What if your house is inside the proposed blast radius...

[Fetchez la vache]

As I type this there is a huge floating bomb being tugged into one of the Milford Haven LNG refinaries. Demonstrators and bib are out in force, but surely the time to demonstrate has long gone..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/795241...

I live about 5 or 6 miles from there, and if there is an explosion, the immediate blast radius of complete devastation is supposed to be way past my house, not that you'd know anything about it at the time obviously.

So, would you move your family etc or do you just get on with it as hopefully the chances are slim of anything happenning.

Obviously the same stands for nuclear power stations. The surreal thing is that while all this happens, my windows are shaking from the artillery rounds at the local Castle Martin range, and I can hear machine gun fire too. I do hope the two don't meet. What a bizarre world we live in..

[Fetchez la vache]

tonyvid said:

I suppose you have to ask how many have gone bang in the past? Bit of a bummer if your one is the first though.....

Now you mention it..

Linky: Explosion in Ohio, 130 dead

Linky: various facts, including explosion in Belgium

Maybe I should have put that bit earlier

Edited by Fetchez la vache on Friday 20th March 16:12

[Fetchez la vache]

Ha, apologies for playing devils advocate. I've no intention of moving - quite the opposite, and I have no worries about the LNG plant or supposed risks by the usual enviro-nutters - in fact I've been trying to get a post at the plant.

The influx of work and workers into the area due to the combined LNG terminals (there are in fact 2 - projects totalling about $12bn) have been tremendous for the local economy.

Have these all been migrant workers? No not at all. There have certainly been some, but the mainly Polish influx have brought their families with them, and have integrated well with the community, bringing in much needed spending power in these times. The local area has beenhit by a number of major employers going bust, so the influx of spending power has been a godsend to be honest. In fact the only influx of related people to the area who bring very little are the enviro-nutters who live in their tents or caravans, live on lentils, and ironically usually leave behind an unholy mess behind them for others or the council to clear up in their wake.

House prices has been mentioned, and this has to a certain extent lessened the downward spiral that seems to be going on elsewhere. Obviously the house prices have dropped, but not to the extent of other areas out of comuting distance of the terminals, and added to the fact that the house prices rose more before the drop due to the influx. This has of course meant the usual issues of local people finding it hard to afford houses, but that is hardly a local phenomenon.

The area has had and still has; a number of petrolium refinaries, which the usual doom mongerers seem to have forgotten about. Needless to say these are full to the hilt with flamable substances and there haven't been any issues of note. Have there been any scares where things have gone wrong? - Yes, but the safety systems in place did their job as was intended. There WILL be things that break, but thats where the safety systems come into play.

My original posts were deliberately sensationalist Daily Wail in nature, and I'm glad that common sense seems to have prevailedin the poll - also with good informative posts from tinforth2 et al. Realistically the chances of living anywhere in the UK these ays without being near anything "dangerous" are minimal, and yes, the chances of getting hit by a big red bus or similar, are far greater.

Cheers for commenting