Takashi Miike
5:14 Mon Oct 16
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*of*
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Takashi Miike
5:13 Mon Oct 16
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yes, very strange sky all over a sudden. yellowy orange tinge
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Eddie B
5:11 Mon Oct 16
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YELLOW SKY!!!
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yngwies Cat
5:02 Mon Oct 16
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What is this that stands before me......
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Gavros
4:55 Mon Oct 16
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pretty weird feeling.
you can imagine how portentous it must have felt to all those DRUID types when this sort of shit happened.
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zebthecat
4:52 Mon Oct 16
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It is the Great Old Ones returning
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violator
4:44 Mon Oct 16
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iTS LIKE AN ECLIPSE HERE IN THE CITY, WE'RE DOOOOOMED
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Knavinge
4:38 Mon Oct 16
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Fish said that a woman called in to say a hurricane was on the way. His exact words were "Don't worry, there isn't"
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Pee Wee
4:31 Mon Oct 16
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Fish didn't dismiss it entirely I don't think, just said it was going to be strong winds in Spain area and that we wouldn't be affected.
The caller was also made up - nobody called in asking that question.
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Claret Badger
4:01 Mon Oct 16
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boom pish
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
4:00 Mon Oct 16
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Two is plenty on a car...
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3:53 Mon Oct 16
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Ophelia has caused a fatality in the Republic already. Tree on car scenario I think.
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The Stoat
3:28 Mon Oct 16
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Footage of the twister in Ireland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LT4_Ra6pZo
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Johnson
3:22 Mon Oct 16
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Wasn't the thing with Fish more that he dismissed the idea of any inclement weather, rather than correcting the old dear's inaccurate use of the word hurricane?
That's what he gets ribbed for I thought.
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Lertie Button
3:20 Mon Oct 16
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A bit breezy but presently the North Coast is basking in warm sunshine and unseasonably warm temperatures, rumours of a hurricane indeed
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atb trev
2:30 Mon Oct 16
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Coming from rural Kent the 1987 storms was one of the most memorable periods of my childhood.
I went to bed a bit stressed as I hadn't done my English essay due in the next day. I woke up to a different world. Roofs blown off, brick walls to gardens were blown over, every other tree was on the floor.
My first though was 'phew, that's lucky, another day to do my homework'
My second was, 'blimey, hope everyone's all right'.
We headed out to other houses to check on people, climbing over 100 year old flattened trees to get anywhere. Thankfully all neighbours were ok and we headed out exploring further.
We had two cars parked on our drive, parked about 2 ft apart. Three trees had fallen, one just in front and one just behind the cars and one neatly fell in the 2ft gap between them. We lost one wing mirror, but that was the extent of the damage for us.
I was astonished at the state of the roads. The roads with the felled trees resembled a steeplechase where they seemed to fall at regular 10m intervals. It was all the large old trees that seemed to have fallen too. When they were on their side, the top of the trunks were well above head height. I thought it was great fun climbing over them to get anywhere.
In the end I was off school for two weeks as the roads were impassable. Even when they were open, it was months before they were back to normal as people had only cut enough room to fit one car through and we had to weave in an out all the time.
We were without power for just under a month. Tinned food cooked on the camping stove and I was doing homework by candlelight. No TV so the family made up stories and played games in the evening. This has brought back fond memories.
I still handed my English essay in late.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
2:29 Mon Oct 16
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Poor old Michael Fish, eh! So he was right all along...
If it looks like a hurricane and sounds like a hurricane, chances are, it's a fucking hurricane.
In the immortal words of Eddie from Filthy, Rich and Catflap, the most northerly capital city in the world is not Reykjavik but, of course, 'Reykjavik comma, Iceland full stop'.
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Lenny
2:28 Mon Oct 16
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Tell me this.
Why is this storm named OPHELIA and not BRIAN?
F*cking yanks!
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Dan M
2:18 Mon Oct 16
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Why was it a hurricane? Why use that term? It was a fucking great storm, which is what it's now been called (minus the "fucking"). Other names for fucking great storms exist but we don't call them that either because that's not what it was. Hurricane is a specific name for a specific thing that as well as being very windy exhibit characteristics that our event didn't have. I'm not being a stickler, nor splitting hairs, I'm just saying what something was versus what a lot of people say it was (and use as a stick to beat Michael Fish, which was my initial point).
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
2:10 Mon Oct 16
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Indeed. According to the strictest possible definition of 'hurricane' it's impossible to have one in the UK. And according to the centuries old Beaufort scale it was, for all intents and purposes, a hurricane.
So, for those of us living in Hampshire, Sussex, Kent, London and Essex at the time, it was a fucking hurricane. For those of us trying to split hairs, it wasn't.
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Dan M
2:03 Mon Oct 16
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Yes it was a storm of hurricane-force wind velocity but not a hurricane. Glad we agree.
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