Aren't we lucky in UK

I know we have floods here and occasional spells of really bad weather, but I have just been mailed pictures of my friend's villa in Lake City after the floods of Hurricane Frances. The water was up to mid window level and everything but everything appears to be ruined. They were flooded in 2 hours and the devastation is tremendous. Fortunately she had flood insurance this time but thinks the house will be a write off and is staying with her son. All her photographs, memories etc are washed away but her and her husband are safe. We will visit next week but what on earth can you say to make things better?[msntongue]

Lisi

one thing I can say for the people in the USA.....they pull their socks up and get on with rebuilding....the same happens I think in England where flooding is commom place......people pull together.....that would happen in our small village in England......where the low lying homes would be flooded in bad weather......We lived throught 2 hurricane in England living right down on the shore between Southampton and Portsmouth......and afterwards......all you heard from our neighbours were moans about losing the odd tile......things like this bring out the good and bad in people......but mostly the good.....

But if I had to choose, I would prefer the Florida sunshine any day (even if it meant having to brave the odd hurricane or two) to the average UK weather. :(. Sorry to disagree, but the one thing that we are NOT lucky in the UK is with the weather.

Someone from one of my other forums just had a 5.9 Earthquake about 30 miles from his house in CA......he says the ground is still moving there.......
[msnscared]

As well as that 'wind' that blew down no end of trees, etc all over the country in 1986 (the one Michael Fish said wasn't going to happen!), we also had quite strong earthquakes in Manchester a couple of years ago, a whole fortnight with around 80 of them! :(

Lisi, have you been away recently!? We have had some of the worst floods and weather related problems, for the last few years, these have wrecked peoples homes over and over again.

Insurance premiums have gone up and some people can no longer get insured; maybe because out government does not help and the other international stuff gets the news but I’d like to remind you of the recent flood in Devon;

Flood devastates Devon village
Twelve bodies have been recovered and 24 people are missing feared dead in the flood which has swept through Lynmouth in north Devon.

Opps! It was 1952 but is still going on.

We can always rely on the British weather though, rely on it to be bad that is!:D:D

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As well as that 'wind' that blew down no end of trees, etc all over the country in 1986 (the one Michael Fish said wasn't going to happen!), we also had quite strong earthquakes in Manchester a couple of years ago, a whole fortnight with around 80 of them! :(
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That " wind " blew my brick built chimney down which came through the flat roof of my kitchen and ended up on my kitchen floor along with half my roof tiles, thank god I wasnt in the kitchen at the time ( when am I ever :) )


Lesley

Well, I hesitated to use the word 'hurricane' but it also decimated our lane which had lots of very old, large trees and got me a day off work as I couldn't get out of the lane! All the neighbours were out in the lane all day with chain saws. :(

I think we all remember the headline Sevenoaks is now oneoak.......!

I think that our weather here is becoming more erratic as the years pass. The seasons seem to have moved a bit too, it's warmer later in the summer/autumn usually now, although we did have a warm spring this year. That's the problem, we just can't say that any time of the year is going to be good weather. We can never tell! I am sitting here now sweltering, and thinking about getting the fan out again! I do love the British weather though, when it is good - My idea of good is a beautiful spring/autumn day, breezy, but warm. We usually get about 4 of those a year! :D

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by linda.s
I think we all remember the headline Sevenoaks is now oneoak.......!

I think that our weather here is becoming more erratic as the years pass. The seasons seem to have moved a bit too, it's warmer later in the summer/autumn usually now, although we did have a warm spring this year. That's the problem, we just can't say that any time of the year is going to be good weather. We can never tell! I am sitting here now sweltering, and thinking about getting the fan out again! I do love the British weather though, when it is good - My idea of good is a beautiful spring/autumn day, breezy, but warm. We usually get about 4 of those a year! :D
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We get a lot of beautiful English like summer days spring and fall on the Cape......and we get FL summer days in the summer...hot and humid....and we always have some snow Christmas day...which I love.......I wish the winds would hold off a bit longer so the fall trees could hold onto their leaves.....the colours out out of this world.....

Apart from our changing climate, the worse thing for us round here is all the congestion, the
pollution from heathrow and the dam tourists adding to the already congested roads. The most
common illness now is asthma. Our air quality is the worse in europe and breaks all the
guide lines.

In the summer all you can smell is the fumes from heathrow, in the winter the coffee being
made at Neslte's

:D

What I meant to say really was that lately Florida seems to have had so many hurricanes in quick succession. I agree we do get our fair share of bad weather but not all at once! I just think it seems worse in Florida than here - but then I haven't been flooded and I just cannot imagine how awful it must be to lose all your possessions. I think on the whole we can count our blessings but the thing we don't get is much of the Florida sunshine - at least not this year!

Lisi

The problem with UK weather is that we comment on "how wonderful the day is" if we get over 2 hours of uninterrupted sunshine, which is not often [msnsad]. Usually, it is cloudy, windy and damp. In Florida, they take sunshine for granted most of the time. Hurricanes occur only in 'season' and even then it is unusual for them to come with the ferocity and persistence of the recent ones.

We certainly do appear to have more weather related disasters here nowadays than we used to:( It must be heart breaking, where ever you are in the world:(

Is it just me getting old or does anyone else remember that when you were small it always snowed in winter & was always gloriously sunny in summer?? ;)

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We certainly do appear to have more weather related disasters here nowadays than we used to:( It must be heart breaking, where ever you are in the world:(
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Seems to be the case, doesn't it? In the last 15 years, there have been significantly more earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and more recently even volcanic eruptions world over than ever recorded before. Makes one wonder what all this is leading up to.[msnscared]

:D and the summer started in May and lasted until September :)

and you would help your mum making lemonade or ginger beer

I wish those FL people would stop sending their dirty wet windy weather up here..............my neighbour really will have to have his large pine tree cut down......its leaning right over his house.........

And I remember having to wear my blue and white gingham summer dress and we knew it was summer time because I got to wear sandals - only had 2 pairs of shoes - winter ones and sandals! It always seemed to be sunny when we were kids. :)

Lisi

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by daxon
Is it just me getting old or does anyone else remember that when you were small it always snowed in winter & was always gloriously sunny in summer?? ;)
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My birthday is in June, and I always remember Mum & Dad used to take me to the Epsom Derby and fair for my birthday as it's in the same week, and we also used to go to Purley Way open air swimming pool that used to be in Avation Way Croydon. The weather was always fab! Now June is wet and chilly!

Or perhaps you and I share the same rose coloured specs Daxon!!

...........and beer was tuppence a pint.

I sense this topic is going off thread somewhat [msnsmile]

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<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by daxon
Is it just me getting old or does anyone else remember that when you were small it always snowed in winter & was always gloriously sunny in summer?? ;)
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My birthday is in June, and I always remember Mum & Dad used to take me to the Epsom Derby and fair for my birthday as it's in the same week, and we also used to go to Purley Way open air swimming pool that used to be in Avation Way Croydon. The weather was always fab! Now June is wet and chilly!

Or perhaps you and I share the same rose coloured specs Daxon!!
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We always had my July birthday tea on the stones at Stonehenge.....back when very few people went there.......and you still still play around the stones.....it was a shock to me to see the stones locked up last time I went......we never even went in......I grow up playing on the stones.....it was our quiet Sunday picnic place........how things change......:(

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by chrizzy100
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by linda.s
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by daxon
Is it just me getting old or does anyone else remember that when you were small it always snowed in winter & was always gloriously sunny in summer?? ;)
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My birthday is in June, and I always remember Mum & Dad used to take me to the Epsom Derby and fair for my birthday as it's in the same week, and we also used to go to Purley Way open air swimming pool that used to be in Avation Way Croydon. The weather was always fab! Now June is wet and chilly!

Or perhaps you and I share the same rose coloured specs Daxon!!
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We always had my July birthday tea on the stones at Stonehenge.....back when very few people went there.......and you still still play around the stones.....it was a shock to me to see the stones locked up last time I went......we never even went in......I grow up playing on the stones.....it was our quiet Sunday picnic place........how things change......:(
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It's the people that have changed Chrissy - Graffitti caused closure I believe..... How dreadful is that [msnmad]

Back on topic though, weather and seasons seem to be changing all over the place. Makes packing difficult too, as you need clothes for all occasions nowadays, wherever you go!