Storm Darrah

Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
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.
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It is life threatening for many, a blokes just this minute has died from a fallen tree in Lancashire, maybe he thought the weather warnings were a load of nonsense and it looked alright out the window.
 
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 Or weather to work from home or not, or if working for narrow minded employers with outdated mindsets, it gives them a reasoned justification.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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Spot on.

Just think a few get a macho kick out of saying ‘it’s just a bit of rain’ etc .
 
BlueHammer85 said:
It is life threatening for many, a blokes just this minute has died from a fallen tree in Lancashire, maybe he thought the weather warnings were a load of nonsense and it looked alright out the window.
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Tragic, perhaps he was further from his house and didn't look at the weather forecast.
 
Just been for a stroll along the Irwell here in Kersal, Salford. Nice. Gets them en-dolphins swimming around the brain.
 
I went out yesterday to get some food and stuff in. It was cold but not too windy or raining. I got home and it started. It looked pretty miserable later but I thought fuck it so I got wrapped up and went out for a few pints. Given how busy the trams were I think everybody thought the same. The weather actually wasn't that bad but it looks and sounds bloody miserable out there today and I ain't moving.
 
Coatigan said:
I quite like that we now name every weekend between November and February.
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Keeps the drama queen's and health and safety brigade happy. The rest of us just gets on with life, if we are allowed to by the nanny state.

Unbelievable that they cancelled the scouse Derby. I'm a little confused, were all Liverpudlians confined to their houses or evacuated?? . Were all the shops shut and Christmas shopping banned? Or did this wind and rain just present an unacceptable risk to football fans?
 
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Churchlawtonblue said:
Keeps the drama queen's and health and safety brigade happy. The rest of us just gets on with life, if we are allowed to by the nanny state.

Unbelievable that they cancelled the scouse Derby. I'm a little confused, were all Liverpudlians confined to their houses or evacuated?? . Were all the shops shut and Christmas shopping banned? Or did this wind and rain just present an unacceptable risk to football fans?
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Tbh I'd have thought the journey our fans are making today is more dodgy.
 
Phew, I survived Storm Darrah.
It was my Christmas do, to be fair there's only me and Mrs Mist.
We told our family and friends the route we would be taking. We wore our survival gear and packed our 'space blankets'.
We knew it would be a slog but we were determined
We got to the restaurant the waitress said 'you're a little bit wet aren't you'
 
ballbag said:
Some proper hard fuckers on here.
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I wouldn't say hard...

Some cunts are stuck in it thanks to work fuckkery.

Code black - do not travel.

"I believe a code black has been put out?"

"Yes it has."

"Does that mean I'm still working this?"

"Yes."

"Even when others have took the advice and stopped running."

"Are you refusing to do your job?"

"No. I'm questioning that a code black has been issued and we're still working. Creating a potential issue along the way."

"Well if it does. Ring us back!"

*Phone cuts off*
 
went to Boro to pick daughter up from work at 6pm - roads round here flooded - trees down - street lights cut off - traffic lights off ( that was fun - not ) but aside from a few broken down cars really really quiet - she works in retail and said its been deserted all day - not really surprising.
 
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