Pepcon blast
Quote: MrVWhat is located at the blast site today?
Maybe it's weird, but this is my favorite explosion incident. Getting to see the shock wave for so long...it's just cool. I never fail to watch the doc on Discovery whenever it's on.
As to what's there now, if us non locals get to play a guessing game until a local fills us in, put me down as 1 vote for "a big hole".
Although Wikipedia isn't always a great source, they do have extensive article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepcon
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Workers streamed into the desert, dodging football-size burning shrapnel and trying to outrun the shock waves
Quote:Green Valley residents watched their garage doors buckle and their cars overturn.
Quote:Twenty miles away, near Sunrise Mountain, residents stood atop their homes watching a thick cloud of toxic smoke begin to waft into the air. They wondered if the Russians, for some reason, had bombed the city of Henderson.
Quote:Former Henderson firefighter Jim Blackford was driving a city firetruck to the scene when the third explosion -- "the one everyone remembers" -- shattered the vehicle's windows.
"It actually picked the truck up and moved it over two lanes. I looked over at my captain and his face was completely covered with blood,"
Quote:"I had about 10 customers in the store, and we went out to see what happened," Catalanotto said. "There was this roll of dust going across the desert.
"It was a good thing we did," he said. "The second explosion blew out my windows and the third collapsed the ceiling. Then it started snowing."
Quote:"Then the final explosion went off and it (PEPCON) basically disappeared. Boulder Highway looked like a war zone. There was glass everywhere and very few people were out. When I got to the hospital I saw my wife's van, how it had been caved in, and that's when I lost it."
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1998/May-03-Sun-1998/news/7426849.html
Pepcon
Three Mile Island...
Whatever... its all the same. The disaster never seems to affect the photocopy machines that churn out the There is Nothing To Be Afraid Of messages.
Quote: MrVWhat is located at the blast site today?
A corporate/industrial park is there:
The area is thoroughly developed. Note that the Fiesta Henderson hotel/casino is just to the right of the blast site, at the intersection of the 515 and Lake Mead Parkway (obscured in the image by the 515 symbol).
