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Gas tanker explosion in Italy. Wow!
Hopefully it posts below. I’m on my phone.
The road damage is amazing. https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/08/06/gas-tanker-explodes-on-a-highway-in-italy.cnn Last edited by A930Rocket; 08-06-2018 at 05:40 PM.. |
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Remember when was a kid, parents driving by a exit overpass on I-44 in Mo.
The intersection was kind of on a hilltop with a couple of truck stops. A tanker blowed up and it flat leveled the whole place.
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Wow, I hope the driver's OK.
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Wild and scary.
That destroyed the bridge!
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08-06-2018, 08:23 PM
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I was very close to being on that road at the same time as the explosion
Decided the extra driving time to Maranello was too far to go for lunch
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Jeeze, that's a bit close Captain.
I'm surprised there was so little traffic. When I drove it years ago as a much younger man the traffic was such that I was sitting on the armco barrierin the middle of the road pretending I spoke Italian as I listened intently to the other stranded motorists. We would move forward 200m then start chatting again. |
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08-06-2018, 11:29 PM
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Wow.
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WOW! Sorry about the loss of life but that is really cool. Thanks for sharing Rocket.
I wouldn't have expected such a crater. It's almost as if it was a shaped chare. |
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I just hope this doesn't give terrorists any ideas.
I would think tanker trucks would be a lot easier to hijack than airliners.
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Perhaps tanker trucks should be built with multiple chambers where surrounding chambers are filled with a substance that would mitigate any reactions caused on breach of the container.
As this is a fresh idea on my part I hereby ask for 10% of all proceeds from the sale/design/patenting of such an idea and ask that I also get to name the design.
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It was a compressed gas, not a standard gasoline tanker. I think they said propane or LPG. Still a huge explosion. The truck driver paid for really bad failure to pay attention to road conditions with his life. He will not text and drive again.
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08-07-2018, 10:59 AM
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Oh right that makes sense. I was wondering how so much fumes could’ve accumulated to make an explosion like that.
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Wow, horrifically impressive.
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