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    Posted: 20 Oct 13 at 10:19pm
"About 100 homes have been damaged by a "tornado" on Hayling Island in Hampshire, police have said."

But the Tornado was on starboard and the protest has been ruled "frivolous"
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I don't think it was very funny for those hit ...
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I agree, I shouldn't think it was.

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Made a mess of the Army boat park on nearby Thorney Island.  Never seen anything like it - not even the 1987 storm.  A stratos literally thrown around!  But very very localised.
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The 87 storm..yes..I remember driving to the club after work, around all the trees lying in the road, to find my Fireball nestled amongst the lower branches of a sizeable tree.
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Originally posted by sargesail

Made a mess of the Army boat park on nearby Thorney Island.  Never seen anything like it - not even the 1987 storm.  A stratos literally thrown around!  But very very localised.


I think I'll get in touch about salvaging some good parts for our (RAF) L2Ks before they scrap them and get them replaced*.
Shame as they're building a good centre at TISC.... shame us light blue types never had the budget to give it what it deserves...



* Damn those pongo types and their massive AT budgets....
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Old research, (about 10 years ago), says the UK gets 100 tornados a year, but small about 20-50 m wide. Thats 5 times as many as in USA. Difference is the ones in the states are 800m plus wide !
Bootscooter, haven't the RAF got their own personal tornados?  Wink
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last year (didn't do it this year) we saw a waterspout near Brighlingsea whilst doing the Colne Point race (ECPR weekend). That was a bit... worrying.
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Mengeham Rythe Sailing Club got hit pretty hard as well. Quite a few cruisers and dinghies badly damaged with about £100k worth of damage caused.
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Originally posted by Bootscooter

Originally posted by sargesail

Made a mess of the Army boat park on nearby Thorney Island.  Never seen anything like it - not even the 1987 storm.  A stratos literally thrown around!  But very very localised.


I think I'll get in touch about salvaging some good parts for our (RAF) L2Ks before they scrap them and get them replaced*.
Shame as they're building a good centre at TISC.... shame us light blue types never had the budget to give it what it deserves...



* Damn those pongo types and their massive AT budgets....

Not sure they'll be that much - we'll know today.  Just picked up and dropped, not flung around lots.
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