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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 11:04 AM Sep 2015

Jim Beam explosion: Lightning strikes whiskey factory, making rivers flow with fire and alcohol

Lightning has struck a whiskey factory, sparking a firenado of flaming alcohol to be sucked up into the sky.

The Kentucky warehouse, which produces Jim Beam bourbon, was battered by lightning, heavy rain and strong winds simultaneously. AOL reports that the combination of all three meant that water laced with alcohol was whipped into a funnel- sparking the fire which tore through the factory.



It is believed that 800,000 gallons of alcohol spilled into a retention pond, causing the factory to be engulfed in a fire ball.



more
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jim-beam-explosion-lightning-strikes-whiskey-factory-making-rivers-flow-with-fire-and-alcohol-10487977.html



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Jim Beam explosion: Lightning strikes whiskey factory, making rivers flow with fire and alcohol (Original Post) n2doc Sep 2015 OP
Nooooooooooooooo underpants Sep 2015 #1
lol Liberal_in_LA Sep 2015 #14
Wow that looks like a volcanoe factory. n/t ion_theory Sep 2015 #2
That's some biblical shit, right there. nt MrScorpio Sep 2015 #3
Wonder what little miss Kim would have to say about this? brush Sep 2015 #7
Jesus said nuthin' bout them gays...but he had plenty to say about DEEE-vorce!!! MADem Sep 2015 #36
DEEE-vorce!!! Zap! Zap! I love it. brush Sep 2015 #41
Oh God. I mourn for what should have been Autumn Sep 2015 #4
. Hassin Bin Sober Sep 2015 #8
. Hassin Bin Sober Sep 2015 #5
I feel like John Belushi there Autumn Sep 2015 #10
i had me a glass of Jack on the rocks last night. Hassin Bin Sober Sep 2015 #49
My Hubby likes the Jack. I find Canadian Mist to be smother. Autumn Sep 2015 #50
Have you tried Jack Daniel Single Barrel? awoke_in_2003 Sep 2015 #56
No I haven't I will have to check it out. Pretty pricey? Autumn Sep 2015 #57
Not too bad... awoke_in_2003 Sep 2015 #59
I'll look for it, thanks. Autumn Sep 2015 #60
Drink one for me awoke_in_2003 Sep 2015 #61
I'm with ya there, Bluto. hifiguy Sep 2015 #47
This may not be a current story. JohnnyLib2 Sep 2015 #6
You're right, it was 2003 - but loads of media have reported it as if current muriel_volestrangler Sep 2015 #11
These people get a six figure salary to do this too. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2015 #29
The video is what is news pintobean Sep 2015 #12
The Weather Channel showed the footage as part of a story this week. Blecht Sep 2015 #39
It is 'back in the news' because news media are too lazy to check what they read on the internet muriel_volestrangler Sep 2015 #40
This is the way the world should end. rug Sep 2015 #9
Just lay in the stream and do some sipping LiberalArkie Sep 2015 #23
Well Kim Davis promised you fire and malaise Sep 2015 #13
I was thinking this was God's answer to Kim Davis MiniMe Sep 2015 #15
Well atheists do love this shite malaise Sep 2015 #17
OK Turbineguy Sep 2015 #32
LOL malaise Sep 2015 #42
Just bought a half-gallon for a friend tabasco Sep 2015 #16
And the next year they released their newest brand packman Sep 2015 #18
Since we're all going to hell....might as well dance!!!! MADem Sep 2015 #38
Love me some Pitbull. Can't help but move your feet. brush Sep 2015 #43
Very weird DashOneBravo Sep 2015 #19
Wow. DirkGently Sep 2015 #20
It should be noted that God spared the Jameson plant pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #21
Macallan, too, I hope. hifiguy Sep 2015 #48
Naw, God just isn't keen on bourbon Brother Buzz Sep 2015 #28
Thank you Lord that it wasn't a Jack Daniels factory LiberalArkie Sep 2015 #22
"If the River Was Whiskey, I'd be a Diving Duck..." JunkYardDogg Sep 2015 #24
You are making me thirsty here. Tipperary Sep 2015 #30
Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rogerashton Sep 2015 #51
When me and my grandmother would play gin rummy awoke_in_2003 Sep 2015 #58
Whiskey River take my mind. nt awoke_in_2003 Sep 2015 #54
Cambelltown Loch 1939 Sep 2015 #62
Honestly, I only use it for cooking JunkYardDogg Sep 2015 #25
Recipes? I drink it too, but I would love Tipperary Sep 2015 #31
Pffft, it wasn't Aberlour, no great loss! underahedgerow Sep 2015 #26
My SO and I toured this facility in March this year... mak3cats Sep 2015 #27
Can I say that it's God's punishment for not standing for gay marriage RoccoR5955 Sep 2015 #33
I hope that the folks who were there RoccoR5955 Sep 2015 #34
My friend drowned in that pond. cloudbase Sep 2015 #35
Sing it, Willie. Iggo Sep 2015 #37
You can always tell a distillery fire: Very little smoke. Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #44
I'm not saying it was drunk space aliens looking for more booze Rex Sep 2015 #45
Shall We Gather At the River? Coventina Sep 2015 #46
Holy Shit...the Gods must be upset over the Kim Davis creature.... Historic NY Sep 2015 #52
Read upthread - it happened in 2003. nt scarletwoman Sep 2015 #53
Oh the humanity. nt awoke_in_2003 Sep 2015 #55

brush

(53,791 posts)
7. Wonder what little miss Kim would have to say about this?
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 11:18 AM
Sep 2015

That is if she gets the news from her jail cell.

Probably holier than thou pronouncements with phrases like "the wages of sin" and "thou shall suffer retribution" or some such.

But seriously, 800,000 gallons? That's a lot of spilled booze.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
36. Jesus said nuthin' bout them gays...but he had plenty to say about DEEE-vorce!!!
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 02:17 PM
Sep 2015

Zap! Zap!!!

Or maybe, just maybe...

"Shit happens!"

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
49. i had me a glass of Jack on the rocks last night.
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 05:23 PM
Sep 2015

Mmmm

I keep it around for a buddy who likes jack and coke. But ive been having a few snifters lately. I skip the mixers anymore.

Autumn

(45,107 posts)
50. My Hubby likes the Jack. I find Canadian Mist to be smother.
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 05:56 PM
Sep 2015

That coke will kill you, I like mine on ice.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
56. Have you tried Jack Daniel Single Barrel?
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 10:48 PM
Sep 2015

Smoooooooooth. I wish I could afford to buy it more often.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
59. Not too bad...
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 10:56 PM
Sep 2015

I think it may have been, at most, $15 more than black label. But it is way smoother, and is actually 92 proof.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts)
11. You're right, it was 2003 - but loads of media have reported it as if current
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 11:37 AM
Sep 2015

It stems from this on the Weather Channel:

Firenado After Lightning Strike at Jim Beam Warehouse

weather.com
Posted: Sep 3 2015 12:45 PM EDT
Updated: Sep 5 2015 10:24 AM EDT
In 2003 it took a lot of precise conditions to create this firenado. Matt Sampson explains how at a Jim Beam warehouse in Kentucky, lightning, wind, water and booze came together to create this incredible fire tornado.

http://www.weather.com/series/great-outdoors/video/firenado-after-lightning-strike-at-jim-beam-warehouse

That has then spawned this, with no indication it wasn't this month: http://www.wcpo.com/news/state/state-kentucky/the-weather-channel-reports-on-firenado-on-lake-brimming-with-bourbon

And:
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/09/a-jim-beam-warehouse-was-struck-by-lightning-and-started-a-firenado-which-is-as-terrifying-as-it-sounds
http://www.aol.co.uk/news/2015/09/04/firenado-hits-jim-beam-warehouse-as-lake-fils-with-bourbon/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/amazing-footage-shows-jim-beam-6385839
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/09/04/Video-shows-bourbon-fired-firenado-after-Jim-Beam-lightning-strike/2071441384745/
(which does say 'in 2003', but it's still under 'odd news')
and more.

Crappy 21st century media - they just watch for trending things on the web, and rewrite them without actually reading them carefully enough to understand them. Most of those stories are written as if it just happened.

 

pintobean

(18,101 posts)
12. The video is what is news
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 11:41 AM
Sep 2015

It was a 2003 story, but TWC just posted the video on Facebook on Thursday, and to YouTube yesterday. Several news sites are currently reporting it.
But, this is GD, not LBN, so no problem.

Blecht

(3,803 posts)
39. The Weather Channel showed the footage as part of a story this week.
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 02:23 PM
Sep 2015

And they posted a link to the video on Facebook about the "firenado".

http://www.weather.com/series/great-outdoors/video/5-facts-about-your-rainbows-that-will-blow-your-mind

That's why this is back in the news.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts)
40. It is 'back in the news' because news media are too lazy to check what they read on the internet
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 03:30 PM
Sep 2015

and too eager to post things without attribution, to make it look as though they have a skill at finding news, rather than monitoring what people are tweeting.

The Independent has now updated the story to say it was in 2003, and linked to the Weather Channel, rather than AOL (AOL? LOL!). But they dare not point out they got it wrong at first, because that would alert their readers to their fraudulent claim to be reporting news.

I used to read that rag.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
18. And the next year they released their newest brand
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 12:25 PM
Sep 2015

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And charged a premium price for it

JunkYardDogg

(873 posts)
24. "If the River Was Whiskey, I'd be a Diving Duck..."
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 01:02 PM
Sep 2015

from Traditional (meaning lyrics' original writer can't be ID'ed) Blues Songs,
so traditional, that every blues singer worth their salt, no make that their whiskey,
has sung these lyrics, :

from Muddy Waters (my main man) -"Rollin' & Tumblin' :

"...
Well, if the river was whiskey, and I was a divin' duck
Well, if the river was whiskey, and I was a divin' duck
Well, I would dive to the bottom, never would I come up"

sung & done by da best, especially the Cream version

and there is :
"If the River was Whiskey" by Charlie Poole

"If the river was whiskey and I was a duck
I'd dive to the bottom and I'd never come up
Oh, tell me how long have I got to wait?
Oh, can I get you now, must I hesitate?

If the river was whiskey and the branch was wine
You would see me in bathing just any old time
..."

and then there is the Taj Mahal song: "Divin' Duck Blues " :
"If the river was whiskey
I would be a diving duck
If the river was whiskey
I would be a diving duck
I would swim to the bottom, but I would drink my way up"

rogerashton

(3,920 posts)
51. Rye whiskey, rye whiskey,
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 06:39 PM
Sep 2015

rye whiskey I cry;
if I don't get rye whiskey,
I surely will die.

If the ocean was whiskey
and I was a duck
I'd dive to the bottom
and never come up

Rye whiskey, rye whiskey
rye whiskey I cry;
if I don't get rye whiskey,
I surely will die.

My granny, who was tea-total, would sing that, accompanying herself on an odd rectangular piano (not an upright) that had been shipped up Red River by paddlewheel steamer.

And it must have influenced Brecht's English words for Mahagonny.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
58. When me and my grandmother would play gin rummy
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 10:55 PM
Sep 2015

she would occasionally sing

She drinks and she smoke
and she tells dirty jokes
she's the girlfriend of Sigma Tau

Then she would laugh her ass off. I miss that old bird. Or should I say bat? She got the nickname "Bat Woman" because, once, a bat got in the house and she went after that thing with a broom and more fury than you would think possible out of a woman lucky to have weighed 90 lbs soaking wet

mak3cats

(1,573 posts)
27. My SO and I toured this facility in March this year...
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 01:16 PM
Sep 2015

...and each bottled our own Knob Creek, including putting our thumb prints in the melted wax on the top. (Unfortunately, my SO is so sentimental, we'll never actually open them and drink it!)

 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
33. Can I say that it's God's punishment for not standing for gay marriage
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 02:12 PM
Sep 2015

even though I don't believe in god?

 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
34. I hope that the folks who were there
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 02:14 PM
Sep 2015

all got beamed up in time.

We used to drink Beam, and say, "Beam me up," while drinking it!

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
45. I'm not saying it was drunk space aliens looking for more booze
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 04:08 PM
Sep 2015

But it was totally drunk space aliens looking for more booze.

Coventina

(27,121 posts)
46. Shall We Gather At the River?
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 04:25 PM
Sep 2015


Shall we gather at the river,
Where bright angel feet have trod,
With its crystal tide forever
Flowing by the throne of God?

Refrain:
Yes, we’ll gather at the river,
The beautiful, the beautiful river;
Gather with the saints at the river
That flows by the throne of God.

On the margin of the river,
Washing up its silver spray,
We will talk and worship ever,
All the happy golden day.

Ere we reach the shining river,
Lay we every burden down;
Grace our spirits will deliver,
And provide a robe and crown.

At the smiling of the river,
Mirror of the Savior’s face,
Saints, whom death will never sever,
Lift their songs of saving grace.

Soon we’ll reach the silver river,
Soon our pilgrimage will cease;
Soon our happy hearts will quiver
With the melody of peace.

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