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Twister in Birmingham

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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What's all this about high winds and twisters in birmingham?

Anyone here from there?

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Twisters? I'm in Wolverhampton at the moment, but its not far from Birmingham and the weathers pretty calm here.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It happened a couple of days ago, winds of up to 130mph they said on the news;

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4726643.stm
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It was yesterday. Loads of trees came down and blocked roads so many roads were closed. Took me hours to get home. I think myself lucky though: apparently a woman had her body sliced open by a flying street sign :eek
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I heard there was one in Coventry a few weeks ago... strange... :confused:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    hundreds of houses wrecked! cars thrown in the air ...trees uprooted.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    OMG thats terrible. It was pissing it down here yesterday, but nothing like that!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    do any of you people actualy watch the news?
    go on ...give it a try ...now.
    bbc 24 ...just so you can see beyond your street.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    morrocan roll wrote:
    do any of you people actualy watch the news?
    go on ...give it a try ...now.
    bbc 24 ...just so you can see beyond your street.

    I know, how can people miss these things?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It was only like 6 or something miles from where I live but there was nothing like that by me.... traffic was mega though and apparently the people and kids workin in a day nursery couldnt get out because of a fallen tree, thank god it wasnt any worse thou!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    PussyKatty wrote:
    apparently a woman had her body sliced open by a flying street sign :eek:


    That has got to be one of my biggest fears!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Zella wrote:
    That has got to be one of my biggest fears!

    Being sliced in half? Not very likely is it :chin:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Lu_C wrote:
    I heard there was one in Coventry a few weeks ago... strange... :confused:

    Yeah... just like the earthquake I slept through it and I would've seen it from my front window if I'd been looking. :mad:

    It was nothing like the Birmingham one though. Only lasted a couple of minutes and didn't really do any damage.
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    SkiveSkive Posts: 15,286 Skive's The Limit
    According to a few oldies up the local last night there a tornado once touched down in our village.

    I'd love to see one.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Lu_C wrote:
    Being sliced in half? Not very likely is it :chin:
    Not very likely no but in high winds it's possible that a street sign could get lose and cut someone quite badly.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My mate lives in Birmingham and she saw it.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i dove around six hundred miles from north wales to kendal to preston to bradford to gainsboro to hull to grimsbyrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr to nottingham to shefield and home yesterday.
    ir rdove throrugrh fog h ig h wirnds hairlstrone rlighrtening floods and almost all the time it was darrk.
    coming out of grimsby the surn broke throurgh arournd 8pm for all of ten minutes then all hell let loose again and i was driving through two inches of motorway water.
    it was a friggin nightmare.
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    SkiveSkive Posts: 15,286 Skive's The Limit
    lea_uk wrote:
    My lives in Birmingham and she saw it.

    Who's My? :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Skive wrote:
    Who's My? :D
    Oops missed out the word mate heh, edited now.
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