Lightning strike causes large gas explosion in Oxfordshire
A lightning strike caused a large gas explosion at a recycling plant in Oxfordshire on Monday evening.
Video and images shared on social media showed a fireball lighting the sky an orange colour after the incident at the Severn Trent Green Power Plant at Cassington, just off the A40 north of Oxford.
The Met Office had issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms in the area.
Severn Trent Green Power, a waste management company, confirmed the fire had occurred at its Cassington AD facility, near Yarnton, in a statement posted on Facebook on Monday evening.
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Second fella called it straight away. Great shout
From this evidence, we can assume that the mountain of regulations covering the electrical protection of gas and oil installations were dismissed as red tape when and if the question arose with regard to this place. This wasn't just bad luck, otherwise oil refineries all over the world would be going up in flames; it was bad design.
@TransitionedToAShark
9 ай бұрын
Nah but thanks for the contribution
@mikeconey2164
9 ай бұрын
It isn't a gas installation. The lightning hit a digester (gas is a by product).
@AKPArtStudio
9 ай бұрын
It’s always a bad design until regulations allow it be good… until something like this happens
@Nee-vk7zz
9 ай бұрын
😎😎😎😎😎
@Nee-vk7zz
9 ай бұрын
🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
My thoughts & Prayers to Electrons ive never met
@jevgenijanegin580
9 ай бұрын
My thoughts prayers to gas is expensive our days 😬
@trulyexorcise2918
9 ай бұрын
😅😅😅😅😅
@MenBehavingBadly.
9 ай бұрын
Just before the the winter go figure lol
@tubecated_development
9 ай бұрын
@@MenBehavingBadly.DeW 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
@MenBehavingBadly.
9 ай бұрын
@@tubecated_development stop playing with sheep buddy they can’t say yes or no it’s still grape
It's a recycling plant for green energy. Ironic really. Nothing horrible from oil, just a nice fluffy explosion.
@tubecated_development
9 ай бұрын
At least petrochemicals don’t explode
Severn trent AD facility at Cassington Oxford, three of their digesters that produces methane gas from food waste to power generator engines blew up.
What I'd do is evacuate everyone, seize the land and then build a smart city. They love all that in Oxford
@roberthiggins6401
9 ай бұрын
Energy weapon under cover of a lightning storm.
@arsemyth8920
9 ай бұрын
@@roberthiggins6401well... why should Hawaiians have all the fun
@peteroderick104
9 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@WhichDoctor1
9 ай бұрын
@@arsemyth8920 why would elon musk want to shoot his orbital laser at oxford? That just seems soo random
@arsemyth8920
9 ай бұрын
@@WhichDoctor1 wow did I actually say that that happened? These mars bar fingers just can't be trusted with a keyboard
Lightning strike not a laser from the iss.
Maybe it’s just me but I’ve never heard of a wood leak explosion.
@SonOfSassy
9 ай бұрын
Get ya tin foil hat on boys it’s the aliens
@danielreed5199
9 ай бұрын
Oddly enough there has been a few video on KZread recently talking about Wood Gas. I hadn't heard of it myself until recently.
@WhichDoctor1
9 ай бұрын
Saw mills have been known to explode violently if they’re not maintained well. Sawdust floating in the air is highly combustible. Lots of people have died that way
@peterwale6821
9 ай бұрын
@@WhichDoctor1I remember seeing an episode of Mythbusters where they showed how explosive floating saw dust is and then showed that coffee creamer is even more combustible.
@user-gq6ic6ri3r
9 ай бұрын
Coffee creamer😅😂
Thank God it happened at night, and nobody was hurt!
“Ohhhhh my god….oh my god…… ohhhhhh my god”. Crying out loud. We live in an age of one-phrase vocabulary.
@CAL1MBO
9 ай бұрын
lol
@Trylobyte
9 ай бұрын
Yeah they're all stuffing their heads with American crap
@PopeCromwell
9 ай бұрын
I was thinking the same. Find another exclamation!
Surreal to see a giant orange mushroom lighting the sky.
@bendenisereedy7865
9 ай бұрын
Not a giant orange mushroom, don't exaggerate. It was a large fire reflecting off low cloud.
@garymeacham7353
9 ай бұрын
how petty,i hope no one was injured.@@bendenisereedy7865
@verabolton
9 ай бұрын
@@bendenisereedy7865 It's not exaggeration, it does look like a giant orange mushroom, for whatever reason.
How did this happen? Aren’t all facilities with combustible materials supposed to be protects from lighting strikes?
@iacss1880
9 ай бұрын
Sometimes nature is stronger than we anticipate
@garymeacham7353
9 ай бұрын
yes
@reeceturner8310
9 ай бұрын
I only see the lightning strike once then no more which is strange
@superdougie4637
9 ай бұрын
It’s Britain it was likely made with the complete opposite material it was meant for.
@aaku7908
9 ай бұрын
yeah, that's what I thought
By design sadly
So, gas tanks don't have lightning conducters?
@clubberlang5593
9 ай бұрын
Apparently we still live in the 1920s, man these reasons they give are getting ridiculous
@verabolton
9 ай бұрын
Nothing has lightning conductor in England, they say they don't have thunder storms often enough to spend money on it 🙄
@mikes5637
9 ай бұрын
@@veraboltonThis is true. We get maybe half-a-dozen a year in any one area. The chances of lightning strike on any structure are literally millions to one. That's what insurance is for.
Is she saying oh my gods or oh my gas?
How would the company know that no one was hurt?
@bpfromowc
9 ай бұрын
Ehh… because everyone has been accounted for ? 🙄
Why they say oh my god while they are all non believers? Also expect gas price hikes, someone has to pay for it
@demi701
9 ай бұрын
My thoughts exactly...who is their god, and are they using this term as a swear word alongside "holy ****"? It's common place now; the telly is full of it too. 👎
What lightning????
So that would be company negligence then 🤷♂️ Should be shielded by lightning rods on all Critical areas
@verabolton
9 ай бұрын
Brits don't use lightning rods, they say they don't have thunder storms often enough to spend money on it 🙄 🤦♀
@markmaw8
9 ай бұрын
That's a lie, on every one of these sites I've visited there is lightning rods and earthing strips on each tank and the gas bag.
That'll be geo engineering doing its thing.
I mean hope everyone’s ok but looks incredible
This is the start of War Of The Worlds 😂
A fairly peaceful and environmentally friendly explosion.
@ScotttheCubeGuy
9 ай бұрын
It depends what gas combusted.
@barbarazebrowska6713
9 ай бұрын
@@ScotttheCubeGuy Turn on your thinking 😉
@ScotttheCubeGuy
9 ай бұрын
@@barbarazebrowska6713 😉 póg mo thóin
I love in Weymouth and i had some thunder at about 4pm once i came back from school
ET's rocket gone wrong when trying to go back home 😂😂
@CAL1MBO
9 ай бұрын
He used too much nitrous
Suspicious.
I am surprised that there were no lightning towers near the reservoir and it was approved for use
@verabolton
9 ай бұрын
Brits don't use lightning conductors, they say they don't have thunder storms often enough to spend money on it 🙄 🤦♀
@mikeconey2164
9 ай бұрын
What a ridiculous reply.@@verabolton
@mikeconey2164
9 ай бұрын
Reservoir? It is a waste recycling plant.
@verabolton
9 ай бұрын
@@mikeconey2164 Yes, it's ridiculous, but it's true. I used to work in a conference centre on the top of a hill in England. We were regularly struck by lightning that damaged the fire alarm panel. When I suggested the management to install a lightning rod, they told me it wasn't worth it, because lightning was rare here. Yes, it's ridiculous. But true.
Was there even a storm?
@SteveMHN
9 ай бұрын
Yes.
My town and the one next door had a huge strike. Sounded like a bomb and shut the power down over both towns.
@Elfrida-ls2mo
9 ай бұрын
All planned by the Group the Evil 1s and their Top SS and Military Clones World Freedom Fighters Know what they are up to
@tubecated_development
9 ай бұрын
which towns?
@ht-ve9fe
9 ай бұрын
@@tubecated_development Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield
@tubecated_development
9 ай бұрын
@@ht-ve9fe deW attacks?
@ht-ve9fe
9 ай бұрын
Nah just a huge lightning bolt. No idea what it struck but it was the loudest lightning crash I've heard in my life. @@tubecated_development
Imminent upgrade of lightning mitigation measures expected.
@frankiemoore9127
9 ай бұрын
Or regulate
@verabolton
9 ай бұрын
Brits don't use lightning conductors, they say they don't have thunder storms often enough to spend money on it 🙄 🤦♀
@verabolton
9 ай бұрын
I used to work in a conference centre in England, it was on the top of a hill. We had a lightning strike almost every year, it always killed the fire alarm system and left the whole centre in a danger of fire without alarm. Once the strike was so bad, they couldn't repair it for weeks! Still, they wouldn't install a lightning rod, they said it was too expensive (?!) I could never understand this attitude... it looks to me like sheer stupidity 😳 (They do the same with the snow: they don't have equipment to clean the roads of the snow, they say it doesn't happen often enough. So, they shut the country down instead and wait until the snow melts. Because that doesn't cost a lot...🤔 Living in England has been quite an adventure to me lol)
@nexpro6985
9 ай бұрын
@@verabolton incorrect. They tend to be fitted to tall buildings.
@verabolton
9 ай бұрын
@@nexpro6985 Not in England. They don't use them in England, it's not regulated, they're not mandatory on any building or site in the UK.
Thought we had been nuked by Putin for a second then.
This'll be your gas prices going up by £20,000 a month now
Did someone say it was in Bradford ?
@DjSideways
9 ай бұрын
No such luck.
Climate change,covid or Russia
@lovol2
9 ай бұрын
Russia
Yeah. Lightening. No a weapon. And then? The orange cloud. The sky is orange.
I expect the lightning conductor was made out of raac
@verabolton
9 ай бұрын
I don't believe there was any lightning conductor at all. They don't install them in England.
That's really mad 😮 jeez
I’m smelling more BS here
Just a little greenhouse gases released 😮 tax that mushroom
Did a biogas explosion cut off power to the whole of Oxford? An interesting method arises for converting the energy of an explosion into the energy of an electromagnetic field. For such a lockout of the electric current, lightning had to electronically polarize the hydrocarbon molecules, according to its tabulated electronic polarizability, and through the polarization of the molecules, the mechanical energy of the explosion had to increase the electromagnetic component of the field through the electronic configuration deformation of the density of molecules by a lightning discharge, thereby converting the chemical energy of the explosion into a pulse of an electromagnetic field that knocked out electricity. By the way, these are conclusions according to perturbation theory, electron densities, atomic spin-polarization waves, electronic sound.
@teresashinkansen9402
9 ай бұрын
No no. the pulsation releases the electrons into the cloud of a chamber that released volatile hydrocarbons into the streak of particle because the pulsation ionization on the trail of the fireball that energized by the polarization of the molecule dipole captured the lighting, neutrinos released from the plasma ladder and channeled the discharge into a phone wire of the bladder tanks but like the reactor sphere of the Manhattan job but had accident with xenon and rubidion, it got prompt critical and exploded into a shower of Chakerov radiomagnetic emission from the aperture of the vitreous humor. The target in the plasma bag in their cells became of a tangled nucleotides and massive apoptosis resulted in dead cells that made homeostasis stop. An into a pulse of Oxford? An interesting the electromagnetic field through the molecules, thereby converting the polarization densities, atomic spin-polarization theory, electromagnetic field that knocked out electronically polarization waves, electromagnetic configuration waves, electron deformation of the molecules, according to perturbation of the whole of Oxford? An interesting method arises for converting perturbation of the hydrocarbon molecules, according to ionization in tesla coils into the fourth dimension build a portal into the triangle hall with a point of gold that beams into the stars.
Sorry a guy called Faraday have explain how to prevent that century ago, what goes wrong?????
"LIGHTNING"
Goku hit Frieza with that Spirit Bomb
For a second I thought it was a nuke till I read the title
yet another w for cambridge
@R-D-tk9zq
9 ай бұрын
True
Putin will be blamed again 🤣
Who knew recycling could be so dangerous
@Elfrida-ls2mo
9 ай бұрын
England top the EU for worst Air Pollution Respiratory diseases deaths the cause Ban Type Waste Chem Recycling incinerator Plants and Ban type Recycling waste chem Plants they lied to the Public about these Ban type Plants and covered up helped by many
@teresashinkansen9402
9 ай бұрын
Who knew sugar and flour can cause more devastating explosions.
Lightning strike or Drone Strikes😂
The boom that went off above my house last night was the loudest I’ve ever heard and how on earth did it set of that gas station if it didn’t hit it or did it and I didn’t see the lightning like usual it was just a flash then a sonic boom crazy loud all the car alarms on my road went off
Bro In the back knew too much
That's not designed well if lightning can destroy it. We have lightning conductors on buildings and nuclear plants are now immune from meltdown.
@Elfrida-ls2mo
9 ай бұрын
Not if hit by poison 5g Fre weapons or Sona Weapons said by their Creators The spineless obeying voting ones will say what do the creators of these things know Freedom Fighters will Lol and get it
Wagner group did that.
Hmm did someone forget the grounding rod to earth the building???
@Elfrida-ls2mo
9 ай бұрын
They are also under ground every where This is Spineless obeying Orders Traitor Clones Military Made or SS made or both
@verabolton
9 ай бұрын
They don't install lightning conductors in England, they say they don't have thunder storms often enough to spend money on it 🙄
Oxfordheimer
Methane and various other organic VOC become lit... there's some fuel for debate about a fuel source right there.
@mk5346
9 ай бұрын
Or about lightning protection.
@WhichDoctor1
9 ай бұрын
methane is exactly the same stuff we pump out of the north sea and into our boilers to heat our homes
Someone nukes Oxfordshire. Police say no one was injured.
@rowan7149
9 ай бұрын
There wasn’t anyone injured and it wasn’t a nuke. You’d know it was a nuke because the whole of Oxfordshire would be gone.
@brotheriguana
9 ай бұрын
@@rowan7149the whole country would be gone, Russia has nukes capable of blowing up half of Texas
@MichaelPetek
9 ай бұрын
@@rowan7149 It's a dead ringer for Tsar Bomba.
Perhaps it was not lightning? Any official statement is spurious today!
Brits haven't heard of lightning conductor. Or they don't care. 🤦♀
I believe it’s a laser not lightning
Thank goodness nobody got hurt, that's the main thing at end of day
perfect chance for another surge in gas prices, possibly a financial crisis and the return of lockdowns, dine out freebies and also meme stocks skyrocketing
@rowan7149
9 ай бұрын
Why? It’s one biogas plant?
@michaelklemp5510
9 ай бұрын
Why? It's just one food processing facility?
@McYeroc
9 ай бұрын
This guy probably thinks a new lock down is coming ever time it rains lol
@ifthisismyhandlewhereismyspout
9 ай бұрын
Perfect excuse for the tories to blame tax increases on the weather.
@scarpfish
9 ай бұрын
Perfect chance for more idiots to get grifted because they listen to conspiracy theories more than they do science.
atomic bomb night gone wrong, just kidding it's all your winter gas supplies
The irony is, it says it was a 'green' power plant. Think of all that nitrogen and co2 etc that's now in the atmosphere. I bet climate change people are going out of their minds 😂😂😂
Thats just nolan shooting Oppenheimer 2
That was no lightning strike stop telling lies to people.
@bradleydrake6941
9 ай бұрын
There was. I saw lightning out my window last night and I'm sure it wasn't just where I was so it's pretty believable to me
@Itzpapalotl.
9 ай бұрын
@@bradleydrake6941Direct energy weapon
@roddas26
9 ай бұрын
We are doomed people will accept anything they are told😂
@chamindadewage9004
9 ай бұрын
This is BS,gas storages are design like a lighting conductors ,additionally they have fixed rods or divert lighting harmlessly into the ground.When was the last time UK Gas storage hot hit by lighting?
It was daylight when this happened according to upload...not understanding
Racoon City revisited
"what even is that"? Not English love, that's what that is.
@jameswatson5807
9 ай бұрын
?????
@edmundblackaddercoc8522
9 ай бұрын
Lol
No worries , the citizens will pay for it
@ryleyyg
9 ай бұрын
And then the government will send our money too Ukraine
Ive just watched a abc 7 Chicago short from april this year of exactly the same thing happening to a natural gas plant. Coincidence?
Must have hit the bag of wind Coffee.
looks like Grangemouth
Omg was what i was thinking
Oh... My... God...
Lightning didn't look like a stormy day
@jambo8442
9 ай бұрын
Laser?
@rowan7149
9 ай бұрын
It was in Oxfordshire
@jesuxjuice6086
9 ай бұрын
Had lighting down south without any stormy weather so idk
@joannamackillen8345
9 ай бұрын
@@jesuxjuice6086yeah so did I where I live in Scotland. It didnt rain to heavy, but the thunder and lighting was there.
@mcfcguvnors
9 ай бұрын
East Anglia had 6 hours of lightning thunder & no rain
Hopefully it was chipping Norton. We can live in hope.
@YouTube_hates_my_name
9 ай бұрын
Jealousy is ugly
@williamlovelady7217
9 ай бұрын
That is very funny. I lived there or very near for 14 years. The first thing that went through my head was. Is this Chippy?
What goes around comes around
@lorrainecoyle9890
9 ай бұрын
Retaliation will be swift and fast. They Won't even kmow what happened.
@tonywells6990
9 ай бұрын
@@lorrainecoyle9890 Yes we will tear down those darn clouds and their pesky lightning bolts!
Have any coal fired plants blown up like that?
We could do without the constant blasphemy.
Sure its not a russian sabotage?
Get used to it when the nukes come we wont be filming 😅😅
We mess up the environment so much now the environment is messing us up with a gas + lightning wombo combo and 3 wildfires when it wasn’t even that hot
@Bucketbrain82
9 ай бұрын
Don’t be dumb
@daveyboy7305
9 ай бұрын
An made
@daveyboy7305
9 ай бұрын
Man made
@tianqi5008
9 ай бұрын
Marmalade
@mcfcguvnors
9 ай бұрын
dude in east anglia yesterday we had the most mental storm ive ever seen 6 HOURS of lightning with thunder TEN MINUTES after the flashes ,its usually seconds whole sky was black except for 4 white lines that resemble aircraft engine exhausts 6 hours this went on for then around 8 pm it pi$$ed down
Harry potter did it . 🤣
Fuel oxygen source of ignition = fire 😮
Any prove of this lightening strike? Funny, the lightening stuck something that's gonna hit the people in the pocket.
@mikes5637
9 ай бұрын
The second witness literally said he saw it.
@mikeconey2164
9 ай бұрын
It was waste gas from a house waste recycling plant, thicko.
Oh my gawddddddd
"Oh my Gard" >> Simple things please simple minds.
@jameswatson5807
9 ай бұрын
It is a normal reaction, people are going on about "oh my god" like they have never said it.
No way. That was definitely a Russian drone strick🤭
super sajan transformation :D
All them year never get struck by lightening and now get hit. why did it not have a lightening conducter
It could be nuclear 😅
And that's how the greatest war started.
❤
How come no one thought it was the Russians?
No, it doesn't. Bad management caused the explosion. There was no lightning strike. This is a perfect example of how people can be fooled into believing a lack of responsibility is due to unavoidable effects.
They show us how “dangerous”gas is and how very “safe”energy is 😉 A clear plan for thinking people 🤣
not that sustainable nor green after all.
Not sure I believe the reason given?
Maybe this is a small piece from the Russian military space satellite Fireball? Be careful, Brits... 🤫
G-d started his own war.