What is the worst explosion you have ever seen?

Bar rthat I saw a can of deodorant blow up in someones hand once. That was the last time I used Sure for Men as a flamethrower. Could have easily been the last time I used my eyes too.

Bill

icymi... i came out of MoMA last night and the sky was flashing blue

http://gothamist.com/2018/12/28/con_ed_transformer_queens.php

9/11/01 thanks for asking

saw a plane blow up and crash a couple miles away back in the early '80s, when i was 7.

In the old days to avoid costly electrical fault-finding downtime in coal mines, electricians would pull out the circuit breaker and replace it with a big bolt, and then wherever lit up like an arcing sparking inferno was where the fault was. I'm not saying such roughhouse methods could be used on a modern power transmission grid in a major city, but it would be funny.

I never saw this, got taught some of my electrician quals by an ancient NCB electrician who loved telling stories.

I saw these guys create some pretty big explosions at various performances in the 90s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_Research_Laboratories

and then there's Burning Man, I suppose, where one year the sculpture blew up early and all the fireworks went off at once

In December 1995 I was in a neighbor's house, when the house next door to it blew up from a gas leak, collapsing it, and which started a fire that burned it to the ground. It was loud and scary.

Lightning hit a tree in my yard when I was outside shooting hoops, tearing the bark off, when I was about 10. It was the loudest sound I’ve ever heard. Sometimes I wonder if I actually died that day and my life since then has been a kind of hell or purgatory.

your dunks tore the bark off the backboard?

Yeah. didn’t want to brag but that was it.

Yeah. didn’t want to brag but that was it.

"tearing the bark off"

Never heard it called this before.

looool

PP: Did I ever tell you all about the time a Titan II missile exploded just ten miles away from ----

ILX: YES, YOU HAVE. 1,000 TIMES PROBABLY.

PP: I didn't actually see it happen, but it about shook the damn trailer about off its wheels.

that time _______ said ____ to ___

a gas station exploded about half a mile away and the big flame/smoke plume went waaaaaaay above the treeline

if lightning counts the last time we had a lightning storm out here (they're a lot rarer in portland than they are back east) the tree next to our house, about ten feet from where i was at the time, got hit. it arced to the cable box and fried about half our electronics. pretty scary but fortunately nobody got hurt, though our next door neighbor now hates us since the tree fell on his house.