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Keith Dancey · November 4th 05, 04:41 PM posted to uk.sci.weather

In article , "Will Hand" writes:

"Keith Dancey" wrote in message
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Remember, it was a *Press Statement*. Not a statement addressed to
meteorologists...

One thing you have to remember Keith is the *motivation* for issuing a Press
Release.

Motivation...? I thought it was to put the utility services on "amber alert",
and to tell the Public that they have done so.

I took it seriously enough to establish that my vulnerable 82-year-old Mother-
in-Law, who lives alone in a small isolated village prone to power outages, and
with narrow country lanes not readily cleared of snow, has sufficient emergency
supplies of tinned food (14 meals), camping-gas stoves (two), two bottled-gas
heaters and a fancy 30-LED battery lamp with a battery life of 60 hours (ordered
from the States) to outlast potential poor weather conditions at least until
we could get through to her...

Was it purely to put across a scientific perspective, or was it also to get
"ahead of the game" so to speak.

Blimey. Politics?

I'll stop there and let you ponder.

Well, I have pondered, but I did it a bit further up in my posting:-) Do you
mean the Met Office has shares in Duracell and Calor Gas?

Those LED lamps are damn hard to come by, because almost everyone in Florida
has at least one since Wilma, and most places are now SOLD OUT.

I thought you were sawing wood? I cut the plum tree down last weekend:-}

I don't mind if the Met Office is wrong in the prediction because everything
I have purchased will either get used, or is useful to have around anyway.
But I think they could and should have simply been a little bit clearer in
wording how bad they expected conditions might get.

But its kept us entertained, I suppose, either way:-)

Cheers,

keith

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