[ms] · Est. May 2002
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I can't believe that this hasn't been posted yet...
[URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4520430.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4520430.stm[/URL]
This is really amazing. Thousands of gallans of petrol, diesel and aviation fuel alight. A black cloud turning day into night for half of London 25 miles away. Initial blast heard in Paris and Holland (!!!), and NO-ONE dead. The fire crews are just starting to try to put the mother out - Good luck men.
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I saw it yesterday on the news, really amazing that no-one got killed. Pretty fucked up for the peeps who live there, the residu of an oil fire can be sooooooooooooo dirty.....i guess the whole place will be covered with it.
Looks like a job for Red Adair and his crew ;)
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The massive bang woke me up yesterday, shook the whole room, and i live 50 miles away. the sky looked pretty wierd too, all grey and erie.
I think its amazing how no one was killed.
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A friend of mine lives about half a mile away... he woke at 6am when the windows came in on him. By 9.30am him and his housemates had finished a bottle of whiskey to 'settle their nerves' before they were evacuated. 8)
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:shock:
that's crazy. I can't imagine hearing a blast like that in paris... or having all windows and doors break open :shock:
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yeah, me & the wife got woken up by this.. it set off car alarms down our road... and we live 20 miles away!
crazy
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thats crazy.. i grew up in Hertfordshire.. Letchworth. I would have been right in the middle of that
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wow, good that nobody was killed
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It's not as bad as it looks believe me - I work 1 mile away from it and it's more surreal than anything. Granted, I wouldnt have wanted to be about when the blast went off but people are acting quite normally considering. There are loads of press about, and obviously sightseers trying to get a glimpse.
The actual site is a spectacle in itself, 200 foot high flames. I wasn't sure if I could get to work today (have to drive past it) but the roads were quite clear - all schools in Hemel were off today - although I did just leave early as the news said they were halting the fire crews as they believe one more tank might go up.
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yeah that pic is pretty eerie, the light here in Berkshire was really dull yesterday, has been fairly clear here all day.
it didnt wake me up, but my flatmate heard a bang and thought we were being broken into!
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:shock: WOW
i can't believe this one. the sound traveled hundreds of miles? wow. amazing that no one was hurt.
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does anyone know what happened to cause the blaze yet?
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Fire chiefs suspect industrial accident, and no evidence points to arson or terrorism.. yet!
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i heard industrial accident. good thing it was on a weekend, when nobody was there working. imagine if it had been midweek and full of people.
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stupid plot to raise gas prices imo.........
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I can't believe people heard if in holland, thats just tosh. I didnt hear it and I'm 13 miles away. Neither did my housemate or any of my family. Yet people in Holland heard it?Yeah right
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I heard it, and I'm in Kansas City!
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[quote=GregWhelan]I can't believe people heard if in holland, thats just tosh. I didnt hear it and I'm 13 miles away. Neither did my housemate or any of my family. Yet people in Holland heard it?Yeah right[/quote]
Yeah, but were you up and about at 6.02 am? They say that the reason the bang was heard so far away is the same as why the cloud is travelling the way it is. A layer of warm air high up is keeping the cold air at ground level or there abouts. It creates a layer through which air cannot pass (or something like that). So instead of just going up into the upper atmosphere the smoke particles travel along the bottom of the thermal boundary with the breeze - and because sound is transmitted by air, so do the sound waves.
Anyway, the beeb were showing footage of a live broadcast from Central London from that time yesterday morning and the reporter heard it and commented it. That is around about 25 miles away.
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[IMG]http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/images/2005/12/12/fire1_450x330.jpg[/IMG]
This is my favourite image so far...
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[quote=picklemonkey]I heard it, and I'm in Kansas City![/quote]
yeah i heard it underwater!! :shock: :HolyShit: :Who:
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I heard it from my friends about the things you said.
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[quote=NastyD]Yeah, but were you up and about at 6.02 am? They say that the reason the bang was heard so far away is the same as why the cloud is travelling the way it is. A layer of warm air high up is keeping the cold air at ground level or there abouts. It creates a layer through which air cannot pass (or something like that). So instead of just going up into the upper atmosphere the smoke particles travel along the bottom of the thermal boundary with the breeze - and because sound is transmitted by air, so do the sound waves.
Anyway, the beeb were showing footage of a live broadcast from Central London from that time yesterday morning and the reporter heard it and commented it. That is around about 25 miles away.[/quote]
[url]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1927710,00.html[/url]
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[quote=FM][URL="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1927710,00.html"]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1927710,00.html[/URL][/quote]
He must have read my post :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Police have today confirmed that George Best was not in fact buried in Belfast last week and that in retrospect the decision to cremate him in Hemel Hemstead on Sunday morning might have been a mistake.
Not in the best of taste - but pretty funny!
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[quote=miss_catness]does anyone know what happened to cause the blaze yet?[/quote]
They think that a driver may have caused it accidently when cutting his engine near a leak.
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the fire is out now ;)