Louisiana town evacuates; While Police Relocate Massive amounts of Explosives

[DJ_99Wing]

DOYLINE, La. (AP) — Weather could complicate the transfer of roughly 6 million pounds of explosives that were haphazardly stored at an industrial site in northwestern Louisiana and led to the evacuation of a small town, a state police spokeswoman said Monday.

http://news.yahoo.com/la-town-evacuates-police-relocate-explosives-052337453.html


Now thats what I call a mega stash.


KABOOOM !!!!

 

[KBCraig]

Being fairly local (about 90 miles away), "another explosion at Camp Minden" is on the news at least monthly.

 

[jtorbin88]

Damn!

 

[cekim]

Someone has some 'splainin to do...

Why on earth would you spend the money to buy that much explosive to leave it lying around?

Must be a former (or current) .gov employee... [sad2]

 

[el duderino]

Road trip? Im sure they wouldnt notice a few thousand pounds of explosives missing

 

[winter]

Someone has some 'splainin to do...

The company was already taking legal heat.

 

[swampy]

Some people's haphazadly is other people's perfectly fine.

I wonder how many .223s 6 million pounds of that stuff would load?

 

[knoxy]

In!

 

[jtorbin88]

Group buy?

 

[copterdoctor]

The story continues...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/u...oter&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article&_r=0

 

[jtnf]

DOYLINE, La. (AP) — Weather could complicate the transfer of roughly 6 million pounds of explosives that were haphazardly stored at an industrial site in northwestern Louisiana and led to the evacuation of a small town, a state police spokeswoman said Monday.

http://news.yahoo.com/la-town-evacuates-police-relocate-explosives-052337453.html


Now thats what I call a mega stash.


KABOOOM !!!!

The Army Times online, 2/25 dateline, says the Army is joining in the efforts to create a mitigation plan.... The article also said fifteen million pounds

Somebody call the guy at GI Brass.

 

[beerjeep]

They just need 97 long fuses.

 

[knoxy]

Fire in the Hole!

Fire in the Hole!

Fire in the Hole!

 

[knfmn]

Holy crap. That's a lot of boom!

 

[willbdavis]

Our tax dollars at work. Make it, don't use it. dispose of it.

Rinse, repeat.

 

[jtnf]

How many shells do you have to disassemble to amass fifteen MILLION pounds of powder?

 

[Ink]

Some people's haphazadly is other people's perfectly fine.

I wonder how many .223s 6 million pounds of that stuff would load?

I think it's 7000 grains to a pound, so at 25 grains say..... 1,680,000,000 rnds

 

[M1911]

How many shells do you have to disassemble to amass fifteen MILLION pounds of powder?

Lots?

 

[dhuze]

How far do they think they need to move the residents? I would think 6 million pounds let alone 15 million would take out a sizeable chunk of LA. I'm also betting they aren't moving it in million lb increments.

 

[cekim]

Our tax dollars at work. Make it, don't use it. dispose of it.

Rinse, repeat.

That is the more amazing and scary part of this equation... The amount of money pissed away to amass that much explosive material.

 

[atmay]

I think a hand grenade and one of those t-shirt slingshots (from hockey games) will take care of this quite nicely.

 

[FreeWillie]

That was a munitions production plant at one time. They made all kinds of artillery shells there. Its been there forever.

sent from the depths of HELL using TapaTalk.

 

[Spanz]

"had been working at Camp Minden under contract with the Army to dismantle bombs and artillery shells into components that it would later sell. The M6 propellant was usually purchased by coal mining companies, but in recent years the demand from the coal industry began to dry up. The supply, however, kept coming — even as Explo ran out of room to store it."

So obummer shuts down the coal industry. the demilitarization of explosives by the armed forces keeps creating this stuff, but there is no place to send it to any more. nice work Anointed One!

 

[enbloc]

Maybe ISIS can use it...

 

[Chevy 2 65]

 

[rivet_42]

That is the more amazing and scary part of this equation... The amount of money pissed away to amass that much explosive material.

Plus the money to dispose of it safely, which may far exceed the money spent in manufacturing it.

One of the articles did say they considered burning it, or having a series of smaller, controlled explosions, but that that would release far too many carcinogens and so forth and would be a hazard to the town.

 

[jtnf]

So how well d'ya suppose M6 will measure in a Lee Perfect Measure powder drop?

 

[KBCraig]

How many shells do you have to disassemble to amass fifteen MILLION pounds of powder?

Zero.

Artillery propellant comes in bags. The shell is rammed into the rifling from the breach, and then the prescribed number of bags is put in behind it. Close the breach, put in a primer, connect the firing lanyard, and wait for the order.

Excess bags are dumped in a burn pit and set afire before the battery relocates, or whenever the pit gets full.

This stuff is just smokeless propellant, not an explosive, just a big version of what all reloaders on this forum have.

Jerry Miculek lives and shoots right next door. On a recent video, he commented about having to hurry to get his trick shot done before the smoke blew over his range.

That's all that is really required: lay it out in a line, and set it on fire.

 

[atmay]

That's all that is really required: lay it out in a line, and set it on fire.

I still like my hand grenade/T-shirt slingshot idea.

Just sayin' (tm)

 

[Radtekk]

Anybody remember "5 o'clock Charlie?"

Skip to 22:15

https://youtu.be/bNgumsBJFaE