Absolutely. Need to find out who built it and have them start building housing in FL and Cali, levees in New Orleans, and dams everywhere.

Absolutely. And secretly, folks will probably call them the Beirut rules. You never want a rule named after you.

All things considered, a lot of it is still there. I consider it impressive. Concrete or no.

It appears it was full of grain is the only reason it's still there

I hear that grain is really strong structurally! ;)

I guess I could see that if the thing was full of grain, it would add some energy absorbing properties like a bean bag. Combined with a really substantial concrete building, I guess that's a good thing.

One of the close up pictures shows the grain flowing out if it.

Water can crash, or water can flow. Be like water my friend.

I would say the lighter colored material "flowing "out of the silos would be gain. :rolleyes:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1596740455.jpg

Shouldn't that be green?

https://www.cvs.com/bizcontent/merch...7000127840.jpg

I'd thought that was just demolished building material, but grain seems like a reasonable assumption.

apparently. the brownish color on top of the grain ( and everything else) is the oxidized nitrate from the explosion. which appeared in the mushroom cloud after the shock wave.. chemists told me...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1596740714.jpg


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1596740760.jpg

I'm always dropping my "r's".

From wikipedia when discussing the Texas City 1947 incident (which was Ammonium Nitrate based).

That's A LOT of grain. I'm sure that having the substantial silo building full of grain is like having sand bags around, and probably helped the building withstand the blast.

I read that it was about 85% of the country's grain reserves.

no bigly..
it's Beirut..
folks are used to eating lead ...

Rika

In Enid OK, the Koch Corp. makes Ammonium Nitrate crystals and liquid Ammonia from a pipeline fed natural gas source.
The amount stored there is 100 x the size of that stash.
Everyday you prayed & worked in blast proof cargo containers below level and behind a earthen berm.
Great consultant pay, but a deadly place to be around.
Almost as bad as when I disposed of Sarin nerve gas @ Fort Dugway KY.

I will bet money that the Beirut port had a set of rules for explosive products before this....

There were certainly a number of warnings and complaints about it.

https://www.enidnews.com/news/local_news/koch-fertilizer-looks-to-expand-enid-plant/article_29b37475-b66d-56ac-bc0a-071ee42ffc59.html

I have been up close to that facility. The good news is they are a few miles outside the city, but just one mile from the airport. I bet they work hard at safety. Hope so.