anyone remember the Buncefield explosion?

[DaveG]

Back in December? Was HUGE news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/4520228.stm

Well...I live half a mile from the site. My house has been fixed now.

Here are some pics from the morning it happened and from a few weeks later

The view from my back bedroom window, 5 minutes after it happened
http://images12.fotki.com/v251/photos/1/105162/2955612/111205010rs-vi.jpg

From the kitchen, about an hour and a half after
http://images14.fotki.com/v247/photos/1/105162/2955612/111205016rs-vi.jpg

2hrs after
http://images12.fotki.com/v251/photos/1/105162/2955612/111205037ps-vi.jpg

Bit later
http://images15.fotki.com/v233/photos/1/105162/2955612/111205086rs-vi.jpg

2 weeks later on the industrial estate. There was a cloud of fuel vapour floating across the industrial, a generator kicked in in this building - which exploded...and sent 20 tanks up
http://images15.fotki.com/v260/photos/1/105162/2955612/251205005-vi.jpg

fire damaged tanks
http://images12.fotki.com/v253/photos/1/105162/2955612/251205088-vi.jpg

http://images12.fotki.com/v254/photos/1/105162/2955612/251205105-vi.jpg

http://images12.fotki.com/v252/photos/1/105162/2955612/271205142-vi.jpg

http://images14.fotki.com/v258/photos/1/105162/2955612/271205143-vi.jpg

the sheer scale of the explosion did this sort of damage to loads of cars and buildings.
http://images14.fotki.com/v257/photos/1/105162/2955612/271205015-vi.jpg

More here...

http://public.fotki.com/DaveGalpin/buncefield_oil_depot

[puzzledzippy]

good pics mate,the person that owns the mini might be a bit gutted

[dannsax]

http://images15.fotki.com/v260/photos/1/105162/2955612/251205005-vi.jpg

my sister used to work there for northgate . there building took the full force of the blast .

http://images12.fotki.com/v251/photos/1/105162/2955612/251205108-vi.jpg

my sisters office is just above where the sign is . on the left hand side .

[Dan]

Some good photo's dave!

[pug_boe]

Do you know what i think those pics are mental (as in really cool!)
They look like Cherynobyl (sp), Ukraine.

Quite eerie