Multiple gas explosions hit Taiwan's Kaohsiung: Over 20 dead, 270+ injured

[yuiyoshida]

You DON'T have to understand Mandarin to see whats going on..

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. So it was a series of blasts working it's way up the street?

[Warpy]

3. Through the main district, actually.

The full dashboard cam shows the first explosion ripping up a street while the driver sat at a stop light. He tried a U-turn and a manhole exploded up in front of him. Then the lights went out. Then he tried another street and the camera shut off abruptly, shut down by flying concrete. The driver and occupants of the car are fine, read an update last week.

It was a horrible disaster that got scant coverage here in the US, where the powers that be are a little nervous about our own infrastructure. I posted the videos the first night, and more have surfaced since then.

CNN World had one photo of a car tossed up onto a 3 story building.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. It takes a hell of a blast to lift a ton and a half or more 30-40 feet...

It's lucky it didn't happen during rush hour.

[Warpy]

5. No, it was during the night life hours when that part of town was crowded. It's amazing

that the death toll is only 30 as of today, with 340 injured.

The road where the first explosion happened was opened for a kilometer. I don't want to think of what that blast was like.

TCY Chemical Co. has had its assets frozen while the investigation continues. That's amazing to those of us in the US, where corporations shuffle assets outside the country to limit what they'll have to pay out when they know they're guilty as sin.

This state is a big gas producer so it's crisscrossed with high pressure lines. I'm just hoping one isn't under my old, funky slum near the downtown area.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. Freezing assets might be why this hasn't gotten any play in our media.

[octoberlib]

2. Thanks for posting these. It's devastating.

When I think of the miles and miles of pipelines running underneath the cities and towns of this country .......