mile oak
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Anyone need to change their underwear after being alerted in the cinema
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[News] Storm 'red alert'
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Anyone need to change their underwear after being alerted in the cinema
Cotton Socks
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- Feb 20, 2017
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You're going to look like a bit of a tw@t if tomorrows main headlines are about multiple deaths due to the storm. 
Another red alert for Storm Eowyn tonight/tomorrow - NI and Scotland, so not for most of you! It's Amber in Cumbria - with 75mph gusts and 'danger of roof being blown off'.
I've charged my torches, got the oil lamps down, and filled up the log basket.
I've charged my torches, got the oil lamps down, and filled up the log basket.
Don’t worry, you still have 16 hours to put your Everton ticket on the exchange.
The most important thing to remember at times like these is to absolutely make sure you get to watch BigJetTV, and similar YouTube channels, so you can laugh at large commercial airliners, full of hundreds of shit-scared people, trying to land sideways.
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The Clamp
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Seems to be one dangerous storm after another recently.
Climate change?
Brits loving a “crisis”?
Climate change?
Brits loving a “crisis”?
100% this.
The CRO of my company has a flight tomorrow from Dublin to New York. Almost certainly not going to happen but a guaranteed roller coaster take off if it does. And landing is worse (says someone who was on a sideways landing in the storm in late November).
- Oct 20, 2022
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I’m more concerned with how the Thameslink from Cambridge is going to land in Brighton in the middle of a tornado!
Tubby Mondays
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I hope everyone who’s got a child’s trampoline in the garden has seen these warnings.
It would be depressing to see picture after picture of one on a railway line blocking train routes so that hard working tax payers can’t get to work.
Still that hasn’t happened since the last storm and the 94 before it so I’m sure it’ll be different this time.
It would be depressing to see picture after picture of one on a railway line blocking train routes so that hard working tax payers can’t get to work.
Still that hasn’t happened since the last storm and the 94 before it so I’m sure it’ll be different this time.
A bit of that. Yellow warnings don't even register with me anymore - because we have had a whole series of them where it's ended up being just a bit blowy. But when it gets to Amber I take a bit more notice - and they are chatting about the storm tomorrow possibly being the worst in the UK system since 1961.
We'll see. It's very calm here at the moment, the fun and games is from 2 am onwards, and especially mid-morning.
Ventusky wind map looks interesting.
- Oct 20, 2022
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Definitely links to storms getting more intense but direct causation unproven
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The Clamp
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I am on night shift so I’ll be able to see this develop
- Oct 20, 2022
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If your ears start popping, head for the nearest shelter and tie yourself down
The Clamp
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I think I’ll just let it whisk me away. You never knew where I might end up!If your ears start popping, head for the nearest shelter and tie yourself down
The thing about them isn't just the frequency, but the variety.
Storm Desmond caused an enormous amount of damage up here - it was mostly flooding and hillsides/paths ripped out through intense heavy rainfall, the like of which I've not seen before or since.
Then Storm Arwen a couple of years ago was almost rainless. It was high winds - but it caused a huge amount of damage because the wind was from the north, instead of from the south/south west. All the trees that had grown up withstanding southerly storms suddenly had this tremendous storm from the north. Their roots weren't developed that way. We lost an enormous amount of 100-200 year-old oak trees that simply hadn't been bothered by storms before.
This one looks to be mainly wet to begin with, then when the wind gets up it's turning dry. So, we might escape without too much damage.
My new conservatory will get it's first test anyway.
Coldeanseagull
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Croydon?
The Clamp
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I was thinking a storm drain but yeah, similar enough.
The army helicopters are out above our house having fun.