Beirut crater

[firemanjj82]

...boom...

[txpitdog]

That’s madness. Did you see who was credited on the photo? :O

Oh man! Whoops!

[Bayouboy]

That’s madness. Did you see who was credited on the photo? :O

[topwater blowup]

Or they were making a nuke and made a slight error.....

[rtp]

lmco!!

I see what you did there.

News reported it was ammunition and sodium nitrate that was confiscated from a ship 6 years ago and stored in the warehouses.

Great decision to store a munitions and explosives cache in the port in your capitol.

[Playa]

But we all know it was really probably Israel

We will know by weekend if rockets start getting launched into Tel Aviv

[RifleBowPistol]

That appears to be a grain elevator that blew up. Fairly common thing to happen unless safety precautions are taken.

Yes, that looks like a grain elevator. But I don't think it was grain that blew up. I you look at the damage and watch some of the videos, of the explosion. It had to be a large stock pile of ammo, weapons, that blew.

Yes, I lived in the Corpus area, when the CC grain elevator blew, that was pretty crazy, how much damage the grain explosion did, but that was a whole lot lower pressure, lower velocity explosion. That explosion blew large chunks of concrete across the road, and into the ship channel. A lot of the pieces of that explosion, were pretty large, because of the lower pressure explosion. Had it been a lot higher pressure explosion, it would have fractured the concrete into much smaller pieces and blown them much farther.

[RifleBowPistol]

Ok, I just realized, that lake that comes in towards the grain elevator is ground zero. That explains why the grain elevator, is still standing. I figured, if it had been ground zero, it should be gone. I guess that pile of stuff at the base of the elevator, is grain. WOW!

[Chad C]

Before Boom, After Boom

[6.5 shooter]

News reported it was ammunition and sodium nitrate that was confiscated from a ship 6 years ago and stored in the warehouses.

I’m gonna go with ammonium nitrate.

[RifleBowPistol]

I think they were using the grain elevator as a blast shield. They stored the weapons there, knowing if something went wrong, the grain elevator would help prevent some damage, to the city. The buildings to the left of the grain elevator, got smashed pretty hard.

[BobbyJoe]

that’s a big boom

[Kingfisher789]

I’m gonna go with ammonium nitrate.

Me too. The telltale signs of ignited ammonium — reddish smoke

[kae006]

I think they were using the grain elevator as a blast shield. They stored the weapons there, knowing if something went wrong, the grain elevator would help prevent some damage, to the city. The buildings to the left of the grain elevator, got smashed pretty hard.

Pretty big assumption. Maybe the grain elevator is there because it's a shipping port and they ship grain...

[S-3 Ranch]

Red tape

Me too. The telltale signs of ignited ammonium — reddish smoke

That’s the overseas news feed that the port security has been begging to deport that stuff for years And it’s been tied up with a court order red tape,