Author Topic: Fuel Storage Explosion in England (Read 2775 times)

SteveD CB500F · « **on:** December 11, 2005, 07:35:04 AM »

Don't know if this would make the world news but I was woken at 6am this morning (Sunday) by a bang that made the windows rattle.

Turns out a fuel storage depot in Hemel Hempstead exploded. That's over 40 miles away !! According to the BBC, 20 tanks (each containing 3 million gallons) of petrol and aviation fuel went up.

The high altitude smoke reached here at lunchtime.

Here are some pics from the BBC News website...

Phaedrus · « **Reply #1 on:** December 11, 2005, 07:37:44 AM »

I read about that on Yahoo News this morning, right now they are saying it is an accident. I hope it stays an accident.

seabird · « **Reply #2 on:** December 11, 2005, 09:37:40 AM »

My Wife both heard and felt the explosion (since we're only around 10 - 15 miles from Hemel Hempstead and the fuel depot-True to form, I slept through the whole thing (some years ago, the South of UK was decimated by an Hurricane one dark night - ince again, I managed to slumber on, and finally crawled form my bed compalining about all the noise outside (as the Police attempted to turn the regular motorists who used our country road as a "Rat Run" around and send them back through town.

OK, that's it,....back to bed now....<yawn>

Terry
(in UK)

cbjunkie · « **Reply #3 on:** December 11, 2005, 09:39:56 AM »

woke to the news myself on BEEB radio - wrote my dad in Ryslip, but still haven't heard back yet...

they say it will burn for days - all they can do is "starve" it, they can't put it out.

looks like y'all will be turning to Chavez for some of that cheap heating oel this winter...

Bob Wessner · « **Reply #4 on:** December 11, 2005, 10:14:38 AM »

Made all the networks here in the U.S. this A.M. Just what you folks need, higher gas prices.

Sam Green Racing · « **Reply #5 on:** December 11, 2005, 12:00:50 PM »

Sorry, ca'nt stop to post,.... off to fill my tank to the brim

Bob Wessner · « **Reply #6 on:** December 11, 2005, 12:46:46 PM »

cbjunkie,

Your avatar looks like something out of Jurassic Park.

SteveD CB500F · « **Reply #7 on:** December 11, 2005, 01:28:48 PM »

Terry, the "hurricane" was October 1987. I certainly didn't sleep through it as my greenhouse was being thrown around my garden and tiles were coming off the roof!

My son (now 18) was 6 months old - he did sleep through it!

Sam Green Racing · « **Reply #8 on:** December 11, 2005, 02:13:43 PM »

Although the blast could be felt 40miles away, only 40 people injured, and only 2 serieously. Unreal thank God.

SteveD CB500F · « **Reply #9 on:** December 12, 2005, 05:22:15 AM »

Here's a picture of the cloud over London (20 miles south)

Jim Shea · « **Reply #10 on:** December 12, 2005, 06:02:57 AM »

I didn't hear or feel it, but soon after the explosion the sky was very dark as the smoke cloud moved over my house, some 30 miles away from the explosion. The latest is that it was an accident and that petrol prices will not be effected!
I thought that Cbjunkies avatar was his mug shot?

seabird · « **Reply #11 on:** December 12, 2005, 06:07:20 AM »

Quote from: SteveD CB500F on December 11, 2005, 01:28:48 PM

Terry, the "hurricane" was October 1987. I certainly didn't sleep through it as my greenhouse was being thrown around my garden and tiles were coming off the roof!

My son (now 18) was 6 months old - he did sleep through it!

You see what an innocent mind can accomplish?

The fire isn't threatening anyone any longer, but the smoke plume makes the country it's laying over look as if it's in the grip of a Nuclear Winter.

Seabird

Jim Shea · « **Reply #12 on:** December 12, 2005, 06:09:10 AM »

Terry,
It must be bad where you are? It is still dark and nasty here!
Jim.

ElCheapo · « **Reply #13 on:** December 12, 2005, 06:13:40 AM »

So if it is an accident = the oil/petrol prices stay down
On purpose by some towel headed extremist = the oil/petrol prices sky rocket and oil companies globally make record profits?

Makes one wonder who owns who

I'd pay people to blow up my stuff if I could make record profits.

So far your petrol prices stay down and that is good.

Jim Shea · « **Reply #14 on:** December 12, 2005, 06:20:30 AM »

If you consider 90 p a litre good? that's $6.8 per UK gallon! I hope I made a mistake on that conversion?

ElCheapo · « **Reply #15 on:** December 12, 2005, 06:23:02 AM »

Wow, Jim... I would hope you made a mistake too..?

My guess is problably not. $:-\$

Jim Shea · « **Reply #16 on:** December 12, 2005, 06:26:22 AM »

A few years ago when I lived in CA, I remember there was a huge outcry when 'gas' reached almost $1 per US gallon.
What is the average price now?
Btw, that 90p is for regular unleaded.

Einyodeler · « **Reply #17 on:** December 12, 2005, 06:31:21 AM »

Here in the midwest it reached $3.15 a gallon a while back.....now it`s right around $2.15 for regular unleaded.

Jim Shea · « **Reply #18 on:** December 12, 2005, 06:38:11 AM »

Stephan,
Great pic. We should send that to our friends the politicians here in the UK.
Jim.

cbjunkie · « **Reply #19 on:** December 12, 2005, 06:39:43 AM »

aaaack! squawk squawk ibi squawk!! $2.09.99

ElCheapo · « **Reply #20 on:** December 12, 2005, 07:49:14 AM »

I wish mine locally was $2.09 US. The first born, they can have her.. but I need my limbs for riding the old bike

eldar · « **Reply #21 on:** December 12, 2005, 08:48:04 AM »

I would not doubt if that explosion is used as an excuse for raising the prices here in the USA. The excuse will be that more oil needs to go to the UK and thus our reserves will drop and blah blah blah. Maybe if people pushed more for high mileage cars, then oil companies will feel a good crunch and lower prices to keep people buying regular cars. We all really need to kick our politicians in the ass.

cbjunkie · « **Reply #22 on:** December 12, 2005, 09:31:11 AM »

instead of spending some of the money on research into alternative fuels, SQUAWK, the oil companies, newly laden with all our muthering cash from last year are spending it on takeovers - that way they will have less competition, more control.

32 billion dollar takeover, baby...BRAAK!

Steve F · « **Reply #23 on:** December 12, 2005, 09:49:38 AM »

Quote from: Jim Shea on December 12, 2005, 06:09:10 AM

Terry,
It must be bad where you are? It is still dark and nasty here!
Jim.

Jim, I did a GoogleEarth search for "Surrey, England" and came up with about 10 or so places with "Surrey". Do you have LAT & LON coordinates of your town? Just curious where you're are in relationship to the blast.

SteveD CB500F · « **Reply #24 on:** December 12, 2005, 10:14:29 AM »

Steve,

search "Wokingham, England" for me and "Camberley, England" for Jim.

or "Rickmansworth, England" for UKCB750CAFERACERS which is almost 0 miles!

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