This makes me wonder how well the driver was informed of the dangers of this stuff.
According to one of the links, the body was sent to the state Crime Lab for formal identification, so apparently he was neither vaporized nor shredded. Amazing.
If the explosion was that big, it probably didn’t matter if the driver went back to the truck or how far he could have walked away from it.
The report I read said that he was last seen walking towards the truck.
I’ve got Goggle Maps on satellite, I can see Camden, but I can’t see you. Can you wave, or something?
My WAG: Had he been sitting in the truck, he wouldn’t have had a place to “go” and would have been shredded by the blast, since the truck cabin would have temporarily confined him long enough in one place, for a tiny fraction of a second, to be fully subjected to the blast’s effects.
But since he was outside walking about freely, the blast wave probably hit him and “carried” him, airborne, propelling him outwards in flight, towards a far distance away, thus “riding” the blast wave rather than getting pulverized by it. Still dead, but much more intact.
Photo by Mike Rowe. Somebody had a dirty job today.
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The bug man coming. Grandkids screeching. Mr.Wrekker coming home after a trip. Dog baths. Carrier getting brought out. Any new item being brought in the house. Christmas decorations. Cooking they don’t approve of. Me laughing out loud at something I read on the dope. Me sneezing. Anytime they want.
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Mr.Wrekker went down to the site. Of course he didn’t get really close. But he said it was amazing how far out the trees were just bare. No leaves or pine needles on them. Some had bark removed. If you look at the overhead pictures the woods look kinda empty. This area is solidly wooded you would not be able to see ground normally from overhead. He said it smelled really bad and white ash-y stuff was all over.
So apparently your kitties have their own version of “Beam me up.”
Amazing you felt it so dramatically from that far away. Makes me wonder what people (and cats) experienced who were only a mile away.
A friend of mine sent a pix of their deer camp. No windows left. Even the window facings were broken. It was about 4 miles away Not many people live all that close. It’s very rural. They were evac-ing the people when it happened. They heard the blast in Little Rock. According to the news.
I’m not very close to Camden. About 22mi. As the crow flies. But I’m waving, I swear. This is the biggest thing that’s happened around here since Bonnie & Clyde drove through on the way to Louisiana. Wait, a bigfoot was sighted once.
Just had a flashback to a night long long ago when I was a teenager and there was a very loud KA-BOOM and the house shook for a few seconds.
Turns out it was an oil tank exploding about 10 miles away over in New Jersey (the flames were impressive even at that distance).
Glad Beckdawreck and the cats are OK.
Mayberry. Which would make Mr Wrekker Dud Wash, You Charlene Darling Wash, and the rest of us guys the Darling brothers, but who gets to be Ernest T. Bass?
Check your beams.
Can I be Aunt Bea? I make a mean peach pie and good fried chicken, both of which I’d be glad to bring to Otis in his jail cell.
I have cousin who looks alot like Barney. And, wait for it …my brother can whistle real good.
Cecil can be Ernest.
“Y’all come back, ya hear?”
Isn’t there a company in Camden that makes rockets and things that blow up for the government?