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I was almost precisely 4.0 miles from the Oklahoma City Murrah building when a low life scum bag lit off a bomb. I was in a concrete tilt wall building. The perimeter of the building had large piers that the steel reinforced concrete wall sat upon and the walls had steel tabs embedded in them that were welded to each other. It was a very sturdy building designed to withstand up to a F4 tornado.

When the bomb went off, I was on the far corner of that building and the blinds in the window rattled from the building shaking. I honestly thought an 18 wheel semi tractor trailer going faster then he should had hit the back of the building. I ran down the hall expecting to see devastation and injured or dead employees. Everything was fine inside. So we all ran outside and expected to see a 747 had angered straight in close by. There was nothing.

We ran to the bosses office and turned on the TV and saw the reality and we all fell silent.

If that bomb in Beirut was 20 times bigger or even way more, it is just astonishing.

It truly makes anyone wonder why in heck would there ever be any reason to store that much material in a populated area. And even more so if it truly had been unsecured for years. 20-20 hindsight is always right but damn, that would be simply suicidal to have millions of dollars of fertilizer stored there. Why not sell it, or ship it away ASAP.
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