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Massive Explosion in Beirut
04 August 2020, 12:48 PM
Piano*DadMassive Explosion in Beirut
This may have killed thousands instantly04 August 2020, 12:51 PM
jon-nycTerrible.
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If you think looting is bad wait until I tell you about civil forfeiture.
04 August 2020, 12:56 PM
wtg
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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
Bazootiehead-in-training
04 August 2020, 12:59 PM
Piano*DadThis link probably won't work for long.
04 August 2020, 01:13 PM
dolmansaxlilOh my god. The videos are truly horrifying.
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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
04 August 2020, 01:17 PM
dolmansaxlilThis video shows the area after - it’s horrible.
https://twitter.com/ahmermkhan...681560342069248?s=21
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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
04 August 2020, 01:24 PM
wtgOh my god. I can't believe the destruction.
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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
Bazootiehead-in-training
04 August 2020, 01:37 PM
ShiroKuroThis is horrible. What was the cause? It looks like the explosion was preceded by a fire, could it have been an accident?
CNN just now:
quote:
Explosion caused by "confiscated high explosive material," Lebanese official says
???
04 August 2020, 01:42 PM
jodiOh my god. How horrible.
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Jodi
04 August 2020, 01:46 PM
jodiI saw footage of what sounded like fireworks going off in a building before the big explosion.
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Jodi
04 August 2020, 04:12 PM
Piano*DadThe guardian has collected some astonishing video from many angles, including from the sea.
Footage from the Guardian I'm not buying "firecrackers." This is a concentration of high explosives.
04 August 2020, 04:59 PM
DanielI would need to know a lot more about it before forming an opinion.
04 August 2020, 08:51 PM
Piano*DadLebanon's president says 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate badly stored, vows consequences.
For comparison purposes, the bomb that blew up the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 and doing over $650 million in damage, only had about 3 tons of the stuff.
04 August 2020, 10:13 PM
Piano*DadAgain, for comparative purposes, this would be even larger than the 1947 ...
Texas Fertilizer Explosionwhich released energy in excess of 1.1 kilotons of TNT. (about 1/12 of Hiroshima).
04 August 2020, 10:21 PM
CindysphinxI swear, 2020 has become bad even by biblical standards.