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?

Yeah I don't think anyone reported you. I think you said a trigger word. If it had been reported it would have said 'this post has been deleted.' It was hidden automatically I think. Happened to me a while back when I mentioned the name of a certain character that a certain (weird) poster kept mentioning, and also your post gets hidden if you mention a certain type of footwear!

I was in the USA when that happened! Never seen so many gutted news anchors trying to whip drama out of such a non event.

We’re not in the red zone but I heard on the news earlier that all shops will be closed tomorrow. I hope everyone is okay once the storms pass.

No problem x I can't get over how long it's taking to resolve and how it seems to be being downplayed by 3 and the media.

Reported issues around 999 calls are the most worrying thing x fingers crossed we don't need to find out if that's true the hard way!

The schools in Northumberland that are closing are served by Borders coaches, based in the red zone, so will have no transport.

Was the most recent red warning not for high winds in Aberdeenshire in about Oct 2023? Not that it's massively relevant!

Not RTFT but is it all Tescos?

I do remember one recently in Scotland. It's the first in NI since this system came in in 2011, and the first time all of Ireland has a red warning too.

All red zone ones i think going by the wording on the email

There was meant to be a funeral tomorrow in our family. They've been waiting three weeks for it and it was postponed this afternoon. It's so difficult.

I'm torn between hoping it's nothing weather wise as you don't want anyone's home damaged etc, but equally hoping the weather comes to something so that the funeral hasn't been delayed for no reason.

As pp said, pretty much only in red zones.

Storm Eowyn: Tesco, Dunnes, Aldi, Lidl, SuperValue announce supermarket closures during storm - RSVP Live

We had bad winds last January that took my fence down and blew next door's gazebo into their neighbour's garden

Back in the day, we didn't have advance notice of severe weather events the way we do now, and we didn't have time to prepare. It's fucking progress that now we do have the technology to predict these events!

Does anyone remember 1987, when Michael Fish confidently told us on BBC Weather that there wasn't going to be a storm, and there was one bastard of a storm, particularly in the south/south-east as I remember?! It was bad in London because I was living and working there the following year, and when there was a severe storm forecasted, we all got sent home from work in case it happened again!

I remember a storm from when I was 4/5 - it tore the roof of our outhousing damaging my dad's car. I still remember him moving it out to the front of the house. There was a red telephone box at the end of our drive, and the doors of those things were so fucking heavy - yet the wind was strong enough to blow it off!

I hope and pray that this storm will be less severe than predicted, but I would rather be prepared than not.

I'm so sorry, that has to be one of the hardest consequences of this weather event.

I feel too for anyone who was due to be married tomorrow.

I'd love to know where these people are planning to store so much milk if they lose power.

The answer, of course, is Yes - we are all going to die. But not all tomorrow, nor because of the storm…

Visiting the UK and didn't realise this alarm isn't a regular thing here, everyone was losing their shit!

Arwen. Right down the East Coast. Flipped over a load of caravans at a site near Hartlepool
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2021/rare-red-warning-issued-for-storm-arwen

I'm in the NW of Ireland........the weather is here! It's blowing a hooley outside. Fingers crossed everyone stays safe

I don't either but I was pregnant and DC1 was sick and ended up hospitalised but my long-term memory is otherwise good!

I'd move their bins or put a plant pot on top of them!

I worked for a funeral director at the time of the Beast From the East. I couldn't get my car out the driveway but I walked several miles to work in hiking boots and walking clothes (I changed into my uniform when I got into the office). We knew that the services that we had booked would be cancelled but we sat in the office waiting for the crematoria and cemeteries to cancel the services because it was on them to rebook; had we cancelled, either the families or us as a company would have had to pay for the original booking. The cemeteries and crematoria will rebook as soon as possible.

We're all going to die yes, but not tomorrow.

Tomorrow is for everyone to sit at home and learn how to pronounce Eowyn. They've closed the shops so we don't get distracted from this work. Once everyone in the UK can say it properly, the shops will open again.

My mum (62) is refusing to message me (32) on WhatsApp whenever my profile photo involves clothing she considers low cut. I am a professional and message colleagues in WhatsApp and hence will let you judge the level of low cut that it can be.
I am having a fairly difficult time at the moment with work and personally and so I find it quite difficult that she suddenly EMAILS me instead of whatsapping whenever my picture is changed to something she doesn’t like.
I feel like it’s 2025 and she should be accepting etc but don’t know if I’m in the wrong. What do you think?

Yup!