Danvers Mass Explosion

[toofun]

WHAT THE F*CK WAS THAT?? There was a HUGE explosion over night in Danvers Massachusetts around 2:30 in the morning. CAI a chemical company literally blew up. There is NOTHING left to it. It destroyed the company, three other companies near it and 4-5 houses!! Man I live about 7 miles away and it rocked me out of bed this morning!! The business sits right next to a marina and they said there were pieces of boats scattered about 500 yards away up the street!! Amazingly as of yet there are NO FATALITIES. 10 Injured but as of yet NO FATALITIES. I only hope there were no night watch men in the plant at the time. People called as far away as SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE to see if it was an earthquake!! Man I never felt ANYTHING LIKE THAT!!! I only pray to GOD there are no fatalities that spring up in the aftermath!!

[eville]

I'm over in Lowell for the Holiday. It's amazing that no one was killed... yet. Our thoughts are with those affected by this tragedy.

[Steve68]

I was just watching that on FOX news thats wild, like you said no fatalities, yet, something else to give thanks about!!

When I was logging on the computer this AM, I was thinking Marks from Mass, I wonder if he heard that,

[StRacerDuke]

I just read about this in the NY times this morning. I live in downtown Boston.

[RaceMan]

WOW I just watched the video holly #$%@ thats a big one !!!!!!!
theres nothing left!!

[toofun]

Yea its pretty crazy!! There is a very small overpass bridge literally 200 feet from that building. I use to fish off of it all the time for stripers. My cousin just got back from Iraq about a month ago. She lives not even a 1/4 mile away. When the explosion happened, she instintively fell to the floor and crawled her way out of the bedroom. I think she needs to see someone for that!! I had another relative that was about 1/8 of a mile away across the water way. He had all the windows blown out the back of his house and the front door was blown off the hinges 20 feet onto the lawn!! They say the blast shock was AMAZING!!! Latest is there were even calls from York Beach MAINE TWO STATES AWAY. Man a blast shock wave really carries over water I guess! Luckily there was a few buildings on the street side shielding the blast, otherwise the EASTERN PROPANE PLANT across the street would have went up and it would have been EVEN WORSE!!

[brabbit50422]

yeah im at work right now in the cummins center we saw the helicopters this morning comeing in from boston. its pretty crazy but as stated no major injurys. i called all my friends in town as soon as i heard and most of them lost the doors on their houses and all the windows.

[shmoov69]

is the vid on the web?

[MTMouse]

is the vid on the web?

Here's one I found. http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/61365.aspx

Here's another http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=45970

[hdesign]

Luckily I'm about 1 hr SW of that. My boss lives in the town next to Danvers and felt the tremors from the blast, he jumped out of bed! I guess people in ME felt it too. Maybe someone who knows more about physics than I do can chime in here but I heard that the fact that everyone was laying in bed probably saved their lives. Had anyone been standing in those houses they would have been killed by the force of the shockwave. That's crazy if it's true.

Gov. Romney said it was equal in force to a 2000 lb bomb!

Here's the Boston.com webboard posting what people experienced...some are pretty interesting.

http://boards.boston.com/n/pfx/forum...-news&tid=9557

There's some great photos on the front page of www.boston.com check out the "Before and After" photos....talk about a crater!

[toofun]

Dont know about the laying in bed theory but I can tell you this. That road is a HEAVILY travelled road. Had this happened during the day, there could have definately been alot of casualties. I know that the fact that the blast happened on a shore line has alot to do with the effects of people up the coast feeling the blast as far away as Maine. It travels very far over water with less resistance rather than over land with more resistance(trees,buildings, houses etc...). I had a friend of mine whos friends were working in the bakery right in front of that plant when this happened(2:30 in the morning making pies and what not for Thanks Giving) They said one minute they were working away, the next they were laying on the floor with the roof caved in and the windows blown out, fire all around. A TRUE MIRACLE NON OF THEM WERE KILLED. They all made it out with minor injuries!!

On another note the equivalent of a 2000 pound bomb!! This should be a wake up call for people on the whole mass seaboard. One MAJOR CONCERN are the GAS TANKS in East Boston. NO SECURITY around these tanks with nothing less than a chain link fence. Friends of mine use to hop the fence and walk through the tanks as a short cut with no one bothering them at all. EACH ONE OF THOSE TANKS HOLD AT LEAST 1MILLION gallons of gasoline, there are about thirty tanks minimum spread about 50 yards apart. ONE TERRORIST ATTACK ON THOSE TANKS AND YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. They estimate that you would see total destruction as far north as seabrook NH and as far south as providence RI. You could KISS BOSTON AND SURROUNDING CITIES COMPLETELY OFF THE MAP. But off course no one in the MASS GOV is too concerned over it!!!

[ProTouring442]

Unless you planted a very large bomb in one of the tanks you probably couldn't get much of an explosion. Liquid gasoline just doesn't explode. What you could do however was to rip open a tank causing a very large rolling fire. Now that could do a lot of damage.

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Dont know about the laying in bed theory but I can tell you this. That road is a HEAVILY travelled road. Had this happened during the day, there could have definately been alot of casualties. I know that the fact that the blast happened on a shore line has alot to do with the effects of people up the coast feeling the blast as far away as Maine. It travels very far over water with less resistance rather than over land with more resistance(trees,buildings, houses etc...). I had a friend of mine whos friends were working in the bakery right in front of that plant when this happened(2:30 in the morning making pies and what not for Thanks Giving) They said one minute they were working away, the next they were laying on the floor with the roof caved in and the windows blown out, fire all around. A TRUE MIRACLE NON OF THEM WERE KILLED. They all made it out with minor injuries!!

On another note the equivalent of a 2000 pound bomb!! This should be a wake up call for people on the whole mass seaboard. One MAJOR CONCERN are the GAS TANKS in East Boston. NO SECURITY around these tanks with nothing less than a chain link fence. Friends of mine use to hop the fence and walk through the tanks as a short cut with no one bothering them at all. EACH ONE OF THOSE TANKS HOLD AT LEAST 1MILLION gallons of gasoline, there are about thirty tanks minimum spread about 50 yards apart. ONE TERRORIST ATTACK ON THOSE TANKS AND YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. They estimate that you would see total destruction as far north as seabrook NH and as far south as providence RI. You could KISS BOSTON AND SURROUNDING CITIES COMPLETELY OFF THE MAP. But off course no one in the MASS GOV is too concerned over it!!!

[69TAPoser]

I live 35 miles Northwest in Plaistow, NH. My wife and I did not wake up, but our neighbors did!

As for the gasoline, you are absolutely correct. You can throw a match in an open can of gasoline and the flame will be extinguished. Throw a match in a container of gas fumes...and you will have a different outcome. Fumes will combust, the liquid will not.

Phil