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Posted by Metaliant on 21-06-2005 at 08:01:
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Heat prostration? Oo er missis.
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Posted by imaqtz on 21-06-2005 at 17:01:
And here I thought having 19C degree winter days and 9Cdegree winter nights, that it was Freezing ! 
Your floods in UK made the news here BTW. Hope you guys werent too affected.
And Im sorry about your heat waves in Texas!
and for the poor bunny.
Nice to know we are all being fried, fozen or ...prostrated right now thanks to the weather!
ANyone ever thought of making a hazmat suit a fashion item lately?
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Posted by Elvin Ruler on 22-06-2005 at 02:55:
Pah. This is no heat wave. I'll let you know when it reaches the 110s. THEN it's hot.
How bad is the flooding? Here, all's we here about is "Michael Jackson this..." "Tom Cruise...SQUIRTED..." and such. Anything actually important? Ignored, as usal. Pah.
Hazmat suits are cool, just because you get that cool Vader-esque breathing sound. ^_^
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Posted by Metaliant on 22-06-2005 at 13:45:
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19C degree is normal temperature for the spring and autumn over here and very nice and it's a heatwave over here and as for the floods, when the thunderstorms broke, there was somekind of power cut to Wolverhampton (near me), hail the size of stones and it's really the north, eg Yorkshire that were effected and it was very bad.
In fact couple of years ago in Bloxwich, where I live, we had 2 tornados coming and going. Nothing like they have in Kanases with houses flying around and squashing wicked witches of the West.
Right, I am to melt now.
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Posted by Metaliant on 22-06-2005 at 13:46:
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It was very bad for the north and we had the floods, "Michael Jackson this...." and "Tom Cruise...SQUIRTED..." as well.
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Posted by Elvin Ruler on 22-06-2005 at 17:48:
I'm sorry. Actually, I'd let ya'll KEEP both of them (heck, you can have ALL the stinkin' celebrities) if I could.
Yeeesh. Twisters (smaller tornados, despite the movie description) as well? Next thing you need should be...an earthquake. Yep. So...put all your fragile stuff on the floor.
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Posted by Metaliant on 22-06-2005 at 17:52:
Actually, talking about earthquakes......About a year ago, there was a tremor in Dudley (a town in the Midlands) and we, in the Midlands felt it about at 1 am. We all thought it was either a nuke strike or people ramming through our front rooms.
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Posted by CricketBeautiful on 23-06-2005 at 15:19:
One of the earthquakes I was in -- in Ottawa in early 1980's, 4.5 I think -- was in the middle of the night. Dad thought the big propane tanks a mile away at the depot had blown and got us all ready to run.
Southern Ontario, we have to be ready for most of it. Summer days can reach 35/95 and humid. And a week later in the high teens. 10 deg C / 16 deg F range between waking up and noon hour, so the kids are tempted to go to school with jackets and then get heat stroke. And then a couple of 20 cm snow storms in the winter, temps below -20C/-4 at morning bus stop. Last year it was so rainy the crops wouldn't grow, the year before it was so dry the rivers were drying up. Class 5 tornado out of no where a few years ago. Out east, though, it's a lot worse -- same temperatures but viscious snow.
Fortunately, it's cold enough for long enough that most places have good insulation and proper central heating. And it's hot enough for long enough that all the malls and busses and health clubs (and all but the oldest of school buildings) have air conditioning.
Oh, and the smog. Half of what we get here we're told is from the states, which of course leads some to give up on their own efforts. I'm the only one on the block who ever uses a solar clothes dryer, and only two of us have push-mowers. Then again, I tend to drive to distant parks (the ones near the river), so I guess it evens out.
But I think I'll stay. I'm rather fond of it all.
Cricket
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Posted by Firebird on 23-06-2005 at 16:33:
Well top temperature so far in my part of the UK (not affected by the floods) is 33.1c hottest ever recording in the Uk was in Camden in 1957 and that was 35.5C. No records broken yet and the raineth cometh next week (just in time for the wimbledon finals as usual!!!)
biggest thing at the moment is smog and the affects it will have on any asthmatics
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Posted by Elvin Ruler on 24-06-2005 at 03:52:
It's pretty accurate, I'd say. I'd have to look and compare regulations on cars and stuff. We might have higher regulations, but there are definitely more here. I think the true problem with smog in the States is that it isn't considered a real problem yet. *sigh*
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Posted by Metaliant on 24-06-2005 at 11:43:
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This morning I heard a thunderstorm and it's raining in the Midlands AND (he laughs) at the Glastenbuy Festival)
To quote Nelson from the Simpsons "Ha ha."
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