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  1. Iceni
    According to this satellite image they're twins… never seen this before, ever! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2559856/London-New-York-storms-COMBINING-Meteorologists-say-two-storms-holding-hands-Atlantic.html
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    Wow has anyone seen this happen before? The US snowstorm and this one are combining across the Atlantic… this is real Day After Tomorrow stuff. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2559856/London-New-York-storms-COMBINING-Meteorologists-say-two-storms-holding-hands-Atlantic.html
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    Yes it's started up again here too right now — huge sustained gusts lasting about 20 seconds. Don't want to look up the wind speed, but from the sound of it, I'd say 65-70mph at least maybe higher. There are no trees in the way and it's just roaring across a couple of 10 acre fields, so it's pure wind noise not branches crashing against each other. Thank goodness I can sleep in tomorrow and it's not my turn for the dog walk, but on the other hand, I can't wait for daylight to see the damage — there'll be a lot of trees down and hopefully that neighbour's poxy 60 ft wind turbine on the opposite hill will be no more — can't stand the thing. Uh-oh… another one building up… this storm is a biggie and won't be forgotten
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    I'm going to bed… no I'm not, it's just started roaring again outside, worse than ever. I have this terrible compulsion to go to the window in the bedroom facing South and open it just to feel the force, but the whole room might be destroyed so will try to control myself.
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    Good luck with that. I can just see about 6 queueing up to land on the far SW horizon. Still gusting about 65-70mph here.
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    No it isn't moving. Our barometer has read 974 down to 965, so does that mean this will go on all night as promised?
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    Had quite a few brown outs during the last half hour. Shot downstairs with the dregs of the laundry basket just to get it washed - the wind should dry it out in a couple of minutes if it's a clear day.
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    Don't want to sound smug but my hedge is fine.
  9. Iceni
    It didn't feel sandy when I fell off my surf board. Hurt like hell.
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    If I open the window or door for my cat Fluffy and he doesn't fancy the weather, he goes to another door hoping the weather will be different. He does this great pose when it's too windy - stretches his front paws out and turns his head away from it - it's like something out of Scott of the Antarctic.
  11. Iceni
    It's all mostly shingle. That's the hissing noise are the waves recede down the beach. I know because I used to wind surf there and at Selsey. The only place which is sandy is West Wittering at low tide.
  12. Iceni
    From what I've heard Brighton gets it in the nuts all the time. It's famous for it.
  13. Iceni
    Shuemura eyelash curlers are your friend in that situation. For the baggy eyes not the tree.
  14. Iceni
    Been watching it since 10 am. Tide's gone right out, but is back to high tide at 23:30 tonight just as the winds hit. Poor old Bognor - I'd move that boat. I'm not going to take the dogs out today, just on a lead around the garden (for 'business' not pleasure) and then going to stay in and make some more candles in case we need them.
  15. Iceni
    Perhaps he's going to nuke the Polar Vortex over NE Canada. Mad Crazy Thick Slimy Nuts Lazy Cretin. And they're all the same. At least Nige wore a proper set of waders when he visited the floods - boldly goes where other pols have never been before
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    It might be sunny but it's below 0C in parts of Georgia - don't think it will be swimming weather... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10637548/Winter-storm-dumps-snow-across-US.html
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    Well I don't feel very romantic. EDF sent us a Valentine to say our monthly electricity would go up from £113 to £175. Worked out that in Canada, it would average £56 a month. And of course instead of a 70mph storm we'd have lovely clear moon/starlight sparkling on the snow and another sunny day to look forward to with no filthy mud everywhere. Temperatures not that low either - -4.9 °C atm - and the lowest has been nothing we didn't have in December 2010.
  18. Iceni
    Fair enough, but with the caveat that in '87 we hadn't had months of constant rain (although the trees were still in leaf). I've noticed a couple of huge multi-trunk willows tipping over during the past couple of days - the only reason they haven't crashed is the other trees are holding them up. We already have some of the most populous M4 corridor flooding and there's only so much the emergency services can do... I have a nasty feeling that tomorrow night might just be the straw which breaks the camel's back.
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    Got mine over with before Christmas and then had a hacking cough for the next month. It's gone now though. Basically the rule is, stay away from children and old people. Got the cough from my Dad and it was the first I've had for 5 years. He got his from some children who were staying with them over a w/e.
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    I'm going to follow my own advice and make sure I've got all the oil or paraffin lamps functioning tomorrow — power cuts are quite likely after sodden tree roots take 6 hours' battering from 60mph winds. They just uproot. Hoovering and washing/drying clothes this afternoon, evening and tomorrow too - anything you need electricity for basically will be done in advance ready for the storm.
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    I recommend NetWeather to everyone I meet — especially as out in the sticks, most of my friends and acquaintances rely on what's happening weather-wise. It's quite worrying the number of people who are completely unaware of tomorrow night's storm — someone suggested meeting up in a Cambridge pub (which is 25 miles away) on Friday evening — we said, no can do, the wind would catch us travelling home again. He said "What wind?"
  22. Iceni
    Woke up because I was COLD so re-lit the bedroom wood stove as quietly as I could. When it's warmed up I'll go back to bed. My husband and I have decided to have a John and Yoko day tomorrow... we're going to stay in bed and watch DVDs - all day. His turn for the dog walk so I don't even have to get dressed. There looks like a slight frost out there - bright moonlight and the starlight is twinkling on the puddles - looks beautiful. MKA - about the bad hair day, get yourself a bottle of spray-on Moroccan Argan Oil. It does your hair good and looks nice, sleek and Jennifer Aniston... you can get it in Waitrose or Boots and a small bottle lasts ages as you don't need much. And thank you once again JP. You've been a rock for us all... I'd have a break before the big storm Friday/Saturday night. Have a John and Yoko day like us
  23. Iceni
    Just finished re-reading 'Dispatches' by Michael Herr - thoroughly recommended - (and who wrote the screenplay for 'Apocalypse Now')... When you read what ordinary freelance reporters went through in Vietnam at places like Hue during the Tet Offensive or Khe Sanh, under almost constant mortar or sniper fire, yet still filming, taking photos and interviewing, you realise how utterly pathetic these people are.
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    And thank you JP. Didn't mean to leave you out of the fulsome praise going to Tamara. You're both ACE
  25. Iceni
    Don't want to pick a fight, but the Nene is nowhere near the Thames Barrier or any relief plains associated with it.
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