https://www.foxnews.com/us/tennessee-manufacturing-plant-explosion-leaves-multiple-people-dead
Just north of Centerville. Bad Bad. :'(
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Saw that. Any clue what the alien-looking green stuff is?
Before and after photo.
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Quote from: Son of Spam on Oct 10, 2025, 02:50 PMBefore and after photo.
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I can't reconcile those photos - did the parking lot disappear.
Quote from: Third_down_draw on Oct 10, 2025, 02:55 PMI can't reconcile those photos - did the parking lot disappear.
Same! I'm trying to figure out where the road was...
Quote from: Third_down_draw on Oct 10, 2025, 02:55 PMI can't reconcile those photos - did the parking lot disappear.
looks like a lot of it is gone and the rest is covered up by the dirt from the big ass hole that was left. before looks to be overhead, and after looks to be from about a 45 degree angle.
that's not the building that blew up. it looks to have been possibly a warehouse/storage building a little ways away.
You can see the remains of the road on this one. Pics pulled off CNN story.
Before pic
Google map the area and the company is set on a lot of acreage with several buildings spread out.
One of my cousins runs a mission/rescue there, about a mile from the plant, and he said the blast blew the doors of the chapel open and he has some hearing issues now.
Quote from: dhog on Oct 10, 2025, 03:05 PMGoogle map the area and the company is set on a lot of acreage with several buildings spread out.
Most munitions plants are designed and arranged like this. I worked on and off as a contractor at Remington and their powders mix plants are arranged in a geometric fashion to minimize risk of chain reaction in case of catastrophic failure. It has happened there, but nothing on this scale.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2025/10/10/hickman-county-explosives-plant-safety-violations-2019-tosha-inspection/86629624007/
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/explosion-reported-at-accurate-energetic-systems-in-the-bucksnort-area
Scroll down and find the 11 second video and listen to the sound it made from two miles away.
One of my classmates lives right down the road. I've turkey hunted for years in that area.
Hickman County has some of the best hunting land in the state. My brother's father in law's farm he hunts on is in Kimmins (north Lewis County) which is on the Hickman border.
With the magnitude of that blast finding folks bodies and parts may be darn near impossible . Just tragic.
Just spoke with my buddy. One of the guys I've hunted with there is one of the missing.
Quote from: DRYANKNPULL on Oct 10, 2025, 09:44 PMJust spoke with my buddy. One of the guys I've hunted with there is one of the missing.
May not have landed yet.
Sorry it hits so close to home. Tragic situation.
Quote from: buff2.0 on Oct 10, 2025, 10:10 PMMay not have landed yet.
Sorry it hits so close to home. Tragic situation.
I guess there's no better way to describe the situation, but missing doesn't seem quite accurate.
Quote from: DRYANKNPULL on Oct 10, 2025, 10:15 PMI guess there's no better way to describe the situation, but missing doesn't seem quite accurate.
Permanently missing may be more accurate. Just fucking gone.
Man that's sad.
My cousin that lives there, his younger brother lives in Mussel Shoals, Alabama, 105 miles due south of there, and he said he heard it from his deer stand.
The arial photo is pretty much what you'd expect from something like that. Total devastation.
I took a few explosives classes and some practical and it was interesting how they describe how explosions will eject or throw material and others will have a different level of concussive force and will simply vaporize material with the thermal blast. Was very interesting about the energies and uses for each type of explosive and the chemistry behind each.
Whatever blew up erased an entire building and parking lot. The people in the building stood no chance. I imagine this event is similar to what happened on that sub looking for titanic.
Quote from: BleedinRed on Oct 11, 2025, 05:14 PMWhatever blew up erased an entire building and parking lot. The people in the building stood no chance. I imagine this event is similar to what happened on that sub looking for titanic.
Except pretty much the exact opposite...Explosion vs Implosion.
Quote from: HOGSRUNWILD on Oct 11, 2025, 05:15 PMExcept pretty much the exact opposite...Explosion vs Implosion.
the result was the same is my point. All humans were vaporized in less than a blink of an eye.
Quote from: BleedinRed on Oct 11, 2025, 05:26 PMthe result was the same is my point. All humans were vaporized in less than a blink of an eye.
lol.
Quote from: Lurk on Oct 11, 2025, 06:03 PMlol.
What's lol oh great one?
You know what I mean. This folks under water were squished and the ones in TN were vaporized. Happy now?
You guys know my point.
Well, it is true that none of the people involved had any idea what hit them. It was over in a millisecond.