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Explosion at Lake City...
Neighbor just mentioned he had heard on the radio about an explosion at the ammo plant @ Lake city.
Anyone heard anything about this?
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04-11-2017 05:29 PM
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Primer mixing plant- Usually these are automated processes. I had the misfortune of investigating a similar incident back in the 1980's. The primer mixing plant was putting out primers that were not meeting specs instead of doing the process by computer. The worker, a young lady, decided it took too long for the computer to adjust the right pressure on the primer mix into the primer case and decided to do it manually. Unfortunately she put too much pressure on the primer and it detonated along with the shot glass size container of primer mix. The explosion blew the roof off of the building (which it was designed to do). By the time I got at the site of the explosion there was still pieces of her rib bones imbedded in the cider block walls. It was not pretty. The plant manufactured 40mm Grenade rounds for Uncle Sam.
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The Eddystone explosion dwarfed the one at Frankford.
These were the wives and daughters of the men making the rifles we cherish....
Eddystone explosion - Wikipedia
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The Eddystone explosion
That was the one I sought first but forgot the location...I knew there was a particularly bad one.
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Nothing comes close to this one though as far as a non-nuclear explosions go ~ https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&r...VqhTvH6Hl4kd6w
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&r...wORIaQ2qL1kkAQ
Some idea of the scale ~ At 9:04:35 am, the out-of-control fire aboard Mont-Blanc finally set off her highly explosive cargo.[53] The ship was completely blown apart and a powerful blast wave radiated away from the explosion at more than 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) per second. Temperatures of 5,000 °C (9,030 °F) and pressures of thousands of atmospheres accompanied the moment of detonation at the centre of the explosion.[54][23] White-hot shards of iron fell down upon Halifax and Dartmouth.[55] Mont-Blanc's forward 90 mm gun, its barrel melted away, landed approximately 5.6 kilometres (3.5 mi) north of the explosion site near Albro Lake in Dartmouth, while the shank of her anchor, weighing half a ton, landed 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) south at Armdale.[56]
Death toll and injured ~ Over 1,600 people were killed instantly and 9,000 were injured, more than 300 of whom later died.[23] Every building within a 2.6-kilometre (1.6 mi) radius, over 12,000 in total, was destroyed or badly damaged
Thing is both in fact all the ones in this thread are pretty damn awful, put the clock back to those early years where treatment of patients were woefully inadequate for the numbers that were to flood the hospitals and transport system well what was left of the system.
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How does 2.7 kilotons stack up to your 2.9.
they found the anchor 2 miles away in a hole 10 feet deep.
Texas City disaster - Wikipedia
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Another explosion was the 1926 explosions of several million pounds of explosives at the US Navy's Lake Denmark
Powder Depot. At the time the Lake Denmark facility was attached to the US Army Picatinny Arsenal. They are still finding wrecked M1903s from the explosions in the hills and woods surrounding the base. Several of which are in the post museum.
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Being somewhat local to this event, I have been watching it...looks like the feds arrived the other day to check out the who what where and why's to all this....the snews said they had 16 folks to check out why it happened.
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