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Salaman
28 Jul '05 19:23:43
Wtf?
Juzst found out a friend's parents got damaged a bunch from a tornado.

...

A tornado ... in the UK?
Freak occurance I assume? Or am I underestimating the UK weather?


edit .. found linkie

Edited by Salaman at 20:24:09 28-07-2005
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MetalDog
28 Jul '05 19:28:05
Apparantly we get quite a few in Britain, but most of them are tiddlers.

I hope everyone goes out for a curry there tonight. Or the tornadoes will have won.
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mal
28 Jul '05 19:28:29
Do We Get Tornadoes in The UK ?

Yes!. On average the UK might see up to 33 reported damaging tornadoes every year. Some years the total can be far lower or much higher than this. For example in 1982 there were 150 tornadoes.This may seem very low when compared to figures from the United States, however we must not forget that the USA is 39 times larger than the UK. Because of this difference in size, we must consider land area. It was recognized by the American Scientist Dr. Ted Fujita (who devised the F-Scale) that the UK has more tornadoes per unit area than any other country in the world.
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Rincewind
28 Jul '05 19:56:57
Tornados in Birmingham??

Hooray, there is a god!!

:-)
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Rincewind
28 Jul '05 20:03:23
otto wrote:
MetalDog wrote:
I hope everyone goes out for a curry there tonight. Or the tornadoes will have won.
Post of the day


LOL, I missed that one - superb.
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Sid Nice
28 Jul '05 20:07:42
It'll of been some fat git in Walsall, letting one go after a couple of bottles of red and a Ruby. :)
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Salaman
29 Jul '05 07:52:25
Ph34r nature!

Looks like it did quite some damage.
God that must suck. Poor people. You come home from work and all you want to do is put your feet up, yet all you get to do is shovel debris away or try to fix your half disappeared roof.
:-(
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Lutz [mod]
29 Jul '05 07:56:09
It said on the news that woth 20 minutes of it striking that looters were in teh damaged homes and arrests were made.

Typical.
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Lutz [mod]
29 Jul '05 07:59:35
LOL. :D
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richispsycho
29 Jul '05 08:31:42
mal wrote:
Do We Get Tornadoes in The UK ?

....

Goddammit Mal!

You nicked my completely useless fact!

I want it back.

Anyway I was around the area (not in the eye of the storm), but it rained incredibly hard and went really dark.

Some guy who filmed it on his mobile also got to swear on the news :D



Edited by richispsycho at 09:32:00 29-07-2005
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Nasty
29 Jul '05 08:49:39
MetalDog wrote:
I hope everyone goes out for a curry there tonight. Or the tornadoes will have won.


Gold
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Dirtbox
29 Jul '05 09:46:04
Devastation!

Edited by Dirtbox at 10:45:20 29-07-2005
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Dirtbox
29 Jul '05 09:48:03
Yours didn't work :P
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President Weasel
29 Jul '05 09:51:24
I am glad nobody got killed, although some were badly injured I hear.
It also makes my reaction of 'Wow that's totally cool' feel less ghoulish.
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otto [mod]
28 May '07 10:16:19
MetalDog wrote:
I hope everyone goes out for a curry there tonight. Or the tornadoes will have won.
Post of the day
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Furbs
14 Jun '07 21:45:51
I remember it happening a few years ago. Seem to remember they said it was rare, but not unheard of.
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Furbs
14 Jun '07 21:45:51
Allroight? Toto, I dont think we're in brum anymoore.
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