Jesus christ!!!

[Sparx]

My best mate just called me he lives in Kensal Rise and a tornado just landed in his garden 10 mtrs from him. Lasted a few mins and smashed all the houses around his

 

[CorNokZ]

He must have a guardian angel

 

[Sparx]

amazing tho, a tornado hasnt hit london in years and it hit my mates street. There are fire engines everywhere.

In North London the weather went weird went really really dark and rained really hard with strange thunder about 15 mins ago then my mate called with this news its mad

 

[Darzil]

Yeah, one in Gloucester at the weekend.

Get used to it, it's only going to get worse over the next few years.

Darzil

 

[NikonL]

In North London the weather went weird went really really dark and rained really hard with strange thunder about 15 mins ago

sounds like one of those storms from C&C. Omgz the Brotherhood of Nod is attacking!1

Anyway im refreshing bbc news website and nothings coming up, how long ago was this?

 

[Sparx]

about 20ish mins ago maybe 30

 

[Pirkel]

This is why blogging and the intarweb in general will eventually make news agencies obsolete \o/

Hope no-one was hurt.

 

[old.Tohtori]

HAven't you learned anything?

Weird sh*t happens for one reason and one reason alone. The doctor.

 

[Javai]

The weather here is pretty wild too - looking out of my study window the garden at the end of ours has 3 palm trees - if I just look at those it's like being in some tropical storm atm. Our garden shed and the green wheelie bin do shatter the illusion though

 

[Chronictank]

thats like 30 mins away from me : O

 

[old.Tohtori]

thats like 30 mins away from me : O

Lucky bastard.

I want to go Tornado Jumping(tm) damnit!

 

[Sparx]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6214970.stm

 

[Sparx]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1243278,00.html

 

[NikonL]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6214970.stm

damn terrorists and their weather machines?

you may have meant http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6217514.stm

 

[Sparx]

wtf i wasnt on that page LOL yeah i mean that one nikon

 

[Sparx]

anyone else having probs with the sky news link?

seems not working in Explorer. Go to sky news and check the UK news

 

[Killswitch]

Your mate is officially a lucky bastard. If you class "lucky" as "having your house destroyed" I guess...but it's a damn sight better than "dead".

The pics on the Sky article look kinda serious...scary stuff. To be honest, if a freak tornado destroyed Bradford, it'd be an improvement

 

[Sparx]

thing is it stopped in his garden so he has no damage to his house. Its all his neighbours that got wrecked

And he was standing not 10 metres from it too. Lucky lucky guy

 

[Ezteq]

pfft wasnt so impressive tbh, you should have seen the one that landed a house on me mother, that was impressive. I fondly remember the way her feet curled up and all those psychadellic midgets came out singing... yes i was one of them.

Ahhh god bless that tornado

 

[tris-]

out of interest did he say anything about how tornado looked? like did it look impressive etc?

 

[Sparx]

he said it was amazing to watch, something he will never forget. He was excited but shit scared at the same time

 

[Amanita]

Wow, that must have been an incredible sight for your friend. Lucky that no one was killed and your friend is really lucky.

 

[Mojo]

More Pics

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6217898.stm

 

[Sparx]

I have just been informed that he will be on the BBC 6 O'Clock news. Oh i cant wait to rip it out of him

 

[Tilda]

Yeah, one in Gloucester at the weekend.

Get used to it, it's only going to get worse over the next few years.

Darzil

Really, I didn't hear about that. Where was it?

 

[Pirkel]

Notice how the houses are fucked up but didn't collapse. In the US this would have leveled the block because they build their houses of wood.

 

[old.Tohtori]

More Pics

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6217898.stm

Peugeots are built to last

Atleast i think it's one...

Notice how the houses are fucked up but didn't collapse. In the US this would have leveled the block because they build their houses of wood.

Yeah, it's because we "europe people" build things like we did back in the good old dark ages. Silly americans should've started like that too.

 

[Sparx]

or the fact it was no where as big

 

[Darzil]

Really, I didn't hear about that. Where was it?

Tuffley, looks smaller than the London one. (http://www.itvregions.com/West/News/Storms+in+Gloucester.htm)

We got our roof being worked on at the mo, and the guy doing it was helping repair 7 houses at the weekend.

Darzil

 

[Chronictank]

Notice how the houses are fucked up but didn't collapse. In the US this would have leveled the block because they build their houses of wood.

if it happened i a cheap area with new houses it would be the same result as in the US,
we have old victorian houses with are well built rather than cheaply built

or the fact it was no where as big

not srictly true mate, because of the way they are constructed due to a different weather climate (predominantly wood in rural areas) they are more likely to be destroyed, but equally will cost less to reconstruct.