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  1. Iceni
    Never apologise, Tamara, but you always explain and you are usually and unerringly correct. That vortex isn't going anywhere until spring in the USA... once temperatures equalise, we'll see the end of this nighmare. Thank you!
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    Well I can tell you that's rubbish. In the late 80s I used to have a boyfriend in Wandsworth and the Tube went past Hackney Marshes which looked like, err, hectares of marshes in those days. It's where they built the Olympic Village. http://hackneycitizen.co.uk/2012/01/15/olympics-hackney-marshes-sports-wildlife-environment/
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    Not a fan of Facebook but it's growing on me... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202562944127561&set=o.412818108804401&type=3&permPage=1
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    OOI when was this? I'd bet those 'relief plains' have all been built on by now.
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    OH WOW - wind's come back again from nowhere — this must be that squall line that was due to hit us. Gone very dark and I'd estimate wind speed at around 45–50 knots. Gusts — a lot more. Definitely more than when I went for the walk earlier. Newer trees or shrubs in the garden bent double and huge rain.
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    There is a God Hope someone uploads it on YouTube.
  7. Iceni
    Told you
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    You've done a better job than the reporters.... "How does it feel to be evacuated from your home, made effectively homeless and have all your possessions destroyed with no prospect of moving back into your house until August... etc.?" A £50 note for the first member of the public to say live on TV, "Just marvellous - couldn't be better..."
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    If you're in the firing line - I'm in the centre of the target - I'm 10 miles south. hey ho. I'm looking at the radar and when it hits, I'm going out there and I'm going to make my husband go out there too — he didn't believe me until he noticed he'd been looking at the knot speed not mph.
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    Play this out take from the Basement Tapes - Bob Dylan and the Band. Funny thing is I was playing it over and over again all Christmas with a feeling that something was coming... Crash on the Levee.
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    He's not exaggerating. I saw a whole plantation of pines snapped like matchsticks and their trunks were over 15" diameter.
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    Just been out in it walking the dogs, or rather 'flying the dogs' I thought the little one was going to take off like a kite. He kept looking at me doubtfully as if to say, "Mummy, it's not that great out here is it? Why can't we either go in the woods or go home?" Because I'd get killed by a falling tree, dear I told him. Then an almighty gust — I'd say about 55–60 mph — literally stopped me in my tracks. So I just got the wind and rain to my back and walked right across the middle of this field, got the dogs inside, got some wood in and stripped — everything below my knees apart from my wellies was drenched. Now we've got sleet mixed in with graupel and rain — it was stinging my face. Wind's got to be in the sustained mid 40s. Interesting though I've never been out in a wind like that in this neck of the woods.
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    They put up a wind turbine in a car park ??? They need at least 50m clearance even for a smallish one — ice throw, collapse, blade's flying off etc.
  14. Iceni
    Your daughter will be fine. I knew another girl who had the same op when she was 15 and she went on to uni and I think she's a solicitor now. She was very disabled before and this was quite a few years ago. At least some people are worth their salary in this country.
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    That oak branch left hanging over my lane for 18-20 hours after the authorities had been told about it springs to mind — there's no major flooding of properties around here, so it wasn't as though they were so busy they couldn't attend to it — Saturdays seem to be away days for plod. What exactly ARE we paying our council taxes for? What? £1,300–2,000 pa for bin collections?
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    What? Trees are in leaf? I doubt it. It's not just temperature it's daylight hours too. Snowdrops, hellebores, aconites and crocuses are flowering in my garden but they were flowering last year when it was still cold and I've seen them in full bloom in snow. They take advantage of higher light levels as they aren't shaded by trees at this time of year and don't rely on insects to pollinate them.
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    Basically spring. When vegetation starts growing again and trees, grass start using the water that's in the ground. For that you need above 6 degrees at night.
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    All I know is that during the late 60s my brother was at Cranleigh School there and EVERY time there was flooding in the area, he either couldn't get home on an exeat or couldn't get back to school if he'd been at home on one. Spoke to an old West Sussex neighbour yesterday afternoon and she says there are pockets of flooding all around - her son is the CEO of a large construction company in Chichester and said apart from emergency repairs etc., work is at a standstill as they either can't get to places or the weather precludes building work.
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    Nothing to do with flooding, but on Saturday afternoon at 5pm I noticed a heavy oak branch which had broken off its tree and was dangling over the lane about 20 ft up. Called in at the property and the very rude owner said he'd phone the police... when I wanted to park my car with hazard lights on until they turned up, he told me to "push off" (but ruder than that). I didn't trust him so phoned them myself at 5:30pm giving them the correct address and post code. I also emailed Neighbourhood Watch who passed my message on to the Parish Council, again giving the correct address. At 10 am the next morning the Parish Clerk ambled up the lane had a look and called the police again who this time turned up to finally deal with the branch which, by this time, had been hanging over the road for 18 hours and could have fallen on passing motorists or walkers at any time. The authorities are hopeless. Broken Britain. PS Is there anywhere you can get a reliable local wind speed? My husband says it's 22 mph but I reckon it's a lot more than that.
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    Perhaps more Borough or County councillors live in and around Datchet than Wraysbury... do a bit of detective work. When British Rail (of old) were cutting back services - trains not stopping or fast trains changed to stopping trains up the Waterloo-Portsmouth and Southsea mainline, Haslemere (the station I used) was spared. Reason? We found out the CEO of BR lived nearby and used, yes you've guessed it, Haslemere for his commute to work.
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    Telegraph puts it at "300 Lake Windemeres" have fallen as rain during December, January early February. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10628995/Wettest-ever-two-months-for-south-as-300-Lake-Windermeres-fall.html Interestingly talking to a farmer friend of mine who is currently unable to work due to the mud (which is just everywhere now — can't use public footpaths and have to walk through the undergrowth at the side of them). He said the pasture in the Somerset Levels is a write off. All that grass underwater would have died by now as its roots would have been starved of oxygen — the soil is saturated — grass can cope with a couple of weeks but after a month, it's gone. It would have to be reseeded and start again which will take months/years to re-establish. Most dairy or beef herds will have to be slaughtered unless farmers get funds to buy their feed. I gave him the Netweather TV link and he's hooked. Said it would be brilliant to help him plan his work — he does a lot of ad hoc work for various small holders and other farmers etc. when he's not looking after his own. So NWTV got another fan today.
  22. Iceni
    WOW! I've never seen a sky like that (in daylight). Never. Keep safe.
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    Well done for posting that aerial shot of Walton-on-Thames yesterday MKA. Sky have only just caught up with you and only now are screening shots of fire persons (I'm sooo pc) and reporters wading through 3 foot floods in the town.
  24. Iceni
    From Tamara's excellent post in the last thread and the charts she provided, it's more than double that wind speed at 46 mph (40 knots) on Wednesday… the SE & EA had 4-barbed arrows = 40 knts. And the isobars were so tight, you could hardly see the outline of the UK under them.
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    That's another lie too - and it was 97% - so you people can't even get that right 30,000 scientific papers were sampled. Only 79 of that number agreed that man-made carbon emissions were affecting the climate. And many of them weren't even experts in 'climatology' they were activists or specialists in some other science such as anthropologists etc. This Forbes article gives accounts from various scientists (astrophysicists etc.) about how their research was twisted or rejected by Cook et al. who presented this bogus 97% consensus guff. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/05/30/global-warming-alarmists-caught-doctoring-97-percent-consensus-claims/ Dr. Richard Tol (a statistician and economist - CV included in link) de-constructed this 97% consensus rubbish years ago. And another group at Harvard came to the same conclusion. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/01/tol-statistically-deconstructs-the-97-consensus/ The only reason it's an active area of research is because governments are dishing out the research grants to those so-called scientists who buy the lie and governments are doing that to justify extra green taxes... it's a scam. To Dana Nuccitelli (one of the et al. of Cook's paper): "[Dana] I think your sampling strategy is a load of nonsense.†– Richard Tol ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— My qualifications? I worked for Nature the science journal for 6 years in its Editorial Dept. Five of them under the late and legendary Sir John Maddox its Editor (twice) who as a physicist was deeply sceptical of Sagan and his disciple Hansen right up until his retirement in 1995. So I was actively involved in the publication of over 3,744 scientific papers, letters and articles. "Après moi, le déluge" could be his epitaph.
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