Huge refinery explosion just after 6am, eyewitness reports saying they were woken by a massive explosion and flames are hundreds of feet high. Damage to houses etc, here’s a couple of pictures from a member on another forum:
Was watching BBC news earlier and they were saying it was an accident.
quote of the day from BBC news: Nearby resident " I heard the explosion and it blew the glass out the windows and can see lots of smoke" News presenter " so presumably your indoors with all the windows shut"
I can still remember when I was seven and heard an explosion. I thought it came from my sisters room so I went in to check if her vaporizer blew up. (In the first half of the 20th century people put steam generating vaporizers in bedrooms at night if someone had a cold and was feeling stuffy.) I looked out the window and saw the horizon was a bit orange.
It seems the Exxon (then Esso) oil refinery in Elizabeth, New Jersey had blown up. I think it’s 50 miles away. That was 41 years ago and I still remember it.
Someone will probably claim it’s the face of Jesus appearing to chastize you for contributing to global warming. Though, Mt Nerogongo in Africa emits more CO2 than all of man’s activities combined. I wonder why nobody has sued the volcano. :cuckoo:
i saw Bagpuss, and a few other faces. But I’m really good at spotting something in nothing, its one of ther easons I am obsessed with taking pics of fire
You have to read some of the witness reports on the BBC site. I agree that the blast would have been heard from a long way away but people are putting every little thing that happened last night down to this blast.
The funniest one I read was ‘I woke up this morning to find my lodger in bed with me. Fortunately my husband works nights…’ Ok so she does live in Hemel and they did say people were chucked about by the explosion.
Some people round our way claim to have heard something too! I didn’t!
On the plus side I’m working from home today instead of being in our office about 500-800m away from the fire? I hope my desk and all my stuff survived!
On September 11 a few years ago, my desk survived but everything was so covered with grey dust that I had to clear out everything including my computer with some completed SETI units on it.
Thanks for sharing my images, but next time could you please not leech my bandwidth? Money is tight ATM and I see a huge bandwidth bill looming on the horizon . . .