The Calm before the Storm!

I am not looking forward to it. I am in the North-West. The other day we
lost our power for hours and you don't 'alf miss the electric's when its not
working.

Batten down the Hatches Captain ......

We're all doomed ......

"Uthur" wrote in message
news:crv37q$n2g$1@kermit.esat.net...
> Is there another big storm about to hit maybe?
>
> Uthur
>
>
>

From:	Steve
Subject:	Re: Is it just me or is it eerily calm out tonight...
Date:	Tue, 11 Jan 2005 01:30:44 +0000

Andy wrote:
> The Calm before the Storm!
>
> I am not looking forward to it. I am in the North-West. The other day we
> lost our power for hours and you don't 'alf miss the electric's when its not
> working.
>
> Batten down the Hatches Captain ......
>
> We're all doomed ......
>

Its very quiet down here in West Cork with just a flutter of a breeze - and no
hint of what is about to arrive.

I simply must find a scratch card that's worth scratching and get on that
Caribbean cruise I keep promising myself.

Steven

From:	Andy
Subject:	Re: Is it just me or is it eerily calm out tonight...
Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:27:09 -0000

2 flashes of lightning here tonight at 11pm and the longest rumbles of
thunder I have ever heard in my life - don't mind admitting all these high
winds and storms are scaring the shit out of me. - you have such a big force
of nature that you just cannot control.

The world is going mad with theses storms, looks like we have to admit now
that we are heading towards this global warming thing already the things
they said would happen in 50 years time looks like it has come early and we
are just getting a taste of things to come only it will be worse :-(

on that happy note I bid you goodnight and hopefully a tree wont fall on my
house in the night!

"Steve" wrote in message
news:%_FEd.45378$Z14.24231@news.indigo.ie...
> Andy wrote:
> > The Calm before the Storm!
> >
> > I am not looking forward to it. I am in the North-West. The other day we
> > lost our power for hours and you don't 'alf miss the electric's when its
not
> > working.
> >
> > Batten down the Hatches Captain ......
> >
> > We're all doomed ......
> >
>
> Its very quiet down here in West Cork with just a flutter of a breeze -
and no
> hint of what is about to arrive.
>
> I simply must find a scratch card that's worth scratching and get on that
> Caribbean cruise I keep promising myself.
>
>
>
>
> Steven

From:	Paul Cunnane
Subject:	Re: Is it just me or is it eerily calm out tonight...
Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:21:50 +0000

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:27:09 +0000, Andy wrote:

> 2 flashes of lightning here tonight at 11pm and the longest rumbles of
> thunder I have ever heard in my life - don't mind admitting all these high
> winds and storms are scaring the shit out of me. - you have such a big force
> of nature that you just cannot control.

After all the fuss on 5-7 live I was expecting a cataclysm - bit of a damp
squib after all that. I've seen much worse around here - there have been
times I thought I'd wake up to find the car had blown away.

--
Paul

From:	Uthur
Subject:	Re: Is it just me or is it eerily calm out tonight...
Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:52:08 -0000

"Andy" wrote in message news:34jchvF4chqnhU1@individual.net...
>2 flashes of lightning here tonight at 11pm and the longest rumbles of
> thunder I have ever heard in my life - don't mind admitting all these high
> winds and storms are scaring the shit out of me. - you have such a big force
> of nature that you just cannot control.
>
> The world is going mad with theses storms, looks like we have to admit now
> that we are heading towards this global warming thing already the things
> they said would happen in 50 years time looks like it has come early and we
> are just getting a taste of things to come only it will be worse :-(
>
> on that happy note I bid you goodnight and hopefully a tree wont fall on my
> house in the night!
>

Just read that the largest iceberg in history has broken free way up north. It
is 100 miles long and weighs... a lot.

Uthur

From:	Ulick Magee
Subject:	Re: Is it just me or is it eerily calm out tonight...
Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:41:55 +0000

Andy wrote:
>
> The world is going mad with theses storms, looks like we have to admit now
> that we are heading towards this global warming thing

As if there were no weather extremes before burning fossil fuels was
invented. The difference now is that we get to see on TV any extreme
weather event anywhere in the world. They were happening long before
there were any humans on this planet and they'll be happening long after
we're all gone (I reckon a genetic engineering experiment gone wrong
will do us all in, that's if the sentient robot army or marauding killer
bees don't get us first! ;)

> already the things
> they said would happen in 50 years time looks like it has come early

They were prediciting Irish grown bananas and wine. No sign of those
round my way...

In the 70's we were supposedly heading rapidly for a new Ice Age. That
turned out to be bollocks and I strongly suspect most of the global
warming hype will go the same way.

U

From:	Grimly Curmudgeon
Subject:	Re: Is it just me or is it eerily calm out tonight...
Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:50:13 +0000

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Andy" saying
something like:

>The world is going mad with theses storms, looks like we have to admit now
>that we are heading towards this global warming thing already the things
>they said would happen in 50 years time looks like it has come early and we
>are just getting a taste of things to come only it will be worse :-(

Ah never mind; the meteor will get us first.
--

Dave

From:	Andy
Subject:	Re: Is it just me or is it eerily calm out tonight...
Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:02:11 -0000

"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
news:kt2mu05ad61k7lot899pd5q2qq82mqp8tm@4ax.com...
> It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember "Andy" saying
> something like:
>
> >The world is going mad with theses storms, looks like we have to admit
now
> >that we are heading towards this global warming thing already the things
> >they said would happen in 50 years time looks like it has come early and
we
> >are just getting a taste of things to come only it will be worse :-(
>
> Ah never mind; the meteor will get us first.
> --
>
> Dave.

Unless we are all wiped out by WW3 next.