Monday, November 9, 2009

Jaipur Explosion - Delhi Smog

I found out why Delhi was so smoggy over the weekend (thankfully it wasn't normal).  Over 1.5 weeks ago there was a massive explosion at an oil depot here, with 11 storage tanks exploding and burning for days (one of them is still burning today).  We were at a meeting today in an office less than half a mile away.  They were only allowed to return to the office yesterday, and today they were still cleaning up the aftermath.  The explosion had blown out all of the windows (even severely warping and snapping one of steel reinforcement grids over a large-pane window), all of the hanging ceiling tiles, created cracks in some of the doorways and walls, and blowing a lot of paint off the walls.  There were over 10 employees in the office at the time of the explosion, and only one was injured by some of the flying glass.

As you can see in the videos, the fires were massive... so massive that they were the source of the smog in Delhi, which is over 160 miles away.  In looking for a video of the explosion, I found the second video from a different explosion that happened over a year ago in Jaipur... while it's totally irrelevant, the reaction from the woman filming it is hilarious and I had to share.





0 comments: