From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
Apparently I missed the hurricane that hit London over the weekend!
At least, that’s the impression we get from the media. The normally sensible Mike Graham and Emma Woolf were on about “extreme weather, really bad, awful storms, 111 mph winds down in Cornwall”.
Emma, however, unintentionally, revealed what an ass she was making of herself, when she talked about being “on a bike with her son Ludo on the back”!
Foot & Mouth spring to mind Emma!
But it’s revealing of how isolated the chattering classes are from the real world.
At RAF Northolt, wind gusts reached the heady heights of 42 mph yesterday; sustained winds of 28 mph made it a Strong Breeze on the Beaufort Scale:
During the Great Storm of 1987, gusts of 63 kts were recorded at Northolt, that’s 73 mph.
Somehow I don’t think Emma would have been out on her bike with a toddler on the back during that storm.
By The Way
Where on earth did she get those 111 mph winds in Cornwall from?
The highest wind speeds in Cornwall, according to the Met Office, were 71 mph on Lizard Point:
But cheer up, Emma. There’s always Lena Horne:
