BRKG Chocolate Factory Explosion ,West Reading PA.

[ShadowMan]

NOT THE CHOCOLATE!!!!

 

[ShadowMan]

Flour is way more flammable than people realize. Eighth grade science teacher had an apparatus he'd use toward the end of the year to demonstrate dust explosions.

Flour dust, grain dust, maybe even chocolate dust? Doesn't take much to set them off. My father was a Chemistry Professor so we kids knew all kinds of ways to make fire and stuff to go boom. We used to burn up black widow spiders with a flour dust flame thrower.....until we almost burned down a neighbors fence.

Yeah....we were those kids on the block

 

[Weps]

Flour dust, grain dust, maybe even chocolate dust? Doesn't take much to set them off. My father was a Chemistry Professor so we kids knew all kinds of ways to make fire and stuff to go boom. We used to burn up black widow spiders with a flour dust flame thrower.....until we almost burned down a neighbors fence.

Yeah....we were those kids on the block

I can attest that powdered chocolate is VERY flammable.

 

[mikeho78]

From my understanding, powdered sugar is surprisingly volatile under certain conditions. I could be wrong, though.

 

[Codeno]

Speaking of flour explosions...

Equalizer 2: The Bakery

3:10

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ48tjrz7JQ

 

[Dennis Olson]

Damn, I know right where it happened.

 

[ted]

This is terrible news! My wife even agrees with me...



LOL!

 

[Macgyver]

Damn, I know right where it happened.

I didn't realize you were pensetukian.

 

[Dennis Olson]

I spent three years on a contract in Pottsville PA. We traveled all over western Pennsylvania.

 

[Grounded Idealist]

I didn't realize you were pensetukian.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen that word in print before. Most of my family is from Pensentuky.

 

[Toosh]

Is this a second chocolate factory? The Palmer chocolate factory exploded in 2023. NTSB just released their findings last month:

NTSB releases new documents on deadly West Reading chocolate factory explosion

Employees reported the smell of gas an hour before the blast but no one gave an evacuation order, according to the documents.

6abc.com

Oh yeah, I see, this is old news.

 

[night driver]

OK. So SOMEONE smelled gas, but, I ain't buying gas without seeing a chem analysis of the ashes/burned woods.

 

[ainitfunny]

If I'm not mistaken, Palmer chocolates are pretty much sold just on holidays and IIRC are the cheapest, grittiest, worst choclates you can buy. I thought they were made in China.

 

[Plain Jane]

That's why NTSB wants the records from PA Public Utility Commission but PA isn't cooperating. Why?

 

[Rabbit]

It seems our infrastructure is crumbling. Too many gas leak explosions lately.

 

[Dobbin]

I wonder if Hershey's will quit making white chocolate candy...as they might consider it racist.

Chocolate will not be available to the "huddled masses yearning to be free." Only your "betters" will be allowed chocolate as the luxury they have "earned" by being your betters.

Davos was chosen for a reason as their world meeting. https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUse...tz_Davos_Canton_of_Graubunden_Swiss_Alps.html

Dobbin

 

[WalknTrot]

Year old news.
Palmer is the company that makes chocolate Easter Bunnies. I didn't notice any shortage in the stores this spring.

 

[Plain Jane]

Year old news.

Actually the new news is that PA PUC is NOT cooperating with the investigation.

 

[night driver]

Actually the new news is that PA PUC is NOT cooperating with the investigation.

Which is both DISTRESSING and CURRENT!

 

[Macgyver]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen that word in print before. Most of my family is from Pensentuky.

Not sure I spelled it right either.