Don't care what anyone says about heat and humidity being a ballache, I'd take that in a heartbeat right now. It's fucking freezing here, I've had a permanent nipple on for the last two months due to the cold and as if it hadn't rained enough, I've looked out of the window to see what only can be God's arsehole approaching as daylight is fading away fast already just after 10am.
It's only day 12 of winter
Nice and mild this weekend though. Global warming
You and your Adele gimmickOriginally Posted by Spikey M
It's only day 12 of winter
Rule Britannia, pound for pound tornado champions.
How many storms are we on for the calendar year?
I don't know but I can tell you that every single one of them is due to climate change.
Thank you Pepe for the backup.
Neighbour fixed the fence panel on Sunday but he didn't do a great job.
It wasn't straight and as such it was pushing the rest of the fence up against our gate making it hard to open/close said gate.
Anyway, I just got home and found this:
Same panel has broken and it's created a new gate!
Your light is fucked as well.
We have 3 lights and they're all fucked. Two were hit by wind and that one was hit by a football.
Tell him his shoddy fence work broke them and ask him to put in for fixing them.
Worst wind of the year here so far since last night and not a warning at all like they had for the fuck all ones over the last couple of weeks.
Fucking fence.
One of my neighbrours a few doors down has a roof covered in scaffolding. Not only can I hear the tarpaulin sheets blowing forever, I'm also becoming increasingly convinced I'm going to hear it all come down any time soon.
I completely missed that we were even expecting a hurricane....
Here's my question: where do birds hide during this? And I mean the flying kind, not the ones that Bamster says oi oi to of a morning.
They probably just hole up in a bush somewhere, oi oi etc.
I like the question as I hadn't considered that before, but I'm guessing they just hide in human made structures. What they would have done before that is die, I suspect*. Don't they have a sixth sense for this shit anyway and know well in advance that it's coming, or did I just see that in a Hollywood movie and believe it?
EDIT: *Or what Niko said.
Theyre birds, why wouldnt they just fly somewhere it isnt windy?
There's a huge amount of birds around the place here and they tend to just be around during the weather. You'd see them going at the bird feeders even in the wind.
Three fence panels have fallen so far tonight with a fourth looking likely.
CARNAGE.
Henk getting us off to a blistering start in 2024.
I've had a mare with the birds thing here, which is compounded by the fact that I'm well aware how long they've survived on the planet for already and when you're posting that sort of longevity (and all the shit that's happened on Earth in that time), some wind that can't even do a proper job on Mahow's fence panels or my neighbour's dodgy loft conversion is probably a walk in the park compared.
I don't think you have had a 'mare. I have no idea when it comes to wind storms, but I remember hearing about wildlife dying during the winters of 2009 and 2010 when we had record cold temperatures.
It's part of the reason small animals in particular have such high reproduction rates. They fall victim to predators, the weather and viruses all the time. They just have the ability to fuck their way out of trouble.
Which is also the reason Mormons have multiple wives, because they'd settled on the salt flats of the least fertile land imaginable and so needed to roger their way to enough offspring that they could weather most of them dying of starvation.
Presumably Muslims/sand produces the same effect.
Most of Worcesters underwater. Annoyingly the bridge is open. Thought I was about to get a day off.
Local Kwik-Fit's sign has taken a battering (road had to be closed a bit yesterday apparently) and I saw a cul-de-sac that was now inaccessible to cars because a tree had fallen down completely blocking the entrance.
I thought we had escaped the damage this time, but went to the shed just and the door is almost completely off it's frame. I'm hoping a hammering in the morning will put it back in.
Updated picture of Worcester with my flat circled.
That lake isnt meant to be there, right?
It's the New Road cricket ground in the foreground and floods pretty much every year.
The bridge behind it is probably the greatest infrastructural chokepoint in western England. You want to get from one side of town to the other? You're crossing that.
No that would be the County Cricket ground and the thing just below my flat that's also underwater is a Racecourse.
Was going to say. Looks a pretty bog standard picture of a flooded cricket ground. Football pitches also love turn into mini lakes.
18° in Rome today. Ridiculously warm.
It's raining A LOT.
Our town is also underwater. Worst bout of it I've seen since moving here. All of the building on the flood plains has really been genius. It's just got nowhere to drain to.
I just drove home in genuinely atrocious conditions, the sort that make you concentrate far harder than normal as if you miss a puddle in the dark you'll aqua-plane. I don't get how it can rain this hard for this long. It'd better be a quality summer.
I drive the 120 miles back to Aberdeen on the 27th of December completely oblivious to the storm that was happening. First hour was fine, but the following 2 and a half hours were spent boating my way along the a96. Christ alive it was pretty terrifying at times just aiming for the middle of the road through puddles aiming for the camber.
Mad how quickly it comes and goes.
Snowing here
I did the same, but leaving just about when you were posting. Other than being stuck in traffic forever, it was the worst drive I can recall doing. It didn't take that much longer either and I never once had to stop, it was just hideous from start to finish - at one point the stretch of the M40 I was on was full of cars doing 35mph and under.
I don't know how cold it got over night, but it's 8:30 and it's -5c.
-3 here. I got caught out by a nasty patch of ice yesterday morning. Flat on my back a minute after leaving the house.
Well then.
I'm not sure I've ever laughed so much at 8:18am. What the fuck?
Either it's a misdirected Americanism, or we're about three years away from mainstream media outlets tweeting 'The UK to be anally fucked by deadly snow and ice' to get those sweet clicks, likes and shares.
"Storm Tyrone is set to gang rape most of the south-coast. Met Office advises against unnecessary travel."
Interesting that you used a traditionally negro name when discussing gang rape. Interesting.
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