explosion in hemel

[PUX]

im living in watford and you can really smell it in the air

ummmm avtur lovely  :twisted:

[BrumLee]

im living in watford and you can really smell it in the air

after the fumes i let off in work today i think an iron lung would be more suitable than iron pants (containment unit!)

even i was feeling queasy

Strapping may still have a dickie tummy :) :)

[Merlin]

Is there no-one from the Hemel area who knows if Anthony Betts garage was affected by the fire?, loads of photo's of the area.  SWMBO is most worried about her new car.--HELP--Cogs

[TUFFTEE]

As promised earlier some pics from London Heathrow You can Just about make out the Smoke Plume on The Horizon Next to the Flag Pole? Taken with my Mobie?

[TUFFTEE]

And one more!

[Jimbo]

Is there no-one from the Hemel area who knows if Anthony Betts garage was affected by the fire?, loads of photo's of the area.  SWMBO is most worried about her new car.--HELP--Cogs

Cogs, London Road is on the other side of Hemel to Buncefield so there should be no worries about the car being damaged by the explosions, but as for the black cr4p falling from the sky...........


Jim

[V8MoneyPit]

Truly amazing nobody has been killed. And only 2 seriously injured. We must be thankful for small mercies.

The pictures are astonishing. Looks like something out of a Hollywood movie. The news reports come across like the services are not too worried by it. Just let it burn for a while to get rid of some of the fuel and give time to gather the relevant equipment. Then go in and foam it down. I'm sure it's a hell of a lot more difficult than that, but it does give an impressive sense of expertise. This can only be a great help to reduce peoples fear and hopefully reduce the panic buying problem.

Panic buying is, of course, self fueled (if you'll excuse the pun). Those that rush out and brim the tank are causing the shortage. The fuel stations will run out because they cannot change their refill shedules. Then those that did panic buy say that their approach was justified because the petrol station has run out!  :lol:

[Damonski]

Im amazing at the photos too.  Some you would have paid millions to computer generate for the latest movie. Truely awesome images.

Quite interested in what they say the cause was.  The security gaurd said he smelt the fumes moments before he was catapulted.

[Mace]

Like Old Joe & Turtle's Mrs, we were woken up too. We have a Victorian house with sash windows and they sounded like the glass was coming out. The wife thought someone had sledgehammered down the front door.

Strange thing tho, all around MK last week there were whispers ... "stay out of the city on sunday 11th, somethings going to happen" Spooky eh? It's the first thing I said the the wife, someones blown up the shopping centre, just like they said. Not quite but a very curious coincidence.

[Damonski]

ooooooooooooo, the plot thickens!

[BrumLee]

On Sky news they showed the weather satellite image and there's a black streak heading off to the south coast Dorset area. Must be the fire at Hemel or someone has done a power boost on a Tdi    :lol:

[old joe]

as mace said i thought it was the city ctr didn't think it could hemel hempstead.

At least Hemel Hempstead will a a white xmas whilst the rest of have a sooty one

dazza

[Merlin]

Thanks Jimbo, she rang them today & the Jimny hasn't been delivered yet (they think)!!!. Wouldn't you expect them to know what cars were delivered & when.  Could be a good place to nick one from, they probably wouldn't miss it for sometime. :D  :D --Cogs

[davidlandy]

went past it today on the M1 - awesome sight

even from the M1 you can actually feel the warmth from it

[PUX]

went past it today on the M1 - awesome sight

even from the M1 you can actually feel the warmth from it

i was flicking through one of the comics to day and swear i saw ur landy in the pic i will have to get the issue and tell u exactly where i saw it  

[paradigm shift]

I hate people crying terror as much as the next man, but I was round a friend's yesterday morning and his mum said her sister is very high up at Shell oil and they have been on standby all week as last week some nutter told everyone to go out and bring down the west by targeting their oil refineries, The media are being surprisingly controlled and hush hush on this one. I would be expecting many more pointing fingers and speculative articles.

[PUX]

i think guys talkin about terrorists we should not as this just fuels the little beeps (fuels em no pun intended ) im sure it was just an accident or we would have heard something by now as they have there means of telling the world they did it or there would have been something on the internet by now  :lol:

[davidlandy]

went past it today on the M1 - awesome sight

even from the M1 you can actually feel the warmth from it

i was flicking through one of the comics to day and swear i saw ur landy in the pic i will have to get the issue and tell u exactly where i saw it  

O'er
thats a bit of a worry cos I was driving a VW Passat!!!

Best I check my Landy is still there!

 

[j99mud]

hi all i live about half a mile from the blast sight but have only just managed to get the computer back i was in winchester at the time and came home immediatly my parents thought the world was ending the loft hatch fell out of the cieling and the airing cupboard door blew open but no windows broken! I have been up as close to the site as you can get the last three nights and it is absolutley awsome! two mates of mine are police men and they say it looks like a war zone total devistation!

I did get to put the landy to good use though, sky news had there cherry picker stuck on the grasss so i pulled them off!

My girlfriends dad is a tanker driver at the depot but had swapped his shift for that morning thankfully, as soon as he heard the bang he knew it was the terminall, his truck and everything in it have been blown up but no-one was hurt and that is all that matters. just have to wait and see how long the clear up takes

James