Destruction of Destruction: The Beirut Port Silos (English)
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Following the 2020 Beirut port explosion, the city's grain silos suffered a prolonged period of steady ruination. To understand how the gradual destruction of a ruin happened behind state cordons in the nearly two-year period since the blast, Febrayer and FA reconstructed the site to present a unified account of the state’s mismanagement of this important site of material evidence and memory.
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9 days to arrive to the initial fire? That is some serious dedication to duty there. Let me guess, Beirut is “still investigating” the initial blast in the warehouse 3 years later?
Perhaps they were leaving it to the firefighters that had been on-scene since before the blast?
You probably mean ‘dereliction of duty’: they failed to carry out their duty.
Incredible work here. What I found fascinating is how these silos full of grain at the time of the massive explosion acted as a shock wave decouplier. The grain in the silos would have ensured the silos semi survival. I never knew about the fire and collapse years later. The latest news we have been hearing is Beirut has struggled to rebuild after the 2020 explosion. I spoke to some Lebanese people in Sydney Australia getting everyday items at Costco to send to Beirut.
holy moly, there's nothing left but a hole in the ground filled with water where the explosion took place.
A testament to the construction of the silos.
Grain silos have to be very strong to resist the outward force create by the weight of the grain.
Look up Transcona Grain Elevator it was a similar grain silo that fell over due to weaker than expect soil conditions, it remained intact was later righted and is still used today.
If they was empty then they would be gone. The pressure of the grain itself works exactly the same as "bomb proof" cinder blocks which are literally the same exact blocks but filled with sand, or another grainy substance. It's also similar to how difficult it is to crush a soda can when sealed and full, but you open it up and let out the pressure and you can crush the can much easier.
Maybe I'm not doing the best to explain, especially for another language outside of English. But as they are extremely strong silos, if they wasn't full of grains then it would have been much more damaged, maybe even gone completely except for the foundation.
Not really, it has more to do with how grain in the silos can decouple the destructive nature of an explosive shockwave. This is a fascinating example. The fact that is seems there are other forces at work trying to level the silos is disturbing
They were build by Czechoslovakian Průmstav in 1970. The atomic dome in Hiroshima was from Czech architect Jan Letzel. Deduction of what that means i will let for you to think about. 🙂
Criminals investigating criminals.
...as if That would be a phenomenon limited to this incident and country. I think not.
I really don't understand why any of this matters. The silos were all destroyed in the explosion, the grans that were exposed were contaminated. They should have just bulldozed the whole damn thing the day after the explosion.
Or blow everything up again, but just a little bit to the left this time.
2:08 thats what happens when the investigation leads back to the investigators.
"We've investigated ourselves, and found we've done nothing wrong..."
Great detailed analysis!
1:22 May 2021 shows the silos down but at 1:47 it shows the silos come down on July 31, 2022
Likely just a mistake
Great video.
The silos were too damaged to get near safely, the grain was contaminated, and letting it burn didn’t hurt anything except the air.
if you know who did it and prove it i will put in there account $ 100,000000 but it take me 1 week to transfer the money
Some portions of this documentary are not clear and the presenter doesn't articulate well
I think it is of great value to make and publish this!
It comes with a high price to a society when its members don't take sufficient responsibility for who their leaders are.
Exactly what is happening in the United States!
@@dumbotater2158 Yes, and even more in Russia. China is a different story, people there don't get the chance!
First, this is a very good and valuable video.
Presumably, having armed militia/mafias thwarting the legitimate armed forces and civilian government and colluding with corrupt elitists co-opting the apparatus and function of that government, the media, the banking system and commercial industry, is not (shall we say) conducive to the people having a realistic influence on the then and now current civil society.
Thank you for this amazing work.
I just found this channel, amazing work!
It is pure physics, chemistry and in addition human ignorance, incompetence, corruption and selfish greed of individuals. No conspiracy theories necessary. And all this happened despite the previous catastrophe in the same place. Question: How irresponsible can you be? The Beirut politicians in charge: Yes!
10 antitank rounds.
I cried over this...15 billion..200 dead..300.000 homeless..1.200 wounded.
I have met several Lebanese..all classy..
Sad handling of confiscation...
Was that a normal place to keep 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate?
At most 600 tons in one place. Nobody should be storing 3000 tons together.
@@onlymeok I usually only keep around 2 tons of ammonium nitrate in my garage
It sounds like a customs scam - the fertiliser was ‘removed’ from a low quality ship whose owners didnt give a s..t about it failing ‘safety checks’ carried out by the fine upstanding lads of Beirut port who - confiscated / unloaded the fertiliser and eventually the ship got released from the ‘fine upstanding lads of Beirut port’ and buggered off. The fertiliser now becomes a tax payers liability and nothing is done to shift it either above or below the law and it sat there …i think for more than 3 years - more than enough time for - the fine upstanding lads of Beirut port’ to have clocked they were sitting on a timebomb
The silo structure had become a signature icon of a disaster caused by the failure of government. Of course the government wanted it gone.
To be honest, grain fires are very, very dificult to put out!
The only solution is to remove the grain. Expensive and difficult!
I can’t believe the Lebanese people aren’t getting the justice they deserve… And it’s a crazy coincidence that august 4th is my birthday.
Hope you had a blast too
How the F did the silo's survive
Sheer mass.
I wonder if there was Popcorn