So That Was What All The Fuss Was About...

[poliphilo]

 By the time I wrote yesterday's post about Isha being imminent the worst had passed- though I didn't know it. We'd heard the wind howling in the night and the rain throwing everything it had at the glass and we'd thought "if this is what it's like now just wait till the storm shows up..."

Blase? A bit. But we've lived in Oldham- which sits on a bare northern hill where the winter months are so much more intense than they are down south and after that on a farm in Kent in a house surrounded by big old oak trees which made a hell of a noise when the wind got into them and would have done real damage if they'd fallen over. We've lived through storms that felt properly dangerous- and Isha never did...

It's raining now, but gently- and the air is quite warm...

Comments

[cmcmck]

Anyone who lived through October '87 wouldn't have found this one much to worry about.

[poliphilo]

Very true.

[heleninwales]

The media annoy me because they make a big fuss and give the impression that a storm will be severe over the whole of the UK, but in fact it's rare that the south gets it badly. However, Scotland is definitely suffering and there have been no trains running due to so many trees and trampolines on the line.

We're doing OK so far with just the odd tree down across the road, but with the amount of rain that's falling, there's going to be flooding when the Welsh rain reaches the lowlands.

[poliphilo]

The media want to keep us in a state of agitation. I disbelieve most of what they say....