Storm Eowyn
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I agree with you entirely.So another wee spell of bad weather is due, and the entire country goes into meltdown. Schools closed all over Angus and Dundee, red warnings issued for wind, colleges closed across Tayside and Fife, etc. No trains running, buses are all off, courts closed. It's crazy.
These were even reports of panic buying, believe it or not?
Am I just trivialising the potential issues, or have we become a nation of scared wee girls unable to exercise commonsense and responsibility for our own safety?
Where's the resilience gone? Or am I missing something?
I was raised on a Pennine hill farm. Our farm was called 'WeatherHill' so you get the idea. Gales were just a different type of weather, you just got on with life as normal. I am talking winds that you would have to lean in to lest you were blown off your feet. I have seen heavy stone slates blown off and on to my dad's Allegro.
I never missed School or made any changes to daily life.
The last Snow we had a couple weeks ago saw panic buying around us, mainly milk and bread. It is pathetic. This country is stuffed when something genuinely bad happens.
Unfortunately these things are becoming more frequent, whatever the reason. I've lost a tile off the gable end and houses round about have ridge tiles off. The wife has a caravan and one of the caravans on the site has had it's roof peeled back. Old buildings that have stood a century are having bits flying off. So with all that, I can understand schools having a day off. You don't want to get clobbered by a ridge tile on your way to double maths. Probably.
I've no real idea what's causing it, but if it is due to global warming, with America going to pump oil and gas like there's no tomorrow and build gas guzzling cars by the thousands, we'd better batten down the hatches.
I've no real idea what's causing it, but if it is due to global warming, with America going to pump oil and gas like there's no tomorrow and build gas guzzling cars by the thousands, we'd better batten down the hatches.
Bavarianbrit
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Where is my 7 litre Lincoln these days?
Oh, I left it parked in the vip lane at SF airport in July/August 1985 is it still there?
Oh, I left it parked in the vip lane at SF airport in July/August 1985 is it still there?
I think one of the reasons schools preemptively shut today is because many of them still have ongoing structural issues following the last gales.
One side of the village has no power, (not ours), 4pm today for repairs.
Heym SR20
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Plenty of trees down in Edinburgh, and more than a few roof tiles and chimney pots gone AWOL. A few chimney stacks have also gone over.
Out in the suburbs a number of newbuild Barret homes have lost roofs.
I absolutely think the powers that be got it correct calling a red alert. There would have utter carnage and chaos if trains, buses and cars had all got mixed with falling trees and bits of flying houses.
Out in the suburbs a number of newbuild Barret homes have lost roofs.
I absolutely think the powers that be got it correct calling a red alert. There would have utter carnage and chaos if trains, buses and cars had all got mixed with falling trees and bits of flying houses.
Absolutely. I should've mentioned I meant only that our area (under an amber warning) went way over the top in my opinion.
Having said that, a Stagecoach double decker was pushed off the road at Auchterhouse yesterday. Quite why Stagecoach deemed it appropriate to let them service their usually routes is a mystery though.
Foxyboy43
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Visited a much enjoyed permission today after the dreadful storm; saddened to see the destruction wreaked across places I have walked for the last 40 years. Many of the trees were planted by the owners great grandfather 120 or more years ago and to me were old friends - especially those along “the avenue”.
Saddest sight was a lonely old oak which sat maybe 60 yards out from the corner of the field and which I knew as “the sitty-oak” - the number of woodies I have shot as they came in to that tree to sit and digest their food defies counting.
Quite upsetting really…
Saddest sight was a lonely old oak which sat maybe 60 yards out from the corner of the field and which I knew as “the sitty-oak” - the number of woodies I have shot as they came in to that tree to sit and digest their food defies counting.
Quite upsetting really…
Freeforester
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In fact the statistics for ‘these things’ show they are less frequent than in the 20th Century. Check them out.
Sorry for your lost tile, we were more
Fortunate this time, though once lost 15 one after the other at around 02 am, but that was more than 20 years ago.
The climate has always changed, and always will. Carbon dioxide has no correlation with nor causation with it overall, however.
The primary cause of these events is the shift and change in velocity of the Polar Vortex, which is governed by energy output variations of both the Sun and other extra terrestrial rays, which permit the vortex to stray outwith its usual confines; also worth checking out.
SikaSeeker
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