I would just like to say

Stanleysteamer said:

Barrels of chemicals shooting into the air like mortars shells.

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Stanleysteamer said:

(No, I won't say it)

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Wimblowdriver said:

Reminds me of the time I was working in the County Hall in London - building the London Aquarium. My site office was at ground level overlooking the Thames, and Big Ben was my site clock! One day I heard a loud bang and saw an object with a smoke trail flying through the air on the far side of the river. Followed by lots of sirens and blue light activity. It turned out to have been a gas bottle being used by some roofers on the top of Charing Cross Station, it had caught fire and launched itself. Amazingly there were no casualties.

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Turktowner said:

@DanClarke
You were already inside stick range, shoulda stuck the waster on the nose and stuff the consequences, peeps are takin the p.

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Wimblowdriver said:

I remember "The Hurricane", was living in Kent at the time it happened. My house was in a valley area, I had slept through he hurricane and knew nothing about it until I set off for work as usual the next morning. Copper stopped me at the bottom of the road and asked where was I going? London ses I, Oh no you're not he said - all roads are blocked with trees down. He was right, couldn't get out of the village for a week. I've got some photos somewhere of the tree line at the top of the valley taken from a bedroom window before the storm, and took the same shot just after - with half the trees gone and houses with missing roofs.

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kevstar said:

Old pics are great to look through, not the same now with memory sticks ect.

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kevstar said:

Are you the new Michael Fish.

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DanClarke said:

Morning All.
Another fine day here it seems.
Wifey is composing an e-mail to the hospital "PALS" people re: Her Mother.
Have a great day.

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DanClarke said:

....that at long last the old gal has been to theatres and had her leg done.
Now back on the ward and resting. On broad spectrum AB's to fight infection and lab-work ongoing to determine what AB's would be best to kill infection more quickly. It's possibly going to need skin grafts.
But that's a better position at least 6 days elapsed so far.

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Wimblowdriver said:

I had another unpleasant experience in a hurricane a few years ago, at a club bike trackway at Anglesey Circuit. Got parked up next to the big marquee (for the band beer n bash at the end of the weekend) but got moved away for some reason I can't remember. Ended up in a more exposed position where we put the tents up and got ready for the next day. And finished the evening in the marquee with a few beers. And then a hurricane hit - I knew about it when the top of the tent was battering my head. Rain was torrential. Tried to get some shelter in the van but it was being thrown about in the storm (big box van). Crawled back into the tent which by now was completely flattened. The scene next morning was much calmer, but total devastation. And the marquee was flattened. But the weekend was salvaged and went ahead with just a couple of hours delay.

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Brown said:

That sounds very like the weather on Anglesey to me. It's a bit bracing at times. You don't even have to wait for the winter either - you can get incidents like that in the summer too. I used to live there in the early 1980s, mostly leaning over at an angle against the horizontal sleet.

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Wimblowdriver said:

It was either early or late summer, can't remember that far back. Organisers said it was very unusual to get that sort of weather. My youngest daughter was stationed at RAF Valley at the time, she said it was very normal. She mentioned the Anglesey lean

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