Interesting Thing About That Chinese Explosion

"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95) 08/13/2015 at 18:28 • Filed to: None

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My sister has a friend that lives in China and she texted her very early this morning asking her what the american news stations were saying about the death toll. She didnt think that she could trust what the Chinese news networks were saying.

pjhusa > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/13/2015 at 18:31

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Not surprised. China has the Great Firewall, for one thing. You can expect butchering of negative statistics.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/13/2015 at 18:40

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I doubt that even we are getting the full story. As massive as it was, 50 deaths seems low, for how tightly packed China is.

Jayhawk Jake > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/13/2015 at 18:53

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I had the same thought last night. The initial estimates of 17 then 50 seemed extremely low

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 08/13/2015 at 19:07

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50+ confirmed dead.
71 critically injured (as of BBC 1 hour ago)
at least 700 injured.

That’s a fucking huge amount of people injured.

Brickman > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/13/2015 at 19:09

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I want to know what exploded. Oil refinery, weapons depot, gas storage? We all know how it happened. Poor safety and regulations or lack of.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Brickman 08/13/2015 at 19:17

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Didu see the pink smoking fire. That is none of what you listed

DogonCrook > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/13/2015 at 19:17

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While watching cctv one time the reporter went on this crazy anti American rant, like hilariously over the top and completely lost his shit. They cut away for a sec, and he literally redid his piece and acted like it never happened.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard 08/13/2015 at 19:18

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With China’s tendencies to slightly overpack totally legit safe “factories”, I just would think the toll would be higher.

DogonCrook > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard 08/13/2015 at 19:22

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Considering the time and the area that is actually pretty high.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > Brickman 08/13/2015 at 19:23

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From what Ive read a gas station caught fire and it was next to a chemical plant (wtf) and when the gas station blew it jumped to the chemical plant and that caused a massive boom.

T5Killer > Brickman 08/13/2015 at 19:27

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It was a chemical storage warehouse owned by Ruihai International Logistics that stored calcium carbide, sodium nitrate, and potassium nitrate.

Brickman > OPPOsaurus WRX 08/13/2015 at 19:29

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Forgot about that

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/13/2015 at 19:42

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I heard 47 of whom 17 were fire fighters but I don’t believe those.numbers either.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 08/13/2015 at 20:07

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that immediate area is nearly all warehouses. So not quite the population density of the factories you’d be thinking about.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > DogonCrook 08/13/2015 at 20:08

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being a major port I think it’d operate 24hrs a day.

DogonCrook > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard 08/13/2015 at 20:28

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They are mostly busy during the day, there are exceptions but even a 24 hr facility is bare bones for the night shift.

desertdog5051 > T5Killer 08/13/2015 at 23:55

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What a cocktail that is.

Hot Takes Salesman > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/14/2015 at 02:06

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Yeah I don’t remember the last time anyone in the fucking world could trust Chinese propaganda news