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UK Storms - 2/12/2014 10:12:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		Any Brits badly affected? The winds here in Bristol are pretty damned strong, despite our only having a yellow warning. Anyone here in a red warning area?

A question: Why the *feck* do people think that umbrellas will work against rain when said rain is accompanied by winds like these? I've just seen some old boy's brolly get snatched up into the air and dumped in the Avon.

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 10:21:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		It's windy here in the north east, but not too bad. The news says it'll get worse during the night. I'm glad I don't wear a toupee!

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 10:21:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		It's pretty bad where I'm from apparently, but I'm in Italy at the moment so I can't say for sure. I'm hoping my plane will be able to land on Saturday, how long is it forecast for?

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 10:46:47 AM   
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It's pretty bad where I'm from apparently, but I'm in Italy at the moment so I can't say for sure. I'm hoping my plane will be able to land on Saturday, how long is it forecast for?


They reckon there'll be a lull tomorrow, but another storm will hit us on Friday.

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 10:51:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		Floods in my home town(that has a "ford" in its name), last time it flooded as bad as was back in 1960...before my time
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just got off the phone with my mum, shes now living in ruislip, and altho its wet and cold, shes fine, my sister lives between Winchester and Leeds(both towns and commutes) and is not having much luck with the trains. And Winch is flooded in the lower part of town. Bath is the same I hear. Ol man river thames is looking mighty high, ack
I have a friend in Lowestosft that is suffering. But others seem to be ok ... Kepp warm n dry, that damp will get right into your bones!!!!

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 10:52:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		it's bad where I am right now. we've had torrential rain all day, and now have very strong gusting wind. the forecast says 35mph, but i'm guessing it's at least double that for sure. my house is shaking with it, and I am not a happy camper because we have a massive sycamore tree in the garden fence line that my neighbour has been saying she is having cut down all winter. with the very sodden ground i'm worried that bugger is going to get ripped up. further forecasts expect the wind to hit 90mph!

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 1:24:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		It is time to climb that tree and cut some branches.

I do hope that umbrella carrying Englishmen are not blown across the North Sea unto The Netherlands. We do not have sufficient bacon and eggs to feed them in the morning. Will a glass of milk do?

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 1:28:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		ts horrible in the south east. london is crappy too. and apparently essex is very windy.
pretty much horrible weather everywhere!! :(

at least there isnt any snow!!! :D

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 1:37:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		Got friends in Colchester that had a tree come down through their drive and garden and its completely crushed his van.

Our shipping container toppled over and sank in a high tide and although its been recovered it was full of sea water. It has a lot of our worldly good in it but it looks like we will lose the lot. We can't even let the harber master break the locks because there's dungeon furniture inside

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 1:38:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wind, rain, and hail had me heading back home today, cutting my night short.

I'm not complaining after last year's big freeze, but I guess London isn't as bad as those poor Surrey folk in waterlogged houses.

Oh yes, a destroyed umbrella yesterday with unexpected winds - I think I need to invest in some sort of crash helmet, as hoods are pretty much useless too.

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 1:46:30 PM   
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I do hope that umbrella carrying Englishmen are not blown across the North Sea unto The Netherlands.


Most of our children's nannies are blown in during windy periods like this. However, they have ocean-going umbrellas.

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 1:49:30 PM   
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

Any Brits badly affected? The winds here in Bristol are pretty damned strong, despite our only having a yellow warning. Anyone here in a red warning area?

A question: Why the *feck* do people think that umbrellas will work against rain when said rain is accompanied by winds like these? I've just seen some old boy's brolly get snatched up into the air and dumped in the Avon.


Yeah, Aflie, Kia and I were almost blown away today, went for a walk in the park with them, got almost killed by falling branches, Alfie did his usual running like a dog possessed, but when he jumped he was blown a few meters sideways. After a big branch missed my head and Kia barked at the nasty tree who attacked her mom, we decided to go home... H said on the way back from work some trees were blown over and fell across the road, took him about 2 hours for what usually takes him 20 minutes... Pretty grim "up north"

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 1:52:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		How many of you blokes is drowning in the Thames? 

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 1:57:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		I heard that somewhere up the Welsh coast had winds recorded at 108mph!
Several water boreholes are now at the highest level they have ever been. One of these hasn't been as high as this for 179 years.
The river Severn is at one of it's highest points for decades.
Many places have had floods and stuff in the past but not for as long periods that it is now.
It's been the wettest December and January since 1766.

Until the US have finished with all their stormy shit, we're going to cop high winds and a load of wet stuff for weeks and weeks due to the jetstream.
The BBC news said last night that even if it didn't rain for 6 months, we still won't have gotten rid of all the water that has saturated the grounds.

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 1:57:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think this wind is strong enough to make me think, 'Hear a loud crack, frigging run fast'.

And *no* cycling. Oh no.

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 1:58:16 PM   
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How many of you blokes is drowning in the Thames? 



Geography would help... You wouldn't ask people in NYC if they're drowning in the Mississippi, would you? Bloody Colonials

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 2:01:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yeah, I understand you are all geordies and liverpudllians and and exeter beekeepers and cornwall cornholes and whatnot, but there must be some blokes up near London and other places on the banks of the Thames, that post here, isn't Polite a westender, for example?

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 2:01:15 PM   
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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

How many of you blokes is drowning in the Thames? 



Geography would help... You wouldn't ask people in NYC if they're drowning in the Mississippi, would you? Bloody Colonials



I wouldn't put it past a lot of people. I keep hearing stories of cretins who ignore all the 'Flood Ahead' signs and drive into newly-formed lakes in the road.

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 2:07:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think the biggest problem is not the floods and high winds as such, but the fact that the water is laying around going stagnant and getting polluted from the flooded sewers and cesspits.
And all those small creatures (insects, worms, mice, voles etc) that can usually withstand a flash flood of a day or three are now dead and decomposing in the water.
And a good few dead livestock animals into the mix and the water starts smelling and getting pretty toxic.

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RE: UK Storms - 2/12/2014 2:17:57 PM   
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Try some of these for size. At least when we have floods over here, it's usually warm. *smile*.

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