McEWEN, Tenn. (AP) — The blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around left no survivors, authorities said Saturday.
The total number of dead was unclear, as was the cause of the Friday blast. By the weekend, the devastation came into focus, with officials saying they had found no survivors. A total of 16 people were missing, officials said.
“There’s a gauntlet of emotions there,” Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said during a news conference, pausing to clear his throat before he asked for prayers for the families of the victims in a shaky voice.
“We’ve recovered no survivors,” he added.
Considering that our Trump-loving governor let Elon Musk install poisonous gas turbines in my hometown and is letting the National Guard and ICE run rampant, I won’t be surprised if he blames this on “left-wing actors.” Fuck you, Bill Lee. R.I.P to those lost in the blast.
Fuck governor HVAC.
Apparently not the first time.
Sucks that Ukraine might see fewer shells from this.
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Our portfolio includes a comprehensive range of energetics based on HMX, HNS, PETN, RDX, and TNT.
Energetics. Yeah that’s one way of putting it.
Not quite Oppau, but close.
Energetic materials is the common way to group explosives, pyrotechnics and propellants.
Anything that carries its own oxygen, is self sustained and reacts exothermic.
And the Halifax, Nova Scotia explosion that killed 1782 people.
Fyi – this is why every year Halifax sends a Christmas tree to Boston (who sent scores of people to help the city) as a thank-you.
You can bet this can be backtracked to some deregulation shit.
MAGA in action? DuPont used to have a brutally practical way to deal with pesky explosions in it’s black powder factories:
The mill buildings used in the manufacture of gunpowder were built with strong stone-walled structures on three sides but were only covered by light wood structures on the fourth side, which faced out onto the Brandywine Creek. When an accident occurred, the explosion was directed away from the other mills and storage areas and over the creek.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleutherian_Mills
The opposite of progressive is regressive.
100%
I can’t imagine safety regulations wouldn’t have included separation of large amounts of explosives by distance or with some kind of materials to avoid such a catastrophic explosion.
So, they do. Unfortunately, there aren’t realistic safety precautions that can be taken that don’t have some risk of catastrophic failure if you’re dealing with the manufacturing and storage of explosives. Even small quantities are destructive enough to be dangerous to store.
Ultimately safe storage comes down to human operational concerns. Missing or unenforced regulations relating to working hours, training, training compliance, or handling safety concerns would be my guess rather than storage conditions.Didn’t I read somewhere that they were operating at a faster than normal pace?
It wouldn’t surprise me, but I haven’t heard anything like that. Tough production schedules are a great way to cause incidents.
I wonder if they knew the place was gonna blow or if it was just lights out in an instant with no warning. Explosives tend to be the latter, for better or worse
oh nooooo those poor murder bomb makers 🍆 💦
“There’s a lot of people hurting. A lot of people who are crying a lot of tears,” he said. “We are sad that our community is going through this, but it’s a tremendous opportunity for the church to minister to a lot of those people today.”
That’s such a sick statement to make. Truly disgusting.
I’m not religious but I don’t see the problem with pointing out that the church can offer a lot of support to people after something like this.
He said “ minister “ not support. Seeing a tragedy as an opportunity to minister aka get more people into your church aka MORE MONEY for yourself, is far from supporting people who need it. It’s predatory and disgusting. I grew up knee deep in that shit and hated every second of it.
“never let a crisis go to waste” - Winston Churchill
Maybe we just have a different understanding of what ministering means. I’ve not spent much time in church though so I’ll shut up.
Fuck anyone for trying to comfort another person if their worldview doesn’t match mine. Right, buddy?
Don’t feel sad about downvotes. It’s too bad it happened, but this is a great opportunity to tell you that the Eric the God Eating Penguin exists!
If comfort were the actual goal, you’d be right. But Christians are lying snakes, sooo…
“But [insert group name] are lying snakes” isn’t a healthy opinion to have. Seek help.
I could clarify that “not all Christians” but see arguments about men being rapists. It’s simply easier and safer to treat all Christians as dangerous.
Turns out it’s totally fine to stereotype entire groups as long as they aren’t women or not white.
Negligence due to reduced regulation or sabotage? Take your bets, people!
Honestly I’m surprised Mark Green isn’t already all over the media claiming it was sabotaged by antifa.
