Colleague at work (his wife works there and he works remotely) had their apartment trashed, windows smashed and glass everywhere. His wife needed stitches for a cut on her leg from flying glass. Lucky...Geez... a seriously big bang in Beirut.
He's looking for a distraction which might help his election campaign.But trump told me it was terrorism
There’s already a thread devoted to the rantings of Trump.But trump told me it was terrorism
That's his default response.But trump told me it was terrorism
Don't worry! Orica have never had any problems at that plant before...oh right, we've got a bunch of it sitting in Newcastle
Newcastle's ammonium nitrate stockpile is up to four times larger than Beirut's — and residents want it gone
Orica's ammonium nitrate plant stores up to four times the amount that was in the Beirut explosion, but the company says it's safe and highly regulated.www.abc.net.au
They thought they were going to sell it off slowly but it was originally abandoned by a broken down ship.I used to be a blast engineer in the hunter, 2000 tonnes of ANFO was the largest blast we did, that was to blast a block 400m by 80m and 70m high on an 8*7m staggered grid. We laser scanned the face to make sure that no hole was less than 10 m from the jagged face left form the last blast. even with 10m of solid rock on the front line of blast holes that moved half the rock 100m to its last place. A concrete silo with all the bomb in one place is not going to stop it at all and will make one hell of a shock wave. looking at that damage its honestly less than I would expect, why was it stored there for several years, was there ever a plan for it?
Jesus yeah that last one is f***ed. Reminded me of some of the footage of that colossal series of explosions in Tianjin back in 2015 where you hope it was a fixed security camera or similar...The montage of phone cam footage on the ABC is incredible (in a horrific way) - particularly the clip right at the end. Whoever took that one appeared to be a lot closer.
About as much as of a plan as the Lebanese Government has for anything currently. Country is pretty fubar - 35% unemployment, 50% below the poverty line, inflation of 80-90% or something this year alone. Lots of reports from officials for a while warning in no uncertain terms that it was cataclysm waiting to happen but the Govt. seem to view ineptitude as the status quo.why was it stored there for several years, was there ever a plan for it?
I think you were looking for the Trump thread.Country is pretty fubar - 35% unemployment, 50% below the poverty line, inflation of 80-90% or something this year alone. Lots of reports from officials for a while warning in no uncertain terms that it was cataclysm waiting to happen but the Govt. seem to view ineptitude as the status quo.
Seems utterly on the money:About as much as of a plan as the Lebanese Government has for anything currently. Country is pretty fubar - 35% unemployment, 50% below the poverty line, inflation of 80-90% or something this year alone. Lots of reports from officials for a while warning in no uncertain terms that it was cataclysm waiting to happen but the Govt. seem to view ineptitude as the status quo.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1689841/middle-eastIn Tripoli, some of the generator owners are former militia leaders who defended their communities during deadly sectarian clashes between 2011 and 2014, when members of the city's Sunni Muslim majority and Alawite minority communities fought each other.
Chadi Nachabe, a city councillor and former political activist, says: "After the clashes finished, there was under-the-table permission for those people to open private generators."
He says that, in return, the security forces expected generator operators to provide free electricity to some communities to ensure their loyalty to the government in elections.
But many others are getting free electricity through theft.
I had no idea about the state of Lebanon until I did some reading yesterday. Total clusterfuck, sadly.The lights are unlikely to come on fully until the country's whole political system is overhauled.