165 mile an hour winds, Scotland vs USA

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Jembo

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Makes me chuckle when you hear about USA storms when...

USA
- Huge investment in early warning systems
- National Guard mobilised
- Exstensive building damage, billions lost
- Country paralised
- Huge loss of life
- months of bleating on TV

Scotland.
- Power lost, wind turbines shut down then restarted following morning
- No loss of life so far reported
- For the most part, business as usual & by the weekend all will be forgotten

... ho hummm
 
SGR1913 said:
165mph equates to a category 5 hurricane... Building houses out of brick rather than wood helps...
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We do this coz we grew up with the tales of the 3 little pigs... I guess they didn't have those books on the other side of the pond :roll: :rofl:
 
I was in the last "hurricane" in New York a couple of months ago, it was a ghost town whilst we were strolling about with the other tourists in the middle of the "hurricane".

The hype was terrible - you would think that something terrible was going to happen.
 
You would have thought the Yanks would have learnt their lesson about constructing timber framed buildings with tin sheet roofs. :?
 
I will not deny that our media makes every story seem like the world is going to end and we have become immune to it, however, comparing 165 mile winds in Scotland vs. New Orleans (assuming that is the location you are talking about) is very different. The winds caused the sea to rise and flood a massive amount of the state, it was not the wind itself that did the damage, it was the rise of the sea due to the wind and the dikes breaking due to the pressure.
 
To be fair 165mph was recorded on the top of the Cairngorms.... not full of housing of any type.

Windspeeds in populated parts of Aberdeenshire reported to be in the 80-90mph range.
 
We survived :)

On top of a fecking hill in the central belt between Glasgow/Edinburgh - apparently 90-100mph recorded locally which I can believe, it was dawn windy!
 
To be fair to our American cousins it's worth also noting that a lot of their very destructive winds are tornadoes - which are a very different thing altogether.
 
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Windy Miller :rofl:
 
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