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Subject: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: Penny S. Date: 09 Dec 11 - 03:27 PM Just wondering how anyone in the north is. If they have power to answer, that is. It looks very bad on the news. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: gnu Date: 09 Dec 11 - 03:33 PM Oh? What's up? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: Penny S. Date: 09 Dec 11 - 04:13 PM If you do a search for Scottish storm you'll find loads of news items. A tight depression went over with some wind speeds of over 160 mph, rain and snow. Many people without power. Turbines down. Trees down. Flooding. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: akenaton Date: 09 Dec 11 - 05:26 PM Ach jist a bittae o' Scotch mist an' a licht breeze. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: Jack the Sailor Date: 09 Dec 11 - 05:30 PM it seemed very dramatic on the news this morning. I hope all are well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: maeve Date: 09 Dec 11 - 05:31 PM http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/09/scotland-storm-damage-power?newsfeed=true http://www.lbc.co.uk/thousands-without-power-after-scotland-storms-48400 |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: Jack Campin Date: 09 Dec 11 - 06:06 PM At a wind farm near Ardrossan: what happens to a wind turbine when it gets too much wind |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: Jack the Sailor Date: 09 Dec 11 - 06:10 PM That turbine was on the news. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: gnu Date: 09 Dec 11 - 06:21 PM Oh my. I do hope Giok & Megan A all are well and okay. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: Zen Date: 09 Dec 11 - 06:29 PM It was a wee bit breezy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: maeve Date: 09 Dec 11 - 06:40 PM A friend on Skye has replied, and is fine. Giok and Megan, like this other friend, are well used to extreme weather. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: maeve Date: 09 Dec 11 - 06:49 PM Gnu- Another friend living near Giok tells me it's not too bad there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: GUEST,Allan Conn Date: 10 Dec 11 - 03:48 AM The winds were basically over by Friday morning - here in the south of Scotland anyway. Went to bed last night with no snow and woke up this morning to a very snowy landscape though :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: Megan L Date: 10 Dec 11 - 04:58 AM Just spotted this still alive but not sure where we have been blown to not the bahamas unfortunately it is somewhat chilly If this wind keeps up we might end up parked next to Skarpi. the anenometer at the airport stops working at 135 miles per hour it stopped some time friday. As Maeve said most of our houses are designed for wind so it is only some incommers who are not prepared to listen to locals and grudge the extra expense of nailing down every tile or slate and putting in internal porches at every external door. Spoke to Giok yesterday briefly he is still where i last saw him I think he was also hopping it would blow us to a slightly warmer climate. Hope others are safe and well has Efsee checked in? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: maeve Date: 10 Dec 11 - 05:05 AM Thanks, Meg. We're glad all is well. Effsee hasn't posted since October, but I sent a PM. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: fat B****rd Date: 10 Dec 11 - 07:10 AM What Guest Allan Conn said. Dunfermline area obviously windswept on Thursday and snow to-day but compared to some it's nowt too bad. Thank you for asking. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: gnu Date: 10 Dec 11 - 05:27 PM Good to hear all is well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: Dave MacKenzie Date: 10 Dec 11 - 05:59 PM Makes me feel homesick! We used to have a couple of words for those sort of conditions when I was growing up in Edinburgh - winter weather! |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: GUEST Date: 10 Dec 11 - 11:36 PM Glad to hear that you're okay, Megan. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 11 Dec 11 - 06:31 AM Sonn it'll be 'How Are The Stormbound English?' because apparently by tomorrow a similar storm will arrive in the SE of the UK, winds 'up to 100mph'. Oh Lord! |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: Jack the Sailor Date: 11 Dec 11 - 07:15 AM 135 mph winds were typical winter weather Dave? |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: Dave MacKenzie Date: 11 Dec 11 - 07:58 AM I never measured them, but we reckoned that from our bathroon window we could see the snow clouds forming over the Urals. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: maeve Date: 16 Dec 11 - 07:37 AM Just heard back from 'Catter Effsee. All is well, with more weather on the way. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: JohnInKansas Date: 16 Dec 11 - 11:49 PM A report a day or so ago was that a weather buoy detected a wave "just off Scotland" with a record height of 67 feet (20 meters?). Apparently the observation came from automatic reporting equipment on the buoy, nobody actually saw it, and the report didn't say (they might not have been able to tell) what direction it might be travelling. The location was given as "about 60 miles from the coast," so it's unlikely it would (or did) reach land at quite that height - unless it was still growing when it passed the buoy. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: Eric the Viking Date: 17 Dec 11 - 05:02 PM The weather was a bit dicky to say the least. The wind at Hatson reached 138.4 mph on Thursday night.Kirkwall got a right bashing from the waves and we still have quite a lot of seaweed in the car parks. Mrs Viking and I went off to Aberdeen on Wednesday night on the ferry. It was a bit rough. The boat didn't run back until Saturday (Supposed to be Thursday evening)and then it was quite rough.We get used to ferry interuptions up here. Most people lost their dinner on the Hrossey. The Pentland Firth routes were down to one ferry a day.(Rough seas don't bother me)Megan is wrong about it being only some incommers. There's plenty of Orcadians who don't nail everything down.I know of several sheds that disappeared including some of the stone walls holding up the roof. Plenty of them lost bits and pieces and lots of "incommers" (which I seem to remember Megan was some years ago) have enough brain and sense to protect themselves against the weather.It's quiet at the minute with just the odd snow shower that doesn't stay around. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: gnu Date: 17 Dec 11 - 05:09 PM Just glad all is well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: John MacKenzie Date: 18 Dec 11 - 04:30 AM Some "incommers" (sic) have been there long enough to be 'naturalised', and some haven't. |
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Subject: RE: BS: How are the stormbound Scots? From: Eric the Viking Date: 18 Dec 11 - 05:41 PM Aye. Quite true. Some Orcadians have been there even longer and still haven't learnt! Haha |
