And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
We had the Robin Hood flour mill located on the Mississippi River in Davenport Iowa go up back in May of '75. It was right across the river from the Rock Island Arsenal so there was a bit of confusion about what actually went up for awhile.
The audio has somebody yelling "get out of there Grandpa" right before it blows heh-heh.
Yeah, I work around this stuff. Reinforced concrete ain't got a chance if the fuel-air-ignition source triangle is right. Google up "grain dust explosion Haysville Kansas" for really impressive pics. Plenty other locations too. But somebody mentioned sugar and Imperial Sugar. It's probably worse than grain dust. Google up Western Sugar Scottsbluff Nebraska for another example.
What a waste of future Kellogg's Bran Flakes.
ReplyDeletepotato starch is also flammable. in fact most flours are. my brother the ex green beret told me how they made explosives out of them.
ReplyDeleteSugar dust is also very flammable. I saw the aftermath of the Dixie Cristal explosion, just as good as dynamite.
DeleteI wonder how the person holding the camera fared?
ReplyDeleteFAE - fuel air explosion also known as thermobaric explosion. Nasty stuff.
ReplyDeleteFAE - fuel air explosion also known as thermobaric explosion. Nasty stuff.
ReplyDeleteWe had the Robin Hood flour mill located on the Mississippi River in Davenport Iowa go up back in May of '75.
ReplyDeleteIt was right across the river from the Rock Island Arsenal so there was a bit of confusion about what actually went up for awhile.
It is fascinating that some idiot stood there and filmed this for posterity.
ReplyDeleteThe audio has somebody yelling "get out of there Grandpa" right before it blows heh-heh.
DeleteYeah, I work around this stuff. Reinforced concrete ain't got a chance if the fuel-air-ignition source triangle is right. Google up "grain dust explosion Haysville Kansas" for really impressive pics. Plenty other locations too. But somebody mentioned sugar and Imperial Sugar. It's probably worse than grain dust. Google up Western Sugar Scottsbluff Nebraska for another example.
Every year there's at least one grain silo explosion in the Midwest.
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