Beirut

[Deleted User 289]

Imagine being the person who took this video......

[Deleted User 318]

Only 30 reported dead thus far. That thing looked massive. Luckily it was on the port where the energy could push out to sea

[jfish26]

The last I saw was 50+ dead, nearly 3,000 injured.

That death toll is going way up - first, there's going to be some number of people that got simply disappeared, and second, I'd imagine the hospital system will buckle under this much trauma at once.

[TDub]

What the hell was it?

[Deleted User 318]

What the hell was it?

State media in the morning said it was fireworks storage that went off. The way the initial explosion happened, it does look like there are fireworks in there. But I bet it set something else off, which was the massive explosion. I think it was the AP reporting that explosion happened where the government stored highly explosive things.

And yeah, last I heard now was 75 people confirmed dead. I wonder if it gets into four digits. That was a bunker buster sized bomb in a city the sized of KC.

[Deleted User 318]

10 more angles. Not sure it looks so bad from some of the closer/ground level angles

[jfish26]

Counterpoint:

[TDub]

I thought i saw something from the mayor? Governor? Leader? Saying "whoever is responsible will be held accountable and pay the price". That makes it sound intentional. Maybe i heard wrong

[Deleted User 318]

I thought i saw something from the mayor? Governor? Leader? Saying "whoever is responsible will be held accountable and pay the price". That makes it sound intentional. Maybe i heard wrong

I dunno, Trump called it an attack, but Lebanese security general “linked the explosion to some 2,700 tonnes of confiscated ammonium nitrate that were being stored in a warehouse at the port for six years.”

Who you going to believe, Lebanese state or Donald Trump. What a time to be alive to type that statement.

[TDub]

Can i chose option C?

[Deleted User 318]

Can i chose option C?

The usual suspects already said it wasn’t them. Feels like this was just stupidity of storing 5 million pounds of explosives in a single space in the middle of a desert in the middle of summer.

[Deleted User 310]

Counterpoint:

Holy shit.

[TDub]

Can i chose option C?

The usual suspects already said it wasn’t them. Feels like this was just stupidity of storing 5 million pounds of explosives in a single space in the middle of a desert in the middle of summer.

Not to mention in the middle of a bustling, very populated portion of the biggest city in that desert.

[kubowler99]

For reference, the OKC bombing used like 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate.

[jfish26]

Before:



After:

[twocoach]

I heard it registered as a 3.3 on the Richter scale. Insanity for a city that was already struggling. I cant believe more people weren't killed.

[TDub]

how many bodies are under the rubble?

[jhawks99]

how many bodies are under the rubble?

Or just no longer there.

[jfish26]

Is there a single, good reason we haven't already sent a dozen C-17s, fully loaded with food, generators, supplies and medical personnel, to Beirut?

[Deleted User 89]

Is there a single, good reason we haven't already sent a dozen C-17s, fully loaded with food, generators, supplies and medical personnel, to Beirut?

‘rona?