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The point the video makes towards the end is a good one: just basic storage standards were not followed. Forget for one moment that this makeshift bomb laid do
by anonu 6y ago
The point the video makes towards the end is a good one: just basic storage standards were not followed.
Forget for one moment that this makeshift bomb laid dormant for years and nothing was done despite constant warnings from officials.
Had port officials followed basic storage etiquette, like placing the AN in manageable clusters, separating those clusters from each other by a moderate distance, and not storing other combustible material like fireworks and tyres, the Beirut explosion could at least have been mitigated.
The video makes a point that probably 50% of the AN exploded -> 200 people died. I shudder to think what double that would have done.
- thro1 6y agoIf it wasn't hot days maybe, and no welding work close to combustible materials, then what you notice (but not 'just' only), then not 'confined and contaminated' (9:45) in the chain of failures.. That's why my question (†) - if it could be really avoidable at the last moment, as the video suggest. (†) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154599 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154599
- bamboleo 6y agoI missed the part where it mentioned 50%. From the "single point of explosion" part I just assumed that only 1 or a small bundle exploded.