Are we all going to die?

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First we get that alarm, now Tesco is closed tomorrow. It's the end, isn't it?

My grandma always used to say there are only two things you can be sure of - being born and dying. So yup on that basis we will all die.
Probably not tomorrow though.

Most councils in the central belt of Scotland have closed all schools, nurseries and Council offices, as well as telling households NOT to put out their bins.

It's voice calls in and out that are the issue, and also can't access voicemail. If you only do texting you might well have missed it as texts seem to be going through OK. Which is fine unless you're trying to get someone on a landline.....

To be fair, the last red weather warning in Scotland was in 2012 so it's not that common!

No way, I'm never that lucky.

I’m in central belt Scotland (red zone)and everything is closing tomorrow. Even Parliament. I was in the supermarket when the alert went off, it was PACKED with people stocking up for Armageddon and the combined noise from all the phones was quite shocking.

As an aside, I’m on Three and my phone hasn’t been working all afternoon but I still got the alert. I reckon it’s alien technology.

I GOT THE ALARM IN EAST LOTHIAN. Sorry English pals.

Don’t panic - it’s what’s known as a good drying day up here

Of course it is if your in a red zone. People will die in this storm and people need to be warned to not put themselves at risk unnecessarily as it then puts emergency service workers at risk. We all know there will be photos and videos of idiots standing round the coast tomorrow for a tiktok.

@1nutcracker My neighbours haven’t put their bins out but they are always just left on their drive half way along , they are currently so overfill the lids are open
I am betting the contents will be everywhere by 10 am tomorrow and like @Namechange4840 my neighbours are lazy messy gits who will not pick anything up.

Quite, and the best thing you can do is prepare and hope for the very best

People in Wales and south west had the alarm for the previous storm. No depopulation has been observed as far as Ive heard. (Trump withdrawing from Paris climate agreement and world health organisation is likely to shorten lots of people's lives though)

I headed to the shop for milk and it was like panic buying all over again. Ffs it’s 6 hours the smart is in place where I am, some dude had 3 x 4 packs of loo roll…for 6 hours. I nearly 💩 myself when both phones and bit watches blasted with the alarm.

Hope everyone in the storm zone are OK x especially if they've also got phone outages.

Are we all going to die?

Eventually

We are in red zone , winds forecast 91 mph , we are definitely worried.
More so about prolonged power outages.
But also about windows and roofs.
We are well prepared but I’m annoyed that others lack of preparation could impact my home.
I can’t believe some on this thread are being so flippant about how dangerous this is for some of us.

She forgot taxes.

Be safe. We're already entering the post apocalypse here on Gulf Coast in the US.

www.nola.com/news/weather/new-orleans-louisiana-snow-weather-forecast/article_3662f58c-d9c9-11ef-a724-6f23d780f68b.html#tncms-source=featured-top

Maybe he was just out of loo roll? We have 4 toilets so need at least a few rolls per loo 🤣

In the red zone, no schools, nurseries, buses open or running tomorrow but I’m expected to make it into work despite the fact that I don’t drive and live over three miles away. It’s not Tesco.

Manuel says it all...

Not if you're in the yellow zone, like I am and (I hope) you are too.

But red zones are rare and - despite all the frothing about overreactions - are serious. Hopefully it will pass without too much incident, but it's only common sense to stay home and not travel if you can possibly help it.

The emergency services are stretched enough as it is without idiots trying to prove that red weather warnings are just woke rubbish for snowflakes.

I bet it's like that ridiculous hurricane that was meant to destroy the US recently. Media whip-up and fuck all to it.

I wish they'd sent the alert earlier than 17:30 because that was a bit too late for doomsday prepping.

I don't remember the 1998 storm for some reason.

I'm in the red zone. Wishing our roof was in better condition, tbh. Fortunately schools are shut, my work is shut, dh told to wfh, Tesco shutting (quite right!), non emergency health care appointments cancelled, etc. None of those things happen if the weather warning is amber. Hopefully enough people stay home to mean roads and power lines can be cleared quickly, and noone needs rescued from squished cars.