Person 1: What exploded? The sky is lit up.
Person 2: Where is that?
Person 1: Don’t know. You think it’s on the news?
Giant Explosion:
Person 1: Wow! Everything is shaking. Is it a nuclear bomb!? The windows on the building have shattered.
Person 1: The explosion is so violent. I hope our building doesn’t collapse.
Person 2: Puts your clothes on. Let’s hope our building doesn’t collapse.
Person 1: That’s about it, right? The explosions should be over with.
I guess I'm asking the obvious here but why would you have a facility that "transports" hazardous cargo in the middle of a highly populated city and not just have the facility somewhere far, far away from people (or even on a very large boat) and just transport it there?
I mean, this is a tragedy and I'm not trying to make light of it but this is quite literally a Chinese Fire Drill. Did they honestly think that something like this could never happen when they were constructing it?
The warehouse wasn't "in the middle" of a population center. It was in a specially designated industrial zone where people go to work but (as I understand it) there aren't residences.
This message was brought to you by a guy who has never been to the city in question & has only a vague idea of where it is on the map. So YMMV, and all that.
That makes sense.. the first video I saw was at what looked like a restaurant and was much closer to the explosion, but I'm also just thinking of Portland's Industrial District, which has quickly been building up with more restaurants and condos, instead of the few bars that were there for the workers, but Portland's so small and dense that it's basically in the middle of the city.
"Another resident, Wang Dong, 55, said the explosions appeared to travel through the sewer pipes. “The whole sky lit up like it was daytime,” he said."
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