TSNBDSC Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 http://i.imgur.com/iXzONIh.gifv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Wow! I take it they have nothing like OSHA to over see factory safty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Wow! I take it they have nothing like OSHA to over see factory safty. Maybe they were just getting rid of unneeded inventory. Little known fact: Cinco de Mayo is May 5th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Poojer Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 Not necessarily true, during leap years, it falls on may 6th. I learned that the hard way. Maybe they were just getting rid of unneeded inventory. Little known fact: Cinco de Mayo is May 5th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 That was a year ago, and it wasn't a factory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 Didn't this happen last year?? I seem to remember some fireworks factory blowing up in Darien when I was a kid. Anyone else remember that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 http://i.imgur.com/iXzONIh.gifv This happened 6 months ago. 31 people died. This one happened in March http://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Explosion-at-fireworks-facility-leaves-multiple-injured-484139 And this one happened in April this year http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04/04/at-least-4-killed-after-explosion-at-fireworks-factory-in-portugal.amp.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nkreed Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 http://i.imgur.com/iXzONIh.gifv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 Would have looked much cooler at night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan in San Diego Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Would have looked much cooler at night. They must have got the AM - PM dial mixed up when setting the detonator Maybe they were just getting rid of unneeded inventory. Little known fact: Cinco de Mayo is May 5th. Your joking right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 That has nothing on Vuurwerkramp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUFFALOKIE Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 That has nothing on Vuurwerkramp. Holy shnikees, That was fn incredible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 (edited) I take it that was the Grand Finale? Edited July 6, 2017 by Augie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 (edited) I take it that was the Grand Finale?Remember when Ron Jaworski Stadium lit up like a Christmas tree? My wife was at that event. When everything started going, they all started clapping thinking it was the grand finale. Ooops, a few seconds things were not quite right. That event still haunts her today and is petrified of fireworks. Anyway... Speaking of fireworks... Navy Pier is having their weekly Wednesday night show right now. They launch from barges outside the lock, on The Lake. USCG Sector Lake Michigan is enforcing a safety zone as we speak from 21:15 to 22:00 CDT... Broadcast on channel 16 & 22. Lots more safety nowadays. Edited July 6, 2017 by ExiledInIllinois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Remember when Ron Jaworski Stadium lit up like a Christmas tree? My wife was at that event. When everything started going, they all started clapping thinking it was the grand finale. Ooops, a few seconds things were not quite right. That event still haunts her today and is petrified of fireworks. Anyway... Speaking of fireworks... Navy Pier is having their weekly Wednesday night show right now. They launch from barges outside the lock, on The Lake. USCG Sector Lake Michigan is enforcing a safety zone as we speak from 21:15 to 22:00 CDT... Broadcast on channel 16 & 22. Lots more safety nowadays. Actually, I don't even know what your talking about (while I should it seems), and I should not make light of a tragedy. I didn't do the whole thing, but I'm sure it ended very badly for some. I get where your wife is coming from. I was at The Who concert in Cincinnati where people died. I think I used to like the music, but if it comes on now I change the station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Actually, I don't even know what your talking about (while I should it seems), and I should not make light of a tragedy. I didn't do the whole thing, but I'm sure it ended very badly for some. I get where your wife is coming from. I was at The Who concert in Cincinnati where people died. I think I used to like the music, but if it comes on now I change the station. Oops sorry. Did you grow up in WNY? Big fireworks accident in Lackawanna back in day. The guy controlling them was killed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Anyone remember the one in Denmark in 2004? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 On the topic of explosions. You know what would make all this look like child's play? If the barges that come through the inland waterways ever lit. Each one holds about 3,200 tons of product. 6,400 tons of ammonium nitrate and say fuel oil would double the Texas City disaster of 1947. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster ...And the crazy pleasure boats get all bent when they can't lock, share the chamber with say two of these "red flag" barges. Like they would prefer them sitting on wall waiting for lock turn like a ticking timebomb or worse, join them. You never know what some clown will do, you see the same ones smoking and fueling. A bilge explodes on a pleasure craft while its buried in the lock chamber next to these barges? It may get ugly fast. If something goes up under our current safety rules, all I got to worry about is my co-worker & the pilot/captain and his crew. Bad news, deckhands would be the instant goners. Us on the wall might have a fighting chance if we were a 1,000' away & maybe in a brick building. Who am kidding, 1/2 the surrounding neighborhood would feel the explosion. Should I feel a bit at ease that we are not "Mexico?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Oops sorry. Did you grow up in WNY? Big fireworks accident in Lackawanna back in day. The guy controlling them was killed. Yeah, I grew up in WNY, but left pretty much for good in '77. I don't remember that event at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan in San Diego Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 A few years back on San Diego Bay for the 4th. There was a computer malfunction and all of the fireworks were lit simultaneously, the company did the show for free the following year to make up for it. But a big Oooops! My bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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