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6 minutes ago, Garufa said:

I wonder if it contributed to the blast.  Those things blow up too.

I know. We had a couple of them blow-up in Kansas City when I was much younger. I read somewhere were it was mostly empty, and stored 85% of Lebanon's grain.

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1 hour ago, bersaguy said:

I wonder what the 3 guys were doing in that picture of them at the warehouse before the explosion. It was never explained what they were doing there. Could they have been terrorists planting a device that detonated the stuff from remote position after they got a good safe distance away?

I think those guys were photographed sometime before the explosion, probably around 13' or 14' when it was first confiscated.

1 hour ago, E4 No More said:

I'm surprised a lot of the grain storage building is still standing when it was that close to the blast.

Maybe it's like the atomic bombs in Japan that left structures standing at GZ, the last went up and out.

48 minutes ago, Garufa said:

I wonder if it contributed to the blast.  Those things blow up too.

Maybe, they did say they were mostly empty, which may be worse as a full one doesn't explode, it's the dust in the air.

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53 minutes ago, TGO David said:

I believe this explains the water plume from the explosion...

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Personally, I doubt it. The blast could move water to the ocean side of the building, but the cloud had water vapor all the way around it. You can tell by the video shot from the aspect showing the other side of the grain storage building. Also, Ammonium Nitrate makes a lot of water when it explodes, so the vapor cloud makes sense. JMHO

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Here's a perfect example of why I believe nothing the media produces.

So far, I've heard at least 3 explanations...a fireworks factory, ammonium nitrate from Russia, and a terrorist bombing.

I doubt any of them are correct.

It was a quite impressive sight, however!

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23 minutes ago, gregintenn said:

Here's a perfect example of why I believe nothing the media produces.

So far, I've heard at least 3 explanations...a fireworks factory, ammonium nitrate from Russia, and a terrorist bombing.

I doubt any of them are correct.

It was a quite impressive sight, however!

I saw a video yesterday shot from the inland side of the explosion similar in angle as Dave's after picture. It showed what looked like fireworks going off in the fire right before the explosion. They were the crackly kind of mortar fireworks that would be hard to mistake for something else. It clearly wasn't a terror attack to me. Fireworks burning near stored Ammonium Nitrate is perfectly plausible. 

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43 minutes ago, gregintenn said:

Here's a perfect example of why I believe nothing the media produces.

So far, I've heard at least 3 explanations...a fireworks factory, ammonium nitrate from Russia, and a terrorist bombing.

I doubt any of them are correct.

It was a quite impressive sight, however!

Whatever it was you're correct, It was really impressive.

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1 hour ago, gregintenn said:

Here's a perfect example of why I believe nothing the media produces.

So far, I've heard at least 3 explanations...a fireworks factory, ammonium nitrate from Russia, and a terrorist bombing.

I doubt any of them are correct.

It was a quite impressive sight, however!

I haven't seen any credible news source with information that it was a terrorist attack.  

It wasn't a fireworks factory but the warehouse that burned could have easily had fireworks in it.  A fire started in warehouse 9 of the port area.  It spread to warehouse 12 where the ammonium nitrate from an abandoned ship had been stored since 2014.  I posted a pretty detailed account of that debacle a few posts back.  

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16 hours ago, Capbyrd said:

I haven't seen any credible news source with information that it was a terrorist attack.  

It wasn't a fireworks factory but the warehouse that burned could have easily had fireworks in it.  A fire started in warehouse 9 of the port area.  It spread to warehouse 12 where the ammonium nitrate from an abandoned ship had been stored since 2014.  I posted a pretty detailed account of that debacle a few posts back.  

I agree, this would not be a good target for a terrorist or military attack, though as it turned out, it did a lot of damage, IMO it didn't take out any important high value target.

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1 hour ago, Omega said:

I agree, this would not be a good target for a terrorist or military attack, though as it turned out, it did a lot of damage, IMO it didn't take out any important high value target.

Nope.  And the death toll isn't high enough given the amount of damage.  Terror attack just doesn't add up.  Government negligence and ineptitude makes all of the sense in the world. 

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On 8/5/2020 at 4:34 PM, gregintenn said:

Here's a perfect example of why I believe nothing the media produces.

So far, I've heard at least 3 explanations...a fireworks factory, ammonium nitrate from Russia, and a terrorist bombing.

I doubt any of them are correct.

It was a quite impressive sight, however!

I guess they started hiring weathermen... 

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