Damn! What An Accident

[Hellion]

Just like grain dust,sugar dust is just as flammeble,unfortunately 4 are dead and several are still missing.

I was surprised that anyone actually survived.

Grain elevator explosions are also something else,usually its complete devastation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_...XNO14dV63us0NUE

[ttogreh]

Oh, yeah. Grain elevators and sugar refineries are always, always in danger of becoming fuel air bombs. Of course, I don't know how often sugar refineries blow up. I do believe the state of Georgia is about to pass a few new industrial safety laws...

This is the wiki article on fuel air bombs. Just replace the word bomb with refinery.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Bean dust. The granary in Vestaburg Michigan blew up when I was about 8. No bodys were ever found. You could see the explosion and hear it at my house 7 miles away.

[Hellion]

Oh, yeah. Grain elevators and sugar refineries are always, always in danger of becoming fuel air bombs. Of course, I don't know how often sugar refineries blow up. I do believe the state of Georgia is about to pass a few new industrial safety laws...

This is the wiki article on fuel air bombs. Just replace the word bomb with refinery.

Just like a propane tank explosion,the worst case scenerio of a propane tank fire is a B.L.E.V.E.(Boiling Liquid,Expanding Vapor Explsion) depending on the size of the tanks,example the tanks on a train car can leval 4 city blocks,Crecent City Ill in 1970 the down town was flattened,yeah I could never work at any fuel,depot at all.you never know.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Thre is nothing more explosive than propane. If condensed to a solid it has more stored energy than anything else known to man. The only reason we don;t use it for bombs is that the machines to keep it cold enough and under enough pressure would be bigger than any plane we have to carry it. I lived right behind the refinery in Alma from age 11 to 19. I saw so many cool fires and explosions. Dad worked there for 32 years... maybe it was 35... and I worked there for about 6months.. just long enough to see two men die in a backdraft when opening a tower.

[Smothered Hope]

Mythbusters did an episode on blowing up propane tanks by shooting them...another of

their firearm joke busting shows. Oh well, seeing (whats her name?) shooting firearms made up for it

[Hellion]

Thre is nothing more explosive than propane. If condensed to a solid it has more stored energy than anything else known to man. The only reason we don;t use it for bombs is that the machines to keep it cold enough and under enough pressure would be bigger than any plane we have to carry it. I lived right behind the refinery in Alma from age 11 to 19. I saw so many cool fires and explosions. Dad worked there for 32 years... maybe it was 35... and I worked there for about 6months.. just long enough to see two men die in a backdraft when opening a tower.

Yeah the Propane BLEVE in Merdock Ill was so powerfull, it threw a 6 ton train car 3600 ft like it was nothing,you can see the video on youtube under "Propane BLEVE"That shit is dangerous.

[Smothered Hope]

Yep, I have to be HazMat ops certified for EMS and it gives you a bit of respect for

handling these types of situations.

[creatureofthenyte]

everytime I see a propane delivery truck on the road, I stay as far away as I can.

[Dollardave]

I don't know why but this post reminded me of the Queen song Another One Bites The Dust.

[Head Wreck]

in school we used to get these big ass coco tins (the type used to supply a battalion for 6 months) and put a teaspoon of castor sugar in, and rig up a way of igniting it with the lid firmly pressed in, the lids often hit the cieling tiles.

sugar is flammable, most things with calories are.

worst i've seen id a Bedford CF2 (british version of the A team van but with a wheezy 4 pot) with empty acetylene bottles inside. not much left of the bedford afterwards