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3 hours ago, Cerberus said:

I can't believe that people were still flying out to Florida "oan ma holidays" a few days before this. 

They deserve to be bitten by one of those sharks caught up in the tornado.

Heard that Thomas Cook were still flying people out to Cuba last Thursday.

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2 hours ago, kilbowie2002 said:


Was due to fly to Orlando on Saturday, went into Virgin in Braehead today and managed to change the outward flights to vegas instead, staying at caesars palace for only a little bit more and will fly home from Orlando when its time to come home (1 week vegas 2 orlando) hurricane 0 : kilbowie 1. Must say the standard of customer service from Virgin at what must be a mental time for them is really impressive.

It's probably a good time to go to Orlando. A week after a hurricane landed there will have made it look a lot nicer.

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11 hours ago, John Lambies Doos said:

 


Nice to see the eye strategically placed in norn iron Fide.

The eye looks more like Co. Monaghan to me?

Never mind the gerrymandered Orange statelet under the jackboot of British military occupation in all of this. We've had plenty of hurricane forced winds in Scotland over the years with the 1968 storm probably being the worst in recent times historically and we seem to manage more or less OK. Why do Americans insist on building lots of buildings in totally exposed coastal areas that are easily predicted to be a bad move from a weather standpoint with materials that are not going to withstand strong wind levels that people somewhere like Shetland have dealt with routinely for centuries? And why do people in the media insist on linking strong winds to climate change when hurricanes, typhoons and tropical cyclones are not exactly a new phenomenon?

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9 hours ago, Cerberus said:

Some good news has come out of all this-

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41224243

The bad news is all the rebuilding work because of the hurricane is having a global effect. Timber suppliers in Scandinavia/Russia/Canada sell where they get the best prices and that's going to be in Florida and the NGO funded relief programmes in the Caribbean. Scotland needs 40,000+ new houses but at least three building projects were put on hold yesterday.

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