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    Quote Originally posted by Tribe View Post
    hi , yes , it has been the worst storm in all my years! all 21 of them ha ha ...we have lost our rail link to england and in my town we have lost a road into the adjacent village as it is now a lake and the walkways into town via the prom have collapesed into the sea. we thought we wouldnt see any worse damage but now we know we have worse to come . it is hard to sleep as the winds and rain batter our town . we are stocked up with candles and food . the electric went off for hours the day before yesterday and we have been told this will happen again , may of the surrounding villages have had trees fall and powerlines taken out completely , is going to cost a fortune to repair the damage and we are sad to see our beloved peirs washed into the sea never to be seen again.

    Thanks for the update, Tribe, however disheartening it was to hear. Hope you continue to be safe, although quite uncomfortable it seems.

    Hugs, Barbara

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    https://www.express.co.uk/news/natur...owards-Britain

    if anyone wants to see how bad it is this will give you a idea!

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    Holy Macaroni, Tribe. I hope you are far enough inland. They are talking Tsunami's here. . . . that 75 ft wave was enough to scare me.

    Take care girlfriend and do keep us posted.

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    Tribe, that wall of 75 foot water is awesome and it's strange there isn't more discussion as to the cause.

    I'm sure there would have been ships at sea and for-warnings, although the article reads it's the start of more to come. The destruction of the sea wall and railroad is terrible. My prayers for your safety in these turbulent times.

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    Britain grapples through worst torrential rainfall in 248 years
    Posted on February 7, 2014




    LONDON - Britain announced emergency funding Thursday to cope with devastating floods after what officials said had been likely the worst spell of winter rainfall in at least 248 years. Prime Minister David Cameron’s government has faced criticism for its handling of a crisis that has left swathes of the country under water, with a key railway line washed away. Several people had to be rescued from deluged homes on Thursday while more storms are expected this weekend. Across the English Channel, France’s western tip was placed on alert for flooding as high tides wreaked havoc along Europe’s Atlantic coast. Pickles said the winter was the “wettest since George III was on the throne,” referring to Britain’s monarch from 1760-1820. He added that flood victims have “literally been through hell and high water.” Britain’s Meterological Office released figures confirming Pickles’ assessment. For southern England, “regional statistics suggest that this is one of, if not the most, exceptional periods of winter rainfall in at least 248 years,” it said in a statement. Parts of the region received five months of rainfall between December 12 and January 31. The rainy winter has set records tumbling, being the wettest combined period of December and January across the United Kingdom since 1910, the Met Office said. It was also the windiest December since 1969, based on the occurrence of winds over 69 mph. For England alone it was the wettest December to January since 1876-1877 and the second wettest since rainfall records began in 1766.

    Firefighters in Somerset and the neighboring county of Devon rescued 14 people from homes and stranded vehicles late Wednesday and early Thursday. Rescuers in inflatable boats rescued four adults and three children from one house after a river burst its banks in Stoke St Gregory, a village that heir to the throne Prince Charles visited on Tuesday, a fire brigade spokesman said. Prince Charles himself said on his trip to the region that the ‘tragedy is that nothing happened for so long.” Cameron personally took charge of the government’s response on Wednesday after facing a growing tide of criticism for being too slow to aid stricken communities. But the damage has kept coming, with the main train service connecting Devon and the county of Cornwall with the rest of Britain being suspended after part of the sea wall under the coastal railway line collapsed. Meanwhile in France, Finestere, a department of Brittany which juts out into the Atlantic, was placed on red flooding alert and braced for two of its rivers, the Morlaix and the Laita, to burst their banks as a result of heavy rain forecast for Thursday. The highest-level warning was issued by Meteo-France shortly after the agency placed 29 departments from Brittany to the Paris region on a second-tier orange alert. Recent days have seen huge waves; gale-force winds and torrential rains combine to batter sea defenses from the Basque country on France’s border with Spain. The storms sent a Spanish cargo ship crashing into a sea wall at the French port of Bayonne on Wednesday, splitting it clean in two. –Space Daily

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    Volcano in Ecuador causing crop shortage, rising prices



    February 11, 2014 – ECUADOR - After a week of eruptions, the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador has damaged thousands of hectares of crops, leaving a feed shortage for 110,000 head of livestock. The volcano erupted on Feb. 2, sending an ash plume about 13 km high, followed by two other moderate-sized explosions that sent ash about five kilometers into the sky. Since then, the volcano has continued to erupt. The thick ash is coating crops and monsoon winds are causing the ash to spread around the countryside widely. In order to minimize the losses incurred by the volcano’s eruption, farmers have begun to harvest tomatoes, potatoes and corns before they reach maturity. According to local media reports, the spreading volcanic ash has led to vegetable shortages in some large and medium-sized cities in the country. In Guayaquil, the biggest city in Ecuador, prices for onions, corn and potato have risen for about 10 per cent, the report said. The Ecuadorian Geophysical Institute said that the volcanic activity is letting up gradually. Tungurahua is one of South America’s most active volcanoes. –Global News

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    Bad for this years crops but, the re-mineralzation of the soil will make for boom harvests in the future. Good weather permitting.
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    Red alert warning issued for uk as massive storm approaching.

    This could get nasty guys, stay safe!

    Regards,
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    Southeast usa about to get smacked with a severe ice storm. Remember a couple weeks all the problems only a couple inches of snow caused Atlanta???

    ... well if this plays out as predicted it will be *dramatically* worse as due to the southern climate they are suggesting a *massive* ice storm.

    Much worse than snow.

    It is heavy and accumlates on electrical wires as well as all the trees breaking off many many branches falling onto homes, roads and yes margaret ... electrical lines.

    If it comes to fruition (if) there could be literally millions of people without electricity for who knows how long???

    In the parts of the country that get things like this on a seasonal basis it is sort of a natural thinning kind of thing (like forest fires) taking out the old and weakening branches. Deep south ... to have some heavy ice on trees that are not used to it???


    Anyway ... no wish to cause fear but putting out the word (many in usa are now aware).

    Interesting on the CNN vid (included) the guy suggested "armageddon" ... which in these days of weather wars may not be too far from the truth???


    http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/us/wea...html?hpt=hp_c2



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    Almost comical metaphorical depiction of the economic collapse in progress.

    Cannot post the CNN vid so take the link (catches it live).

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    Sinkhole swallows pricey Corvettes at hallowed museum

    By Thom Patterson, CNN
    updated 6:21 PM EST, Wed February 12, 2014

    (CNN) -- Sinkholes are swallowing Corvettes now. Last year it was houses in Florida, and on Wednesday nature gobbled up some of the coolest and fastest cars to come off the assembly line.

    Eight valuable 'vettes at Bowling Green, Kentucky's National Corvette Museum fell victim to a 40-foot-wide, 20-foot-deep sinkhole that opened up in the facility's yellow Sky Dome wing. The museum unofficially estimates it caused millions of dollars in damage.


    http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/us/nat...html?hpt=hp_t2

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    I saw that too and was amused at the irony of it.

    Here is a list of those swallowed:

    -- a 1962 "Black Corvette"
    -- a 1984 PPG pace car
    -- a 2009 ZR1 "Blue Devil"
    -- the 1992 white "1 Millionth Corvette"
    -- a 1993 ruby red "40th Anniversary Corvette"
    -- a 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette
    -- the 2009 white "1.5 Millionth Corvette"
    -- a 1993 ZR-1 Spyder

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    Mount Kelud erupts in Indonesia, killing 3 – forcing the evacuation of 100,000

    This picture says it all - so much ash, it looks like snow on the ground, can't imagine what it's like to breathe in that stuff.



    February 14, 2014 – INDONESIA – A volcano eruption in Indonesia killed three people and forced tens of thousands more out of their homes, the disaster management agency said Friday. Two died from smoke inhalation while the third was hit by a collapsing wall. Officials had originally reported two deaths due to falling building debris. Mount Kelud in the eastern part of the main island Java has been spewing ash for at least two days high into the air, as a smoke plume has risen from out of its crater into the sky. The government raised its eruption alert to its highest level overnight, and authorities have ordered an evacuation of all residents in a 10-kilometer (6.2 miles) radius of the volcano in eastern Java. At the height of the crisis Friday, 100,000 people evacuated, but that number later dropped to more than 75,000. Seven airports closed due to volcanic ash, which filled the skies and can lead to jet engine problems.

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    For all you poor people up there in the northern hemisphere.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn2H8NAQzHw

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    Huge storms in Sydney today - 2 in fact.

    I am not in Sydney, but one big ******* is about to hit here very shortly. If you look on the radar map at the bottom - see where Lismore is, that's around where I am. Just coming in now.
    I can sense destruction and big hail.

    It's been so hot and humid, so now nature is going to do a cleanse. Probably the electricity will go off. (And the internet of course). Hopefully my dinner will be ready before that happens!

    http://www.smh.com.au/environment/we...316-34uwt.html

    Edit: I don't like the look of those red bits coming straight at me on that storm tracker map. Just started to rain and it's gone black in a matter of minutes. Thunder rolling in. Oh well, rissoles by candlelight I guess?
    Last edited by Sooz, 16th March 2014 at 07:07.

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    Stay safe Sooz, I hope it wont be as bad is expected.

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