www.chron.com/food/article/krispy-kreme-explosion-college-station-19460051.php
Federal agents investigating Krispy Kreme explosion in Texas
The donuts we entered into evidence just keep disappearing…
And 25 ATF agents. Feds love donuts too...
DYK Flour dusts are class 1 explosive as flammable with rapid spreading of the explosion flame. A concentration of 10.1 g/m3 and the heat of a burning match is sufficient to ignite, and at a concentration of 28 g/m3 the explosion pressure will be maximum.
Flour Dust is pretty much a Fuel Air Explosive, yeah.
To put that into perspective for you folks out there, the explosive release is like having a hand grenade go off.
But not the grenades you see in movies. Those are inert. The actual explosion that those 'make' is actually separate pyrotechnics for dramatic effect.
Just a few kilos of Flour Dust is enough to blow out, potentially inflicting catastrophic structural damage, a single floor building. Get a standard 10-lbs bag of flour and let the dust get kicked up and watch the fireworks happen.
And people wonder why we want to move away from Coal as well.
Same thing, bigger blast for same weights.
TIL flour dust itself is a fire accelerant. I guess I should have known that considering graineries and wheat farms back in the day were very big fire dangers...but I guess I never put it together....crazy...
Thank yoy follow Redditor. Half my knowledge post-doctorate comes from here and similar places like Quora and Stack Exchange. Won't my parents be proud?
They were told to bring coffee.
I have a friend who lives in College Station! But he's a good 400lbs+ so I know it wasn't him. Fat guys don't blow up donut shops.
lol, the article has more information about donuts than the explosion. Written by the food editor 🤣
Light’s on. Meth is done.
Every cop’s dream investigation
Donut take this case lightly, you never know what could be going on behind the scenes
I live in this town, immediate comments from locals were disgruntled employee or insurance fraud due to failing business. Lots of shops have been dropping like flies, and we are a Shipley's town.
I play " the headline game" with my family. Mad libs style: each person filling in their variables.
This was a fun one!
(Obscure fast restaurant, reason you can't visit it anymore, state, investigating agency)
Sticky situation.
I call bullshit. That’s what was left of the Ultimart in Grosse Pointe Blank, MI
Feds are all over this case since they won't have a good donut spot anymore.
Feds hate Shipley's
“We would like to assure the public we will not rest until we’ve chased down every delicious lead”
Just here for the sweet jokes.
On the bright side, those donuts now taste better.
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Don't worry! Every cop in the state is on the case!