To Whom It May Concern re; Weather.
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curiouswombatTo Whom It May Concern re; Weather.
Severe Storm Force 11 once every 2 or 3 years can be quite exciting. But for the 3rd...4th...5th time in one winter? It is getting boring now.
Yes - we have force 11 again, gusts of 80mph+, things blowing around in the garden, in the street, and so on. Boat and flights cancelled, trees down, roads flooded...
Hard to remember that beautiful day on Monday, now.
Severe Storm Force 11 once every 2 or 3 years can be quite exciting. But for the 3rd...4th...5th time in one winter? It is getting boring now.
Yes - we have force 11 again, gusts of 80mph+, things blowing around in the garden, in the street, and so on. Boat and flights cancelled, trees down, roads flooded...
Hard to remember that beautiful day on Monday, now.
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Date: 12/02/2014 07:01 pm (UTC)And in poor Atlanta, here in the US, they are expecting an inch and a half of ice, which will take down hundreds of trees.
Damn.
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Date: 12/02/2014 07:03 pm (UTC)It just get worse and worse!
Stay safe and warm and I hope you don't suffer any serious damage :-O
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Date: 12/02/2014 07:40 pm (UTC)Spring, soon, would be good.
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Date: 12/02/2014 07:17 pm (UTC)Been emailing my uncle in North Wales. At 3.00 he said it was getting 'really hairy' and then they started reporting gusts of 106 miles an hour just down the coast. He moved there 19 years ago and has never experienced anything like it. He lost power for an hour, and said slates had come off the roof, and he and my aunt were just having a glass of whiskey, as it is just easing now, so they had about four hours of it. No-one will be able to assess the full damage until it gets light. But it sounds as if it will be awful.
I hope it passes you quickly. Keep safe!
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Date: 12/02/2014 07:47 pm (UTC)But a couple of weeks of dry calm days would be much appreciated all round, I think!
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Date: 12/02/2014 07:26 pm (UTC)I hope you stay safe and dry, and others (like
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Date: 12/02/2014 07:49 pm (UTC)We are well above any possible flooding - but the wind is pretty horrific at the moment.
I just think it is time for us to have spring. A nice, quiet, dry, spring.
Last time I asked, Azalias' new house was still above water... I'm hoping it still is.
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Date: 12/02/2014 07:50 pm (UTC)I just think it is time for spring now...
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Date: 12/02/2014 07:55 pm (UTC)Probably the big hunk that fell off in the high winds last week was the only loose bit... we hope!
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Date: 12/02/2014 07:37 pm (UTC)Stay safe.
Hate to tell you I am sitting here in a tee shirt in 70degree weather, blue skies, fluffy clouds and that funny, big yellow thing in the sky!
Huggs,
Lynda
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Date: 12/02/2014 08:02 pm (UTC)That is our mid-summer!
Fortunately we cope well with the amount of flooding we get - roads closed for flooding this afternoon will be open tomorrow. It is the wind damage that is our biggest problem, and the lack of transport on & off island. But we can feed ourselves pretty well for a few days too.
So much wet weather means that the earth is too soft to hold some of the trees any more, and they are getting too easily blown over.
And yes, thank you, my brother-in-law and his friend put up the new shed - and when I spoke to her a couple of hours ago it was standing up to the weather OK.
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Date: 12/02/2014 08:07 pm (UTC)We are nice and warm at present - I'm kind of over-heating the house so it will stay warm if the power goes off.
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Date: 12/02/2014 08:38 pm (UTC)Amazing how we get used to this. I've water seeping in at my front wall periodically now, where the pointing is giving up, but there seems no point in looking to fix it till things are drier, really. Which must happen sometime, mustn't it?
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Date: 12/02/2014 10:11 pm (UTC)And yes - that beautiful day on Monday felt positively strange, we are used to high winds and rain.
A dry, calm, spring, now! would be good....
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Date: 12/02/2014 09:01 pm (UTC)Stay safe, warm and dry!
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Date: 12/02/2014 10:14 pm (UTC)But I think the worst has past now - we are down to a 9 or so, I reckon, and improving.
So far we are warm, dry, and have power... so looking good.
How's your Mum doing?
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Date: 12/02/2014 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 12/02/2014 09:43 pm (UTC)I hope you get sunny spring days soon, soon!
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Date: 12/02/2014 10:17 pm (UTC)But spring would be very, very, welcome.
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Date: 12/02/2014 10:20 pm (UTC)I'd go for the wall and independence if I was you. Although the Westminster government would expect you to have your own currency, it seems.
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Date: 12/02/2014 10:36 pm (UTC)May Spring peek in SOON.
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Date: 12/02/2014 11:42 pm (UTC)Spring will be very welcome.
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Date: 12/02/2014 10:46 pm (UTC)I was half-listening to Question Time last night and heard a Labor MP kicking Cameron all around the block for his lack of committment to storm and flood relief. It was edifying.
Julia, suck a vivid and precise expansion on Cameron's inability to tell his ass from a hole in the ground, I was inspired.
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Date: 12/02/2014 11:49 pm (UTC)Fortunately our island copes fairly well with rain - but we have had damage to the sea walls in four or five places. We don't rely on the British government, we'll just have to hope the repairs get done with money from our own government reserves.
But Cameron is so two faced. As someone pointed out, he only said 'Money is no object' when the flooding reached the home counties. And also, despite that statement, he is not willing to give any more to the environment agency to pay for flood defences or even for more equipment - and he is not going to change the plans for cutting their budget this year and so requiring them to cut the workforce.
So presumably all this money he is talking about will go to private firms, probably run by his old school chums...
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Date: 12/02/2014 11:40 pm (UTC)It was very wild here but calmed down a bit in the late afternoon. I seem to get soaked every time I step out the front door but getting blown away as well was a bit too much. At least we're not flooded...yet.
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Date: 12/02/2014 11:51 pm (UTC)The rain was proceeding in the horizontal at one stage this afternoon! Let's hope you remain above the tide-line.
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