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Paul Burridge
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Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject:
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Texaco station over the road from me doing extremely brisk business!
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"What is now proved was once only imagin'd" - William Blake
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Frank Bemelman
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"Paul Burridge" <pb@shove.your.spam.up.your.arse.atlanticstar.co.uk> schreef
in bericht news:s59op1t2ek9co84fsq3i7f6am513osqrg5@4ax.com...
| Quote: | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4517962.stm
Texaco station over the road from me doing extremely brisk business!
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Did it wake you up?
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Thanks, Frank.
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Paul Burridge
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Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject:
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 15:36:58 +0100, "Frank Bemelman"
<f.bemelmanq@xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote:
| Quote: | "Paul Burridge" <pb@shove.your.spam.up.your.arse.atlanticstar.co.uk> schreef
in bericht news:s59op1t2ek9co84fsq3i7f6am513osqrg5@4ax.com...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4517962.stm
Texaco station over the road from me doing extremely brisk business!
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Did it wake you up?
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Nope. I was drunk. ;-)
But though I'm 75 miles away I can still see the fallout cloud. It's
*huge* and really ain't doin' any favours for London's air quality.
;-)
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"What is now proved was once only imagin'd" - William Blake
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martin griffith
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Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject:
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:09:31 +0100, in sci.electronics.design Paul
Burridge <pb@shove.your.spam.up.your.arse.atlanticstar.co.uk> wrote:
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Texaco station over the road from me doing extremely brisk business!
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I always said that they should have put that storage facility in Luton
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Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject:
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martin griffith wrote:
| Quote: | On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:09:31 +0100, in sci.electronics.design Paul
Burridge <pb@shove.your.spam.up.your.arse.atlanticstar.co.uk> wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4517962.stm
Texaco station over the road from me doing extremely brisk business!
I always said that they should have put that storage facility in Luton
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I lived in Luton when I was working for Kent Instruments - 1973-6. It's
no worse than Slough.
I wonder how they managed to set up a fuel-air bomb - at Flixborough
they managed to rupture a 20" (50cm) pipe and vent a great deal of
cyclohexane to atmosphere
http://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/sragtech/caseflixboroug74.htm
This one doesn't seem to have been as bad. Cyclohexane is more volatile
than petrol/gasoline and - IIRR - forms explosive mixutres with air
over a wider range of concentrations.
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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen |
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John Larkin
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Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:25 am Post subject:
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:47:08 +0100, Paul Burridge
<pb@shove.your.spam.up.your.arse.atlanticstar.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 15:36:58 +0100, "Frank Bemelman"
f.bemelmanq@xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote:
"Paul Burridge" <pb@shove.your.spam.up.your.arse.atlanticstar.co.uk> schreef
in bericht news:s59op1t2ek9co84fsq3i7f6am513osqrg5@4ax.com...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4517962.stm
Texaco station over the road from me doing extremely brisk business!
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Did it wake you up?
Nope. I was drunk. ;-)
But though I'm 75 miles away I can still see the fallout cloud. It's
*huge* and really ain't doin' any favours for London's air quality.
;-)
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Reminds me of this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Hills_firestorm
The first we heard of this was when we were in our backyard in San
Francisco, and smelled smoke and saw black cinders falling out of the
sky on us.
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richard mullens
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Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:52 am Post subject:
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Frank Bemelman wrote:
| Quote: | "Paul Burridge" <pb@shove.your.spam.up.your.arse.atlanticstar.co.uk> schreef
in bericht news:s59op1t2ek9co84fsq3i7f6am513osqrg5@4ax.com...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4517962.stm
Texaco station over the road from me doing extremely brisk business!
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Did it wake you up?
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Here in Welwyn Garden City - it awoke me.
The windows shook as if there was someone very annoyed indeed on the parapet outside.
Minutes later a succession of flashing lights as police (?) vehicles made their way out of town.
Something in me said go follow them with your camera - but I'd only been in bed for an hour.
No bang. No high frequencies, just a rumble.
I'm about 15 miles away. |
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Pooh Bear
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Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:48 am Post subject:
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Paul Burridge wrote:
| Quote: | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4517962.stm
Texaco station over the road from me doing extremely brisk business!
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Looks like a change to my route into work is called for.
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=508250&y=209250&z=1&sv=508250,209250&st=4&ar=N&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf
The B487 in yellow is the road I normally use to drive through Hemel.
The Buncefield depot is in the bottom right hand of the map ( about 1/2
mi away ) and it was the nearer northern part apparently that 'went
off'.
St Albans has been clear of the cloud since the prevailing winds are
northerlies currently.
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Tony Williams
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Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:55 am Post subject:
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In article <t48qp1l2e8pe94c88r0q1mbfenokrvpmkg@4ax.com>,
xray <notreally@hotmail.invalid> wrote:
| Quote: | Based on previous experiences I'm expecting the price of gasoline
here in California will rise about 10 cents. Wouldn't even want
to speculate how much effect it might have in Britian.
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The depot apparently stored and distributed mainly
aviation fuel, underground pipes for the inputs and
feeds to several major airports. The US market will
probably still shiver though, and that will filter
out to the rest of us.
I have friends who live about 1/2 a mile from there.
They've had damage to a couple of windows and the
garage door.
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Tony Williams. |
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xray
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Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:35 am Post subject:
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:09:31 +0100, Paul Burridge
<pb@shove.your.spam.up.your.arse.atlanticstar.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4517962.stm
Texaco station over the road from me doing extremely brisk business!
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Quite impressive pictures on the TV. A seriously bad situation.
Based on previous experiences I'm expecting the price of gasoline here
in California will rise about 10 cents. Wouldn't even want to speculate
how much effect it might have in Britian. |
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xray
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Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:35 am Post subject:
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:09:31 +0100, Paul Burridge
<pb@shove.your.spam.up.your.arse.atlanticstar.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4517962.stm
Texaco station over the road from me doing extremely brisk business!
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Quite impressive pictures on the TV. A seriously bad situation.
Based on previous experiences I'm expecting the price of gasoline here
in California will rise about 10 cents. Wouldn't even want to speculate
how much effect it might have in Britian.
** Britian **? Oops. Sorry for the typo... Britain ... I meant. |
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