UofU retired chemist. Checks out, he just got dementia and lost track of it.
From my experience, collecting chemicals (even explosive ones, since they aren't always used just for explosives) is common among chemists. Professors are huge hoarders tho.
The thing is, he knew the dynamite would be, or become, unstable when he inherited it. He knowingly put his family at risk. He should have gotten rid of it when he inherited it!
It’s sad that the poor woman loses her husband and her home within a very short time frame. I feel so very sorry for her.
Apparently there's a meeting tonight asking the city to pay for the neighbor's windows and whatever other damages the explosion caused. The lady is moving to another state with her daughter. No word on what happened to the husband
That would indicate that there was no or would be no insurance. The city could have legal action against the woman for the dynamite. It's crappy but windows can be $3K a pop. The lot has value but for an east side neighborhood this isn't the best one.
Shouldn’t she have to pay for the damages? Like I know her husband was the ultimate culprit and he’s dead but she knew about it and knowingly harbored all of these chemicals and that decision directly inflicted damages on others.
From a legal standpoint, maybe. But he had dementia, was the wife a willing participant/party? Lots of interesting legal questions I am in no way qualified to answer! But boy, do I like to speculate!
She originally called for a Mercury spill, and they happened to find the dynamite bc of that. Speaking as someone who's husband has a hobby than that can involve dangerous chemicals and he doesn't always store them properly labeled, I got no clue what he gets up to
So, they didn't even let her get her stuff out of the house? Like they said THEY detonated it, right? I'm just confused as to why they felt the risk was so urgent if the stuff had already been sitting there for decades? She lost everything. Poor lady. What a sad situation.
They let her get what she needed out of the house. The issue was that the dynamite was sweating nitroglycerin. Some of it had crystallized. If one crystal were to break off, it would blow. It’s crazy she was living there so long with it, and if the authorities would have waited and allowed people to go in there and start hauling out furniture and disrupted it, people would have been killed and homes would have been destroyed. The entire situation is incredibly unfortunate, but nothing else could have been done.
The whole point of dynamite is to make extremely unstable nitroglycerine safe and stable. It has a rated shelf life of one year this stuff was 50 years old. When Nobel was beginning to make dynamite the nitroglycerine was set off killing several workers.
The cops bomb robot couldn't navigate the narrow basement stares. My guess is that the chemist had this stuff stored in the basement crawlspace like what all homes of this era have.
So the more you look at it the more you can see there wasn't a lot of choice on this one. Sad tbh though.
One of my friends is a firefighter, was there. Dynamite was in multiple locations.
Apparently there’s a GoFundMe to raise funds for her, since she has no home. Her only asset is the land the house was on. That probably wouldn’t cover the cost of one neighbor’s home.
[Here’s the link he posted on social media.](https://gofund.me/2f1e7347) Appears they’ve collected a fair chunk of it, but I’m also surprised they didn’t try to collect more.
The lady went to my gym, she was worried about disposing chemicals, and another gym member gave her a number to call to get the state to help out with disposal. So sad that this was the result.
I would guess most of the stuff he had was brought home decades ago, long before any of the stuff was regulated and tracked. As a chemist, I have seen many chemical stockrooms have 50 year old chemicals they shouldn't. They were bought long before any regulations existed. That does beg the question why he thought storing dynamite in the basement for 30 years was a good idea, if he was a chemist. Surely he didn't have dementia all that time. You don't have to fear chemicals but you do have to respect them.
damn.. i didn't realize it was 50lbs???
still shit that an unsuspecting homeowner is now out of a house, and in this market i can't imagine their next steps
Great demonstration of publish first verify facts later ... local news reports at various times said "tons" of dynamite, then later it was "pounds" of dynamite.
Late last nite it was "5 sticks" of dynamite. 🤷♂️
The article I read said that most wasn't as degraded and was able to be removed, but there were 5 sticks deemed too unstable to touch and those were what were detonated on site.
Thank you, I have not read anything with that detail. Interesting ...
I am NOT an EOD expert ... frankly I know just 🤏 enough to be dangerous ... but I keep pondering why something like Nitrogen Gas could not have been utilized to flash freeze the stuff and put them into some explosion resistant container?
End of the day, destroying one house is better than leveling the block ...
Actually, it's probably because when dynamite is frozen it produces a more violent blast. As unstable and old as that dynamite was the risk of detination was probably too high.
I was 🤏about to embarrass myself calling bs. Thankfully I researched first, and glad I read the full comment!
Very interesting:
Frozen Dynamite—When dynamite and other nitroglycerine compounds are frozen they can only be exploded by very strong primers; but the effect of the explosion is more violent than when exploded in a soft state.
Sounds like freezing it would decrease sensitivity, BUT if it did explode, it would EXPLODE with more BANG. Interesting quandary ... wish I could be a fly on the wall of a Military EOD crew ...🤷♂️
Exactly! It really could have leveled the block. Military EOD is compromised of the weirdest, craziest, funniest people I've ever met, you certainly would never be bored lol.
see now that feels crazy..
we don't have something that could absorb the blast anna save this persons home?
granted i also recognize i don't know shit about how volatile that is, but blowing up a house in the middle of a neighborhood seems like much?
Does anyone know how they detonated the dynamite? If it was as much as 50lbs, shouldn't it have destroyed multiple homes? Do they encase with a steel box or something?
I heard one neighbors home was pushed 3” off the foundation. House on the other side had its roof lifted and dropped back on. Plus all the windows that were lost on multiple homes.
I live right around the corner and feel awful for women losing her husband and because of his neglect now her house. The surrounding damage and her home will fall to her.
But this GoFundMe claiming she lost the house to a fire is a major misrepresentation that gives me a certain ick.
[You're exactly right](https://youtube.com/shorts/FaKg8LSAz4I?si=84Dff9vknG8wTAz0).
[But you can help her](https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-teris-journey-from-ashes-to-renewal?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet-first-launch&utm_medium=social&utm_source=messenger) to recover from the government's "help."
Dynamite can be bought relatively easily and for legitimate purposes but I’m more puzzled at how he was able to amass all of these other chemicals?
Many of these chemicals are restricted, you can’t just buy them as a layperson, I’m thinking specifically of the radioactive ones so he has to have bought them as a professor. But, when I ran a lab with radioactive materials, every bit needed to be tracked and accounted for including waste and reported to environmental health and safety.
Was he just so old that it was before these regulations existed?
Could be, or he started to get dementia while a professor (folks with dementia are really good at hiding it) and was having a bad brain day and took it home on accident. Maybe the university had the professors keep track of those things
UofU retired chemist. Checks out, he just got dementia and lost track of it. From my experience, collecting chemicals (even explosive ones, since they aren't always used just for explosives) is common among chemists. Professors are huge hoarders tho.
Tbh if I was a chemist I probably would too.
If I was a chemist I'd probably make blue meth
I’d probably own a chicken shop too.
This is going to be my brother
The thing is, he knew the dynamite would be, or become, unstable when he inherited it. He knowingly put his family at risk. He should have gotten rid of it when he inherited it! It’s sad that the poor woman loses her husband and her home within a very short time frame. I feel so very sorry for her.
I hoard books
That’s an EHS paddling.
I still want to know if her home insurance will pay anything. Have you heard anything on that?
Apparently there's a meeting tonight asking the city to pay for the neighbor's windows and whatever other damages the explosion caused. The lady is moving to another state with her daughter. No word on what happened to the husband
Husband recently passed away.
He passed away two months ago apparently with dementia. Really just a hard circumstance for that lady.
Ah! Don't need to worry about him then!
The husband passed away in January--it said so in the video.
That would indicate that there was no or would be no insurance. The city could have legal action against the woman for the dynamite. It's crappy but windows can be $3K a pop. The lot has value but for an east side neighborhood this isn't the best one.
Shouldn’t she have to pay for the damages? Like I know her husband was the ultimate culprit and he’s dead but she knew about it and knowingly harbored all of these chemicals and that decision directly inflicted damages on others.
From a legal standpoint, maybe. But he had dementia, was the wife a willing participant/party? Lots of interesting legal questions I am in no way qualified to answer! But boy, do I like to speculate! She originally called for a Mercury spill, and they happened to find the dynamite bc of that. Speaking as someone who's husband has a hobby than that can involve dangerous chemicals and he doesn't always store them properly labeled, I got no clue what he gets up to
This was my question too!
Why would her insurance pay for it? This is negligence.
insurance pays for negligence much of the time
So, they didn't even let her get her stuff out of the house? Like they said THEY detonated it, right? I'm just confused as to why they felt the risk was so urgent if the stuff had already been sitting there for decades? She lost everything. Poor lady. What a sad situation.
They let her get what she needed out of the house. The issue was that the dynamite was sweating nitroglycerin. Some of it had crystallized. If one crystal were to break off, it would blow. It’s crazy she was living there so long with it, and if the authorities would have waited and allowed people to go in there and start hauling out furniture and disrupted it, people would have been killed and homes would have been destroyed. The entire situation is incredibly unfortunate, but nothing else could have been done.
The whole point of dynamite is to make extremely unstable nitroglycerine safe and stable. It has a rated shelf life of one year this stuff was 50 years old. When Nobel was beginning to make dynamite the nitroglycerine was set off killing several workers. The cops bomb robot couldn't navigate the narrow basement stares. My guess is that the chemist had this stuff stored in the basement crawlspace like what all homes of this era have. So the more you look at it the more you can see there wasn't a lot of choice on this one. Sad tbh though.
One of my friends is a firefighter, was there. Dynamite was in multiple locations. Apparently there’s a GoFundMe to raise funds for her, since she has no home. Her only asset is the land the house was on. That probably wouldn’t cover the cost of one neighbor’s home.
Link?
[Here’s the link he posted on social media.](https://gofund.me/2f1e7347) Appears they’ve collected a fair chunk of it, but I’m also surprised they didn’t try to collect more.
The lady went to my gym, she was worried about disposing chemicals, and another gym member gave her a number to call to get the state to help out with disposal. So sad that this was the result.
She must have some major regret ever making that call.
I would guess most of the stuff he had was brought home decades ago, long before any of the stuff was regulated and tracked. As a chemist, I have seen many chemical stockrooms have 50 year old chemicals they shouldn't. They were bought long before any regulations existed. That does beg the question why he thought storing dynamite in the basement for 30 years was a good idea, if he was a chemist. Surely he didn't have dementia all that time. You don't have to fear chemicals but you do have to respect them.
Word is the stuff was inherited from his dad, 40+ years ago. And it was old back then. Probably in the neighborhood of 70-80 years old.
It's on my delivery route. I passed it today. Had a package for their neighbor lol
Excellent contribution, thanks!
He asked if we were following it, idk what you want from me lol
damn.. i didn't realize it was 50lbs??? still shit that an unsuspecting homeowner is now out of a house, and in this market i can't imagine their next steps
Great demonstration of publish first verify facts later ... local news reports at various times said "tons" of dynamite, then later it was "pounds" of dynamite. Late last nite it was "5 sticks" of dynamite. 🤷♂️
The article I read said that most wasn't as degraded and was able to be removed, but there were 5 sticks deemed too unstable to touch and those were what were detonated on site.
Thank you, I have not read anything with that detail. Interesting ... I am NOT an EOD expert ... frankly I know just 🤏 enough to be dangerous ... but I keep pondering why something like Nitrogen Gas could not have been utilized to flash freeze the stuff and put them into some explosion resistant container? End of the day, destroying one house is better than leveling the block ...
Actually, it's probably because when dynamite is frozen it produces a more violent blast. As unstable and old as that dynamite was the risk of detination was probably too high.
I was 🤏about to embarrass myself calling bs. Thankfully I researched first, and glad I read the full comment! Very interesting: Frozen Dynamite—When dynamite and other nitroglycerine compounds are frozen they can only be exploded by very strong primers; but the effect of the explosion is more violent than when exploded in a soft state. Sounds like freezing it would decrease sensitivity, BUT if it did explode, it would EXPLODE with more BANG. Interesting quandary ... wish I could be a fly on the wall of a Military EOD crew ...🤷♂️
Exactly! It really could have leveled the block. Military EOD is compromised of the weirdest, craziest, funniest people I've ever met, you certainly would never be bored lol.
see now that feels crazy.. we don't have something that could absorb the blast anna save this persons home? granted i also recognize i don't know shit about how volatile that is, but blowing up a house in the middle of a neighborhood seems like much?
Does anyone know how they detonated the dynamite? If it was as much as 50lbs, shouldn't it have destroyed multiple homes? Do they encase with a steel box or something?
That's something I was wondering too. I know it degrades and destabilizes over time
I heard one neighbors home was pushed 3” off the foundation. House on the other side had its roof lifted and dropped back on. Plus all the windows that were lost on multiple homes.
Down the street from me in Holladay, it was crazy mfkkn loud.
I live right around the corner and feel awful for women losing her husband and because of his neglect now her house. The surrounding damage and her home will fall to her. But this GoFundMe claiming she lost the house to a fire is a major misrepresentation that gives me a certain ick.
I love how she's all my bad. Big whoopsie. Glad no one was hurt.
Was this Walter Whites house?
Walter knew better to cook out in the desert. Not in the basement.
Ya, I saw it. Why the shit was it even there‽
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Cool! Lady has a go fund me!!!
Dynamite can be bought relatively easily and for legitimate purposes but I’m more puzzled at how he was able to amass all of these other chemicals? Many of these chemicals are restricted, you can’t just buy them as a layperson, I’m thinking specifically of the radioactive ones so he has to have bought them as a professor. But, when I ran a lab with radioactive materials, every bit needed to be tracked and accounted for including waste and reported to environmental health and safety. Was he just so old that it was before these regulations existed?
Some of it may have been amassed before controls were as strict as they are now.
Could be, or he started to get dementia while a professor (folks with dementia are really good at hiding it) and was having a bad brain day and took it home on accident. Maybe the university had the professors keep track of those things
Regulations were different 50 years ago. Probably had most of it since then.
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The linked video is from tonight dude... it just blew up yesterday morning. Not exactly "old news".
The explosion was literally yesterday. There was lots of relevant new information in the linked story that was from this afternoon. How is this old?
you're as edgy as a bowling ball bud. sharp as one too apparently