Disaster Fireworks Warehouse Explosion in Beirut - Spoiler: It wasn't Fireworks it was 2,500+ tons of High-Explosive Ammonium Nitrate

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Beirut, Lebanon (CNN)

A large explosion rocked the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, damaging buildings and offices around the city.
The source of the explosion was a major fire at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port in Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported.
A red cloud hung over the city in the wake of the blast as firefighting teams rushed to the scene to try to put out the fire.
Local news reported multiple people were wounded in the incident.
This is a breaking story, more to follow.

Twitter thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/1290670226934243329

Attaching all of the videos I grabbed from this guys twitter just now as well, here's one of them:

Here are some links to other posts in the thread with more content, you may need to go to the posts directly to see the media:

Spoiler: Two videos

Couple more angles of the explosions, seems everyone in Beirut holds their phone vertically. Buckle up for a very delayed boom in the second video.

Spoiler: Another angle, 'Allahu Ackbar'

Here's a different angle. Notice how the guys recording it say "Allahu Akbar".

EDIT: Direct embed

Spoiler: Slow Motion explosion

Found this slowmo of the explosion in which you can see the fireball and airblast more clearly

Spoiler: Two more videos

(edits: trying to get the spacing of text/video right; links to tweets)
I think this is just a slowed down version of this that I grabbed from twitter (https://twitter.com/saadmohseni/status/1290678176574779395):















Also this for another, closer angle (https://twitter.com/realdavereilly/status/1290690743217119235):

Spoiler: Lebanese Public Security: Not fireworks, High-Explosive Material

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And you retards thought putting it all in one place is a good idea?

Spoiler: Sodium Nitrate, PM's Wife and Daughter slightly injured in explosions, ISRAEL UNINVOLVED WE SWEAR

It was explosive sodium nitrate holy shit
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https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1290698269421600770

Israel denies involvement, Hezbollah says it wasn't their stuff, PM's wife and daughter injured
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https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1290703557797089281

Spoiler: Aftermath videos/photos

What remains of the dock:

Spoiler: Italy Radiation Spike

There’s a radiation spike picked up near Italy/scicily. Let me try to archive this or take a screenshot

http://archive.md/Nefcf

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Spoiler: 2 Minute Compilation Video

I know that there are several vids on here but here's a 2+ minute concatenation of multiple angles and some security camera footage of blast sites.

Spoiler: 2,700 TONS of Ammonia

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Translation: Preliminary security information talks about 2,700 tons of confiscated ammonia in the port exploded during the process of welding a small hole to prevent theft

 

[Racist Trash]

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Huge ass explosion? Better run outside and to the windows. On a side note, can anyone explain to me why the person inside gets blown the hell back but the people outside don't move like they got the best non-slip shoes ever created?

Blast gets focused through the doorway whereas the people outside are exposed to a much more dispersed wave.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Also the girl in black is already starting to turn and run backwards it looks like, so she gets carried along easier.

 

[Borax Bozo]

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Huge ass explosion? Better run outside and to the windows. On a side note, can anyone explain to me why the person inside gets blown the hell back but the people outside don't move like they got the best non-slip shoes ever created?

First guess is that the solid(?) block to the left and a bit of narrowing to the right created a jet effect? The person outside the door only feels the wind on their body equal to their cross section, but inside the door the amount of air coming in gets narrowed and speeds it up to create a jet blast.

 

[Male Idiot]

Sorry the meme I posted comes only in ant edition, as that was what I could get after reddit banned the maker for being insensitive.

The galaxy brain that housed it all in a warehouse at a populated part of a city is a tard.

Even if they must keept in one place, could they not have used some abandoned area out of the city?

Generally you do not store explosives near people, reactors, gobernment buildings, airports etc....

 

[KingCoelacanth]

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Huge ass explosion? Better run outside and to the windows. On a side note, can anyone explain to me why the person inside gets blown the hell back but the people outside don't move like they got the best non-slip shoes ever created?

Thats a great demonstration of the wind tunnel effect. The woman outside was still standing, but the larger woman inside was completely blown away.
Basically all the wind blowing against the building forces itself through the windows, think about what happens to the speed and force of water in a flowing river when it goes from a wide area to a narrow area.

 

[muh_moobs]

Trying to catch up on other threads at the moment.

No leaning in any direction other than the official narrative at the moment?

 

[wokelizard]

I would also guess that being hit by a bunch of flying debris might not have helped, and also, as a fluid enters a smaller space, it speeds up, thus increasing the wind speed in this case.

Only true for incompressible flow. A compressible fluid can speed up whilst being expanded (energy lost from pressure converted into its speed), or slow down while being compressed (energy lost from speed converted into pressure). Air at trans/supersonic speeds is considered compressible so the shock from this explosion could have done anything as it hit and went around and through obstacles.

 

[Getting tard comed]

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Huge ass explosion? Better run outside and to the windows. On a side note, can anyone explain to me why the person inside gets blown the hell back but the people outside don't move like they got the best non-slip shoes ever created?

Woman in black is kinda fucked up for not opening the door for the people she knew who just walked outside. I mean yeah, it saved them from injury but I guarentee she didn't know that was going to happen next.

 

[Goodbye Horses]

oh that reminds me. Hey BritBongistani Kiwi’s. This might be a good time to ask your government about the fully loaded WW2 Munitions ship that’s sunk in the Thames in the middle of London, and that successive governments have been ignoring in the hope that it doesn’t go off on their watch for 75 years. Because that fucker will make Beirut look like a a Disney firework show when it finally cooks off.

You mean the SS Richard Montgomery? It's not in the middle of London, it's out in the estuary between Sheerness and Southend. It only has 1400 tons of explosive on board, compared to the 2700 in that warehouse, and being underwater there's little chance of it causing the kind of devastation as in Beirut.
The main reason they've not touched it is because they tried to clear a similar wreck near Folkstone in the 60s and the whole fucking thing went up as soon as they touched it. They're talking about cutting the masts off of it to stop the tide moving it about so much as the slightest shift in the cargo could set off the degraded TNT, but I reckon if they do try that then they'll set it off anyway. That would be shit as I had all new windows fitted on my house last year and I'm well within the radius of the shockwave.

 

[Racist Trash]

That would be shit as I had all new windows fitted on my house last year and I'm well within the radius of the shockwave.

Quick someone go wiggle it with a drone.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

No leaning in any direction other than the official narrative at the moment?

There is a paper trail for the AN being shipped from Georgia and seized. There is a paper trial of middle mangers trying to get someine in the government to care about the dangerous situation. There are pictures of the warehouse full of bulk bags of AN manufactured in Georgia. The explosion looked like a nitrate decomposition. Yep, this all checks out.

It only has 1400 tons of explosive on board

Just to make you feel better 1400 tons of TNT would make a 10% bigger boom than the 3030 tons of AN. More, if we are talking tonnes again.

 

[Noideawhattopick]

New Video emerged. The warehouses man, complete fuckup.

 

[muh_moobs]

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New Video emerged. The warehouses man, complete fuckup.

Well, genuine Allahu Ackbar on this one since dude recording survived to upload this.

 

[Kingcommer]

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New Video emerged. The warehouses man, complete fuckup.

Why does It sound like he having a orgasm

 

[Kosher Salt]

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New Video emerged. The warehouses man, complete fuckup.

https://archive.vn/hz0xD

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

Why does It sound like he having a orgasm

That's what orgasms are; a little death, that makes you feel alive. Totally hot.
Especially if you survive.

 

[Azovka]

Trying to catch up on other threads at the moment.

No leaning in any direction other than the official narrative at the moment?

Actually, today, the President of Lebanon Michel Aoun has suggested other hypotheses than the official one, saying a "missile or a bomb" may have caused the 2nd explosion.

It's been reported by several French news (since you know, historical ties and all). He also asked for French help in determining whether the incident was "outside interference or an act of negligence".

Here's a link to it in French, but I pretty much summed it up.

Edit : Euronews English link - ' "It is possible that it (the explosion) was caused by negligence or by external action, with a missile or a bomb," he added.'

 

[TexOffender]

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

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New Video emerged. The warehouses man, complete fuckup.

Did this guy go "woo hoo" as soon as he realized he wasn't dead? This is great.

 

[Atatata]

Did this guy go "woo hoo" as soon as he realized he wasn't dead? This is great.

I heard "My Face!"

Considering how close he was to the window, he probably got fucked up.