At least 6,000 residents in the North Carolina city have been asked to evacuate the area during the active fire. "Now is the time to get out," Winston-Salem Fire Chief Trey Mayo said.
From a cursory google, the Beirut explosion was from closer to 3000 tons. If this thing goes up it will be terrible, but not quite as powerful as Beirut
Yeah quarter of the amount of nitrate, there's other things going on as well since the ammonium nitrate oxidizes everything and there's a lot to oxidize so it's hard to 1:1 math it but it won't be as bad. It'll still fucking suck tho.
Good news is they're actively evacuating people from the guessed blast and impact radius, which also didn't happen in Beirut.
Infrastructure disaster but hopefully not a casualties situation
From a cursory google, the Beirut explosion was from closer to 3000 tons. If this thing goes up it will be terrible, but not quite as powerful as Beirut
Yeah quarter of the amount of nitrate, there's other things going on as well since the ammonium nitrate oxidizes everything and there's a lot to oxidize so it's hard to 1:1 math it but it won't be as bad. It'll still fucking suck tho.
Good news is they're actively evacuating people from the guessed blast and impact radius, which also didn't happen in Beirut.
Infrastructure disaster but hopefully not a casualties situation
Air quality is also a concern