Tornado in London

On Dec 8, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:

> Elizabeth wrote:
>> I hope everyone is okay and no ones house got trashed. They just said
>> north London on the news, with no maps. As one who has not been that
>> close to a tornado (8 miles is a pretty good miss) they do an amazing
>> amount of damage.
>
> It was much smaller than the other tornadoes that have been
> happening in
> the UK for as long as records last... but it was in LONDON!!! and
> therefore the reporters could get to it without having to go out of
> range of pink gin.

SNigger! Or should I say Jigger? I guess with the American tornado
alley being Kansas (and relatively flat), one doesn't think of
tornadoes hitting a more hilly and somewhat less flat place (err, not
that Maryland is all that flat, but we do have lots of trailer
parks...). According to the news reports, the UK has the most
tornadoes relative to area than anywhere else on earth.

Elizabeth
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In <20061208223326.121285963644372.RemoveThis@firedrake.org> Firedrake R wrote:

>Elizabeth wrote:

(from "Organization: iredrake Synthesis", which gave me pause for a moment)

>>According to the news reports, the UK has the most
>>tornadoes relative to area than anywhere else on earth.
>
>Meddle not in the affairs of weather witches, for you are not as
>securely nailed down as you thought you were.

Yes, but although we do have the entire coutry parcelled out among us, we
weather-witches only do *mini*-tornadoes. Duration, five minutes; number
of hospitalisations, one; number of houses damaged (in a major city) under
a hundred; it just ain't what you'd call Kansas, is it?

It's on the same lines as 4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire: "and though
the holes were rather small"... Aberdeen has only the one hole that anyone
bothers to count, but it's the largest in Europe, and the Blackburn ones
wouldn't begin to fill even a small corner of it near the bottom.

In fact we don't do weather on the grand scale here, mostly, and what we do
get paralyses people with astonishment at its happening at all. I mean,
half an inch of snow in two hours reduces Bristol traffic to a complete
standstill for four hours after it has all finished falling, or it did last
year. I have a feeling that wouldn't get anyone in either York or New York
reaching for the chains to put on their tyres.

OTOH, if dragons want to have fun, a mini-tornado is about the same to a
flying dragon as a whirlpool is to a mermaid.

Beetle

MA, Cartographer, Bombardier, Weather Witch and Village Storekeeper
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> if dragons want to have fun
Wasn't that a song by Cinders Lauper?
Au Res.,
Paul
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--- anon2765 DeleteThis @firedrake.org wrote:

> In <20061208223326.121285963644372 DeleteThis @firedrake.org>
> Firedrake R wrote:
>
> >Elizabeth wrote:
>
> (from "Organization: iredrake Synthesis", which gave
> me pause for a moment)
>
> >>According to the news reports, the UK has the most
> >>tornadoes relative to area than anywhere else on
> earth.
> >
> >Meddle not in the affairs of weather witches, for
> you are not as
> >securely nailed down as you thought you were.
>
> Yes, but although we do have the entire coutry
> parcelled out among us, we
> weather-witches only do *mini*-tornadoes. Duration,
> five minutes; number
> of hospitalisations, one; number of houses damaged
> (in a major city) under
> a hundred; it just ain't what you'd call Kansas, is
> it?
>
> It's on the same lines as 4000 holes in Blackburn,
> Lancashire: "and though
> the holes were rather small"... Aberdeen has only
> the one hole that anyone
> bothers to count, but it's the largest in Europe,
> and the Blackburn ones
> wouldn't begin to fill even a small corner of it
> near the bottom.
>
> In fact we don't do weather on the grand scale here,
> mostly, and what we do
> get paralyses people with astonishment at its
> happening at all. I mean,
> half an inch of snow in two hours reduces Bristol
> traffic to a complete
> standstill for four hours after it has all finished
> falling, or it did last
> year. I have a feeling that wouldn't get anyone in
> either York or New York
> reaching for the chains to put on their tyres.
>
>
Reminds me of weather in the local Washington DC area,
1 inch of snow equals mass panic and a run on milk,
bread and toilet paper at the grocery stores. While
the drivers abandon cars or try to drive as though it
were not snowing. Being a mis-placed Yankee, I tend
to stay indoors and hide, coming out to shovel the
driveway and such. I know how to drive in bad
weather, but I refuse to because there are so many
idiots that think passing when you can't see ten feet
infront of the car is permissible.

Jackie, who's will be absent in Connecticut and thus
computerless for a week



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