My mother was in a severe auto accident in the fall of 1963, and was in a room on the top floor of the large Air Force general hospital on Lackland for several weeks while she recovered.
Visiting her, I stood at the window, looking at the sunset over Medina base. Suddenly a large mushroom cloud shot up from the underground storage facilities. As I watched the shock wave kick up dust while it travelled across the dry landscape toward us, I thought, "Well, this must be it."
Turns out it wasn't. The building rocked back more than a foot and a half, but remained intact. The wall didn't strike me until near the end of its displacement, resulting only in a few small scratches and bruises. The window where I stood was cracked, but did not shatter like some below it. The explosion was in a fairly large store of conventional explosives, at a distance of a few miles from the hospital.
It was one of a handful of times I thought I saw the approach of certain death. Those experiences have not made the inevitable prospect any more attractive.
But I would prefer a sudden death to many I have seen.
It is the injury, grief and bereavement of the Beirut survivors which is so terrible.
RNJ
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