The ''gas Cloud''

[albaqwerty]

so, it's not from France then?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/27/birling-gap-beauty-spot-evacuated-chlorine-gas-leak-causes-breathing/

Wonder where and what it came from?

[Togo]

Must admit Alba, when I read it I immediately though it may have been one of the big tankers passing through the Channel probably cleaning the hold, or tanks, and illegally flushing them straight into the sea.

[237SJ]

Maybe it was a container of stuff that was already in the sea and it had rotted out.

[albaqwerty]

you could very well be right Togo.
Which begs the question, what sort of conditions are the people working in?

[albaqwerty]

another interesting point 237..
Wasn't there something on the news some months/years back about a load of lego being washed up on the shore somewhere?

I know lego doesn't usually induce stinging eyes etc, unless you stand on it, but what on earth are in these containers that are shipped across the world and slip off?

[237SJ]

Chlorine's used in water treatment works. The treatment works near here has a siren that goes off in case of a chlorine leak and people who live within a 500m radius have to evacuate their houses. Maybe there was a leak from somewhere that wasn't noticed because it was the weekend and no staff where there.

[Arksided]

Who really knows what the French are up to, best just try an keep an eye on them.

[albaqwerty]

must have been scary for those caught up in it.

Am sure some official person said on the news this morning that they have ruled out chlorine.

[albaqwerty]

Arky, am quite surprised that no-one thought that it might be illegal immigrants disguising themselves to get into Engerland.
(now, that would be silly!)

[Baldric]

\\\Who really knows what the French are up to\\\

From the LInk

///But officers on Monday said wind patterns suggested the cloud had not come from the Continent///

[Arksided]

It really must've being scary for those folks... I really can't imagine it.

[Mamyalynne]

The Met Office scientists gave the best explanation , a freak of a weather condition called a 'temperature inversion' can often trap pollution that would otherwise simply disperse.

[Peter Pedant]

news said it deffo wasnt chlorine....
but how can you tell ?

mass spectrograph would give the answer priddy quickly

[youngmafbog]

Do you believe everything you are told Baldric?

[albaqwerty]

there you are, on a Sunday, minding your own business with family/friends and folk come along announcing we are evacuating the beach (and some are wearing breathing apparatus)
Beggars belief.
You'd think only in the world of Stephen King/Hitchcock and not in real life.

[Mamyalynne]

Very unpleasant experience granted, a fair few of the residents will have experienced similar in the past - where they are situated means it has happened before and no doubt will again.

Still needs investigating of course.

[Baldric]

\\\Do you believe everything you are told Baldric?\\\

No, but at least I read Links before replying

[Hopkirk]

It's because of Brexit.

[vulcan42]

The people are being treated so surely the authorities must know what it is to give the correct treatment.

[albaqwerty]

Having dusted down my Conspiracy Theory Hat, am sure the authorities will give us mere mortals something palatable.

Also, the Coastguard guy (?) giving assurances that it won't happen again because it's happened in the past, how on earth can he say such a thing?

[youngmafbog]

Dont get you Baldric. How do you know posters didnt read the link and not believe the media?