Stormy Weather

[Nick Armstrong]

Sorry to hear that, fhg...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sorry to hear that, fhg...

Thanks - <somebody> had a narrow escape today

[BBMmk2]

Thanks - <somebody> had a narrow escape today

Glad your safe Ferney! :)

Hell let loose round here! Wild, wet and windy to say the least!

[DracoM]

In the lands beyond the M25, it is said there are people. And some have even ventured to hazard that 'north' of Birmingham, there may even be more people. Now, no-one can be sure, but I do know that David Attenborough has been commissioned by BBC to explore 'north'.

It is comfortingly being whispered that Bear Grylls is the Project Officer and a small detachment of the SAS is being trained in RPI, or 'Remote Places Insursurgencies' to act as stand-by snatch.

And in such places, you wouldn;t need hospitals as such. Field Stations would suffice. As I can testtify from oop 'ere. .

[Serial_Apologist]

In the lands beyond the M25, it is said there are people. And some have even ventured to hazard that 'north' of Birmingham, there may even be more people. Now, no-one can be sure, but I do know that David Attenborough has been commissioned by BBC to explore 'north'.

It is comfortingly being whispered that Bear Grylls is the Project Officer and a small detachment of the SAS is being trained in RPI, or 'Remote Places Insursurgencies' to act as stand-by snatch.

And in such places, you wouldn;t need hospitals as such. Field Stations would suffice. As I can testtify from oop 'ere. .

The BBC always presents the North and scotland as sort of squeezed up and disappearing over the earth's curvature, so presumably they must all be shorter where you live - and less wind-resistant in consequence?

Dunno what's happened to the charts on the BBC weather website, which have been out of action since Saturday. Washed away by Arthur, perhaps.

[ahinton]

Lots of rain hereabouts (until the small hours of this morning when finally it stopped) but hardly a leaf has moved (other than downwards as usually happens at this time of the year). Why Herefordshire's been spared all of this (apart from the rain) I have no idea, especially when it's not so far from places that have been adversely affected.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Glad your safe Ferney! :)
Hell let loose round here! Wild, wet and windy to say the least!

Thanks, Bbm - and, of course, I was travelling back along exactly the same road about fifteen hours later and - apart from a LOT of leaves on the road - the landscape was transformed: not a hint of the the "flooding" of the night before. A dry and comparatively balmy day yesterday in West Yorkshire, with temperatures reaching all of 6 degrees! (And approaching meltdown for Aaron Cassidy's The Wreck of former boundaries in St Paul's Hall - but that's for another Thread! ) And journey times back to the more usual 65-minute timing.

[teamsaint]

The A629 - a 23-mile stretch of road connecting me to Huddersfield; and back - normally. Two hours of congestion tonight, together with floodings* making a ten-mile detour necessary, made for a miserable way to spend an evening. This on top of having to come away from the Festival three hours earlier than I'd planned because the rain from above and the games of the traffic driving through puddles and drenching pedestrians from below meant that I was literally soaked to the skin in the bitterly cold outdoors. I couldn't imagine sitting through another three hours as I was. The plan was to be home in time for University Challenge - instead, I got in in time for the Missing Vowels round of Only Connect.


* - between Illingworth and Denholme, the road was blocked by an impromptu lake, in the middle of which was a car, up to its radiator in water; next to which was a really browned-off-looking chap shouting abuse into his mobile.


Rumour has it that "they" wish to "transfer" hospital facilities from Huddersfield to Halifax - probably safer to have a life-threatening emergency after 8:30 in the evenings in Calderdale!

Plenty of that sort of " efficiency" in the pipeline, if the papers are to be believed. (just for once they probably are).

I'd expect the people of Huddersfield to make their feelings thoroughly heard on the subject......

Sorry to hear of your disappointing and difficult evening, Ferney.

[BBMmk2]

Thanks, Bbm - and, of course, I was travelling back along exactly the same road about fifteen hours later and - apart from a LOT of leaves on the road - the landscape was transformed: not a hint of the the "flooding" of the night before. A dry and comparatively balmy day yesterday in West Yorkshire, with temperatures reaching all of 6 degrees! (And approaching meltdown for Aaron Cassidy's The Wreck of former boundaries in St Paul's Hall - but that's for another Thread! ) And journey times back to the more usual 65-minute timing.

A transformation indeed Ferney.

Had to go to the hospital again yesterday, for a respiratory test. Just another in the line of tests I've gone through to cross the T's and dot the i's for my SCT. Hopefully the next cycle will be the last one!

[DracoM]

Brilliant a.m. Like a guilty child that knows it was a horror yesterday, today is simpering and smiling to win us back oop 'ere.

[Serial_Apologist]

A transformation indeed Ferney.

Had to go to the hospital again yesterday, for a respiratory test. Just another in the line of tests I've gone through to cross the T's and dot the i's for my SCT. Hopefully the next cycle will be the last one!

Let's indeed hope so, BBM. Under the circs your spirits have borne up remarkably well.

[BBMmk2]

Let's indeed hope so, BBM. Under the circs your spirits have borne up remarkably well.

Et dienceps sursum, SA! :)

[DracoM]

Utterly brilliant starscapes tonight. Worth getting through the last nastiness to get to see them.

[BBMmk2]

Methinks we getting a good day today! :)

[Serial_Apologist]

Brilliantly sunny here today, but with shade tempeatures not yet having exceeded the freezing point. The tip of the Shard is visible poking out of the brown murk, a polite word for London's traffic pollution.