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Old 24 October 2005, 19:12   #1
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'Kin 'ell. It's blowin' !!!
Just looked out my window. Trees are horizontal, masts are frappin' like stink and a boat cover just went flying by.

Will it be safe to go to the pub?
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Cambermet showed a gust of 42kts earlier.

I was out there teaching a PB2 - definitely fresh to frightening, stuck to southampton water!
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Gusts of 58 knots at Calshot, good night for a call out
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Just looked out my window. Trees are horizontal, masts are frappin' like stink and a boat cover just went flying by.

Will it be safe to go to the pub?

More to the point will it be safe to leave the pub and go home?
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Gusts of 58 knots at Calshot, good night for a call out

Ah it is you then! hows your Cat
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Ah it is you then! hows your Cat
Oh no the secret is out!!

The cat has just been put up for sale
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Gusts of 58 knots at Calshot, good night for a call out
58! as in force 11???? wow.
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Thats from the weather station on top of the crewroom
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More to the point will it be safe to leave the pub and go home?
Nah.
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