Good News and Bad News

[Anark]

Ok, good news is that we all got sent home from school (except years 7 and 8, LOL!) because the roof was falling off.
Bad news, Birmingham Airport needs a new boss.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6273773.stm

Richard Heard, 49, managing director of Birmingham International Airport, died when a tree branch went through his car windscreen in Shropshire.

[BFMF]

What a way to get killed... :-/

[Romulus111VADT]

What a way to get killed... :-/

Weirdest I ever heard of was in New Hampshire, Sullivan County. A tractor trailer rig hit a large buck and sent the buck flying over a bridge overpass. It fell onto a passing car and the antlers of the buck impaled the driver as the buck crashed threw the windshield. The driver of the car was killed. Not to mention the buck.

I remember reading it in the paper when I went to visit some friends in about 1985.

[Woodlouse2002]

What a way to get killed... :-/

Weirdest I ever heard of was in New Hampshire, Sullivan County. A tractor trailer rig hit a large buck and sent the buck flying over a bridge overpass. It fell onto a passing car and the antlers of the buck impaled the driver as the buck crashed threw the windshield. The driver of the car was killed. Not to mention the buck.

I remember reading it in the paper when I went to visit some friends in about 1985.

My neighbours sister was killed by a car while working at reception at an airport in Germany. A the driver of a van going round a round about next to the airport had a heart attack and the van came off the road, smashed through the doors into the checkin and hit her. Tis what you call a freak accident.

[concordepilot]

Unlucky for the manger.

We had winds up to 80MPH here in South glos and we didn't get sent home even tho some of the electric cables got broken and were sparking everywere (bonfire night it seemed like) 2 trees fell over and 5 cars in the car park got flipped.

[C]

Great weather for a day in the office... 24050G70KTS!

DOH!

[Woodlouse2002]

Great weather for a day in the office... 24050G70KTS!

DOH!

Only 70 eh. They've recorded a gust of 99kts down on the IOW.

[C]

But we've got 50 miles of land between us and the sea in the direction of the prevailing wind! And the Pennines!

[Woodlouse2002]

Makes for a lotta wind that don't it.

I blame all the wind farms they're making on the north wales coast.  :o

[F3Hadlow]

Strangely enough. the far north eastern corner of England wasn't particularly chaotic today, ceratainly nowhere near as serious as it seems to have been around the rest of the country.

[C]

Strangely enough. the far north eastern corner of England wasn't particularly chaotic today, ceratainly nowhere near as serious as it seems to have been around the rest of the country.

Durham (Tees Valley) was having/forecasting worse than us - the Toon must have been lucky. Or maybe everyone was too upset about last night at St James' Park to notice...

[Craig.]

Strangely enough. the far north eastern corner of England wasn't particularly chaotic today, ceratainly nowhere near as serious as it seems to have been around the rest of the country.

Durham (Tees Valley) was having/forecasting worse than us - the Toon must have been lucky. Or maybe everyone was too upset about last night at St James' Park to notice...

I thought that the wind today was caused by the collective sigh from all those at St James' park last night

[expat]

Here in at Paderborn Airport, one of our pilots reported 180 kmh winds at 3000 feet on approach.  Shortly after that we closed.

Matt

[H]

Weirdest I ever heard of was in New Hampshire, Sullivan County. A tractor trailer rig hit a large buck and sent the buck flying over a bridge overpass. It fell onto a passing car and the antlers of the buck impaled the driver as the buck crashed through the windshield. The driver of the car was killed, not to mention the buck.
I remember reading it in the paper when I went to visit some friends in about 1985.

I don't recall hearing about that and it's the county I grew up in; I was around those parts in the '80s. However, deer frequently cross our roads, day and night, so it's not that surprising.

8-)

[F3Hadlow]

Strangely enough. the far north eastern corner of England wasn't particularly chaotic today, ceratainly nowhere near as serious as it seems to have been around the rest of the country.

Or maybe everyone was too upset about last night at St James' Park to notice...

That was just a noise