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In reply to the discussion: Reports: Explosion rocks downtown Nashville [View all]BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)A small tank went off inside a shipping container that a construction crew was using as an officebreak room. It woke us up, as you might imagine, and windows were shaking on our street, fully 5 blocks from the blast, with houses to buffer it.
When I went out later, I saw he container and was surprised at how damaged it was, although you couldn't see much because of all the police and FD activity.
When I returned later in the day, the site was much more visible, and it turned out that the damaged container I'd seen was NEXT to the one that exploded, which was peeled like a Mandarin orange.
That big, locking steel door? The explosion sent it across the building site, across the road and at least 100 feet into the park. It would have FLATTENED whoever had been unlucky enough to be in its path.
The only injury, because of the early hour of the event, was the ruptured eardrums of the guy who was there, opening the site for the day. He tried to go back to work once he was released from the hospital, but the company figured he'd had enough of a day and sent him home. He was expected to make a full recovery.