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Title: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Techno on 13 January 2016, 07:29:10 AM
Called Eglwyswrw. (Egg-Liss-Ooo-Roo)

It's roughly five miles, as the crow flies, from Techno Towers.
They haven't had a day without rain since October 25th.

Which almost certainly means it's been the same here.
No wonder it's seemed like permanent twilight for the past few months. :'( :'(

Cheers - Mr Muddy. (I slipped over in it, a few days ago......I said some very naughty words.  :D)

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Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 13 January 2016, 07:48:08 AM
Just remember Phill, anything over 2000mm in a year and it's officially a rainforest!
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Post by: Leman on 13 January 2016, 08:12:54 AM
I had two very pleasant breaks in Eglwyswrw back in the 80s when a mate of mine was working in Fishguard.
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Post by: fsn on 13 January 2016, 08:19:46 AM
Danny Bhoy, the Scottish Comedian does a line about Noah in Scotland.

"40 days of rain? Och! We're up to 63 already. What a chancer!"

Seems the good people of Egg-roll-who-knew have the same problem.

Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Techno on 13 January 2016, 10:23:30 AM
Quote from: mad lemmey on 13 January 2016, 07:48:08 AM
Just remember Phill, anything over 2000mm in a year and it's officially a rainforest!

We classify as a rain-forest some years, then.  X_X (Which doesn't count, I suppose.)

The year before we moved here, there was apparently eight feet of rain in the preceding twelve months.
I make that nearly 2,500mm.

Sheesh !

Cheers - Phil.
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Post by: Wulf on 13 January 2016, 10:42:57 AM
AT least they got on the telly - BBC Breakfast covered it.
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Post by: Last Hussar on 24 January 2016, 01:37:42 AM
There's a village near here too.
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Post by: paulr on 24 January 2016, 03:39:16 AM
That village made the news here in NZ :o
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Post by: Techno on 24 January 2016, 05:44:05 AM
Don't think they've broken the UK record for consecutive days of rain.....We actually had a dry day recently ! :o
Cheers - Phil
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Post by: paulr on 24 January 2016, 06:44:06 AM
Not consecutive days but they are forecasting 500mm of rain for Fiordland in the south west of NZ over the next 24-48 hours

Yes that is half a meter :o

Annual rainfall down there is up to 8 meters
Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 24 January 2016, 09:05:43 AM
Phil - they missed it by 1 day  :'( :'(, R4 a couple of days ago...

IanS
Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Techno on 24 January 2016, 11:19:37 AM
Thanks Ian.

I didn't think they'd quite made it, but hadn't heard officially.

I heard some (one ?) of the villagers saying that they didn't want the record.....But secretly, I think having got so close, they would have liked to break it.  ;)

Cheers - Phil
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Post by: Fenton on 24 January 2016, 11:33:37 AM
I am sure they will get another chance to break the record
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Post by: Leman on 24 January 2016, 01:38:22 PM
It is Wales after all.
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Post by: d_Guy on 24 January 2016, 04:22:23 PM
There is a village near us that just got 40" (1016 mm) of snow!
Sorry about hijacking the thread - snowed in  :)
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Post by: Leman on 24 January 2016, 05:49:35 PM
Called New York, according to this morning's news.
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Post by: paulr on 24 January 2016, 05:52:08 PM
Quote from: d_Guy on 24 January 2016, 04:22:23 PM
There is a village near us that just got 40" (1016 mm) of snow!
Sorry about hijacking the thread - snowed in  :)

Keep warm and safe
Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: d_Guy on 24 January 2016, 06:55:45 PM
Quote from: Leman on 24 January 2016, 05:49:35 PM
Called New York, according to this morning's news.
True! Greenwich! :)

Thanks Paul, we are good - my family on the Jersey shore had the snow AND gale-force winds - many on the coast not as lucky as us.
Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Techno on 24 January 2016, 07:16:25 PM
Quote from: paulr on 24 January 2016, 05:52:08 PM
Keep warm and safe

Same from me Guy.

Cheers - Phil
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Post by: d_Guy on 24 January 2016, 08:24:22 PM
Thanks Phil,
And I return the wish and say stay warm ...and dry!
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Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 24 January 2016, 08:52:48 PM
Stay safe all
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Post by: Techno on 24 January 2016, 10:23:11 PM
Anyone else see the clips on the news, of some folks in the States 'snow swimming'.  :o
Cheers - Phil
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Post by: paulr on 24 January 2016, 10:30:23 PM
According to Google Snow Swimming is an actual sport :o :o :o
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Post by: Techno on 25 January 2016, 06:09:46 AM
 :o :o :o :o

I wonder if they have problems with match fixing, performance enhancing drugs or corruption in the administration.   :D

Cheers - Phil (I hear Addidas are withdrawing from sponsorship of the IAAF.)
Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: paulr on 25 January 2016, 07:18:18 PM
Quote from: Techno on 25 January 2016, 06:09:46 AM
I wonder if they have problems with match fixing, performance enhancing drugs or corruption in the administration.   :D

You can bet on it ;)
Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 26 January 2016, 01:41:04 PM
Least it solved the traffic problems. Keep cool and stay warm

IanS
Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Techno on 26 January 2016, 02:37:05 PM
Well.....

We're back to normal !

Don't know how many inches of rain have fallen today.  (3?....4?) X_X.....And the wind's blowing like crazy.

Odd....But I don't remember 'them' giving this one a name.....Or has it not been classified as a storm ?
Seems worse than some of those that we've had recently.

Cheers - Mr Wet-of-Wales.
Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Leman on 26 January 2016, 03:15:51 PM
Blowing a gale up here in the northwest as well.
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Post by: d_Guy on 26 January 2016, 03:20:46 PM
Quote from: ianrs54 on 26 January 2016, 01:41:04 PM
Least it solved the traffic problems.


That's a very positive way to look at it  :) thanks!

Techno - I just looked at your recent rainfall statistics - outrageous! Don't rust!
As to names - one of several thing I admire about you'uns is you are not so vaporous as to name
every tropical depression and snowfall! (Although 3-4" is getting close to needing a name)  
Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 26 January 2016, 03:37:01 PM
Quote from: d_Guy on 26 January 2016, 03:20:46 PM
Techno - I just looked at your recent rainfall statistics - outrageous! Don't rust!

Too late = that's why Phil cant put on weight, the rust keeps flaking off.

IanS   ;)
Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Tawa on 26 January 2016, 03:46:59 PM
Quote from: Leman on 26 January 2016, 03:15:51 PM
Blowing a gale up here in the northwest as well.


Just a touch  :o
Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Techno on 08 February 2016, 06:49:39 AM
Bloomin' 'eck !.  :o :o :o.... Storm Imogen is giving us a really good slapping at the moment, here in SW Wales.
(I'm really surprised the electrics haven't been knocked out ......Yet.  X_X)

Sounds like the windows are going to blow in at any moment....Too dark to see whether the sheep have been blown away at this time.
Can't wait to go outside and feed the chickens !  :^o :^o :^o :^o

Cheers - Phil


Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Orcs on 08 February 2016, 08:12:36 AM
batten down the hatches.

Do you have your own generator Phil
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Post by: Leman on 08 February 2016, 08:13:36 AM
That makes nine now since the names were introduced less than three months ago.
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Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 08 February 2016, 08:39:31 AM
My eldest is called Imogen!  :P
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Post by: Leman on 08 February 2016, 08:44:34 AM
Does she have a stormy temper?
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Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 08 February 2016, 08:57:38 AM
Very!
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Post by: Techno on 08 February 2016, 10:41:05 AM
Well....Get her out of my fields then ! ;)

(No Mark....I haven't got a genny.....Looked at some few years ago....But they didn't seem to be much cop power wise, to make much difference. The ones I might have been able to afford then, wouldn't have done much ,apart from keeping the lights going.).....MAYBE the boiler....But the kettle would have tripped them.)

Cheers - Phil



Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Orcs on 08 February 2016, 11:28:24 AM
So when the lights go you have to do a "Wee Willie Winkie" * with a candle in your nightshirt.

* I am referring to a children's nursery Rhyme not any part of Technos anatomy
Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Techno on 08 February 2016, 11:44:34 AM
No....A torch....And definitely not a nightshirt.  :P

And we had a split second mains flick......
So I've missed a load of posts now..... >:( .....(At least the easy way to find them !)

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Steve J on 08 February 2016, 01:51:44 PM
Very windy and squally on the cycle into work this morning. Not nice at all. The Avon has burst its banks which is more of a pain as it forces me to detour slightly. Currently raining stair rods outside as I type...
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Post by: Ithoriel on 08 February 2016, 02:00:00 PM
Bright, sunny and barely a breath of wind here - that's the trouble with Scotland, beautiful scenery but such awful weather ;) :)
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Post by: Tawa on 08 February 2016, 05:05:40 PM
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 08 February 2016, 11:28:24 AM
So when the lights go you have to do a "Wee Willie Winkie" * with a candle in your nightshirt.

* I am referring to a children's nursery Rhyme not any part of Technos anatomy


X_X X_X X_X
Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 08 February 2016, 05:07:13 PM
I wouldn't say it's windy, but Techno's Hens have laid the same egg twice!
Title: Re: There's a village near us.....
Post by: Techno on 08 February 2016, 05:11:24 PM
Be nice if they laid one egg between the lot of them.

Cheers - Phil