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It ain't half windy
Topic Started: Oct 16 2017, 06:06 PM (369 Views)
Lewis
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Nice and breezy here with 60mph winds this pm. What's it like down your neck of the woods?
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Over the last few hours on the NW coast the wind has increased to wheely bins down the road speed. Collection is tomorrow am. Good luck to those guys.

Yes, it's getting very blustery.
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Oct 16 2017, 06:06 PM
Nice and breezy here with 60mph winds this pm. What's it like down your neck of the woods?
Well, it has been a strange day when one could look at the sun with naked eyes, very mild...17c and every now and again a blustery 5 minutes, but apart from that, for mid October I am happy as the heating in my house has not yet come on automatically even though the hallway stat is set to 18c.

Then again, the gas companies always make sure that their shareholders/investors get a fair return on the premium and to do that they will probably reduce the value of BTU's per hour.
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Anyone with a dodgy wall should consider giving it a shove tonight....  >:D
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Oct 16 2017, 07:06 PM
Anyone with a dodgy wall should consider giving it a shove tonight....  >:D
Make sure it falls in the neighbours property and let them claim the insurance whilst your insurance company pays for a new wall for you.....all parties happy.  >:D
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Oct 16 2017, 07:12 PM
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Oct 16 2017, 07:06 PM
Anyone with a dodgy wall should consider giving it a shove tonight....  >:D
Make sure it falls in the neighbours property and let them claim the insurance whilst your insurance company pays for a new wall for you.....all parties happy.  >:D
You socialist you...  >:D
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Oct 16 2017, 07:48 PM
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Oct 16 2017, 07:12 PM
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Oct 16 2017, 07:06 PM
Anyone with a dodgy wall should consider giving it a shove tonight....  >:D
Make sure it falls in the neighbours property and let them claim the insurance whilst your insurance company pays for a new wall for you.....all parties happy.  >:D
You socialist you...  >:D
I would have thought that a more right whinger attitude. A socialist would have offered to share the liability!
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Warm, strange coloured sky and a bit breezy down here in the SE
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Oct 16 2017, 07:58 PM
Warm, strange coloured sky and a bit breezy down here in the SE
Yeah, we had that this morning, the light was very odd. The car was covered with fine Saharan sand. Deep joy.
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Yes we had a very eerie orange sky... and an orange sun
No birds..no wind...... it was like something from a sci fi movie.

Last time I saw anything like like that there was a snow storm coming.

Its howling a gale at the moment...bit of banging around outside...wheelie bins and such
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Oct 16 2017, 09:34 PM
Yes we had a very eerie orange sky... and an orange sun
No birds..no wind...... it was like something from a sci fi movie.

Last time I saw anything like like that there was a snow storm coming.

Its howling a gale at the moment...bit of banging around outside...wheelie bins and such
You're all gonna die!





....some day.
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More wind to hit us.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/fears-of-storm-brian-increase-as-forecasters-issue-warnings-over-dangerous-gusts-hitting-britain-causing-potential-flooding-and-travel-chaos/ar-AAtFJaY?li=AAmiR2Z&ocid=spartandhp
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dunno what all the fuss was about, it's no worse than the average august bank holiday here
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Ah, here's the rain. Glad I didn't bother with the car wash.
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Another storm coming your way..
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Oct 20 2017, 02:26 PM
Another storm coming your way..
And apparently coming our way right across the western and south eastern part of the UK.  :(

Maybe I'll just stay in bed in the morning in the safe knowledge that my conservatory, workshop and greenhouse were built by yours truly. :thumbsup:
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It's 11:51 and "Brian" has just started creeping in and as I look out of the rear window I see my Filbert nut tree bending quite a bit.
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Oct 21 2017, 10:52 AM
It's 11:51 and "Brian" has just started creeping in and as I look out of the rear window I see my Filbert nut tree bending quite a bit.
Sunny and blustery here..I don't think I will rush down to the basement just yet!
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Another question I haven't found an answer for..when there is a tornado in the US...most people hide in their ''basements''...surely the amount of debris would trap them..apart from the house falling down on top of them..Why don't they just get in a car and drive??
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Oct 21 2017, 12:17 PM
Another question I haven't found an answer for..when there is a tornado in the US...most people hide in their ''basements''...surely the amount of debris would trap them..apart from the house falling down on top of them..Why don't they just get in a car and drive??
People get killed in their vehicles by tornadoes, all of the time. They become "aircraft" and can land hundreds of yards away from considerable heights. All that getting in your car protects you from is lightning. (It's the rubber tyres, you know.)Those "basements" that you described are usually kitted out as storm shelters. They are akin to the old bomb shelter idea.
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Oct 21 2017, 12:17 PM
Another question I haven't found an answer for..when there is a tornado in the US...most people hide in their ''basements''...surely the amount of debris would trap them..apart from the house falling down on top of them..Why don't they just get in a car and drive??
People get killed in their vehicles by tornadoes, all of the time. They become "aircraft" and can land hundreds of yards away from considerable heights. All that getting in your car protects you from is lightning. (It's the rubber tyres, you know.)Those "basements" that you described are usually kitted out as storm shelters. They are akin to the old bomb shelter idea.
Do they not have plenty of warning??
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Oct 21 2017, 01:17 PM
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Oct 21 2017, 12:37 PM
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Oct 21 2017, 12:17 PM
Another question I haven't found an answer for..when there is a tornado in the US...most people hide in their ''basements''...surely the amount of debris would trap them..apart from the house falling down on top of them..Why don't they just get in a car and drive??
People get killed in their vehicles by tornadoes, all of the time. They become "aircraft" and can land hundreds of yards away from considerable heights. All that getting in your car protects you from is lightning. (It's the rubber tyres, you know.)Those "basements" that you described are usually kitted out as storm shelters. They are akin to the old bomb shelter idea.
Do they not have plenty of warning??
Sometimes hours ... sometimes minutes. We get warnings about potential tornado conditions, radar images and sightings. Southern Ontario is at the northernmost edge of tornado country and we get them ... deadly ones, even from time to time. Every summer, we hear tornado warnings on all of our media a few times a year during violent fronts with lines of severe thunderstorms associated with them. Tornadoes can form then dissipate within seconds. It can be just like having a bomb fall from the sky.
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Oct 21 2017, 05:22 PM
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Do they not have plenty of warning??
Sometimes hours ... sometimes minutes. We get warnings about potential tornado conditions, radar images and sightings. Southern Ontario is at the northernmost edge of tornado country and we get them ... deadly ones, even from time to time. Every summer, we hear tornado warnings on all of our media a few times a year during violent fronts with lines of severe thunderstorms associated with them. Tornadoes can form then dissipate within seconds. It can be just like having a bomb fall from the sky.
People complain about the weather here in the UK.... imo we do not do too bad whereby we do not get extremes of too hot or too cold, yes, now and again we get flash floods and very short hot periods, but in the main it is comfortable and we cope with our conditions without the need to have a national emergency.

I would describe the UK as being temperate.
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Oct 21 2017, 05:39 PM
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Sometimes hours ... sometimes minutes. We get warnings about potential tornado conditions, radar images and sightings. Southern Ontario is at the northernmost edge of tornado country and we get them ... deadly ones, even from time to time. Every summer, we hear tornado warnings on all of our media a few times a year during violent fronts with lines of severe thunderstorms associated with them. Tornadoes can form then dissipate within seconds. It can be just like having a bomb fall from the sky.
People complain about the weather here in the UK.... imo we do not do too bad whereby we do not get extremes of too hot or too cold, yes, now and again we get flash floods and very short hot periods, but in the main it is comfortable and we cope with our conditions without the need to have a national emergency.

I would describe the UK as being temperate.
We have an odd mixture of a continental and maritime climate around here with the great, freshwater inland seas that surround us on all sides. It's sunny and warm enough three seasons of the year to produce decent wine but cold enough (still, though it's changing fast) that you can play hockey out doors on a pond in winter.
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People complain about the weather here in the UK.... imo we do not do too bad whereby we do not get extremes of too hot or too cold, yes, now and again we get flash floods and very short hot periods, but in the main it is comfortable and we cope with our conditions without the need to have a national emergency.

I would describe the UK as being temperate.
We have an odd mixture of a continental and maritime climate around here with the great, freshwater inland seas that surround us on all sides. It's sunny and warm enough three seasons of the year to produce decent wine but cold enough (still, though it's changing fast) that you can play hockey out doors on a pond in winter.
HOCKEY????.......ffs, have you not yet learned to play football.....in all weathers?

I had to play on snow covered pitches when I was at primary school.
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Oct 21 2017, 06:31 PM
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We have an odd mixture of a continental and maritime climate around here with the great, freshwater inland seas that surround us on all sides. It's sunny and warm enough three seasons of the year to produce decent wine but cold enough (still, though it's changing fast) that you can play hockey out doors on a pond in winter.
HOCKEY????.......ffs, have you not yet learned to play football.....in all weathers?

I had to play on snow covered pitches when I was at primary school.
PITCHES! What lug-jury! WE had to play on a busy highway between the speeding vehicles! UPHILL! ... in both directions!
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HOCKEY????.......ffs, have you not yet learned to play football.....in all weathers?

I had to play on snow covered pitches when I was at primary school.
PITCHES! What lug-jury! WE had to play on a busy highway between the speeding vehicles! UPHILL! ... in both directions!


At my old school we were forced to play Hockey on our outside swimming pool in winter. Even when they put the pool heater on .
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Oct 21 2017, 07:18 PM
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PITCHES! What lug-jury! WE had to play on a busy highway between the speeding vehicles! UPHILL! ... in both directions!


At my old school we were forced to play Hockey on our outside swimming pool in winter. Even when they put the pool heater on .
Joking apart, our first swimming lessons were down at the Thames in a fenced of area by the Promenade....it was fxxxxxg freezing.

But a couple of years later an open air pool was opened called King's meadows swimming baths, and although that was bloody cold too at least one had private dressing facilities and loo's.

Still, I have not drowned since even though I have dived off of the Bridge at Sonning and swam the breadth of the river there many times.
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deepWE had to play on a busy highway between the speeding vehicles! UPHILL! ... in both directions!


At my old school we were forced to play Hockey on our outside swimming pool in winter. Even when they put the pool heater on .
Joking apart, our first swimming lessons were down at the Thames in a fenced of area by the Promenade....it was fxxxxxg freezing.

But a couple of years later an open air pool was opened called King's meadows swimming baths, and although that was bloody cold too at least one had private dressing facilities and loo's.

Still, I have not drowned since even though I have dived off of the Bridge at Sonning and swam the breadth of the river there many times.
I learned to swim well in a deep, cold impossibly ancient lake in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec that was paved with catfish at the bottom.

It was run by the YMCA (who also taught me to be a semi-expert canoist in the same waters) and it was ccccccooooold!

BUT, WE DIGRESS ...
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Joking apart, our first swimming lessons were down at the Thames in a fenced of area by the Promenade....it was fxxxxxg freezing.

But a couple of years later an open air pool was opened called King's meadows swimming baths, and although that was bloody cold too at least one had private dressing facilities and loo's.

Still, I have not drowned since even though I have dived off of the Bridge at Sonning and swam the breadth of the river there many times.
I learned to swim well in a deep, cold impossibly ancient lake in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec that was paved with catfish at the bottom.

It was run by the YMCA (who also taught me to be a semi-expert canoist in the same waters) and it was ccccccooooold!

BUT, WE DIGRESS ...
Shrunken walnuts come to mind.... :thumbsup:


And believe it or not, in those days my cossie was woollen :-[
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