# 3KT of explosives improperly stored **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3kt-of-explosives-improperly-stored/643221 "2012-12-06T19:33:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3kt-of-explosives-improperly-stored/643221/1 "2012-12-06T19:33:39Z")
[This](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/la-town-evacuates-police-relocate-explosives) going off will make anyone’s eyes water. :eek: And maybe it’s as much as 6 KT. :eek: I think I’d like to be on the other side of a big hill. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3kt-of-explosives-improperly-stored/643221/2 "2012-12-06T19:46:57Z")
Next on _Mythbusters_… ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3kt-of-explosives-improperly-stored/643221/3 "2012-12-07T04:10:11Z")
Just one more example of how government over regulation is keeping good businesses down! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3kt-of-explosives-improperly-stored/643221/4 "2012-12-07T04:15:18Z")
> [@Enkel](#): > > Just one more example of how government over regulation is keeping good businesses down! Down on the ground instead of up in the sky, in this case… ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3kt-of-explosives-improperly-stored/643221/5 "2012-12-07T12:54:11Z")
[QUOTE=] Just outside the evacuation area, Doyline High School teacher Linda Watson stopped Monday to buy chicken strips at D&H Hardware, which has a small kitchen serving fare that also includes burgers. [/quote] Well if the grocery stores now have pharmacy depts & the drug stores now sell food it only seems logical that Home Despot starts restaurant service. But how is this sentence relevant to the article? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3kt-of-explosives-improperly-stored/643221/6 "2012-12-07T13:05:54Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Well if the grocery stores now have pharmacy depts & the drug stores now sell food it only seems logical that Home Despot starts restaurant service. But how is this sentence relevant to the article? The Home Depot by me has a hot dog stand in the entry way where the shopping carts are. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3kt-of-explosives-improperly-stored/643221/7 "2012-12-07T13:38:38Z")
A note. When you start taking about thousands of tons of explosives, you are talking about the explosive force levels that early atomic bombs had (or what terrorist these days would likely be able to cobble together if they could get get their hands on enough uranium or plutonium). Way back when Galveston Texas got blown the fuck up good when a ship carring thousands of tons of fertilizer caught fire then eventually blew up. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3kt-of-explosives-improperly-stored/643221/8 "2012-12-07T13:51:27Z")
It’s not explosives, it’s propellant for artillery. It won’t go boom unless in a contained space. In the open it would burn like hell but there wouldn’t be an Earth shattering ka-boom. Or at least that’s what my passing knowledge of such things tells me. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3kt-of-explosives-improperly-stored/643221/9 "2012-12-07T14:07:26Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > A note. > > When you start taking about thousands of tons of explosives, you are talking about the explosive force levels that early atomic bombs had (or what terrorist these days would likely be able to cobble together if they could get get their hands on enough uranium or plutonium). > > Way back when Galveston Texas got blown the fuck up good when a ship carring thousands of tons of fertilizer caught fire then eventually blew up. Or when an [ammunition ship](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion) exploded in Halifax harbour. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3kt-of-explosives-improperly-stored/643221/10 "2012-12-07T14:44:16Z")
If it is a propellant, then it shouldn’t explode unless confined. Still, 6kt of propellant going up would be one amazing-ass out of control fire that I’d pay money to see. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3kt-of-explosives-improperly-stored/643221/11 "2012-12-07T19:23:31Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > If it is a propellant, then it shouldn’t explode unless confined. Still, 6kt of propellant going up would be one amazing-ass out of control fire that I’d pay money to see. _Looks furtively around_ How much? 😛