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Cornwall isolated by storm

anglolawyer

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Check out this footage of what the sea has done to the main railway line into Cornwall. The amazing thing (to me) is that engineers will be able to fix it, I have no doubt. Engineers are totally amazing. Let's hear it for engineers!

Parts of Britain are being hit by a powerful storm which has washed away a stretch of railway line and left thousands of homes without electricity.

The Environment Agency says around 328 homes have been flooded since Friday evening - with more heavy rain and strong winds forecast into the weekend.

A section of the sea wall in Dawlish, Devon, collapsed and left the main railway line suspended in mid-air.
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I'm waiting for the immortal "Storm in Channel, Europe cut off" headline, but sadly since the Channel Tunnel it's no longer an option.

Don Towers is currently being pummeled pretty badly and it's so windy the seagulls are walking.
 
The Don said:
I'm waiting for the immortal "Storm in Channel, Europe cut off" headline, but sadly since the Channel Tunnel it's no longer an option.

Don Towers is currently being pummeled pretty badly and it's so windy the seagulls are walking.
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I trust you and Mrs Don are safe and sound.
 
anglolawyer said:
I trust you and Mrs Don are safe and sound.
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Yes thank you. We're high enough up the hill not to be troubled too badly by the floods but not so far up the hill that we get so badly battered by the winds (unless they're from the South East).

As far as we can see there are no trees that can fall on the house but there is a whopping great oak that could fall on the garage. So far it looks very solid. The problem around here is that it has been so wet the trees are simply being uprooted. :eek:
 
The Don said:
I'm waiting for the immortal "Storm in Channel, Europe cut off" headline, but sadly since the Channel Tunnel it's no longer an option.

Don Towers is currently being pummeled pretty badly and it's so windy the seagulls are walking.
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Has Cornwall considered seceding from the UK? :)

Yeah this rain is pretty annoying, OK here in Dublin but I have friends/family in Cork and The West and they're getting hit badly.
 
catsmate1 said:
Has Cornwall considered seceding from the UK? :)
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Yes.

The historic Nation of Cornwall has its own distinct identity, language and heritage. As one of the four nations inhabiting the British mainland, Cornwall has the same right to self-determination as England, Scotland and Wales. Mebyon Kernow is leading the campaign for the creation of a National Assembly for Cornwall, with the necessary powers to unlock Cornwall’s true potential.
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Rolfe.
 
The Don said:
It's going to be a couple of weeks at least before they can start. There is a series of storms due to come through every 36-48 hours.
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It's all quite scary, going by what we see on TV.

Scotland is having an unusually mild winter this year. I've scarcely seen temperatures as low as 0C, and there's been no snow here worth mentioning although we're 800 feet up. The ski areas are doing OK, but there's been no disruptive snow in the "inhabited" areas.

It's been a bit blowy some days, and I know my cousins on the west coast had a bit of wild weather, but there's been nothing to compare to what's been happening in England. We really feel for you guys, stay safe if you can, anything we can do, and all that.

Rolfe.
 
It's all about context. We've had a wet winter (250 mm of rain the last three months) but by the standards of the West of Scotland temperate rain forest it's been positively arid. Likewise, while 50 mph winds with 80 mph gusts are a problem for us, by Scottish standards these are mere zephyrs.

Then again our houses aren't built to withstand this kind of weather.
 
We had some very bad gales a couple of years ago, when we were all sent home from work at lunch-time because of the weather forecast. (I got into my car, turned on the ignition, and the car radio came to life with Nicola Sturgeon's voice saying "go home now" - and I was tuned to Radio 4!) I went home and snuggled down by the fire. In the later stages of the event a neighbour called me to ask if I realised a bit of roofing had blown off my bay window. I got it fixed and a couple of weeks later it blew off again, and had to be fixed again.

We've had nothing close to that this year. Or to the 18 inches of snow and the -18C temperatures we had a couple of years before that. This winter, here, has been genuinely mild and open and easy to cope with. It's true we're set up to cope with worse than you normally get, but we haven't got out of first gear so far in 2013-14.

At least when snow goes, it's gone. Floods are just the pits. I really feel for those people in Somerset.

Rolfe.
 
Rolfe said:
We had some very bad gales a couple of years ago, when we were all sent home from work at lunch-time because of the weather forecast. (I got into my car, turned on the ignition, and the car radio came to life with Nicola Sturgeon's voice saying "go home now" - and I was tuned to Radio 4!) I went home and snuggled down by the fire. In the later stages of the event a neighbour called me to ask if I realised a bit of roofing had blown off my bay window. I got it fixed and a couple of weeks later it blew off again, and had to be fixed again.

We've had nothing close to that this year. Or to the 18 inches of snow and the -18C temperatures we had a couple of years before that. This winter, here, has been genuinely mild and open and easy to cope with. It's true we're set up to cope with worse than you normally get, but we haven't got out of first gear so far in 2013-14.

At least when snow goes, it's gone. Floods are just the pits. I really feel for those people in Somerset.

Rolfe.
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Can't stand it or her. Floods are more tolerable.
 
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