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From:bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>
Date:Monday, October 28, 2002, 17:02
 --- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote: > En réponse à
bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>:
> > > 2. > > we've been having a bit of wind here today ( the > sun > > newspaper described it in typical tabloid > hyperbole as > > a 'horror hurricane' . . . a few felled branches > and > > the odd dislodged slate ) > > Here the storm was a bit stronger than that :)) . > Windforce 11, the Netherlands > didn't have that for 12 years! Hundreds of tree have > fallen, the train traffic > has been stopped all night for reparations, and > still didn't work well this > morning (I was supposed to go to a conference, but > there was no train to the > town I had to be :((( ), and quite a few buildings > have suffered. The roof of > the Province House of Zuid Holland fell, and the > police had to put a car on it > to prevent it to fly down the road! (and even then, > it was just, the car was > nearly taken away by the roof!) And unfortunately a > few people died...
we apparently had force 8, tho whether this is the same scale i don't know. highest recorded wind speed was 96.6 kmh-1 in mumbles in wales fortunately our downstairs neighbour had her pear tree pruned on saturday, so we were spared any damage there . . . ! bn oh yes, weather words : |sos| wind ( from |sas| moving air ) |pes| rain ( from |pas| moving water ) |ler| puddle ( from |lar| sitting water ) |was| branch ( cognate with |wes| forearm and |wos| calf (lower leg) ) |kowak| duck (!) ===== bnathyuw | landan | arR stamp the sunshine out | angelfish your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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