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well i'll be

Postby Craig. » Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:49 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content ... ture.shtml
Guess its lucky it happened where it did. Explains the unusual downpour we had.
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Re: Well, I'll be.....

Postby Fozzer » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:13 pm

You should have stayed in Bristol, Craig...
..at least you only get gang warfare, shootings, street muggings robbery, burglery, rape, pillage, etc, there*...
...very rarely a tornado... ;)...!

LOL...!

Cheers Craig...keep your head down... ;)...!

Paul.... 8)...!

* or is that included in Birmingham, as well... ::)...?
LOL...!
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Re: well i'll be

Postby Craig. » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:18 pm

We had a Tornado in Bristol to. The damn things are following me. I just thought it normal when in the US ;D ;D
Cheers Mr Fozzer,
P.S. I think we have all those things here too, just hidden better.
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Re: well i'll be

Postby Hagar » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:24 pm

We had a Tornado in Bristol to. The damn things are following me. I just thought it normal when in the US ;D ;D

LOL Craig. Keep away from here then. :o :D
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Re: well i'll be

Postby Craig. » Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:57 pm

LOL Craig. Keep away from here then. :o :D

LOL ;D
Maybe its just all the hot air from Mr Fozzer, colliding with the cold air from up north :-X ;D Just kidding Fozzer ;D
Or maybe its from me? :)
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Re: well i'll be

Postby Jared » Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:15 pm

lol, we had one sighted but never touched down here last monday I do believe....

As a trained weather spotter I was out there looking and didn't see any rotation over my house, but I did see a pretty scary looking wall cloud! :)

Twas an interesting evening with winds of 50+ MPH :)
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Re: well i'll be

Postby Craig. » Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:20 pm

Was funny as the local weather reporter was going on about how "Tornados were almost impossible to predict and how conditions had to be just right for them to form and in this case they were".
You could see from the weather all morning there was an outside chance of one, i didnt expect it personally as they are so rare here, but any moron would know a warning on local radio and tv would have been a good idea no matter how remote a possibility. The fact they have radar and god knows what else would have given them some indication.
However there was a CCTV camera that recorded it all, and apparently there will be video of it tomorrow. Should be cool to watch.
Lets face it this has caused thousands of
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Re: well i'll be

Postby farmerdave » Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:25 pm

Twas an interesting evening with winds of 50+ MPH  


We had the same here two nights ago.  We had our christmas tree sitting in a pile of brush where we were going to burn the stuff sometime.  I looked out the window see it rolling right up a pretty steep hill at a good clip like a piece of tumbleweed!  It blew all the way across the yard and almost onto the road, but luckily it got caught on a telephone pole guide wire.
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Re: well i'll be

Postby Craig. » Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:26 pm

Oh and as a side bit of interest.
This quote shows the typical stupidity of your average Brummie.
"Suddenly everything started blowing UPWARDS. I tried to get out to get a better look but I couldn't actually force the door open. I could see loads of flying debris circling, and then the roof seemed to lift off the petrol station and swing almost completely upright and then fall back down.


I'm sorry but if debris is flying everywhere the last place i am heading outside ::)
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Re: well i'll be

Postby Hagar » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:13 pm

We had a tornado here once, back in 1950 I think it was. Took the roof right off my Grandma's house & dropped all the tiles in a heap in the front garden. I was visiting Grandma at the time. It also lifted a double-decker bus over the railings of the old Toll Bridge at Shoreham & dumped it in the river. Fortunately it landed upright on a sandbank & nobody was hurt. I bet they were a tad surprised though. :o Happy days. I think. ::) ;)

PS. It was Jan 1st, 1949. They got the name of the river wrong. It's the Adur. The Arun is further west. http://www.wsfb.co.uk/diary.html
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Re: well i'll be

Postby eno » Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:32 am

They're not actually that rare here .......... in fact we have more tornados per square mile here in the UK than they do in tornado alley.
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