It’s looking like those of us in the UK and Ireland are going to be massive storm in the next 48 hours.
Having been through typhoons in Hong Kong and the Philippines, have seen the havoc and death mighty winds can leave in their wake so hope everyone emerges safe and well.
Given the UK government (at least) is telling people to stay indoors, how will you be spending your time as you wait for this thing to pass.
Classic
Ooh! An Apoca-list!
Two from the boy Ford:
Storm in a teacup. The advisory is from 7am to 12noon.
We just had Storm Dudley which was windy as hell but nothing to compare with what I have seen in USA. I lived in Miami for 2 years and their tropical storms were pretty wild. Was also in New York
when hurricane Sandy popped into town.
We do not have anything that devastating in the UK.
Dudley and Eunice…. not exactly redolent of storm warnings is it? Sounds more like a couple likely to visit a garden centre than to visit devastation.
@Steve-T
Your name is Michael Fish and I claim my £5.
An Indian supplier in Chennai called me this morning. He saw it on the news and wanted to know I was OK.
Me: “We put the wheely bins out last night. Ours is OK, but next door’s blew over.”
Him: “I wish we had storms like that.”
Wheelie bins, you say?
My son will be praying that the school bus gets cancelled.
He likes school that much?
Hope everything gets cancelled so I can sit on my arse all weekend. Mini lockdown.
Massive storm here too, rain all day, turning to snow later and 20-30cm expected overnight. Hoping to get to Toronto this (long) weekend, 400km drive, we will see.
Supposedly driving from the North West to East Anglia tomorrow to see the aged P’s. Fingers crossed I’m going to be heading away from the worst of it.
Working from home. Whilst watching my back garden fence fucking topple over, no doubt.
I had a curry last night. The wind outside is a mere breeze in comparison to inside the house
1500 unbleached coffee filter papers have just arrived at my house, so I won’t be getting any sleep this weekend either way.
I shall be having my toenail removed at the height of the storm.
….while asking for the latest party?
Well at least somebody’s happy…
Stormmmmm comin’….
I like the fact that the Cocteau Twins had a song on the soundtrack to a big budget Hollywood action movie.
Everyone turns into Kiss in the end, you just need to wait.
https://youtu.be/vb7htoJAK7g
Have we brought the picnic basket?
Me and the curry … open a window
Wait for it …
This is why Syd Barrett stopped at home for 40 years.
Hold onto your hollyhocks
Most trains cancelled north of Preston today.
Tomorrow, we have been told there will be a blanket speed restriction of 50mph across the region from 1200. My shift finishes at 1200. I will be hightailing it home.
Just hitting Co. Clare now. So far not too bad. Some heavy rain but the wind seems to be not as strong as predicted. Our status red weather warning ends in about 45 minutes.
A warning to the people of Scotland from the Met Office.
Don’t eat it!
Paw Broon, a no no, don’t be a naughty yin no…
Strangely unaffected by the devastating tornado-style weather conditions currently levelling the U.K. to fields of broken brick across which crawl those unfortunate enough to have survived. Thoughts and prayers from Siam (blue skies, light cloud cover at night).
Yeah, but what we lack in blue sky weather we more than make up for with the sunlit uplands of Brexit opportunity filled Blighty where our leaders party all night long. Er…. *shuffles papers*
A hypeathon kerchingfest for the execrable media shagnasties as well as yet another convenient diversion for the mind melting clown car of despair that is Cocktavius and his cabinet of troughshites?….. As if.
Also it might blow Russian missiles off course so that they land harmlessly in France.
Nothing that some magick probiotics can’t fix in this yurt, baby.
Has there been widespread damage anywhere in Britain yet, or has it been less destructive than feared? Here in Essex it’s a bit gusty so far, but nothing I would have thought remarkable if I hadn’t been looking out for worse.
Due to take the ferry from Dublin to Holyhead tomorrow morning. Looks like it will be sailing. Going to be a bit choppy.
We’ve done the overnighter from Pembroke to Rosslare many times, and the worst crossing we’ve endured was so bad that the folks trying to sleep on the bench seats in the lounges had to give up and hunker down on the floor – nowhere to get rolled off from down there. We had a cabin that night, and it was actually tricky to stay in your bed. One of my dogs, in the car on the car deck, was seasick during the night. Grimsville.
Hope it’s more reassuring than this when you’re in the queue, DK
https://twitter.com/luckyma_man/status/1494653514911465482
The boat’s flat, it’s the land that’s moving.
It’s getting a bit nowty out there now. Time for an afternoon hibernate.
Let’s try to be positive.
Indeed.
Niiiiice!
Save the Minnellium Dome!
It gets worse – as we see here, owing to an administrative error, Chris Kamara is the local fire station commander. They’ve paraphrased his answer to the question of what’s going on down there, which was actually…. “Err…. I don’t know, Jeff!”
‘You just said Minnellium’.
Did ah, Bren?
I haven’t watched them this year. Yet…
What’s even more amazing – The Fugees were supposed to be doing a gig there tonight. Have I gone to sleep and woken up in 1996?
No worries mate, it’ll buff out. Chelmsford this morning.