Watching BBC and reading belgian newspapers it seems that Europe isn’t really prepared for thyphoon strength storms … will it take a turn for the worse with global warming …?
Apparently, nine people have died in the UK because of high winds as well as in France, the Czech republic, Germany and the Netherlands.
It’s bad, but happens every few years. I remember when I was at school and people’s roofs were being blown off.
Wow, that blows.
We’ve had hurricanes in the UK before. And no, we weren’t prepared for them.
I don’t know. Most of the gales and high winds we get back in the UK are much more exciting than most of the pitiful so-called Typhoons we get in Taiwan,
Of course, typhoons here are bad occasionally, but you don’t necessarily get nasty ones every year.
I remember trees on my street being uprooted, the whole roof blowing off my school and landing in the playing field, trucks and sometimes cars being overturned, the tiles blowing off my house and people’s garden sheds being blown away.
Staying at my uncle’s house, once, on t’South coast and the chimney was blown through the roof into my cousin’s bedroom, right near his head.
Buildings seem to be better constructed in the UK and lower floored, so the buildings seem better prepared.
However the people may not be
If we ever get any snow in Ireland when I was there, the whole country would shut down. Guess that has changed now
Well, any kind of weather changes and all of Brittan stops imho, at least that’s how it felt after 8 years there. 4 people died in Sweden as well, mostly due to trees falling on cars.