Oil depot explosion

[kendor]

Does anyone live close to the explosion site? I heard the explosion at work in west london this morning and apparently it was heard in Bracknell 30+ miles away!

 

[supersparks]

im about a mile away, used to live about half a mile away! still have my buisness store about half a mile away, aswell as family(being evacuated) M1 is closed so the planed work in london is off, wickes main south east deport has been flatterned, my wholesalers is litrally minutes walking distance from the explosion so if they are still there....

oh and if anyone is watching sky and sees the flats, thats how close some family is....

also, some housing nearer the area has damage such as no roof, no patio doors, ceilings down ect ect

 

[dabaldie]

i heard some poor sod.. (at least he's alive), had 21 new double glazed units installed yesterday..
how long before the conspiricy theorists get hold of this story..

and i hear panic buyiung of fuel has started already
muppets..
they'll be panic buying wickes stock soon cos the depot was flattened..

 

[supersparks]

actuly, a contact i have at total phoned me at about 7 this morning to say fuel might be affected for some time and to fill up my tanks, so with all due respect, id rather listen to them than you.

as for wickes stuff, naaa

and the guy with the double glazing, thats nothing, just spoken to somone who works at BPs old main office complex(about 1/4 mile away from the oil depo) and its blown the reception area in and theres a huge crack running through the front of the building (the building is worth many millions)

 

[supersparks]

oh and if you want conspiricy, its less than a mile from a muslim ghetto....

 

[Thermo]

according to the news it supplies aviation fuel for heathrow etc, not normal fuel. that will make the panic buying intresting....lots of jumbos lined up at the local bp!

 

[supersparks]

no, it also is a main hub for diesel and just about every fuel imaginable, kerosene, diesel, petrol, agricultiral oil, ect ect, and dont listen to the press, they have spent the morning telling everyone there is hardly any residential housing close by, there are three estates! plus an industrial estate!

 

[Nige F]

If it`d been a weekday Bet blair uses it to promote nuclear fuel

 

[supersparks]

had it been a weekday id brobrably be right in the middle of it/stuck in london

plus a good few 1000 people would have been seriously injured because most of the buildings have a large proportion of glass in them!
i wonder if im going to be on call out leter though....

 

[2scoops0406]

My wife heard it, apparently it shook the house. I of course was blissfully unaware of anything, we're about 25 miles away. The conspiracies about a plane landing on it have already started.

 

[notb665]

Why did it explode?

 

[oilman]

It's all to do with fuel and oxygen, called combustion.

 

[WoodYouLike]

Reminds me the lucky escape our home town had in 1998 when the alcohol factory I worked for had a huge fire. At one point there were great fear the biggest storage tank (filled with over 1.000.000 liters of 96.2% alcohol) would blow. The fire brigade of neighbouring General Electrics saved it.
What did explode though were thousands of filled drums (25ltr and 200 ltr drums) shooting the lits hundreds of meters away.
Still shake when thinking about that day and my thoughts are with all people in the neighbourhood of this depot.

 

[Freddie]

It's all to do with fuel and oxygen, called combustion.

And not forgetting a Brightspark

 

[oilman]

It's all to do with fuel and oxygen, called combustion.

And not forgetting a Brightspark

Hmmm...........he's been doing 17 hour days this last week and too tired to understand ohm's law, where was he working