Simply untrue as far as the Met Office forecasts were concerned. They specifically stated, time after time, that the exact path of the storm and the intensity was difficult to predict accurately. Furthermore any general forecast is just that i.e. it does not, and cannot, predict what will happen at any particular point within the forecast area. A quick check of the road reports shows numerous closures due to fallen trees not to mention that at least two people have lost their lives as a direct result of the storm.
The warnings kept people at home, which has saved lives. There are still no trains running on at least one line in north Kent. Telly has been showing fuckwits driving under fallen trees. Common sense isn't that common when it comes to prats who *have* to be at work - even when their job is shuffling paper or running shops with no customers.
Sure. Where there were storms. In our part of the country, and many other parts, there were NO storms, just high winds. It's a typical British panic, like when Heathrow gets 1/2 inch of snow and everything shuts down for a week.
no. I thought we had escaped with nothing, then FIL was over - poplar tree down taken out th phone line, could we report it..walked the dogs, took camera, and theresa top snapped off one of me maples lying in the orchard.
As some Netowrk Rail wag put it: 'leaves on the line are a bit more serious when they are still attached to the tree'.
chahnces are that there's at least one tree down on every line in the SE.
wind was fronm a 'good' direction though by and large and all our power has survived as you can see.
Is that a surprise? I'd have thought that fast-moving air passing over the flat surface would (in the same way that fast-moving air provides lift from a wing) cause the top surface to be sucked upwards. As soon as that happens the wind would get under the screen and blow it around.
To be fair what was cosnsitently said by the met office ansd serious weather sites was a major storm with a CHANCE of hurricane strength gusts. That the media make it more scary is - well - the media!
In the end the depression was still building as it left East Anglia and Denmark will take the pasting. Fair enough. It's their windmills..
Also the track was a leetle more southerly - the center was predicted to end up round Hull., but it moved south ending up over Anglia, which put the worst winds along the channel and Northern France.
IN short if God was aiming at Demnmark and wanted as little collateral damage as possible, it was the perfect track..
I thnk teh resposemns fraom the sea rail and air traffic and indeed the road warnings has been proprtiobnate and sensible. About 'just right'
It better to know there wont be a train, than to get on one and find yourself stuck for 4 hours while a crew comes up to take the branches off the line.
250,000 without electricity, a fair few without phone, just about every railway line in need of inspection, 2 dead and a lot of property damage is not a total non event. Being prepared for worse has made this a lot less of en event than it might have been.
I actually am amazed to find myself thnking that all in all, apart from the MSM over egging the pudding, the resposne has been almost exactly what I would have put in place myself.Had I been God or whatever.
It will take a few hours to clear 90% of te worst, a few days to get to
99% and one percent will be a real expense and time waster.
Never been a Russian army general, then. Their view was that the best way to clear a minefield was to march a platoon or so of troops over it. Or possibly prisoners.
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