Explosion in St Albans area

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Demarthl Senior Member

Explosion in St Albans area

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1205711,00.html

my friend lives right near there ><

debbiejo Dreamer

Wow....Another crappy thing... 🙁

Alpha Centauri Restricted

It seems odd for the terrorists to use Hertfordshire as a target...so I'm not too sure it's terrorism.

-AC

mechmoggy Northern Monkey

I think they're treating it as an accident at the moment.

Some shocking scenes on BBC News 24 though. 😱

jaden101 Restricted

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
It seems odd for the terrorists to use Hertfordshire as a target...so I'm not too sure it's terrorism.

-AC

hemel hempstead...centre for all infidel blasphemic propaganda dont you know

i've got relatives in hemel...

crazy explosion...some reports saying that it was heard as far away as the netherlands...which is a bit hard to believe

eggmayo Senior Member

I didn't hear it at all, to be honest.
Leicestershire is fairly close, if my geography is up to anything.

mechmoggy Northern Monkey

I'm in Newbury and I never heard it either.

To be fair I was sound asleep. If the explosion would have happend on my upstairs landing, I'd have probably slept through it still. 😮

eggmayo Senior Member

Oh.. 6am... well, yeah, I would have been asleep..
Yeah, that might account for it.

Trickster True KMC Jester

My grandmother lives there.

The pics on BBC News 24 are astounding.

Victor Von Doom Latverian Diplomat

Originally posted by jaden101

crazy explosion...some reports saying that it was heard as far away as the netherlands...which is a bit hard to believe

Haha. Very unlikely.

jaden101 Restricted
Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Haha. Very unlikely.

exactly what i thought...but thats what it said on bbc ceefax...

although they tried to explain it as an atmospheric phenomena to do with pressure differences at night compared with during the day...air at the ground cools down at ground level more than it does at higher altitude so when the sound from the explosion travelled upwards it hits the warmer layer and is discipated sideways and hence can be heard further

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4517962.stm

Many houses have been damaged, with some reporting feeling effects from the explosion as far away as Oxfordshire - while it was heard in a number of counties and even France and the Netherlands.

from the link^

Alpha Centauri Restricted

Then everyone closer than those countries would have heard it. I certainly didn't.

-AC

PVS Restricted

they are probably saying that the sound carried that far.
doesnt mean they heard a loud bang in holland. could have just
been a mild rumble, like distant thunder.

eggmayo Senior Member

Originally posted by PVS
they are probably saying that the sound carried that far.
doesnt mean they heard a loud bang in holland. could have just
been a mild rumble, like distant thunder.

Or some people in Holland heard a bang at 6:30.
May not even have been the same thing.

mechmoggy Northern Monkey

My favourite quote about the blast was on radio 1 this morning, when the news reporter said the blast had, "...popped open my airing cupboard door...".

Hee hee. 😄

Victor Von Doom Latverian Diplomat

Originally posted by mechmoggy
My favourite quote about the blast was on radio 1 this morning, when the news reporter said the blast had, "...popped open my airing cupboard door...".

Hee hee. 😄

I'm sure there's a profound thought to be had there.

mechmoggy Northern Monkey

It's just the little things that amuse me.