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Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 2:55 pm
by Deleted User 289
Imagine being the person who took this video......
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 2:59 pm
by 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
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 3:21 pm
by 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.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 4:06 pm
by TDub
What the hell was it?
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 4:31 pm
by Deleted User 318
TDub wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 4:06 pm
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.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 4:47 pm
by Deleted User 318
10 more angles. Not sure it looks so bad from some of the closer/ground level angles
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 4:56 pm
by jfish26
Counterpoint:
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 5:55 pm
by 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
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:03 pm
by Deleted User 318
TDub wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 5:55 pm
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.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:03 pm
by TDub
Can i chose option C?
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:08 pm
by Deleted User 318
TDub wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:03 pm
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.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:21 pm
by Deleted User 310
jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 4:56 pm
Counterpoint:
Holy shit.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:39 pm
by TDub
NiceDC wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:08 pm
TDub wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:03 pm
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.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 7:47 am
by kubowler99
For reference, the OKC bombing used like 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 10:21 am
by jfish26
Before:
After:
Re: Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 12:02 pm
by 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.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 12:27 pm
by TDub
how many bodies are under the rubble?
Re: Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 1:18 pm
by jhawks99
TDub wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 12:27 pm
how many bodies are under the rubble?
Or just no longer there.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:28 pm
by 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?
Re: Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 5:07 pm
by Deleted User 89
jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:28 pm
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?