Buncefield Explosion

Well, we slept through the whole thing.... and we live in Abbots Langley which is approximately 4 or 5 miles away.

Friends and colleagues of mine reported being awoken at 6am to the sound of their house shaking... and that was in Watford which is another 3 miles from here.

I thought that something was wrong when I noticed that there was a strange ominous cloud hanging over the village... It looked at first like a rather angry raincloud, but the more I saw it the more it troubled me. Today was truly a strange day in all accounts as we suffered from a powercut during the night and awoke to no heat, lights, fridge etc.. We called the Electricity Board and to cut a long story short, they came out and dealt with it. It was only after having the Radio on did we realise the extent of what had happened up the road from us.

The television has been on Sky and BBC news all day now and we have just found out that the schools are closed in the area so the children will be off for tomorrow at least.

I am not looking forward to the journey to work in the morning.... but I still can't believe we slept through it all... maybe the Chablis the night before assisted our blissful ignorance.