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Hope everything works out for RO's and their neighbors.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_on_bi_ge/us_nc_port_closure

Officials shut down a North Carolina port and urged people to leave the area Tuesday after nine containers with highly explosive materials were punctured.

Morehead City Fire Chief Wes Lail told television station WTVD that the chemical involved is pentaerythritol tetranitrate, a powerful explosive.
 
It was a matter of time before something like this happened. Some idiot with a crane wasn't paying attention and punctured 9 of them. I'm waiting for DHS to blame Al Quada, or somebody for it, whether they had anything to do with it or not, it does make good press...
 
Ludicrous, yes, but just to be clear, it was nine drums (22 gallon?)not nine containers.

Also, in and of itself, PETN is not that dangerous. It can can actually burn and not combust
 
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Originally posted by Crownline 242

Ludicrous, yes, but just to be clear, it was nine drums (22 gallon?)not nine containers.

Also, in and of itself, PETN is not that dangerous. It can can actually burn and not combust

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As Mr. AkmedMohammedWhateverTheHell made us aware recently.

But anyways, it was only 9 drums? I was wondering how 9 containers could have been compromised at once. So they meant 'containers', not 'containers', if that makes sense?

Do you, by chance, have a cite? Not that I doubt it at all, but for pointing and laughings sake.
 
If you look at the news article it describes the drums. I was over that way today; was going to come back from the boat yard through there from Beaufort but main road was blocked off needless to say. I didn't realize what the cause was until I saw this thread!

George
Hatteras 56MY (on the hard at Jarrett Bay Boatworks, Beaufort)
Boston Whaler 130 Sport (on the hard at Tidewater Marine, New Bern)
 
Punching a few holes in a container is just an average day for a ILA folk lift operator.
 
What I'm thinking. But the media being the sticklers for attention to detail - or gross inattention to detail - that they are, I'm still not sure exactly what happened.

So are we talking 9 containers, or are we talking 9 drums, or are we talking 9 barrels, or are we talking 9 crates, or 9 custom enclosures, or WTH?
 
Somebody knocked over 9 slurpees waiting for the work crews break...
 
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