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Posted on 8/6/20 at 8:46 am to PhDoogan
If those graphics are supposed to be illustrating the same areas by comparison (NY vs Beirut) they don’t seem correct. No way that area of Beirut corresponds to what is shown in NY.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 8:49 am to PhDoogan
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After seeing the before and after, I have no idea whether the person filming this survived or if someone captured a livestream, or maybe just found his phone. But being that close to the blast seems like it would have pulverized every bone and organ in his body:
That looks like the first explosion that sent all the red dust into the air.
The ammonium nitrate explosion that followed leveled the building that guy was in. If he was still at that location he is definitely dead. But it looks like he evacuated after the initial explosion and got far enough away to survive the ammonium nitrate explosion that followed because he uploaded the video on to twitter.
This post was edited on 8/6/20 at 8:52 am
Posted on 8/6/20 at 8:50 am to Y.A. Tittle
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No way that area of Beirut corresponds to what is shown in NY.
Yeah, the scale is off.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 8:52 am to GumboPot
A chick on my facebook claims to know the dude who owns that hotel. He lived, but I wonder how Lebanese insurance works over there, if at all.
ETA: his name is "Mac" apparently.
ETA: his name is "Mac" apparently.
This post was edited on 8/6/20 at 9:03 am
Posted on 8/6/20 at 8:52 am to GumboPot
The Beirut airport can’t be bigger than Staten Island. 
Posted on 8/6/20 at 8:54 am to C
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The most amazing thing to me is the grain silo remains standing. That probably saved lots of lives in that direction absorbing the blast.
Because of the inherent explosion danger of storing grain (corn dust is a nasty explosive) properly built grain elevators are very strong.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:03 am to blueboy
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A chick on my facebook claims to know the dude who owns that hotel.
Doesn't look like the video is being taken from a hotel:
Look at Google Earth. Hotels are located across the main highway that separate the port from the city.
It looks like the video is taken from the top of the roof in what appears to be a office building adjacent to the grain silos. The grain elevator from the ships to the silos goes right over the building. The building did not survive the blast.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:06 am to Y.A. Tittle
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If those graphics are supposed to be illustrating the same areas by comparison (NY vs Beirut) they don’t seem correct. No way that area of Beirut corresponds to what is shown in NY.
I think you're correct. To lazy to slueth myself but figured others would have done it for me. Don't like to be the spreader of Fake News.
It would still frick Manhattan up pretty bad.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:06 am to GumboPot
May be Photoshopped... See the 8 second mark and a different angle at 28 sec. Looks like incoming...
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:09 am to PhDoogan
I can’t help it. I’m sort of a geography/ mapping geek at heart.
It’s still a rather staggering illustration when shown at true scale.
It’s still a rather staggering illustration when shown at true scale.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:15 am to boosiebadazz
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Holy shite it looks like someone bit a chunk out of where it exploded. I’ve never seen that before
Not the safest method for harbor creation.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:17 am to GumboPot
I didn't say anything about a video. Is that not a hotel in the very center of the top photo? The one that is half blown away in the after picture?
A lot of this girl's childhood friends chimed in, all talking about "Mac" who was 1000 feet away. She's even made some comments and mentioned relatives of his that still live in her area.
A lot of this girl's childhood friends chimed in, all talking about "Mac" who was 1000 feet away. She's even made some comments and mentioned relatives of his that still live in her area.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:22 am to GumboPot
The Oklahoma terrorism attack was ammonium nitrate.
Some really dangerous stuff.
Some really dangerous stuff.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:23 am to Grimhorn
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May be Photoshopped...
Yeah, and the scale looks funky too, but hard to tell where exactly the videos are being taken from.
But, give the ME terrorist memers credit for their creativity in trying to start a war.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:26 am to PhDoogan
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After seeing the before and after, I have no idea whether the person filming this survived or if someone captured a livestream, or maybe just found his phone. But being that close to the blast seems like it would have pulverized every bone and organ in his body:
There is no way he survived. Sad.
BTW, those multiple flashes are suspicious. I wonder if it was sabotaged.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:29 am to PhDoogan
Looks like that guy filming was at the actual grain silo ..so this was obviously the first explosion he was filming.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 9:43 am to philter
I was thinking the video with the grain silos was probably taken from the north side of the harbor near where the cruise liner just sunk. It looks like that shot is from the wharf and you can see a ship to the right when the dude goes down...
Posted on 8/6/20 at 10:24 am to Grimhorn
I dont think that's a ship, those are cranes to offload crates from ship. He's on top of a concrete roof or partition, facing the side of the building on fire.
There are only a couple of buildings that it could be (west of wh), as there are no concrete buildings on the east side of the warehouse.
There are only a couple of buildings that it could be (west of wh), as there are no concrete buildings on the east side of the warehouse.
This post was edited on 8/6/20 at 10:28 am
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