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Explosion in Downtown Nashville (1 Viewer)

mr. furley said:
are these buildings bomb proof? looks like the front of one was heavily damaged, but from what these pics show it looks like mostly blown out windows, a couple cars mangled and burned. 

from the reports of the tremors felt 9-10 miles away and reports of it being possibly a McVeigh style fertilizer bomb i was expecting a gaping crater and multiple toppled buildings.

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https://twitter.com/HelenKennedy/status/1342491716700536832

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Early reporting was the blast seemed to go more up (and i guess down) vs horizontally.  Yeah would thank maybe a crater but also would change then how it would damage buildings of the force was concentrated to the side.  I don’t recall how it was for OKC

 
sho nuff said:
Early reporting was the blast seemed to go more up (and i guess down) vs horizontally.  Yeah would thank maybe a crater but also would change then how it would damage buildings of the force was concentrated to the side.  I don’t recall how it was for OKC
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wonder if the way the avenue is situated with what appears to be a single contiguous building on each side of the street forcing the blast in to a sort of funnel made the difference?

the Murrah building was a standalone and seemed to absorb the concussion entirely.

then, i guess we have no idea the type of explosive used or amount. just seems weird that (from these pics) it appears to be mostly fire damage vs. a massive concussive effect.

 
mr. furley said:
wonder if the way the avenue is situated with what appears to be a single contiguous building on each side of the street forcing the blast in to a sort of funnel made the difference?

the Murrah building was a standalone and seemed to absorb the concussion entirely.

then, i guess we have no idea the type of explosive used or amount. just seems weird that (from these pics) it appears to be mostly fire damage vs. a massive concussive effect.
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I doubt it had the explosive power of the OK City bombing.  

 
Dinsy Ejotuz said:
The POI is being reported as Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, Nashville along with reports that he was flagged to the FBI twice in recent months.

THIS IS NOT VERIFIED (as far as I know).

However, a person with that name appears to own a custom alarm shop in Nashville, which would fit into the story we know so far pretty neatly.

ETA:  appears to have been named on air at CBS Nashville and appears federal agents are searching his home.
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And what's that? I haven't been paying much attention.

 
Some cell service backup due to other carriers allowing AT&T subscribers to roam on their network. Most 911 service up due to work arounds. The generators are not online as engineers weren't allowed back in the building until a few hours ago

 
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Yeah odd in our house my wife’s personal phone has 4g service popping up this afternoon.  The rest of us have not had any data signal.

Considering running to wal mart for a cheap straight talk hot spot and prepay for enough prepaid data or whatever to get us through a week or so.  So kids could stream a few shows.  And free up data for my wife to be able to work off of her work phone hot spot that isnt att

 
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Investigators now saying it was likely a suicide bombing.

Guessing they identified the remains and they matched the other info they had and/or finding information to show it was (as in some sort of suicide letter or message)

 
One power plant is almost charged enough to be turned on, the other will be another 45 minutes or so. Once the power plant is stable equipment will be turned on selectively in order of importance. Obviously the Core routers and transport equipment have to be first. Then MTSO equipment to get wireless service back up and on and on down the line.

 
sho nuff said:
Investigators now saying it was likely a suicide bombing.

Guessing they identified the remains and they matched the other info they had and/or finding information to show it was (as in some sort of suicide letter or message)
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seemed like there wasn't much about a hot pursuit of the guy as they got his name out there so totally possible they went through procedures (next of kin) all that before releasing the name.

Will be interesting to find out if it is 5g nuttery or more of a personal grudge vs AT&T or something else altogether.

-QG

 
El Floppo said:
Just want to give a thanks to @Penguin and @sho nuff for the updates.

and furley for being furley.
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Penguin has the goods...Im just going by what I can find and see when I have any sort of internet access at all.

In the last hour, my phone now has had some 4G coverage popping up from time to time (my daughter's as well).  Wife had it for a bit but not anymore.

Mostly relying on her t-Mobile work phone as a hot spot to try and keep connected to any news that isn't on the TV.  Was looking into grabbing like a Straight Talk hot spot...but the progress they are making in getting things going...seems like that won't be necessary.

 
sho nuff said:
Penguin has the goods...Im just going by what I can find and see when I have any sort of internet access at all.

In the last hour, my phone now has had some 4G coverage popping up from time to time (my daughter's as well).  Wife had it for a bit but not anymore.

Mostly relying on her t-Mobile work phone as a hot spot to try and keep connected to any news that isn't on the TV.  Was looking into grabbing like a Straight Talk hot spot...but the progress they are making in getting things going...seems like that won't be necessary.
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I figure penguin is a spook. Like, high level spy stuff.

Good luck getting back to normal...sad, strange business. Really glad nobody else was killed from this.

 
the spotty cell service is going to be due to only getting best effort from the other carriers that are letting AT&T subscribers roam. If there's congestion at their towers or within the wired portion the best effort users will be dropped, pretty much like a lot of the MVNO's and prepaid customer's, you're not gertting real time CoS

 
Some cellular traffic has been rerouted to another office with a cloned configuration of the Nashville MTSO, so some users should start clearing

 
sho nuff said:
Was looking into grabbing like a Straight Talk hot spot...but the progress they are making in getting things going.
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This didn't dawn on me when you posted earlier, but if you do have to go this route, make sure you don't get the Straight Talk device that runs off AT&T.  I had Straight Talk for several years and always had to make sure I bought devices that used the Verizon towers (red map) versus AT&T (blue map) because AT&T service is spotty in my area.  Even with the Straight Talk that runs on Verizon, you might currently have data issues with all the traffic and others taking priority.

 
3G service will not currently work as the phones can not attach and register with the service access points at this time. 4G and 4GLTE are working.

ETA: There may be some limitations as this is a makeshift work around but data and voice seems to be working.

 
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WDIK2 said:
This didn't dawn on me when you posted earlier, but if you do have to go this route, make sure you don't get the Straight Talk device that runs off AT&T.  I had Straight Talk for several years and always had to make sure I bought devices that used the Verizon towers (red map) versus AT&T (blue map) because AT&T service is spotty in my area.  Even with the Straight Talk that runs on Verizon, you might currently have data issues with all the traffic and others taking priority.
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Yes. I have been looking to make sure that which network if we did do that.

 
Dinsy Ejotuz said:
I doubt it had the explosive power of the OK City bombing.  
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yeah, same. just thinking out loud and questioning what i've heard so far. reddit early had it as a fertilizer bomb and i heard comparisons to OKC, but maybe that was more because it was a truck/vehicle bomb than anything?

 
This whole suicide bomber thing has me scratching my head.  Just makes no sense whatsoever.

If I’m gonna commit suicide in an extraordinary fashion like this, I’m going out to make a name for myself. And I don’t think that happens taking out a building like this.

The only way this makes sense is if the guy knew about the fuel in the basement and planned on blowing up that whole city block. And maybe that was the plan.

Otherwise this reeks of this guy being a fall guy or pawn for someone else. Kind of what @Mr. Ham was alluding to earlier.

 
My daughter just checked into a hotel a mile away from the blast.  Just texted me.. Heavy police presence and lots of yellow tape.

 
ChiefD said:
This whole suicide bomber thing has me scratching my head.  Just makes no sense whatsoever.

If I’m gonna commit suicide in an extraordinary fashion like this, I’m going out to make a name for myself. And I don’t think that happens taking out a building like this.

The only way this makes sense is if the guy knew about the fuel in the basement and planned on blowing up that whole city block. And maybe that was the plan.

Otherwise this reeks of this guy being a fall guy or pawn for someone else. Kind of what @Mr. Ham was alluding to earlier.
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It makes perfect sense when you account for the fact that suicidal people often make decisions that don't make sense.

 
parasaurolophus said:
And chiefd breathes a sigh of relief since you just saved him hours of digging into conspiracies. 
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:lol:

Nah, I tend to not go down those rabbit holes. 

This bombing just seems peculiar right now. I guess I am just more curious of the why’s. I probably should have been a detective or criminal scientist or something. I’ve been this way my whole life. 

 
ChiefD said:
This whole suicide bomber thing has me scratching my head.  Just makes no sense whatsoever.
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It's been mentioned, but this very simply could be a guy that had a major (to him) beef with AT&T.  :shrug:   I don't know what other business are in the area that could have been a target.

If his goal was to cause disruption and be a PITA on his way out, he succeeded.  Thankfully he wasn't going for a body count anyway.

 
Multiple power plants online on multiple floors but there's issues bringing equipment online. Electronics don't like to be shutdown in a non graceful way and line cards, power supplys, route processors, switch fabric etc. can be damaged.

 
At this point only cellular & 911 are about the only things that have been restored (at least partially) due to other carriers allowing roaming and the makeshift MTSO.

 
ChiefD said:
:lol:

Nah, I tend to not go down those rabbit holes. 

This bombing just seems peculiar right now. I guess I am just more curious of the why’s. I probably should have been a detective or criminal scientist or something. I’ve been this way my whole life. 
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watch Tread on Netflix if you haven't already

i think you'll like it

 
One of the Core Internet backbone routers is booting up. It will take an hour or more for everything to come up and protocals to converge. That will only have backbone links to other cities in service but the edge devices need to be brought up before any service restores.

 
WDIK2 said:
It's been mentioned, but this very simply could be a guy that had a major (to him) beef with AT&T.  :shrug:   I don't know what other business are in the area that could have been a target.
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The Old Spaghetti Factory is/was just across the street. Maybe they screwed up the wrong guy’s Mizritha Cheese and Brown Butter Pasta. 

 
ChiefD said:
This whole suicide bomber thing has me scratching my head.  Just makes no sense whatsoever.

If I’m gonna commit suicide in an extraordinary fashion like this, I’m going out to make a name for myself. And I don’t think that happens taking out a building like this.

The only way this makes sense is if the guy knew about the fuel in the basement and planned on blowing up that whole city block. And maybe that was the plan.

Otherwise this reeks of this guy being a fall guy or pawn for someone else. Kind of what @Mr. Ham was alluding to earlier.
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Do not apply rational thought to irrational behavior. 

 
All intra Metro traffic (Nashville within Nashville) should be restored. Inter Metro traffic (Nashville to other Metro's) will not be restored until tomorrow morning as there's a 100GB downlink still out of service as well as other access facilities, equipment issues etc.

 
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Low priority services like dial up, dsl etc will be the last to recover, still most likely tomorrow unless there are hardware failures that require RMA's which would push restoration out a day or two.

 
The majority of the Network Infrastructure is online and passing traffic. There are many different services all with different dependencies and some will take longer to restore than others but the vast majority of critical services are restored. Legacy services should begin to recover tomorrow as long as there's not HW issues.

 
It pays to know someone in sales at the retail stores. Not only do you get 5% off of your plan, you get inside info on other stuff, like when when the new iPhone 12 cases are coming out, the newest wireless charger etc.

 
I'd be open to an AMA but I don't think anyone would be interested, its' a dry subject and I can understand the confusion. Everyday I deal with friends and family that are convinced they are getting 5G service. I try to reason with them but I'm the crazy one, the guy that's spent his last 20 years working in the Labs for this technology, helping to develop standards but my sisters neighbor that drives a food truck knows the real deal. At least I don't let it get to me, rather I get a good laugh out of it. Btw, none of you are getting "true" 5G service unless you hit that rare intersection that has the 100 foot by 100 foot blanket coverage, then you are all good, until you leave that 100 foot by 100 foot coverage area

 
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