Beirut Blast
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@Stargazer said in Beirut Blast:
Those poor people. There will be many lives lost; lots of injured people; homes destroyed. Not to mention the long-term impact on people's physical and mental health.
I hope the people of Beirut get all the help they need.
What an bloody awful year this is. What's next? Locusts? Frogs? Three days of darkness? If I believed anything written in the Bible, I'd be thinking the apocalypse is coming.
Worth remembering that bad things have always happened, we just hear about them all now. Also, by every measure this is the best time to be alive.
It helps me to keep perspective when these awful events hit closer to home.
These videos are just incredible. You can see people on the streets and in cars that just have to have been killed. Nothing they could have done.
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Quite a lot of reports on radio on way to work - Doctors who rushed in to work only to find their hospital gone etc.
Everyone involved in port management for the last six years under house arrest. I guess that's if they have a house. Estimated 200K homeless - at least temporarily
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@antipodean said in Beirut Blast:
Incredible!
I wonder if there is anyone in Beirut that is around 70/80 that has lived there their whole life. Imagine what was going through their head when they heard/saw the explosion.
Terrifying
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Without being a victim blamer, residents of Beirut would do well to removed Hezbollah's influence. Then they might have reliable electricity, food, medical services and not store a three tonne bomb at the port for years.
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@antipodean said in Beirut Blast:
Without being a victim blamer, residents of Beirut would do well to removed Hezbollah's influence. Then they might have reliable electricity, food, medical services and not store a three tonne bomb at the port for years.
They will certainly hope there are no upcoming elections soon
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@antipodean said in Beirut Blast:
Without being a victim blamer, residents of Beirut would do well to removed Hezbollah's influence. Then they might have reliable electricity, food, medical services and not store a three THOUSAND tonne bomb at the port for years.
Surely?
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@JC said in Beirut Blast:
@antipodean said in Beirut Blast:
Without being a victim blamer, residents of Beirut would do well to removed Hezbollah's influence. Then they might have reliable electricity, food, medical services and not store a three THOUSAND tonne bomb at the port for years.
Surely?
Yes, quite. With a typo like that I could be Treasurer.
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@Hooroo said in Beirut Blast:
@antipodean said in Beirut Blast:
Incredible!
I wonder if there is anyone in Beirut that is around 70/80 that has lived there their whole life. Imagine what was going through their head when they heard/saw the explosion.
Terrifying
TBF, they wouldn't even have to be that old, ... anyone who lived through the 80/90/00s /10s with various bombings, Syrian and Israeli occupations, bombing of US barracks, etc etc etc would likely have been freaking out.
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Some more great images showing the devastation:
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@antipodean How is that wall of that one building still standing? Is it because another one was shielding it?
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@JC Are you talking about the largest buidling? That's because it is an actual building, with massive silos full of grain. All the rest are sheds, and their tin just stripped off. Most of the damage was pressure, so tin, glass, stuff like that blown to pieces. Still crushed half of the building.
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just zoomed in on google maps...
can zoom in a bit more still