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Beirut Audi

Post by stevo55 » Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:07 am

You may wish to have some tissues ready for this sad sight. Siting the dealership next to the port worked well for incoming cars arriving but not for what happened a few days back Image
Absolute tragedy for Lebanon and I dare say many countries are Scrambling around to check if they have similar warehouses filled with explosive material!

https://youtu.be/Oga_-teMISg

Also some 4K footage of the blast. Unbelievable.

https://youtu.be/N1CvRTqDJhc


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Post by MikeFish » Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:14 pm

Watching the explosion in slow motion, it looked to me like the force that blew all the windows out the buildings was a massive water surge.

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Post by stevo55 » Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:08 pm

MikeFish wrote:Watching the explosion in slow motion, it looked to me like the force that blew all the windows out the buildings was a massive water surge.
Blast waves can be weird and the initial one struck the camera location in a very short period of time. The main blast wave disperses the air which gives that ‘water’ effect (although it would have carried water and debris and bodies +++).
Sad fact is that there will be an increase in deaths amongst the injured from internal injuries/ruptured organs and sepsis etc will kill them off. With 5000 injured the hospitals (already damaged with their own casualties) would have been very quickly swamped.


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