Well I couldn’t see anything amiss when I looked this morning. I even took the dog up part of the alley to the back of me (when looking up to my roof), half expecting to see a brick wall down, but no, nothing. All looks ok on my property, but it still doesn’t tell me what that crash was, where it came from and who it has affected.
Swimmy, l totally agree. I never understand some people’s obsession with the weather.
You just have to cope with it, as you can’t do anything about it!
If it rains, people complain
When it’s hot, people complain.
If it’s cold, people complain.
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Even the Met Office have officially stated that these two storms are nothing to do with climate change, just a freak weather occurrence caused by a very unusual chain of events.
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After the storms … Paul McCartney to calm and soothe👇
Someone’s sleeping
Through a bad dream
Tomorrow it will be over
For the world will soon be waking
To a summer’s day
How do you know?
We’ve only had all this media stuff for less than a century!
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How peculiar Jazzi. Oh well, just be thankful everything seems alright ey.
Unless I feel brave enough to take a look inside my loft. Argh…
Might be an idea, if you can manage it.
Don’t know about where you are, but there’s more winds forecast all day tomorrow through till Monday. Not supposed to be quite as bad though, more like 40-50 mph.
Well not in my lifetime. I rarely remember storms as a child. The only one we had was the 1987 storm and that was a one off, like the drought of 1976. The rest of the time the weather was fairly predictable - rain in the summer, rain in the winter, one day of snow maybe, occasional sunny spells, more rain.
Looking at the history it used be a once in a century occurrence now it seems very regular
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Were you around in the eighteenth century then Annie?
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Snow may be nothing but floods are a very big deal in Poland. We aren’t prepared for extreme weather because it hardly ever used to happen.
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Of course it did Annie, but there was less infrastructure to damage.
I’ve just posted a link to the worst storms on these isles OGF but I was talking about my lifetime as I said, nothing like this in my experience apart from 87
Again thinking of my own lifetime when we would have one day of snow or two or three at most and we would all get excited as kids and then it would all melt.
We had a severe blizzard on 19th Feb 78, cut the south west off for a couple of days.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2008/02/21/blizzards_1978_archive_video_feature.shtml
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It was really snowy in 1981, we had great fun doing snow scenes in art class. 1990/91 too. Then we had a spell in was it 2009, 2016 or 17 was it too? (beast from the East?) and one or two days last year. Last year it was quite late and close to spring. Freezes do seem to be getting closer and closer to flowering time and can ruin crops and spring blooms. That must mess up all the bees and insects. But they never last for weeks as they would in Northern Europe. So of course we aren’t going to prepare for months.
Lucky it didn’t match up with the high tides round here so the waves were high but not too bad
People were warned to stay away but these people where my son and daughter in law live didn’t get the message
During my 71 (son to be 72) years on this planet Annie, I have witnessed biblical proportions of rain, wind, snow, Ice, drought, heatwaves, thunderstorms and all kinds of extreme weather events. Are you suggesting that prior to our occupation of the planet nothing like this has ever happened before?
How do you know that for the last ten thousand years we have had it fairly calm as far as weather goes, and now it is returning to normal?
We know that sea levels were a lot higher than they are now, winters were a lot colder, and summers were a lot warmer. There is a great deal of difference between climate and weather, both of which are mainly affected by the sun.
A bit shorter than mine Annie…
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Maree, those pictures make me exasperated at the selfishness and stupidity of people like that.
Unless they want to commit suicide, why do they do it?
I said just the same somewhere on here yesterday. They don’t give a damn about putting the rescuers lives at risk if they got sucked into the waves, do they.
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