Huge explosion in Rome!
(twitter.com)
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Holy smoke?
Maybe the Black Pope will become the Crispy Well-Done Black Pope. :0)
Another post said the obelisk was blown up but this looks way bigger than just blowing up an obelisk, though that would be totally awesome.
The first fire picture on the left of the twitter thread was yesterday, a junkyard, probably full of oil and tires. These junkyard fires can persist quite a while, especially if there are big piles of whatever--close to me there is a paper recycling plant which has had several week-long fires of cardboard bales. Perhaps there were lithium batteries or other things that shouldn't be there.
We had a junkyard fire near a town I lived in a few years ago - old cars most still had batteries in them, contained fluids and had tires on. Of course the interiors were full of cloth and plastics. The place smoked for a couple weeks and smelled for months. It was almost a year before everything was removed - probably to a landfill.
Yes. Probably the cleanest burning are the pallet yards. Even the paper fires are eye-watering, and everything else has petrochemicals and is much worse. I live on the edge of a big area with every kind of junkyard and can just guess who is on fire by the smoke.
Ugh - hope there are good things about living there to offset that negative.
Oh yes. I actually like living in a fringe area, because we are largely ignored by everyone. Our houses are old but pretty good and we have trees and big lots.