that's a sturdy ass water tower

Water towers are resilient! This one survived the Great Chicago Fire and it still stands today! (Photo by me)

Duh. Water beats fire

I thought the same thing

Cold War era waters don’t play around. And when you consider the fact that this tower is 300 feet from the ocean with salt spray corroding it it’s even more amazing. I used to live 3 miles from the beach and my gas grill would disintegrate to pieces every year.

It was far enough away from the blast area but I'll bet dollars to donuts that it still took damage. LC-36 will take a couple of years to be back up and running. This is catastrophic for blue origin and new glenn since they do not have a secondary launch facility for that rocket.

Fun watching that methane flare stack get blown out by the shockwave then get relit by the fireball.

I like how its still standing tall .... but completely roasted and toasted

The tower was chard to bits. Look back at the damage video from the pad and it suffered significant damage to the piping and also the shockwave likely did internal damage inside.

I’m sure the structural engineer who designed that is pretty proud of himself right now

It takes an hour to cook an onion because it's full of water

water might be a little hot now

It being full probably helped it dampen a lot of the shock loads

The mass of the water resisted the explosive shockwave very well...

I was shocked the damn thing survived.

So is it a "sturdy-ass water tower" or a "sturdy ass-water tower?"

It's a tea kettle now.

Make you wonder why WT7 collapsed

*sigh*

Water tower don’t car

its not that sturdy

The flame on the torch is blown out by the pressure wave, but re-ignites when the fireball arrives.

Omg

The end resembles a scene from War of The Worlds.

ass water must be disgusting by nature

They should make the rockets out of whatever that water tower is made from. /s

Everyone knows water beats fire

now i know i should not buy a bunke but a good old watertower lol it service a smal near nuke ;P

Painter dark real quick

Built by sturdy ass towers in Jackson