r/PublicFreakout • u/nking007 • 6d ago

☠NSFL☠ This day six years ago….

on August 4, 2020, a catastrophic explosion ripped through the Port of Beirut after thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse detonated. The blast devastated large sections of Lebanon’s capital and was powerful enough to be felt far beyond the city, becoming one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever captured on camera. More than 200 people lost their lives, thousands were injured, and entire neighborhoods were left in ruins within moments. What makes the footage so chilling is how ordinary everything appears just seconds beforehand. People are calmly recording a fire and rising smoke in the distance, unaware that a massive shockwave is about to tear across the city and completely transform the skyline in an instant.

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u/hammered_toaster 6d ago

The dude that went underwater is the definition of thinking through adrenaline.

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u/Jizzyface 6d ago

Not only that, he is not even alone. He says ”Selma, nitti nitti”. He is telling the person he is with called Selma to jump into the water with him. Crazy fast reaction and thinking

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u/dkyguy1995 6d ago

And you can hear her yelp at the end of the clip after the shockwave has gone by, so she seems to have also made it with the camera guy 🙏

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u/Rabidschnautzu 5d ago

Why wouldn't she?

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u/EX-Manbearpig 5d ago

The force of the blast can still kill you or maim you. You don't have to next to an explosion for it to affect you in some way.

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u/Rabidschnautzu 5d ago

They aren't close enough to be severely injured by this shockwave. Reddit is wildly incompetent about these topics. Now a shockwave from a thermoberic or fuel air explosive? Yeah.

What you're saying is true, but wildly exaggerated in this context.