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The Ruskies had a big weapons depot go up. https://nypost.com/2019/08/05/...t-thousands-to-flee/ A few interesting videos on the Twitter page below https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/.../1158371723970064387 | ||
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| Three Generations of Service  |
Horry Sheet! I bet that rattled some dishes! Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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Coin Sniper |
...and it all started with a Big BANG! Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
Brings this to mind: “The Tunguska event was a large explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908 (NS).[1][2] The explosion over the sparsely populated Eastern Siberian Taiga flattened 2,000 square kilometres (770 square miles) of forest, and caused at least three human casualties.[3] The explosion is generally attributed to the air burst of a meteoroid. It is classified as an impact event, even though no impact crater has been found; the object is thought to have disintegrated at an altitude of 5 to 10 kilometres (3 to 6 miles) rather than to have hit the surface of the Earth.[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event Serious about crackers | |||
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Most surprising part after seeing that big blast wave.."one soldier reported dead." Only 1? That's good at least, yikes, I would have expected a lot more. “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik Be harder to kill: https://preparefit.ck.page | |||
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| Stuck on himself |
Only one serviceman killed? Bet he was killed all over the northern hemisphere. | |||
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| Do the next right thing  |
Color me skeptical of the casualty list. There's no way anyone nearby survived some of those shock waves.  | |||
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| Purveyor of Death and Destruction  |
He was probably the one that caused it. They put no smoking signs up for a reason.  | |||
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I've been on plenty of military bases. Munitions storage areas are far away from populated areas of the base for obvious reasons. The blast wave looks scary, but the pressure drops fast with distance. Must have been after hours with no soldiers other than the one poor soul around the depot. On more useful level. When we are talking blast from grenades, IEDs etc. mere feet can mean the difference between survival or not. Dive away feet pointed towards blast, cover ears and open mouth. Odds are good you'll live. That is military grade high explosives moving over 20k fps. Something improvised like a pipe bomb etc. would be a lot slower and thus even more survivable. Just have to get down low out of the frag radius. If you don't know it's coming nothing can be done about it, you either got blow'd up or you didn't. “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik Be harder to kill: https://preparefit.ck.page | |||
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It appears that the fire was well underway. The soldiers may have had plenty of time to hide in their bunker. Hopefully it is a well built bunker. -c1steve | |||
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From the article: Ammunition storage site explosions are not unusual in Russia. Yikes! Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. - Dave Barry "Never go through life saying 'I should have'..." - quote from the 9/11 Boatlift Story (thanks, sdy for posting it) | |||
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In Soviet Russia...you don't shoot ammunition, ammunition shoots you! “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik Be harder to kill: https://preparefit.ck.page | |||
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Nice mushroom cloud and pretty impressive shockwave It's Russia so the only thing you can be sure of is it did not contain 40,000 artillery shells. Much more likely they fudge by an order of magnitude so it was either 4,000 (i.e. they exaggerated or had already stolen 36,000) or 400,000 (i.e. they downplayed their stockpile) Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
Ukranian payback? Siberian separatists learning from events in the west? Hope springs eternal. | |||
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There's gotta be some crazy dash cam footage with that evacuation | |||
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The sound from the soccer team twitter video.  | |||
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Almost as Fast as a Speeding Bullet |
Russian Defense Minister: "There is no significant damage to the neighboring town." Twitter: "Hold my beer, I'm goin' in." ______________________________________________ Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky. — Georges Besançon | |||
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I just HOPE that Russian officials are more forthcoming about this event than they were about Chernobyl. To this day the "official" death toll from Chernobyl is 31, according to the Russian government. I hope this doesn't turn into a catastrophe... "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
Its a little early to blame this on Siberian Separatists, don't you think?  | |||
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Kaboomski! Airborne ! All the Way!! | |||
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