Storm Darrah

mancity2012_eamo said:
That’s humour, isn’t it?
I recognise that.

Thing is MSC, issuing these alerts are minor inconveniences for some people. They are blanket warnings to reach as many as possible.
They’re not singling you out personally. If it doesn’t concern you, ignore it. If alerts are going off all night on your phone, switch them off for 8 hours.

The thing about local areas not being affected and looking out your window confirming it, fair enough, but…,
some people may be planning on travelling and the alerts are generally warning or asking people not to travel to the worst affected areas unnecessarily.

Ask Jimharri. The west of Ireland gets this all winter but there can be some extremes even for the Wesht.
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Absolutely. Hence freely available weather forecasting. I use it all the time for fishing.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
That's no good if you need to know weather in the future or somewhere else though. I quite agree that it gives a good indication of local weather in the here and now.
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Just having a pop at those that dismiss storms and events and play the ‘I’m alright Jack’ card - alerts are a great idea and will prevent a lot of damage and even lives in the future
 
BlueHammer85 said:
Just having a pop at those that dismiss storms and events and play the ‘I’m alright Jack’ card - alerts are a great idea and will prevent a lot of damage and even lives in the future
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I'm hardly 'alright'. I'm cowering indoors waiting for the life threatening event to end. Sometimes tomorrow later on or Monday apparently. Looks nice next weekend.
 
mancity2012_eamo said:
Read that first line with ‘mate’ at the end instead of ‘pal’ and it doesn’t sound nearly as threatening.
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A fellow anti- pal comrade.

I hate being called pal and always thought it sounds mildly aggressive even if not meant that way. Its what a pissed and coked up Glaswegian calls you in a pub the second before he headbutts you.
 
All roofers next week:

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Uncle Wally One Ball said:
Steady on brother, bit strong that wouldnt you say?
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Oh deary me, i’ve overstepped…

The “twat” you used was referring to how scruffy they were. “Tight as fuck” was your term, I believe, for their lack of giving to “my fencing.”

So, to correct myself, what I should have said was “Who is the ‘tight as fuck’ one, old boy?”

;-)
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Oh deary me, i’ve overstepped…

The “twat” you used was referring to how scruffy they were. “Tight as fuck” was your term, I believe, for their lack of giving to “my fencing.”

So, to correct myself, what I should have said was “Who is the ‘tight as fuck’ one, old boy?”

;-)
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Whatever mate
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
The thing about looking out of your window is that it gives you an instant idea of the weather. If you need to know what it is tomorrow or in another location then weather forecasts are usually pretty sound.
Obviously if we get an extreme event like the storm at the beginning of the wizard of Oz, when houses are flying around the sky and witches are stealing dogs and flying around on push bikes then a mobile phone warning may be necessary.
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I regularly look out the window, see the weather and dress accordingly. And then turn the corner of our street and get battered by the wind and horizontal rain. And that's not only in what is classed as a storm. Does it bother me? Not really. Would it affect my decision of taking my kids out in it (beyond what I can see through my window)? Yeah sometimes.

The 'just look out the window'broadbrush in 90m winds is just fucking stupid. It ignores whole specteums of the population, lifestyles, travel modes, and differences in locations across the country.

Weather warnings don't mean go hide under the stairs. They help people decide whether to do things now or wait, whether to go out on the roads, whether to expect delays or cancellations on public transport, whether to take vulnerable people out. Or to make back-up arrangements. Or weather to work from home or not, or if working for narrow minded employers with outdated mindsets, it gives them a reasoned justification.

I went out in storm Bert and during a warning, and arranged the back-up of staying with a mate if I couldn't get back home, which happened as transport got gubbed, as just one of a whole range of examples.

Just look out the window, aye being an adult my arse.
 
Uncle Wally One Ball said:
Whatever mate
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OK, pal.

I’m LITERALLY kidding you about it!! I’ve no dog in the hunt, but if they’re as you say, I think I’d just as soon have the fence to keep them out, and out of sight!

I thought YOU were joking in your reply to me, so I was merely continuing it.

I’m sorry, mate. No ofFENCE intended! ;-)

(I’m bored stiff in the worst traffic jam I’ve ever seen in São Paulo, Brazil after being up all night, so I’ve probably fucked this up.)
 
Coatigan said:
I regularly look out the window, see the weather and dress accordingly. And then turn the corner of our street and get battered by the wind and horizontal rain. And that's not only in what is classed as a storm. Does it bother me? Not really. Would it affect my decision of taking my kids out in it (beyond what I can see through my window)? Yeah sometimes.

The 'just look out the window'broadbrush in 90m winds is just fucking stupid. It ignores whole specteums of the population, lifestyles, travel modes, and differences in locations across the country.

Weather warnings don't mean go hide under the stairs. They help people decide whether to do things now or wait, whether to go out on the roads, whether to expect delays or cancellations on public transport, whether to take vulnerable people out. Or to make back-up arrangements. Or weather to work from home or not, or if working for narrow minded employers with outdated mindsets, it gives them a reasoned justification.

I went out in storm Bert and during a warning, and arranged the back-up of staying with a mate if I couldn't get back home, which happened as transport got gubbed, as just one of a whole range of examples.

Just look out the window, aye being an adult my arse.
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I think I've been pretty clear on the applicability of looking out the window. For a more thorough, long term, or geographically distant indication of the weather we have weather forecasts - met office, BBC etc
 
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