I'm sitting here under a dark, eerie cloud. Yes, I'm ten miles from Buncefield, and the winds blowing the smoke our way. Yesterday the air smelt like a garage service area, today I can't notice a smell, but when I go outside there is a strange texture to the air which seems to coat the tongue. Almost constantly helicopters circle around, doubtless the TV news stations filming the site and the spread of the cloud. All of us were woken by the explosion, soot fell down the chimney, and our reactions varied from an earthquake to a meteor hitting. The sky was a very strange orange and dark grey, quite foreboding, and due to the smoke blocking out the sun all day it felt like the predictions about nuclear winters. With the setting sun it has a strange beauty about it, what the hell is it doing to the environment though?
It's all quite depressing really.
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(12.12.05 16:57) It's very worrying isn't it. The pics are scary, I bet it feels eerie, like a scene from a sci fi film! |
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(12.12.05 22:28) ...and as usual I slept through the whole thing. What about Mr Muse? Did it wake him up? |
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(13.12.05 22:36) RedChic-Like when we had the eclipse. IanB - It woke him!!!!!!!! |
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(14.12.05 11:30) 10 miles away ... you're not at the QE II are you? |
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(14.12.05 15:23) geepeemum - my client may decline to answer that question on the grounds that any public response, in the positive or negative, would be inappropriate. That's one of those questions like: "are you saying no to me?" mwm said "10 miles away" - not "working 10 miles away" or, directly, "asleep in my bed 10 miles away"....one of the benefits and difficulties of blogging is to remain incognito whilst expressing yourself and your thoughts without actually bringing those that you love and work with/for into some kind of disrepute or unwanted fame. Unless, of course, Erudite Baboon is EB's real name [it might be....nah] |
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(14.12.05 16:41) True - of course. Sorry! Just was thinking - I once did an obs placement there... But not thinking about the whole keeping incognito thing (like me - trying hard not to reveal where I work!) |
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(14.12.05 19:21) Geepeemum - No, not the good old QE11, that could narrow it down, slightly 
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(16.12.05 16:54) looks veryspooky |