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Same here, Milly. In fact the sun was shining a moment ago. I woke at 3 a.m and thought, "Where's the gale?". It rained quite a lot, but nothing unusual.
The weather and news people keep saying, apparently hoping they can still get a good story, that it could get worse. High tide could be interesting in Millyland.
It does look quite bad further south.
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Hello Mary. Apparently the rough weather is going to catch up with us later today. High tide has been ok so far but tonight may indeed be interesting. At the moment the sea is like a mill pond and we don't have so much as a breeze. I'm sure I'll regret saying that.....  |
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« Reply #47 on: 09:12:41, 10-03-2008 » |
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Seems to me another case of sensationalist reporting, or predicting, of severe weather which to be honest hasn't happened. Blustery winds would be a good description, just seen a BBC reporter hanging onto a lampost in Brighton  A few trees down. The most dramatic e-mail sent to Skynews was from a woman in a caravan in Wales who was kept up all night with the rain oh and, honest, one from a woman who found her drenched cat on the doorstep, I don't know how Eamonn Holmes kept a straight face, he usually cracks up at stuff like this Here in the Midlands it rained a little about 8.15am....... It's now glorious sunshine (9.10am) I think I'll go out a prune some hedges Come on, we had much worse weather last SUMMER! O, the weathermen's blushes have been spared, a tanker ran aground off the the Isle of Wight |
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« Reply #48 on: 09:16:14, 10-03-2008 » |
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It's on days like today that I'm glad my route to work now involves a door-to-door (or rather, door-almost-to-door) bus.
I had the Storm interlude from Peter Grimes in mind while walking against the wind from the bus stop to the bacon sandwich shop and then to the office...
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Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #49 on: 09:17:44, 10-03-2008 » |
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I had the Storm interlude from Peter Grimes in mind while walking against the wind from the bus stop to the bacon sandwich shop and then to the office...
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« Reply #50 on: 09:22:30, 10-03-2008 » |
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Careful John! Michael Fish has never lived down saying "Hurricane? What hurricane! There is no hurricane!" The day is yet young......  |
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« Reply #51 on: 09:29:28, 10-03-2008 » |
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Hope Martle - who is a lot nearer the sea than I am - is OK.
I'm fine, PW - thanks! Pretty blustery down on the seafront earlier on, but thankfully my house is round the corner, surrounded by the higher buildings on Brunswick Terrace and Brunswick Square, so fairly well sheltered. Right now, it feels like the lull before the (next) storm. Eeerily quiet...  |
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« Reply #52 on: 09:30:20, 10-03-2008 » |
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yeah I'm tempting fate. There's seven flood warnings. Last summer we had 64 What is it with British and their weather? They get distraught when rain calls off their cricket or their coffee morning on the patio. When I lived in Ohio it used to snow four inches every day for a month, never missed a day at work. We had our own little snow plough that I used like a lawnmower to clear the drive. Neighbours with 4x4's with snowblades had already cleared the roads.
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« Reply #53 on: 09:50:57, 10-03-2008 » |
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What is it with British and their weather?
John, it's Great British Tradition! The Brits never fail to express astonishment that weather has happened in any form. Conversation throughout the land is dependent upon this! |
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« Reply #54 on: 09:58:39, 10-03-2008 » |
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yeah I'm tempting fate. There's seven flood warnings. Last summer we had 64 What is it with British and their weather? They get distraught when rain calls off their cricket or their coffee morning on the patio. When I lived in Ohio it used to snow four inches every day for a month, never missed a day at work. We had our own little snow plough that I used like a lawnmower to clear the drive. Neighbours with 4x4's with snowblades had already cleared the roads. Yes - we have a long way to go don't we? When so much as a falling leaf lands on the railway lines our transport system grinds to a halt. |
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The big hoot on US chat shows last week, e.g. Jay Leno, was 'The English Earthquake'. They reminded viewers what earthquakes were showing film of collapsed highways in LA and towns reduced to rubble in Mexico, many casualties, then they showed newsreels in England from last week, of really concerned reporters, phone-ins from people whose CDs and birthday cards fell over, oh and in the whole country yes just one chimney did fall though a ceiling, one person injured in the whole country....... and it was headline news for six days |
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« Reply #56 on: 12:05:21, 10-03-2008 » |
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I had the Storm interlude from Peter Grimes in mind while walking against the wind from the bus stop to the bacon sandwich shop and then to the office...
I'm going to see it on Saturday - or rather the live cinema transmission from the Met. Let's hope it's not too appropriate! |
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« Reply #57 on: 22:45:42, 10-03-2008 » |
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I was so engrossed in Stephen Hawking and then QI that I didn't notice that the gales seem to have caught up with us here. Very blustery, but still nothing really to write home about....yet. Having seen what's happened to Brighton on the news, it's a good thing the R3ok meet-up was on Sunday! |
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« Reply #58 on: 23:00:27, 10-03-2008 » |
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QI? Have I missed one?
The news did have some scary weather pictures. I loved the swans swimming down the High Street in Flushing (Cornwall), but if I lived there I probably wouldn't be quite so impressed.
The worst we've had so far has been some very, very heavy rain.
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« Reply #59 on: 23:04:03, 10-03-2008 » |
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Did anyone see that fil of the train going through a wave gashing down onto the railway line on the news? Must be one of the best pictures I ever seen!!
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