Saturday dynamite disposal blast heard for miles

According to the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, that loud boom people in some parts of Southcentral heard on Saturday was just 550 pounds of very old, very unstable dynamite being disposed of. The dynamite's owner called authorities for help getting rid of the dangerous load, which originally came to him as a sort of bonus when he bought a surplus railroad boxcar. After all kinds of agencies coordinated the blast, and after about 50 households were evacuated from a nearly 5-square-mile area around the epicenter, ordinance disposal technicians from Elmendorf Air Force Base set it off. The blast's shock-wave blew the windows out of a nearby house, and the old station wagon holding the dynamite is no more. Read much more, here.