Updates and overhauls to the procedures and methods of handling ammonium nitrate events are definitely required.
It was actually not just saddening but profoundly compassion inducing, first time seeing "an actual shockwave" traveling towards us from the first-person viewing angle since camera was able to capture it in high enough frame rate. I have seen enough shockwaves in wind tunnels but this was as if you were being hit by it.
I was deeply saddened for the those who died.
After shockwaves causes collapse of lunges, bloodily rupturing them, and destroys ear drums and crushes eyes causing complete temporary or permanent blindness, you may not actually die immediately and rather die in extreme pain, unable to see, speak or hear anything. The degree of pain filled helplessness in such a state rivals the most suffering anyone can ever go through.
The shockwave can actually cause compressive damage to even the liver where pain is the most unbearable (I mean absolutely not bearable). Death can take a while in while still being in extremum of agony.
Daily seeing Gaza has totally changed me, sensitising to me such things deeply, as people of Gaza too went through such shockwaves daily, even babies. US and its friends do horrific things, without any consciousness to make them feel the nature or the degree of their evil, they commit.
None-the-less while this was an accident. Yet, the suffering still is quite the same.
Its never a good idea to stay close to burning commercial trucks or train due to the nature of the chemicals they carry.
Vehicle having the camera was not that close, yet shockwave reached it without any problem. Even the ground/long grass attached boundary layer that would have formed, did not slightly impede it. The shattered windscreen glass of the camera vehicle would have definitely hit hard the passengers there.
This was one of kind experience of an approaching actual shockwave in real world situation.
