Pack your waterproofs

The mother of storms is heading your way (in the South at least,
probably). Sunny Devon is now soggy Devon. I was startled away at 3am with
a thunderclap that shook the house for 10secs, and it was raging all
night. The last big one was an hour ago, and the rain that came with it
has left localised flooding. I don't recall ever hearing thunder that
loud consistently over hours.

 

Just rode the R1 from Portsmouth to Guildford [1]
bright sunshire, nice and warm ;-)

[1] in an attempt to beat the Goodwood traffic near my workplace

 

Always a dissappointment when you've paid your penny.

 

What's the story with insurance and hail damage in the UK as a matter of
interest?

In SA we used to occasionally get golf ball sized hail which would, funnily
enough, dent cars.

Now the forecast for later is "large hail" so I am a bit concerned...

 

At a guess, they'd prolly claim it's an act of God or something, and
weasel out of paying.

WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN!?

Get your brolly out.

 

Yeah it dented them too.

Bloody painful and in some cases fatal.

 

<snip>

There's a cracking thunderstorm story in today's Telegraph.

Funeral procession in Lubljana, Slovenia; geezer toting large metal
cross in procession; clap of thunder, bolt of lighting; cross-toting
geezer struck down dead.

Excellent.

 

Well , that's one version of christianity proved not to be the true faith
then :0)
--
Alex

Hermes: "We can't afford that! Especially not Zoidberg!"
Zoidberg: "They took away my credit cards!"

www.drzoidberg.co.uk www.ebayfaq.co.uk

 

Switters wrote

From the sound of it, it has reached the M25.

There has been a quite dramatic change in the air here and anything that
flies is in the process of landing in an awful hurry. It won't be long
now.


I like a good thunderstorm me.

 

steve auvache wrote

<seconds later>

**** me that was quick.

I am loving this one already.

 

Oh good. I'm so glad I don't have to drive anywhere near there any
more..

So do I - but our poor little Staffie cross dog hates them - she'll be
going mental by now.

Phil

 

There are some cracking pictures here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/africa_dorset_storms0_23_june_2005/html/1.stm

And one picture is (c) Paul Corfield, but I guess it's not BCB.

 

CT wrote

With a bit of luck I might have some of me own, I have two cameras ready
to roll. All I need now is a storm and oddly it is back to clear blue
skies again and redoing all the clocks because we had second or two of
missing electric in the middle of it and every fucking alarm in the
county is still going off.

 

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/radar/index.html

Looks like you could be disappointed - it's petered out as it got near
London.

Looks like the Midlands had some interesting weather at some point today
though.

 

dwb wrote

Looks like I am right on the southern edge of it.

Bastards.

 

Heh. And another by Dave Corden (with obligatory BBC typo).

 

I'm in the south.

I dream of storms.

--

Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Switters amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

The sky went very yellow at about midday and the temperature dropped
noticeably. About two hours ago there were about three drops of rain I
counted coming out of the sky and that was it.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

So how come you get one and we don't?

 

Yep, I saw some jolly good ones in Florida when I visited #1 daughter.
Panama (the country) had a few nice storms when I was there too. One
strike hit the building next to my hotel, I was standing on the balcony
looking at the storm. The shock wave put me back a few feet.
--
Mike

SV650
UKRMMA#22
Skype: muddycat