The Weather

[TANGODANCER]

It's a bit like that Stephen King film The Mist out there: I wandered out at dinnertime and got hopelessly lost, it was only the sounds of people screaming as they were eaten by interdimensional creatures that guided me back to the streets I should have been on...

Speaking of mist (read fog) are you old enough to remember the pea-soupers, Spotty? They were really something else.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

It's a bit like that Stephen King film The Mist out there: I wandered out at dinnertime and got hopelessly lost, it was only the sounds of people screaming as they were eaten by interdimensional creatures that guided me back to the streets I should have been on...

Speaking of mist (read fog) are you old enough to remember the pea-soupers, Spotty? They were really something else.

Too young TD. The clean air act came in before I ever moved to a city, I spent my childhood in the countryside and never knew peasoupers. But, once in Liverpool ~ 1976, I got caught in a sea fog that rolled in one morning and lasted for two days. You literally couldn't see your hands in front of your face, and all sound got drowned out, and it was incredibly easy to get disoriented. I took about three steps outside the front door before I realised how bad it was and ground to a halt because you couldn't see where you were going, or what you were standing on. I turned round and headed back indoors only to discover that after six shuffling steps I was nowhere near the terraced house I'd just emerged from. It took me nearly half an hour to get back indoors. I've never experienced anything that thick since.

[Montreal Wanderer]

It's a bit like that Stephen King film The Mist out there: I wandered out at dinnertime and got hopelessly lost, it was only the sounds of people screaming as they were eaten by interdimensional creatures that guided me back to the streets I should have been on...

Speaking of mist (read fog) are you old enough to remember the pea-soupers, Spotty? They were really something else.

Too young TD. The clean air act came in before I ever moved to a city, I spent my childhood in the countryside and never knew peasoupers. But, once in Liverpool ~ 1976, I got caught in a sea fog that rolled in one morning and lasted for two days. You literally couldn't see your hands in front of your face, and all sound got drowned out, and it was incredibly easy to get disoriented. I took about three steps outside the front door before I realised how bad it was and ground to a halt because you couldn't see where you were going, or what you were standing on. I turned round and headed back indoors only to discover that after six shuffling steps I was nowhere near the terraced house I'd just emerged from. It took me nearly half an hour to get back indoors. I've never experienced anything that thick since.

Though I remember the peasoupers, Tango, and got hopelessly lost once delivering Christmas mail, Spotty's talk of sea fog reminds me of Newfoundland. There the sea mist can settle in the summer and stay for two weeks. After walking a mile along 400' sheer cliffs we finally got to see the Cape St. Mary bird colony but not very well.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

it's snowing...

[bwfcdan94]

"Quick quick everybody panic panic - the floods are know longer just a problem for those backward west country folk, the Thames is now flooding and some ministers houses might flood! Call out the national guard before it gets to London!" Just to point out there was never any risk of any harm being down to the people of Somerset when the levels flooded but now that Surrey might flood the whole existence of this country is now threatened!
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02 ... d%3D242422
, Why do the media think London and its surroundings are so important and yet don't give a toss about the rest of the country.

[Prufrock]

Yes. Because no one has mentioned the weather so far. At all.

[Montreal Wanderer]

"Quick quick everybody panic panic - the floods are know longer just a problem for those backward west country folk, the Thames is now flooding and some ministers houses might flood! Call out the national guard before it gets to London!" Just to point out there was never any risk of any harm being down to the people of Somerset when the levels flooded but now that Surrey might flood the whole existence of this country is now threatened!
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02 ... d%3D242422
, Why do the media think London and its surroundings are so important and yet don't give a toss about the rest of the country.

You put the first few lines in quotation marks, Dan. What are you quoting from? Doesn't seem to be the linked article. Who could state "floods are know longer a problem..."? Just curious.

[Annoyed Grunt]

That was a strange bit of weather just then....thunder & lightning, with hailstones/sleet/snow at the same time.....stopped now...

[bwfcdan94]

"Quick quick everybody panic panic - the floods are know longer just a problem for those backward west country folk, the Thames is now flooding and some ministers houses might flood! Call out the national guard before it gets to London!" Just to point out there was never any risk of any harm being down to the people of Somerset when the levels flooded but now that Surrey might flood the whole existence of this country is now threatened!
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02 ... d%3D242422
, Why do the media think London and its surroundings are so important and yet don't give a toss about the rest of the country.

You put the first few lines in quotation marks, Dan. What are you quoting from? Doesn't seem to be the linked article. Who could state "floods are know longer a problem..."? Just curious.

Most of it was from the local councillor for Datchet. I should also point out that now that towns that MP'S live in are being affected the government is putting all funds to the pump. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02 ... d%3D242713

[Little Green Man]

Crikey, sounds a bit grim down in NW England (and Wales). Hope you're all battened down.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Crikey, sounds a bit grim down in NW England (and Wales). Hope you're all battened down.

A couple of fence panels have gone.....as has the shed.....

[jaffka]

by eck, stay safe people

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Falling tree just nearly killed me, but the dog saved me. Mind, I wouldn't have been out if I wasn't walking the dog! Swings, roundabouts...

[Bruce Rioja]

Falling tree just nearly killed me, but the dog saved me. Mind, I wouldn't have been out if I wasn't walking the dog! Swings, roundabouts...

Is your dog Lassie?

[bwfcdan94]

Falling tree just nearly killed me, but the dog saved me. Mind, I wouldn't have been out if I wasn't walking the dog! Swings, roundabouts...

Would you like the army to come up there and David Cameroon to visit?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Falling tree just nearly killed me, but the dog saved me. Mind, I wouldn't have been out if I wasn't walking the dog! Swings, roundabouts...

Is your dog Lassie?

Nah, she heard it creak before me, all I could hear was the wind rattling the nuts, then she pulled me hard, and as she did a huge branch about eight inches in diameter went whistling past my ear and crashed into the ground.
I did a quick audit (as you do) this morning and four big trees are down and lying across the footpath on that section of the ridge. I won't be able to walk up that way until somebody gets the chain saws out and that's a fact, it's impassable.

[Bruce Rioja]

A colleague's flight back from Ljubljana was refused landing permission at Manchester (and at two other UK airports) last night coz o't weather. He's just rang in from Frankfurt.

[Harry Genshaw]

I won't be able to walk up that way until somebody gets the chain saws out and that's a fact, it's impassable.

That will be you, ya lazy beggar. This is the big society you know

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I won't be able to walk up that way until somebody gets the chain saws out and that's a fact, it's impassable.

That will be you, ya lazy beggar. This is the big society you know

It'll be the little society in the form of the bloke three houses down from me. He's not only got a chainsaw, he knows how to wield it, he has a log burner, and although technically the trees belong to a big house on the other side of the hill (it is unoccupied and up for sale) he believes in free enterprise - i.e. he'll have anything away if it costs nowt.

[Bruce Rioja]

I won't be able to walk up that way until somebody gets the chain saws out and that's a fact, it's impassable.

That will be you, ya lazy beggar. This is the big society you know

It'll be the little society in the form of the bloke three houses down from me. He's not only got a chainsaw, he knows how to wield it, he has a log burner, and although technically the trees belong to a big house on the other side of the hill (it is unoccupied and up for sale) he believes in free enterprise - i.e. he'll have anything away if it costs nowt.

Robert Feakin, aged 21, from Egerton, leapt into action to help drivers left at a standstill by a tree which had fallen on the A666.

A scout leader, he was running a scouts evening at the 78th Bolton North group's Egerton base when parents contacted him to say they would be late collecting their children.

Mr Feakin, aided by colleagues and some of the drivers stranded on the A666, then set about moving the tree.

Using his own Land Rover, he dragged the tree off the road and colleagues were able to direct the traffic through two lanes to ease the congestion.

Council tree surgeons arrived shortly after the fallen tree had been dealt with.

Mr Feakin said: "It happened right next to our hut and we thought we ought to do something about it.

"I was a little dubious over whether my car would be able to manage it, but with eight blokes helping me, we got it off the road.

"It was really windy out there, not very pleasant at all, but I was just glad I could help."