Truck driver Charles McDonald Sr. suffered severe burns to over 75% of his body in the initial explosion. He managed to crawl away but sadly died of his injuries eight days later. Three plant workers were treated for burns and leg injuries.

Worker Zeph Drisk described the initial explosion as sounding like "an ungodly roar" and compared it to a blast furnace. He got up and began running but the shockwave from the secondary explosion knocked him to the ground.

Parts from the obliterated tanker truck were scattered over the nearby overpass and neighborhood from the explosion. The power lines getting melted left over 13'000 people without electricity.

Atlas Foundry actually had the gall to sue McDonald Sr.'s grieving family for damages, reasoning that he had caused the explosion. However, Washington's Department of Labor & Industries disagreed, citing and fining Atlas for the use of a damaged hose which also had no functioning emergency release valve. Atlas Foundry was also countersued by McDonald's family for wrongful death, which was settled out of court in 2009.

This is an updated revision of my first post on this subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/yqmggx/massive_propane_fire_and_explosion_from_refueling/

While the other man either just froze or calculated the crash and didn’t move an inch.

https://apnews.com/article/cyprus-turkey-ferry-capsize-girne-tasucu-northern-e7753be49f345d1b1f1579013b241e9e

Saw a video released by China TV and there’s really nothing there like what the drone and satellite images have shown. I’ve tried my best to label the second image to indicate where things were relative to the flow based on the CCTV footage and other news sources. I hope I got it right, not trying to spread misinformation. If it’s wrong I will take it down, just let me know. Hopefully it helps people to visualise things.

The screenshot of the drone footage was from here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1D6rGFlBU8

These 2 videos also give a very good explanation of the entire process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcNDKu8kuQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILngACgq4w8

EDIT: I can’t edit the title and I am aware that there is no literal ‘before’ photo, and I was referring to the labelled diagram to show where the port was before it was obliterated.

Screenshots from video posted by Xinhua News on August 29:

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Vn4y6QESh/

You can tell how high the water level was during the disaster. Note that this is the upstream from Gyirong port. The water flowed all the way up due to momentum and receded back to downstream direction to Nepal later.

The last image is where the border crossing building used to be. It was reported that there are 2-3 kms left to reach there.

the Cutlass was relatively underpowered, it's westinghouse engines even with afterburners only produced 6,000 pounds of thrust each, which was inadequate for an aircraft that weighed over 31,000 pounds fully loaded. It's considered the most underpowered jet to have served with the Navy.

Over 80 of the 320 built were destroyed in accidents resulting in the deaths of 4 test pilots and 21 navy pilots, in 1959 it was retired and replaced by the Grumman F9F-8 Cougar which itself was replaced by the Vought F-8 Crusader.

It was given the nicknames "Gutless Cutless" and "Ensign Eliminator".

'High risk' of lake breaching and causing second flood, warns China

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg8l2x8wr8o

Was wondering if these stairs on the right at Rasuwagadhi/ Gyirong
Port played a role during the flood. If it was possibly used by any survivors trying to escape or reach higher ground. I came across a video of some survivors on a bus that were able to escape but couldn’t find it anymore.