Jim Wilson wrote: > Wow. I have seen a couple of fireworks barge explosions...one fairly big. > But I have never heard of anything even remotely close to that. It is > somewhat surprising that so many were so close to get hurt, but then again I > can see something like that could attract curious spectators prior to the big > explosion.
It was a clear and rather hot they (28 degrees Celsius) causing most people to be outside of their homes which as the main reason for relatively little casualties (22 people killed, but about 1000 injured of which 102 permanently). > A couple of links: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuurwerkramp > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6126121898177679789 > Could you translate what the narrator says at the end of the video? He says you are seeing the images delayed which clearly shows the power of the last explosion. The roofs of the buildings get literally blasted away. Erik -- http://www.ehtw.info (Dutch) Future of Enschede Airport Twente http://www.ehofman.com/fgfs FlightGear Flight Simulator ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
