Geriatric OE

The weekly musing of a couple of Kiwis on their geriatric OE in The UK






Monday, 28 October 2013

A bit of a blow...



Forecasters were pretty spot on with their predictions about the weather.
Here’s what the local press are saying

Four people have died after a storm battered southern Britain, leading to 625,000 homes losing power, rush-hour disruption on trains and flight cancellations.
A teenager in Kent and a man in Watford were killed by falling trees.
A man and a woman died in west London after a falling tree caused a suspected gas explosion and house collapse.
Rail companies are now running reduced services but say they hope operations will be back to normal on Tuesday.
BBC forecasters say the storm, which began overnight and saw heavy rain fall across many areas and wind speeds of more than 70mph, moved out of the UK shortly after 12:00 GMT - leaving a "broadly windy day".
The strongest gust of 99mph (159km/h) was recorded at Needles Old Battery, Isle of Wight, at 05:00 GMT.


 The Man and I had a bit of a struggle getting into work.
We went down to the station early expecting there to be a crowd, but the station was virtually empty…no trains running until 0900. So at 0650 we decided the best thing was to go home and then come back. Which we did, only to be told no trains until 1000.
So get on a bus going in the opposite direction, at the direction of the chappie in the station. The bus went past several stations that had pretty long queues of people waiting to get in. The one we got off at had a queue too but down on the platform, A couple f trains went past before The Man and I could get on, and then it was standing room only and crammed to the rafters.
I got off at London Bridge and made my way to work via the Jubilee line which surprisingly was virtually empty.  Arrived at work two and half hours late. Nobody complains because most of us were in the same boat.
And tomorrow, well who knows.

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