Storm Darrah

[RiversideBlue]

I grew up in North Wales. This is just a typical day for us......pussies!

 

[BlueHammer85]

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.

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.

 

[Blue Mist]

Storm ! When I were a lad we'd be playing out in this.

 

[BlueHammer85]

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 Or weather to work from home or not, or if working for narrow minded employers with outdated mindsets, it gives them a reasoned justification.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.

Spot on.

Just think a few get a macho kick out of saying ‘it’s just a bit of rain’ etc .

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

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.

Tragic, perhaps he was further from his house and didn't look at the weather forecast.

 

[Marklr]

Just been for a stroll along the Irwell here in Kersal, Salford. Nice. Gets them en-dolphins swimming around the brain.

 

[paulchapo]

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.

 

[Marklr]

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

I quite like that we now name every weekend between November and February.

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?

 

[denislawsbackheel]

It wasn’t cancelled.
It was postponed.