Hundreds of people have been left homeless after a tornado brought devastation "like a horror movie" to a residential area of north London late today. They took cover in a respite centre set up in a local church after about 100 homes were damaged in "freak weather", injuring six people and causing millions of pounds' worth of damage.My friend was at a European conference yesterday where they were discussing Austria’s devastating losses in tourism because of the lack of snow. I ran a post on Switzerland yesterday. Meanwhile, over here, when there should be bitter cold of around minus 15 to 20 and dumps of snow, there is plus 3 [plus 7 in Moscow], the streets are awash in sludge and slime and I’m back to the autumn jacket and light cap.
But of course this situation, the London tornado and the weird weather in Australia and the Philippines are all ‘normal’. Don’t dare say ‘climate change’. It doesn’t exist, according to the experts. Truly.
October 1987 was a laugh. Do you remember it James?
ReplyDeleteJeremycj, are you referring to Michael Fish Day? I'll have to check.
ReplyDelete15 October 1987 - yes, I think you are. Yes, that was as good as the wrong kind of snow and leaves on the line.
ReplyDeleteJanuray 1990 was loads better. Watching trees bend double and unable to see that far out of my classroom, and listening to a wholly unnatural violent whine all around, it was then I began to understand what nuclear war might look like. Crap age, crap year, crap weather.
ReplyDeletePlus Gordon Kaye out of Allo Allo ended up with a steel plate in his head.
Every time a 'freak tornado' happens now though the weathermen immediately say how Britain is very prone to it and gets 40 or more tornadoes a year. I'm sure they're right but it just seems that when 2 have landed in Birmingham in 2005, one in Peterborough in July of the same year and now this one in London that just perhaps we may be seeing something a little out of the ordinary.
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