Any of you seeing the videos coming out of Lebanon? Reports are a fireworks factory exploded. Already reports it was felt and shook windows in Cyprus… 120+ MILES away!
This post has 7 different angles of the explosion:
Props to that kayaker keeping the entire thing in frame. Must be hard to find a kayak that can float a pair of balls that big.
Also hearing reports of confiscated explosives being what went off. Either way, it’s a massive explosion and reminds me of the one that happen in 2015 in China. CRAZY!!! I couldn’t imagine being in the hotel/apartment that is right next to the property.
I doubt it’s confiscated explosives. You can see the fireworks going off inside the fire before the huge blast in one of the videos.
that is crazy, that is why you need a decent city planner or a city planner period lol
Yeah… I’m thinking giant explosives factories shouldn’t be allowed anywhere remotely near populated areas by even the shittiest of zoning.
@Onyx_Z32 Is there a way to embed twitter videos?
One thing doesn’t add up. This where it happened:
There aren’t any factories there that I can see. That’s a port.
@JayS it’s possible but we don’t have it setup because we’d need to upgrade our host package.
That’s why I was bringing up the situation of confiscated explosives. Or it’s a storage spot for the item that exploded and was offloaded from a vessel.
I understand this is CNN and who knows what you can believe with the media these days but as stated, “Confiscated high explosives”
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/lebanon-beirut-explosion-live-updates-dle-intl/h_e6713bdae252e2feee83a4e3263c09ac
If CNN is saying it it’s definitely not true. 
Aoun, in remarks published on the Presidency Twitter account, said it was “unacceptable” that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate was stored in a warehouse for six years without safety measures and vowed that those responsible would face the “harshest punishments”
Also:
this is the craziest aftermath video i’ve seen:
https://www.facebook.com/marioalimaatouk/videos/2951982044929951
it looks like the shock wave passed through the grain silos and destroyed what was behind it…unless that all simply burned to the ground.
minesweeper gets a tee up from me.
At first I was like, “is this in bad taste”?
Then I was like, “Not nearly as bad taste as storing a 2750 ton bomb barely secured on the waterfront of your capital city”. Post away.
Big boom. Sucks. But…seriously. The fuck were they thinking?
And here’s the worst part:
“Lebanon’s director of customs, Badri Daher, repeatedly sent letters to the judiciary over the years and warned that the cargo was the equivalent of “a floating bomb,” but the warnings went unheeded."
