The f**king massive storm
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Great bit of backside covering by the Met Office. The BBC were forecasting South Wales and South West England to be worst affected still at 10.30pm on Sunday night while their own wind arrow map was showing nothing over South Wales and big arrows over the South East. All day Sunday the Met Office website was showing an amber warning for 80mph winds in my area while the detailed forecast was showing 17mph winds gusting to 35mph. I can understand a bit of caution in the hope of avoiding deaths but their own information was completely muddled. It was also another situation where the BBC had to talk it up a bit as they'd sent reporters out to do their pieces in wet weather gear with raging winds and stormy seas in the background - the guy in Cardiff Bay must have felt stupid as the gentle flapping of flags in the background contradicted the tale of doom he was reporting. Even in the South East it couldn't have been that bad as they were using stock footage of storms they had shown on Sunday during last night's news.
They are still claiming the 'biggest storm since 1987' but I reckon that even in the south we have at least one storm like that every year. I'm sure it was worse last year / 2011 whenever it was that a stage of the ToB got cancelled. To make it worse the weather people are being self-congratulatory for predicting it. I wonder how much it cost the economy?0 -
It was a bad storm. Michael Fish's own tree blew over this time!!0
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Pross wrote:Great bit of backside covering by the Met Office. The BBC were forecasting South Wales and South West England to be worst affected still at 10.30pm on Sunday night while their own wind arrow map was showing nothing over South Wales and big arrows over the South East. All day Sunday the Met Office website was showing an amber warning for 80mph winds in my area while the detailed forecast was showing 17mph winds gusting to 35mph. I can understand a bit of caution in the hope of avoiding deaths but their own information was completely muddled. It was also another situation where the BBC had to talk it up a bit as they'd sent reporters out to do their pieces in wet weather gear with raging winds and stormy seas in the background - the guy in Cardiff Bay must have felt stupid as the gentle flapping of flags in the background contradicted the tale of doom he was reporting. Even in the South East it couldn't have been that bad as they were using stock footage of storms they had shown on Sunday during last night's news.
They are still claiming the 'biggest storm since 1987' but I reckon that even in the south we have at least one storm like that every year. I'm sure it was worse last year / 2011 whenever it was that a stage of the ToB got cancelled. To make it worse the weather people are being self-congratulatory for predicting it. I wonder how much it cost the economy?
Well, in the lane outside my house in South Somerset two oaks got blown over. I counted over 200 rings in one of them, so yes it was extremely windy at 5am when they fell. Gusts of About 80 MPH I would say, I could hardly stand up.
They survived 1987 but it's how water-logged the ground is that seems to be the key factor. Days of rain when the trees are still in leaf makes them more vulnerable.0 -
The general media is only ever interested in Darn Sarf, I'm suprised that no one remembers that!
We've had 48 hrs of coverage on the tv of the devastating events, and there wasn't enough wind to dislodge a flat cap! I've witnessed bigger wippet farts :roll:0 -
Went down to Wickes at lunch time to pick up some feather edge boards and other bits of timber, the woman said I must be fixing broken fences, I said no I'm building a bike store at the side of our house, think she thought I was taking the proverbial
"Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity"
seanoconn0 -
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Don't remember hair ...0
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Mikey23 wrote:Don't remember hair ...
Check your nostrils.0 -
"Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity"
seanoconn0 -
Cornerblock wrote:Mikey23 wrote:Don't remember hair ...
Check your nostrils.
And arsse0 -
And ears! :shock: F*ckin ears for God's sake, what's all that about :evil: :oops:0
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seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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"Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity"
seanoconn0 -
If Mikey cant keep within the rules they will ban him
etcmy isetta is a 300cc bike0 -
I am, that's the exact model I use. Comes with a little attachment to trim your eyebrows toopinarello001 wrote:
There's always a couple of rogue nose hairs that escape these gadgets, no matter how much you wiggle them.Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
seanoconn wrote:
I am, that's the exact model I use. Comes with a little attachment to trim your eyebrows toopinarello001 wrote:
There's always a couple of rogue nose hairs that escape these gadgets, no matter how much you wiggle them.
I know someone who used to shave his ar5e. :shock:
Don't know why, but whatever floats yer boat.
His big mistake was telling one of the other lads in confidence. 0 -
So why is that you can't grow hair on your head but you can wake up in the morning looking like a yak is hiding up your nose?0
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Have you met the wife?0
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Not while she is doing her lesson plans you don't... She bites
Btw have you heard there's a f**king massive storm due?0 -
Over 70 mph forecast tonight.Mikey23 wrote:Not while she is doing her lesson plans you don't... She bites
Btw have you heard there's a f**king massive storm due?
Batten down the hatches.
The wind should fuel the bonfire but gawd knows where the rockets are going. None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.0 -
daviesee wrote:
Over 70 mph forecast tonight.Mikey23 wrote:Not while she is doing her lesson plans you don't... She bites
Btw have you heard there's a f**king massive storm due?
Batten down the hatches.
The wind should fuel the bonfire but gawd knows where the rockets are going.
I really don't want to know what you do with your rockets thank you
Wind or no wind we'll be blowing up a small corner of this pleasant land tonight too "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity"
seanoconn0 -
We usually go to a charity display put on by ginsters over in callington. Looking at the weather right now and with the forecast looking worse I don't think we will bother...0
