Sleeping lorries and flying trampolines
Dec. 8th, 2011 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnThe whole toast sandwich thing a couple of weeks ago prepared people more appropriately than I thought, because it seems that this week Scotland really is going through the apocalypse.
In an assorted collection of bad weather that in uniquely Scottish fashion is being dubbed "Hurricane Bawbag", there have been floods, with snow on the way tonight, and gusts of over 80 miles per hour that have closed down several of the main bridges and hurled around objects normally incapable of flight. Someone on my Facebook list posted to say that she was all right after the train she was on was struck by an airborne garden shed, and there's a video gaining fame on Youtube of someone's shot of a wobbling lamppost being invaded by a wild trampoline.
The BBC News pictures are quite striking (apart from the one with the cafe sign that's slightly tilted, which is a bit anti-climactic). The one taken on the road near Loch Restil is my favourite - the lack of obvious damage around the fallen vehicle makes it seem surreally misplaced, as if the drivers on this road have had the awful luck to get stuck behind the world's only narcoleptic lorry.
In an assorted collection of bad weather that in uniquely Scottish fashion is being dubbed "Hurricane Bawbag", there have been floods, with snow on the way tonight, and gusts of over 80 miles per hour that have closed down several of the main bridges and hurled around objects normally incapable of flight. Someone on my Facebook list posted to say that she was all right after the train she was on was struck by an airborne garden shed, and there's a video gaining fame on Youtube of someone's shot of a wobbling lamppost being invaded by a wild trampoline.
The BBC News pictures are quite striking (apart from the one with the cafe sign that's slightly tilted, which is a bit anti-climactic). The one taken on the road near Loch Restil is my favourite - the lack of obvious damage around the fallen vehicle makes it seem surreally misplaced, as if the drivers on this road have had the awful luck to get stuck behind the world's only narcoleptic lorry.
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Date: 2011-12-19 02:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-19 02:24 pm (UTC)I'm assuming that it is very hard to keep an accent like that through all these years.
In any case, he's on weeknights at 6pm on Q107 (http://www.q107.com/), and he has a lot of awesome anecdotes inbetween songs. If you were wondering what he's up to, I'd definitely suggest giving it a listen sometime :)