Weather Report!
8 Jan 2005 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
curiouswombatWell, we've survived the weather OK. About 5 a.m. this morning the wind speeds were measured at 108 mph near my Mother's, and 110 on the mountain road between here and there. It must have been pretty bad, as there are loads of trees down, and when I woke about 5 a.m. it did sound very fierce.
Our neighbour across the road lost enough slates from his roof to leave a sizeable hole, then one of the flying slates went through the screen of another neighbour's car. My friend from church who lives about half a mile down the hill to the leeward from us,(and so in theory much more sheltered) had both her front and back main windows blown in (front), and out (rear), as the wind went through her flat instead of around it.
I wonder if it will be the worst storm this winter? Possible, but not all that likely!
Our neighbour across the road lost enough slates from his roof to leave a sizeable hole, then one of the flying slates went through the screen of another neighbour's car. My friend from church who lives about half a mile down the hill to the leeward from us,(and so in theory much more sheltered) had both her front and back main windows blown in (front), and out (rear), as the wind went through her flat instead of around it.
I wonder if it will be the worst storm this winter? Possible, but not all that likely!
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Date: 09/01/2005 02:31 am (UTC)Thankful here too.
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Date: 09/01/2005 03:16 am (UTC)How big is the island? (We--our state, that is--Minnesota--is about the size of England and Scotland.) I tired out my New Zealand visitor by driving her up and down the state. She kept saying, "Are we there yet?"
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Date: 09/01/2005 03:40 am (UTC)Julia, perfectly fine with earthquakes, on the whole...
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Date: 09/01/2005 09:51 am (UTC)As the husband says, we are like a small Scotland in many ways - no Loch Ness Monster equivalent though!
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Date: 09/01/2005 10:00 am (UTC)I spent all my childhood here, and severe storms were always just a part of life! My grandfather used to say that we were always less affected by them than people in mainland UK, if they ever got a bad blow like that one, because most things that could be blown over/off, uprooted etc. would have done so last time! We just tidy up, laugh at it all, and make sure everything that's blown loose is fastened down again before next time!
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Date: 11/01/2005 02:03 am (UTC)Here, we're inured to snow, and so have very few snow days.