Britain braced for storm battering tonight!
 

Britain braced for storm battering





The worst storm of the winter is on track to batter Britain, causing traffic chaos and coastal flooding, forecasters warned.

"britain braced -- battering"

"worst -- of winter"

"to batter britain"

"causing chaos -- coastal"

too much aliteration for me.

sounds like dr. seuss





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too much beowulf maybe?

God yeah, you're right.

maybe it's an incantation meant to bring on the storm :eek:

Maybe they think that if they scare people enough the rain god will be satisfied and not bring the storm. It has been sunny all day

dublin has after put up its flood barriers and all down the east coast down to waterford has been put on extreme weather alert. i mayt have to swim to work tomorrow morning as the post office in wexford is right by the quays!! so its not only britain at risk here!!!!

mang. get those druids out there & put them to work at once.

its raining in britain, thats definately newsworthy.

I hear tell of this one theory scientists been talkin about called Global Warmin'? Any y'all have done hear of this?

at least it's not ice and tornados.

just sayin'.

Oh, just wait...

its okay, maybe before he leaves GW will outlaw tornados during DLS time?

Hey, leave our president alone! He rules the free world. I think that includes your part.

All of the alliteration adds to my appreciation of the article, asshole.

cute consonance, cockbags

Yeah true. Some of the weather reports are weird here, some channels won't show the weather in Ireland though it's stupid not to, whereas on other channels you even sometimes see the weather for the edges of France, as well as Ireland. It's like somechannels are trying to spite Ireland.

i envy the brits. in my wonderworld it rains all day.

Ha, I quite like rain too.

no trains this morning because the storm blew a tree on to the line = no work = awesomeness

the reason i won't move to britain is due to the weather (and citizenship issues...i'm not giving up my US citizenship no way no how). and i wouldn't want to be in such close quarters with the welsh and madonna.

anyway this most certainly can be blamed on global warming. if i wanted to get really left-wing i would just blame it on the bush administration but it goes back a lot further than that if you really look into it.

hey if you are semi-irish as you claim, you could score an irish pasport-- beat a british one 1000 to 1. have a friend who did that on the basis of a grandmother & spent a few years working in dublin. she's still an american citizen but in case of mccain getting elected she can flee.

my great grandmother has an accent for christ's sake. i absolutely love ireland though so i would consider it but i still really don't want to leave the US.

still, in these dark times, an irish passport is much more welcome than an AmeriKKKan one.

did you ever read the history of the world in 10-1/2 chapters? i think julian barnes is overrated but there was the story of a ship hijacking that comes to mind...

i have to say, i WILL leave if john mccain gets elected. i can't take another four years (minimum) of this shit. i think if i stayed here i would just I HAVE MEDICAAL PORBLEMS HALP the bastard and do america a favour.

no, i never read that book.

book is pretty good, considering. better edit your post or you'll have the secret service at your door.

http://www.secretservice.gov/kids_faq.shtml#3

"The Secret Service also investigates people who make threats against the president, vice president and any of the other people the agency protects. These are probably Secret Service's most serious cases because it must be determined whether the person making the threat really wants to hurt one of these people or whether they may have some medical problems of their own, for which they need help."

and you know how *cough* "medical problems" are treated these days...

edited solely for my own amusement
i'm not afraid of those pricks. first amendment rights, BITCH.

there was this funny/sad story in the washington city paper many many years ago.

there was this guy writing from jail. he had this apartment in the middle of the city that he had turned into a HUGE pot-growing warehouse. he was selling like a motherfucker, and nobody had any idea of his business-- his landlord was this old lady, etc.

but the poor fucker had a roommate.

so one day the roommate gets home stonedand drunk and acting like a little bitch and for some reason picks up the phone calls the white house & sez something about fucking up the president.

10 minutes later the secret service kicks down the door of the apartment and-- surprise!! they discover mr. hydro's growhouse.

oh yeah. true story. if it wasn't so old it would be archived in the website but it's not. suxx. as i recall, it was a fun read!

lame. our gov't is LAME.

OH YEAH I FOUND IT

FEATHERHEAD!!!

Cover story
Jackpot
Bike courier, dope peddler, and full-time hedonist—Featherhead had it made. Until his roommate threatened the president.
By Featherhead
3/21/1997


FUN READS!!

haaaaaaaah.

This better not be like that earthquake.

London would be doomed.

reason being is that some channels , namely itv, dont actually have a licence to broadcast to ireland (utv is the northern irish channel) so they will not show ireland weather on say news at ten. we get all itv channels here on sky but the box have to be manually tuned to do so. we also get them as overspill on the terrestrial ariel as well but move westwardly the signal gets fainter and fainter until there is no signal at all. bbc have a licence and sky also has a licence to braodcast to ireland therefore we have the irish weather there. bbc is made up of regional channels so we get the regional weather........

we have rte here anyway so the forecasting is pretty good, well as good as it can be.

the storm by the way.... not much down here, a few brances down and a lot pf wiind and rain but nothing major although its coming back in a few hours and the tide is very high in wexford town any more rain may see a breach of the banks at some stage...........

Where is home for you? I'd always figured that you lived somewhere in central London.

The storm didn't seem to batter this part of town for what I can see.

those fucking druids... POWERFUL!!!

There were double rainbows over London earlier. Pretty.