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Explosion in South east England
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http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,17532461%255E661,00.html
OMG I actually heard that explosion - I was watching TV and just after 6pm - I heard a thud on my window and a house or car alarm started sounding off!!
I live about 15 to 20 miles away from there and heard it!! :eek2:
OMG I actually heard that explosion - I was watching TV and just after 6pm - I heard a thud on my window and a house or car alarm started sounding off!!
I live about 15 to 20 miles away from there and heard it!! :eek2:
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Nope - but I felt the thud on the window
It also had URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4650191.stm]gas cylinders[/URL] stored in the warehouse.
That's a good point, you could only hear the fire when you where at the satation, as it was a clear summers day so the air molecules had a very low density level.
Now they're saying people are rushing to petrol stations to get fuel for their cars before a shortage happens.
Don't know how you measure the force of such an explosion but makes you think that whatever it is - it's only a fraction of the explosive power mankind is capable of producing with a atomic or nuclear bomb. Makes you glad our Nuclear wepons are kept underwater in submarines.
Makes ya think what would happen if it was something bigger and more powerful.
However a temperature inversion, which is a common cause fog, causes a dense/less dense air boundry, which reflects the sound back down to ground level - causing the sound to decrease with the square of the distance, instead of the cube of the distance
I'm surprised no-ones tried to pass it off as one, yet.
Because they're a bit closer, and there's not as much in the way to muffle the sound:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=52.802761,3.603516&spn=9.865701,19.579834&hl=en
A few people tried. They said they heard a low flying plane just before the explosions, but police have said there is no evidence of that, but they "are keeping an open mind".
Well it is 5 miles away from Luton Airport - not surprised people can hear planes!!
Right now the fireservices are having to have foam brought in from all over the country in big quantities and only then can they begin doing anything to tackle it.
Same thing with the huge towers in New York, fire fighting trucks can only do so much and reach a few floors up but why not have fire fighting equipment placed on the roof of various buildings to protect it's neighbours and vice versa.
and those panic petrol buyers.. grr
I heard something about it on the radio and they said that workers were arriving to start a shift at 6am.
Trivial, I know, but ASOS.com is temporarily closed as their warehouse is in Hemel Hempstead and they've been affected. "Currently assessing the damage, please come back later" says their website.
What do ASOS do? I looked at the website but it don't say
AsSeenOnScreen.com - clothing and gifts etc.