Oil Blaze at Hemel Hempstead

**hulkhuss** · December 12, 2005, 05:01:30 PM

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stupid plot to raise gas prices imo.........

**GregWhelan** · December 12, 2005, 05:06:52 PM

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I can't believe people heard if in holland, thats just tosh. I didnt hear it and I'm 13 miles away. Neither did my housemate or any of my family. Yet people in Holland heard it?Yeah right

**picklemonkey** · December 12, 2005, 05:09:51 PM

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I heard it, and I'm in Kansas City!

**NastyD** · December 12, 2005, 05:22:22 PM

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Originally posted by GregWhelan

I can't believe people heard if in holland, thats just tosh. I didnt hear it and I'm 13 miles away. Neither did my housemate or any of my family. Yet people in Holland heard it?Yeah right

Yeah, but were you up and about at 6.02 am? They say that the reason the bang was heard so far away is the same as why the cloud is travelling the way it is. A layer of warm air high up is keeping the cold air at ground level or there abouts. It creates a layer through which air cannot pass (or something like that). So instead of just going up into the upper atmosphere the smoke particles travel along the bottom of the thermal boundary with the breeze - and because sound is transmitted by air, so do the sound waves.

Anyway, the beeb were showing footage of a live broadcast from Central London from that time yesterday morning and the reporter heard it and commented it. That is around about 25 miles away.

**fletcher** · December 13, 2005, 09:27:45 AM

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This is my favourite image so far...

**hulkhuss** · December 13, 2005, 10:42:03 AM

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Originally posted by picklemonkey

I heard it, and I'm in Kansas City!

yeah i heard it underwater!!

**miketpoto** · December 13, 2005, 12:43:45 PM

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I heard it from my friends about the things you said.

FM · December 14, 2005, 02:04:19 AM

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Originally posted by NastyD

Yeah, but were you up and about at 6.02 am? They say that the reason the bang was heard so far away is the same as why the cloud is travelling the way it is. A layer of warm air high up is keeping the cold air at ground level or there abouts. It creates a layer through which air cannot pass (or something like that). So instead of just going up into the upper atmosphere the smoke particles travel along the bottom of the thermal boundary with the breeze - and because sound is transmitted by air, so do the sound waves.

Anyway, the beeb were showing footage of a live broadcast from Central London from that time yesterday morning and the reporter heard it and commented it. That is around about 25 miles away.

The Times & The Sunday Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1927710,00.html

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

**NastyD** · December 14, 2005, 07:04:28 AM

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Originally posted by FM

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...927710,00.html

He must have read my post

**phazon** · December 14, 2005, 02:25:27 PM

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Police have today confirmed that George Best was not in fact buried in Belfast last week and that in retrospect the decision to cremate him in Hemel Hemstead on Sunday morning might have been a mistake.

Not in the best of taste - but pretty funny!

**phazon** · December 14, 2005, 02:26:57 PM

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Originally posted by miss_catness

does anyone know what happened to cause the blaze yet?

They think that a driver may have caused it accidently when cutting his engine near a leak.

**hulkhuss** · December 14, 2005, 04:05:18 PM

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the fire is out now

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