Calvin19 0 #1 August 13, 2015 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dc0_1439444275 http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/13/asia/china-tianjin-explosions/index.html?eref=edition Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #2 August 14, 2015 Gotta hand it to the Chinese... when they fuck up, they go BIG. WAAAAAY big.... "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #3 August 14, 2015 BillyVance Gotta hand it to the Chinese... when they fuck up, they go BIG. WAAAAAY big.... Texas always does it bigger or so they claim.... remember the fertilizer plant in 2013?? Then there is this one.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #4 August 14, 2015 Amazon ***Gotta hand it to the Chinese... when they fuck up, they go BIG. WAAAAAY big.... Texas always does it bigger or so they claim.... remember the fertilizer plant in 2013?? Then there is this one.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster There's also the Pepcon disaster in CA, IIRC... not a huge fireball, but a devastating boom, and you could clearly see the blast wave fan out across the landscape."Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #5 August 15, 2015 Pretty spectacular. Go big or go home, like, Hollywood, man.... "The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,381 #6 August 15, 2015 BillyVance There's also the Pepcon disaster in CA, IIRC... not a huge fireball, but a devastating boom, and you could clearly see the blast wave fan out across the landscape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V-1BL1Tr90"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #7 August 15, 2015 ryoder*** There's also the Pepcon disaster in CA, IIRC... not a huge fireball, but a devastating boom, and you could clearly see the blast wave fan out across the landscape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V-1BL1Tr90 Texas City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-d6cqhCJNE Part1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TworcINhDhQ Part2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8_KaWg5bI8 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aphid 0 #8 August 15, 2015 I'll see your Texas and raise you a Halifax. "...an official database compiled in 2002 by the Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, identified 1,950 victims. As many as 1,600 people died immediately in the blast, tsunami, and collapse of buildings. The last body, a caretaker killed at the Exhibition Grounds, was not recovered until the summer of 1919. An additional 9,000 were injured. 1,630 homes were destroyed in the explosion and fires, and another 12,000 damaged; roughly 6,000 people were left homeless and 25,000 had insufficient shelter." source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion#Destruction_and_loss_of_life Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phillbo 11 #9 August 17, 2015 What the hell were they storing? http://qz.com/481174/photos-high-res-aerial-images-of-the-tianjin-blast-crater-show-devastation-that-words-cant-explain/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #10 August 18, 2015 PhillboWhat the hell were they storing? http://qz.com/481174/photos-high-res-aerial-images-of-the-tianjin-blast-crater-show-devastation-that-words-cant-explain/ About 700 tons of sodium cyanide, which becomes higly combustible upon contact with water. Apparently they were only supposed to have like 10 tons max, stored there. I think a fire started unrelated to the sodium cyanide and when firefighters arrived to fight the blaze, their water came into contact with the chemical and then KAAAABOOOOM!!!!"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
catfishhunter 1 #11 August 19, 2015 Pepcon was Henderson Nevada not California. It about threw me out of my bed in north Las Vegas. Thought a thunderbird had gone in over the desert by the houes MAKE EVERY DAY COUNT Life is Short and we never know how long we are going to have. We must live life to the fullest EVERY DAY. Everything we do should have a greater purpose. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites