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applegrove

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10. And a snowstorm in the hours and days afterward that covered all the wounded with frozen snow and

Reply to Voice for Peace (Reply #9)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 02:49 PM

Mar 2014

killed many more. My grandmother was at school in the south end of Halifax at the time....many miles away and was in assembly singing. The windows blew out of the school. The huge iron anchor of one of the ships flew right over the whole city.

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Radioactive Leak At Halifax Shipping Yard; Hazmat Team On Site [View all] applegrove Mar 2014 OP

Link Repair Wilms Mar 2014 #1

Thanks. Fixed it. applegrove Mar 2014 #2

Grab some hot dogs! mindwalker_i Mar 2014 #3

I don't think it is funny. I lived in Halifax. I know the two container terminals. applegrove Mar 2014 #4

I also lived there! many many years ago.. Voice for Peace Mar 2014 #5

That port has a history of dangerous cargoes. AtheistCrusader Mar 2014 #6

have never heard of this before, Voice for Peace Mar 2014 #7

For its time, it was just an incredible disaster. AtheistCrusader Mar 2014 #8

and a tsunami, to boot.. and so many people, just yikes nt Voice for Peace Mar 2014 #9

And a snowstorm in the hours and days afterward that covered all the wounded with frozen snow and applegrove Mar 2014 #10

yow Voice for Peace Mar 2014 #11

Curse of the Narrows is an excellent book about that disaster. likesmountains 52 Mar 2014 #15

uranium hexafluoride reacts violently with water and is highly toxic. Shouldn't be "falling off Sunlei Mar 2014 #12

Fortunately they said there was no leak in the end. applegrove Mar 2014 #13

No leak?, the reported "higher than normal" radiation levels should still be a concern. Sunlei Mar 2014 #14

The USA has about 700,000 tons of this stuff sitting around in various places. hunter Mar 2014 #16

Update applegrove Mar 2014 #17