Crater
And Mero Star still sitting there in the backgrond.
I think the grain in the silos helps with mass density
You can see all the grain spilled out into the crater in the pic.
As impressive as it is, the force of the blast was very contained.
Sure, the shockwave did a lot of damage. But the explosion itself went down and up, not out.
Stop with the fireworks factory crap.
It was a loading dock, for fucks sake.
Probably a munitions factory or storage.
The AN bags were cover in case something happened.
My sense is we saw both.
Munitions blowing up (the fireworks part) and then a fertiliser explosion.
My guess is they stored the munitions with the fertilizers as a poison pill to protect against attacks.
Nobody really talking about the almost simultaneous Wuhan explosion.
They made butylene oxide.
Similar chemically to petrol.
Another bomb ingredient, to set off AN?
Was this a message to some terrorist bomb makers?
We know your sources?
The Mero Star docked next to the dock had just came in from Ukraine
Same day they raided Kolomoisky.
One of his businesses is nitrogen based fertilizers.
Company that owns the Mero Star had been accused before of arms running in Crimea and Syria.
Lots going on here below the radar.
Consider they could have been delivering bomb components from Ukraine, and then reloading it for a US destination.
The US also imports nitrogen fertilizers from Ukraine.
This could be on a ship and go boom in a US harbor.
The official story.
Or a cover for how Hezbollah got its hands on 2750 tons of AN, and kept in a warehouse relocated with other activities.
How do you justify 2750 tons of AN sitting unclaimed in a sea port warehouse in the middle of Beirut?.
How do you ensure it accidentally falls into Hezbollah hands.
You make a BS cover story like this.
Just like the US losing all those trucks and weapons in Iraq, that just happened to end up in Syria or with Isis.
Oops… or spycraft?
Dont be fucking stupid.
You cant fly and drop 2750 tons of fertilizers with pinpoint accuracy halfway around the world.