We had a bit of trouble with a summer storm that caused a lot of wind and damage. Well, our family wasn’t personally affected but others i nthe area were.
One of the BBC news sites had a comments section and one of them caught my eye. The ironic humor and calmness of the English personaliy wasn’t lost on me:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3874683.stm
“My roof got blown off this morning. My family have had to stay at my sister’s house. People say these things come in threes, I just hope my house doesn’t get looted. What a fine summer.
Chris, Hampshire”
“A normal train journey to work today became delayed for 1.5 hours after it hit a fallen tree just outside Ascot station. Whilst in motion, yet after the brakes had been applied, the driver emerged from his cab to reassuringly tell us ‘we are about to hit a tree’. Nobody was injured but if the driver had not made his exit, he could have been impaled on the branch that smashed through the front window!
Mark, Camberley, UK”