Schools close because it's a bit windy
blackpoolkev
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I see that the (oddly named) Resilience Committee in Scotland have recommended that hundreds of schools should close because the wind has picked up a bit.
Is there a big problem with schoolchildren being carried away by the breeze in Scotland?Maybe the authorities should hand out deep fried Mars Bars with the school milk to help keep the little mites anchored to the ground.
Is there a big problem with schoolchildren being carried away by the breeze in Scotland?Maybe the authorities should hand out deep fried Mars Bars with the school milk to help keep the little mites anchored to the ground.
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currently 130 mph winds mate with trees getting ripped up and dumped in the road etc. don't think a Mars bar is gonna do itBoardman Comp.
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Did you see the school bus which had been blown over in the wind?
Fortunately no children on board and the driver wasn't hurt.
Closing the schools was a good call IMO.Tail end Charlie
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Easy to say from a distance. 165 mph in the Cairngorms.None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.0
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This isn't another "how fast have you been on your bike" threads is it?daviesee wrote:Easy to say from a distance. 165 mph in the Cairngorms.Summer - Canyon Ultimate CF SLX 9.0 Team
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Spotted this on twitter.
"Hurricane Bawbag Update: A plant pot has fallen over in Airdrie. An eye witness retold the horror "it pure went sideways""
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That wasn't the wind though. It was being chased by Fenton, up in Scotland for his hols.0
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I've never seen wind as strong as today's. Really, really crazy. It's still mad out there.
At least we can have a laugh...
http://entertainment.stv.tv/opinion/286 ... reactions/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Bawbag
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Apologies for being insensitive about the wind.
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Gizmodo wrote:
This isn't another "how fast have you been on your bike" threads is it?daviesee wrote:Easy to say from a distance. 165 mph in the Cairngorms.
Not this one. Facts is facts.
http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16125967
Still, not quite the 173 mph reached on March 20, 1986.
Although some would say that there was no tailwind, just supreme awesomeness! None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.0 -
blackpoolkev wrote:Apologies for being insensitive about the wind.
Have to go now,I am up early to go out on the bike.
Don't worry about it. More than a few up here were moaning about the "nanny state interfering" until it became all too clear. Funnily enough, I could have commuted no problem. At work before the storm arrived and left work under the eye of the storm. Oh well.....None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.0 -
what seemed like nanny state over-reaction was a very good call indeed - clearly the politicians also had a briefing and access to info which far exceeded Tomasz Schafernaker's classic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BImuobqTcdsdaviesee wrote:Easy to say from a distance. 165 mph in the Cairngorms.0 -
Best poltical response had to be the MSP who responded to heckling by saying "I thought all non-essential workers had been sent home?"
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I liked the "trampoline" clip - a bit of an over-reaction, but funny all the same.
I imagine that there were plenty of wind turbines with the brakes on during that bout of weather. Still, before things got a bit too windy they must have been kicking out plenty of power :shock:
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our school used to close when it was Windy - but then it would open on Thurday - and our head master had a speech defect.The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
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McBain_v1 wrote:I liked the "trampoline" clip - a bit of an over-reaction, but funny all the same.
I imagine that there were plenty of wind turbines with the brakes on during that bout of weather. Still, before things got a bit too windy they must have been kicking out plenty of power :shock:
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I wondered about that clip too. Given the size of the average wind farm in Scotland (which comfortably dwarf anything we have here in little England) I think it is pretty good that only one went a bit haywire. Clearly a control system problem there as all of the other identical turbines did what they were supposed to and shut down. I bet the manufacturer's PR people are having a fun old time explaining that one away. It didn't look as though there was anyone living nearby either, but the flaming debris probably gave the sheep something to mull over (assuming they hadn't been blown away).
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