High Winds In The Uk

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Originally posted by MarkEE@Jan 18 2007, 06:10 PM


Out of pure interest, what is your job exactly, Venusian?
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Ah, g'wan MarkEE - admit it - you're just missing the old Channel 4 Gardening forum, aren't you!!
 
Two killed in the storms in the Greater Manchester area today. One man blown into a metal shutter near Strangeways prison. Pensioner crushed by a wall that collapsed in Marple...
 
But WHY must people roam the streets when we've got a near-hurricane blowing? We're not used to this (although we ought to get so) and stuff just hurls around all over the place. I had to go to the dentist this morning and I took a taxi there and back, door to door. But there were still plenty of people trying to 'stroll' around, looking casual, because they think this weather is fun and bracing. It IS fun and bracing, but you've a good chance of having your legs taken off at the knees by an errant piece of corrugated iron or being beaned :blink: by someone's plant pot off a roof garden. It's your call, but sometimes it's not a very wise one.
 
And you won't be doing much more if you continue your wild and reckless behaviour of double-digging in a hurricane, Ven! Now stop it - we have few enough breeding and bloodline boffins on here, and we can't afford to lose one!
 
My Wheely Bin has disappeared, but thats as dramatci as it gets for me. More seriosuly though the MD of Birmingham Airport was killed when a branch went through his windscreen.
 
We've somehow missed the worst of the weather. A thunderstorm this morning, strangely,and a bit breezy but that's been it!!
 
Chaos at work, no trains running south since about 1pm. Crewe Station has been shut as the roof blew off.

I was questioned out at 2pm, worked till 7.30pm.
 
Thanks, Ven. Hmmmm....the obvious answer really. I should have guessed :P !

At least I knew what I was talking about on that forum, Julie!
 
Told earlier in the day that emergency calls for ambulances were being delayed because rear doors of the vehicles were being blown off.

Also on local news: tragically an 80 year old was died while trying to repair his blown down fence. I couldn't help but think that perhaps he might have waited while the storm subsided.

Also Blackpool Prom made the national news, obviously it is a place where reporters can show their bravado in the face of a storm without the risk of being crushed by falling trees.

Winds died down now.
 
We've had our electricity off for most of the day. Thankfully at work we have an indoor school, and most of the horses are only trotting atm, those in work had a quiet day. Although the school was making some very strange noises, and the little 2yos were quite worried at some points! I dread to think how many loose ones there were on the gallops if it had been a work morning!!
 
Crazyhorse is stuck in Ireland until Saturday due to high winds! (Any excuse to stay longer at Coolmore).

Our office block by Heathrow had bits of wood being blown off the roof so we all had to move our cars in the car park to prevent mayhem.

Meanwhile at home here in Greater London near Hampton Court our elderly cat nipped out her cat flap to 'do her business' in the communal gardens and was blown into a large shrub where I found her sometime later.

I must remember to feed her more to weight her down, or give her a litter tray.
 
I am sorry Isinglass but I found that really funny. I can imagine the scene with the cat :D
 
I can top that! Spoke to Muriel and she took her whippet, Millie, out for her walk in that wind. Now, Millie is not the slimmest whippet there ever was... Anyway, they get up the hill OK, even though walking into the wind but, as they turned to come back down, a gust nearly took Mu off her feet and Millie became Millie the Flying Whippet! Shw was literally thrown into the air and was sent bowling down the hill, completely unable to get her feet back! I think the fact that she's quite spherical and not ultra sleek did not help her cause....

I couldn't stop laughing but Mu was apparently very worried for her!
 
I don't know.. A wee bit of a breeze and it's headline news. I've had more wind after a mild curry.

I remember the great storm of January 1968... aaaaaye...
 
A few pics of where i live, albeit i live about 15 mins car ride from the prom.



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As I type, the breeze is starting to develop. It is probably all of 80mph. No doubt you won't get to hear of it down there tomorrow...
 
I love it at work when this sort of thing happens, especially when you get that odd irate passenger demanding to know what Virgin will do about getting them to London. Come back tomorrow morning and no we`re not contributing towards any hotel bills never does go down well for some reason.
 
You sound like a parody out of Little Britain, Euronymous. Played by David Walliams, staring into the distance and refusing to show the slightest interest in the problems which your company's customers might have, smug and jobsworthy through the day, happy to have been as unhelpful as possible. If your assessment is that members of the British public are crap, it's people with your mean-spirited attitude that turn them into little sh1ts.
 
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