Heads up UK: Devastating 100mph storm to bring 48 hours of ‘utter hell’

Its now 14.30 and there have been 2 downpours here in north London, its been a bit blustery, enough to take a few twigs off trees and push my motorcycle off its side stand and up against a wall.
So far I have seen any sign of this supposed 'SUPERSTORM' as it was labelled in the MSM.
I also haven't seen any sign of numbers of people killed apart from some lad that thought it was a good idea to go swimming as the storm approached and then the search for him called off. But no numbers as to other fatalities.

Did you guys see this on msm?
www.dailymail.co.uk...
Lots of pictures of damage and reports of deaths and injuries.

reply to post by DataWraith


Check out my link below yours, tons of pictures of devastation. Just glad that you were safe and not in harms way, you could have been a statistic.

The latest I heard was 2 deaths, men killed from falling tress, max rain about 50 mm as opposed to the 860 mm recorded in Japan last week.
I was just a storm, nothing special, and is now over.
Of course, the Press made a meal of it, inflated it out of all proportion, and Cameron seemed to have actually done something but he didn't, just yapped.
Much ado about nothing.

reply to post by AndyMayhew


Thank you very much for that link. Fantastic and informative site.

Constant updates of People tracking the storm as it moved across the south.

Kept me busy until the small hours. Thanks again

reply to post by Chenbo


Thks

Anyway, worth noting that the storm intensified after it crossed Britain and had casued even more problem across parts of NW Europe, where another 4 people have, sadly, been killed

www.bbc.co.uk...

Much of the damage in Britain was down to a sting jet - and that's alaso why it was fairly localised - and also the fact that this was the first bad storm of the autumn in the SE.

It was possibly the worst storm since Jan 3rd 2012 - though that storm affected the whole country

www.theguardian.com...

To be honest, this has all been another over-blown drama.

Oh, I know that there has been disruption, but nothing too bad.

I live in the SW and apart from few branches on the roads and lots of leaves, the world has been largely unaffected. Clearly some of the effect has been localised, where there have been problems, but not the type of destruction from 1987 as was been predicted by some.

So, just a storm.

Edit to add... Any pointless wind farms destroyed? That would have been a result. Probably the first time they actually produced power, even though most people were in bed asleep!

Regards

reply to post by AndyMayhew


Thanks for the reply.

A poster on the site was very accurate on predicting the sting jet.

Something I had known nothing about until clicking your link.

Thanks again

paraphi
Any pointless wind farms destroyed? That would have been a result. Probably the first time they actually produced power, even though most people were in bed asleep!

Only one ....

www.bbc.co.uk...