Danvers Mass Explosion

[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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Bill
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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