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Thank goodness they managed to get people away. If both men inside had been unconscious, all the onlookers would probably have died.
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quote:"I was close enough that it literally picked me up off my feet and threw me on the ground," he told the newspaper. "I felt it literally all the way through me."
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Yeah Dag, it's incredibly lucky. If even the guy in the back had been knocked unconscious this would have been a very different story.
Interesting that the company officials won't say what kind of explosive the truck was carrying. I wonder if it's something they weren't licensed for?
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I worked at the Ensign-Bickford plant one summer (that's where these explosives come from). All they do is explosives, so I doubt that they weren't licensesd to handle explosives.
I wonder if perhaps the explosives were being shippeed to the military (there's a huge air force base in Oklahoma City), in which case they probably aren't allowed to tell much about the explosives.
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Tinker Air Force Base is primarily an AWACS base... though they likely have some ANG or AF Reserve units that may carry weapons.
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BTW, the summer I worked there, I worked in a building that had been completely destroyed a few years ago. There was an accident (again, a miracle that no humans were injured) that left nothing but a crater where the building had been.
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There are two possible ways I drive to Provo for school, and this road is one of them! Scary stuff! I'm thinking I should probably go the other way this year (don't think they'll have that huge crater fixed 10 days from now).
That is truly amazing that no one was killed.
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Wowza. Good thing we're flying to Denver instead of driving. That road is the first leg of the drive.
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There are two possible ways I drive to Provo for school, and this road is one of them! Scary stuff! I'm thinking I should probably go the other way this year (don't think they'll have that huge crater fixed 10 days from now). 
