Explosions are a lot more powerful in real life than you see on television or in the movies. I was at home on Thursday, and I started to hear explosions. They came about once every thirty seconds or so, and they were rattling my windows, and I could feel the shockwave through the floor. I wondered, "What the hell is going on?" I went online and checked NextDoor. It turned out that the entire Salt Lake Valley from the point of the mountain all the way north to Davis county was feeling these explosions (that's about one hundred miles). The news had reported nothing at this point.
Eventually, the explosions stopped and the news finally reported that the explosions were the detonations of old equipment at the Tooele Army Depot on the other side of a mountain range called "The Ochre Mountains." Yes, you read that right. There's literally a mountain range in-between the Tooele Army Depot and the Salt Lake Valley. Additionally, my windows rattled where I live, and that's about fifty miles away from the Tooele Army Depot. Fifty miles!
My co-worker and friend, Leah, was flying into Salt Lake City and captured these photographs of the explosions that were shaking the ground.
So, I guess I was kind of in awe of how powerful these explosions of weapons/munitions are. They are nothing like what you'd see on television. Real explosions are far deadlier and more destructive than the way in which they are portrayed, especially when you have people just slow walking away from an exploding structure behind them. There's literally no way that they could do that, and these explosions that were felt in the entire valley just validate my point.
All those heroes walking away from explosions would probably be thrown to the ground and have their ear drums explode and stuff. Really it seems like they should have warned people before blowing stuff up.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was driving through Alamogordo, NM (Where they buried the ET games) there are signs that say if they're lit up you have to wait an hour on the road for the nearby Army base to finish their target practice. I'd imagine the people who live there have to get used to those explosions going off every so often.
@P.T.: It caused a panic here. The 911 lines got overwhelmed by concerned people with something like 12,000 phone calls in an hour. Because the shock waves affected the entire valley. The army depot where it happened has been very sorry. Apparently, they thought that it wouldn't be felt as far away as it was so they only warned the nearby small town. They also said nothing on social media because their person who handles social media wasn't available, so they just started exploding things. I think they have felt a lot of heat from the legislature and even the governor over this.
DeleteOne would think that with a planned thing like that, you would have been warned it was going to happen. So you wouldn't worry when you felt the power of the explosion. That was quite a distance away, too.
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