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Old November 25th 04, 06:59 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Philip Eden Philip Eden is offline
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I'm sure I heard, probably on here, that there was no phone call ?

A few weeks back there was a piece by Michael to mark the end of his time
with the Met Office, played at the end of the One O'Clock News.

Apparently on that fateful day in 1987 the last story on the news had been
about a hurricane in Florida and someone at the BBC had asked him that she
was worried about her relatives out there, and would the hurricane reach
them? As far as I'm aware *that* was the woman asking about the hurricane,
and the hurricane referred to the USA rather than here in the UK!

As I was saying ...

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