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WhiskeyGrinder

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46. It would have had a large flash and it would not have had red smoke.

Reply to honest.abe (Reply #44)

Tue Aug 4, 2020, 10:02 PM

Aug 2020

Any large explosion can make a mushroom cloud, especially if it's hot. The official word on the mushroom clouds caused by the Trinity tests were that they were munitions dumps going up.

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MASSIVE explosions in Beirut, Lebanon [View all] Dennis Donovan Aug 2020 OP

Holy crap... Thomas Hurt Aug 2020 #1

Damn! The cloud almost looked like a mushroom for a second. panader0 Aug 2020 #2

It was a mushroom cloud jimlup Aug 2020 #7

The white cloud - yeah it did. underpants Aug 2020 #9

Mushroom clouds form when explosions get high enough in atmosphere LeftInTX Aug 2020 #39

Holy shit jpak Aug 2020 #3

Another vid soothsayer Aug 2020 #4

K&Fuckin' R Guy Whitey Corngood Aug 2020 #5

Oh god, my niece lives there. ananda Aug 2020 #6

I so hope she is oki! Celerity Aug 2020 #10

Thank you! She's fine, but she felt it. ananda Aug 2020 #15

so glad to hear this!!! Celerity Aug 2020 #16

Thank goodness! demmiblue Aug 2020 #17

Oh my .... UpInArms Aug 2020 #8

CNN seems to be reporting it is a "firecracker warehouse" jimlup Aug 2020 #11

One of the best cities I have visited SCliberal91294 Aug 2020 #12

Lebanon is ready to unravel into another civil war dutch777 Aug 2020 #13

And another vid (big explosion) soothsayer Aug 2020 #14

That looks like a small nuclear device. honest.abe Aug 2020 #18

No, it does not. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2020 #30

What would a small nuclear explosion look like? honest.abe Aug 2020 #44

It would have had a large flash and it would not have had red smoke. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2020 #46

Yeah, a large bright flash is typical of a nuclear device. honest.abe Aug 2020 #47

Sadly, Lebanon is now become another ungovernable country question everything Aug 2020 #19

Holy shit! Sad, Beirut was once called "the Paris of the middle east" Baclava Aug 2020 #20

It hasn't been since 1975 LeftInTX Aug 2020 #41

Kick demmiblue Aug 2020 #21

That did look like a small nuclear explosion! kentuck Aug 2020 #22

It sure did. 2naSalit Aug 2020 #23

A mushroom cloud is indicative sarisataka Aug 2020 #27

The smoke has Disaffected Aug 2020 #24

Explosion was secondary to fire, who builds an explosives factory next to residential highrises? Baclava Aug 2020 #25

Texas probably allows it Zorro Aug 2020 #26

yeah, sure, whatever you say Baclava Aug 2020 #28

Lots I expect where zoning doesn't prohibit it Disaffected Aug 2020 #29

Explosives/fireworks, blackpowder, same same, "explosives materials were stored at the blast site" Baclava Aug 2020 #31

yeah, sure, whatever you say Disaffected Aug 2020 #33

Or it could be some kind of chemical explosive component, they really aren't saying much Baclava Aug 2020 #34

its ammonium nitrate BGBD Aug 2020 #36

Yeah that would sure do it! Big ba da boom Baclava Aug 2020 #38

Looks like the fire hit a gas line of some sort TeamPooka Aug 2020 #32

That was my first thought. nt Quixote1818 Aug 2020 #35

ammonium nitrate BGBD Aug 2020 #37

That will do it. ANFO took down the OK City Federal Building TeamPooka Aug 2020 #42

Very scary ChazII Aug 2020 #40

AP Newsbreak just said that Bettie Aug 2020 #43

Next door to the fertilizer impound... oops. hunter Aug 2020 #45

From NBC News: Rhiannon12866 Aug 2020 #48

Main explosion registered M3.3 on the USGS earthquake system. KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2020 #49

Here's aerial video of the explosion scene showing a huge crater left behind. KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2020 #50