So there's going to be a "hurricane" in England...

[rabidsamfan]

Or at least hurricane force winds and lots of rain, etc... which is just as bad. It isn't the twirling and the eye that make a hurricane dangerous.

And we were looking at the advice on line. "It's going to be bad for the morning commute when people are dropping off their kids. Bring a fully charged mobile and warm winter clothing."?????!!!!

No. Stay home. Board your windows, and if you can't do that, put up tape. If you have to be at work, go early -- like before the storm early. Keep your kids home and haul out the board games. Get floods? Plan on them. Live near the coast? Got friends inland? Move there now.

But go on your regular morning commute? No. Just no. You don't want to be dodging falling tree limbs anyway.

You want a nice boring "I sat at home all day and watched the news" hurricane, not the exciting "there were lots of people in danger" kind of hurricane.

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[kathie-d.livejournal.com]

They are saying it's not going to be as bad as the one in 1987, and we didn't board our windows for that (because they didn't get the predictions right, and we didn't know about it!). Yeah, I'd not want to be out and about in it, trees came down and such, but yeah.

Basil has an exam in the morning and needs to commute to the next city. He rides a motorbike.

I was going to give him a lift, but I FINALLY have my appointment with the diabetes nurse Monday morning.

So I haven't really figured out what we will do yet. But he needs to go to that exam.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

If you can afford to have him spend the night at a hotel near the exam, that might be safer.

I don't know, but I'd rather be cautious than injured. And I'm used to the local authorities saying "look, we'd just rather have people off the road" when a large storm comes in. I know that trees coming down is a big problem with storms this time of year.

[kathie-d.livejournal.com]

Haha affording things! Like people with jobs!

I'm trying to convince him to stay with a friend, but he says he 'can't be bothered'.

I'm more concerned about the house to be honest. Badly maintained house with a roof which makes noises in even the slightest wind? Hmm, I'm sleeping downstairs Sunday night.

But yeah, it's ENGLAND. We tend not to get real weather here. So not too worried.

[bugeyedmonster.livejournal.com]

Hope y'all never get anything resembling a tornado, that would be a mess. I've been wincing looking at those 'warnings'. Eek.

Though I'm in North/Central Texas, where we get lots of thunderstorms with hail and tornadoes. Usually the weathermen can get alerts for them, but there was this one year we got a freak thunderstorm with hail right in the middle of Mayfest. There were actually folks with head injuries. (Even if hail is small, it can still pack a punch. Some of these were golf ball sized.)

Then my mom's relatives live along the coast. So there have been a couple times when they came to stay with us because a hurricane was due to hit the coastline near Corpus Christi.

Once one of my cousins (uncle and his wife) actually got stuck in traffic trying to get to Dallas, and they ended up having to stay along the road somewhere. Because the traffic was so heavy no one could move forward, and there's a hurricane a few hundred miles behind them, so you can't really go back either. (This was before the state decided to do this thing where after 6pm, the highways leading away from the coast all become one way, away from the coast, of course.)

But then again, it's England. I thought y'all mostly get rain and rain and lotsa' rain. (I've thought that y'all don't really get wild weather.)

[kathie-d.livejournal.com]

ho Ho HO!

First rule of interacting with an Englishman. SELF-deprecation. That means we are allowed to insult our weather, but you are not. ;-P

We don't get rain, rain, and lots of rain… depending on where you are. Most places in the south and east have drought warnings and hose pipe bans every summer (although it could be argued that's due to our crappy Victorian plumbing than anything else). I used to live in East Anglia, land of lovely sunshines. Now I live in the Midlands, and it's more of a mixed bag. Once upon a time I lived in the North West, now that was rain all the time, unless it was hailing. (More beans and marbles than golf balls, but it was all the fricken time!).

See, what you Americans don't get with your fancy tornadoes and hurricanes, is the variation of the British weather. It's all about the subtle nuances. And it changes every season, and the weather changes every day (like right now it's brilliant sunshine and still outside, even though we're still on amber alert for a storm.

It doesn't rain all the time! *stands to attention* *sings national anthem*

(JK……… well, maybe about 60 % kidding… :p)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Just before the hurricane came up the coast last year we had some truly lovely sunshine. *sigh* And then you could watch the rain bands coming in.

I hope you're all set now. Do you get a lot of power outages with these things or are all your power lines buried?

[kathie-d.livejournal.com]

Well, I couldn't convince the Mr to go early to the other town, but he's got a lift with someone in a car bagged, so that's better than the motorbike, anyway. Bit concerned the motorbike might get blown over in the garden, but I'm still struggling to really believe this storm will be as catastrophic as everyone says…

In the town all the lines are underground, but the big ones in the countryside aren't, so I guess there's a chance we'll have power outages. Not too much of a deal, it's not really all that cold this time of year, and I have gas anyway.

I think because so so rarely get extreme weather, it's more cost effective to just repair stuff when it breaks, than get all fancy storm resistant power lines.

[dreamflower]

Exactly! Amen and AMEN!!!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

For a moment I thought you meant here, but then I realzied you meant Old England. :) Seriously, though, I agree with you!

[wirral-bagpuss.livejournal.com]

I wish I could have a day at home until this storm blows over. However work would insist I have to go into work on Monday. Especially as the worst of the storm will hit the south of the country and I live in the North. :)

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

I have lived on the East Coast,USA my whole life. You are right. The less people on the roads the better. Even if the storm does not amount to much you can get lots of power lines down, and broken glass, and babies being born from the low barometer. Stay off the roads if you can.

[bugeyedmonster.livejournal.com]

PS, good luck to y'all. Hope the storm blows itself out and you don't get damage.

[rereader.livejournal.com]

Wait, is that really what they were saying? Because that sounds like highly inadequate in the precaution line.

Look, I live in Manhattan, where all the power lines are underground so they can't be blown down, where trees are a lot less likely to come down than even in the rest of the city (outside Central Park, anyway--they're mostly younger and smaller) and where the public transportation runs 24/7/365---and look what Ssndy did to us! Do not be out driving or biking in that!

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Lol. We're British. We'll just "Keep Calm And Carry On".

[kathie-d.livejournal.com]

Stiff upper lip…. :p

[febobe.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Why did I have the feeling you'd say that?

[arwen-baggins.livejournal.com]

So true, my dad wants to go into a hurricane someday of the fun of it. Of course he also wants to go skydiving. But then again my dad is crazy. No job is worth your life. Your boss will understand a sick day leave for a hurricane. Stay safe, everyone! :)