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[hathycol]

So, I woke up before my alarm and noticed with some alarm the levels of the light outside. "No," I thought to myself. "That's just the streetlights. It's fine. Nowhere near dawn yet."

Then I heard someone go downstairs. "No," I thought to myself. "That's just Katie going down to the loo. Can't be Sarah going for her shower."

I hear water running. "See, she's just washing her hands."

The extractor fans kicks in. "No. She's just being really thorough washing her hands."

My alarm goes off, and I automatically thwack it. "That wasn't my alarm call," I think to myself determindly, despite the fact I was actually now quite awake. "That was just a phone call that I ignored."

Then my snooze went off and I reluctantly hauled myself out of bed. Fnargle. I bloody hate having a body that responds to noise at around the time it's meant to get up. Secondary and internal alarm clock, fine, but I NEED those extra twenty minutes of sleep!

In other news, I am highly amused by the response of the South to the high storms. Speaking as a northerner currently resident on the coastline of Scotland, STFU N00BS. This kind of thing happens anywhere else then it's maybe the fourth thing down on the news, and that's only if all the power goes and someone dies. If it's in the South-East then it's all RUN FOR THE HILLS AND SAVE YOURSELF AND DEAR LORD THE APOCALYPSE IS NIGH whereas where I'm from, we give into the elements and put a jumper over our t-shirts, because we're just that hard.

(Although saying that I'm lurking in the library to avoid the torrential rainfall we have going on here too, but that's by the by. SHHH.)

Comments

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

I fully agree about the whole it's the end of the world if something happens in the south.

There was something last year but I can't remember what it was, see, it obviously wasn't terrible. whatever it was.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Exactly! The floods over the summer were 'terrible' when they wiped out most of Hull and Sheffield, but when about an inch of water crept through Oxford and the Thames threatened to maybe flood a bit all the people in the weather centre ran around in circles screaming "OH GOD BUY TINNED GOODS AND REPENT YE SINNERS!"

... yes, this is resentment that Scotland is barely mentioned on the BBC weather map and hey ho, we get all the interesting weather. It's snowing just up the coast from us, but no, it's all "SLIGHT WINDS IN LONDON!"

And I'm calm.

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

Mmm, it's windy here, and it's been raining most of the day (hurrah for using it as an excuse not to go to lectures...)
But the rain was not horizontal and there was one flash of lightening and two thunderclaps.
That is not bad.
Silly southerners

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

They're all just wusses. Wander around in a t-shirt to make a point.

[hyrnetanga.livejournal.com]

YES! YES! EXACTLY WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO SAY!

I was in Geneva when most of Hull was underwater last summer, but I heard about it through facebook (seriously people I know were posting photos of vans floating down the street and everything!) and the emails I was getting from uni for months updating everyone on which areas of the campus were still closed due to flood damage, but nothing made even national news (my family informed me that it was shown on the north west's local news, despite being on the other side of the country because "unlike the southerners we actually think a whole city being underwater is newsworthy even when it's not London"). And yet several weeks later when Hull was still underwater and still not being mentioned, a few puddles in Oxford made the SWISS FREE PAPERS! I kid you not!

IIRC it was the same with the petrol crisis. The rest of the country was without a petrol supply for weeks and the government said "Meh. Deal with it." And when they blockaded Greater London's supply they declared it a national emergency and an agreement was reached in about 2 days!

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

I am officially going to start speaking in an aggressively Northern voice. I'm so flipping fed up of the whole thing, I really am. (Even if Hull is Wrong Side F'T'Pennines and all that. :-P)

[hyrnetanga.livejournal.com]

"but when about an inch of water crept through Oxford and the Thames threatened to maybe flood a bit all the people in the weather centre ran around in circles screaming "OH GOD BUY TINNED GOODS AND REPENT YE SINNERS!"

Aww! A whole inch of water! Poor things! One of the roads in Newburgh used to flood a couple of feet about 10 times a year until they finally put decent drains in, but it was such a common occurrence I doubt the news even reached Parbold. You just went the other way when it was too deep to drive through.