Black cloud from oil depot, can you see it?

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It's huge
Very doomy looking
(I'm in N London, it's coming over from east)

Its the headlines here in Australia.
They say it doent look suspicious...an accident.

I'm inside it.

Are you ok Anorak? Did you feel the pressure?
Are you staying in so you don't inhale it all?

Yes, yes and yes.

The explosion woke us all up, it woke up the whole street.

Windows and doors hermetically sealed! CAn't see the black pall any more, it's hidden from view by the thin white smoke all around us. It's like a not very dense fog.

Must have been so frightening before you found out what it was. People were thrown out of their beds i just heard on BBC news. It is contained now though isn't it but will burn for days.
I'm glad your alright and i hope it doesn't effect any of you with bad chests! Take care x

Thank you Mrs Fly woman.

It's beginning to smell slightly indoors now. Can't do anything about it though so no point in getting all stressed out.

I can see it from my back garden part of the sky is very dark grey

I'm glad you and your windows are OK, anorak! They were just saying on the news that people whose windows have blown in should go somewhere safer - also had shots of broken glass in peoples' beds, and a bloke who came down the stairs to find his front door lying across them , and the closed M1 almost invisible in the gloom.

Forgot to say I'm in North London too - long way off really

I can't see any broken windows around here. Our loft hatch popped open but that was the only thing.

Jan, you're on aol, aren't you? That footbridge on the aol homepage is in my village. DH and I walked across it last night to get the bus into town.

Its gone all dark here too. i heard it this morning, but thought it was someone doing something on next doors roof Dh was at the bus stop going to work, and thought it was a plane crash.

There was an explosion in a tyre factory opposite a flat i used to live in once, I opened the curtains and the entire sky was black. I got on my knees and began to pray, wailing like a lunatic that the end of the world was nigh.Thats what catholism does to you.

You must be a little bit stressed Anorak, your going to have filthy windows ffs x

It's very misty here (west London) and I think I must've been disturbed by the bang because I woke up then, but it didn't register.

Hope you're OK, Anorak.

No, not stressed at all. Don't think it's that bad, really. The sky is lighter now than it was a couple of hours ago. It's like a sunny, misty day now. I think the thick black smoke is blowing over and away from us at the moment.

Just opened the door to a neighbour and the air is very acrid smelling.

I'm in East London and it went really dark just a while ago, seems to be a bit lighter again now.

Yes, I think all the blackness has blown to our house! Its so dark that I feel all christmassy and have the urge to put up my decorations! Shame they're in the loft. Seriously though, glad you're not stressed about it Anorak... it could've been alot worse.

I was up with a teething ds and thought someone was kicking the front door as it was shaking that loudy. Yikes. Am in NW London btw.

How odd. The misty atmosphere has cleared and we now have brilliant sunshine and a hazy blue sky with the pall of black smoke clearly visible again.

Did the explosion wake you up, Christie?

Where's your black sky, Ixel? It has come over black in Reading - we have been debating whether it's smoke.

Are you prepared for more explosions?

Don't know what we'd do to prepare for more.

Surely they won't be as big as the first one, and that didn't damage us.

I just mean you might jump.

cant see it here.