Journal #7502

Hurricane Bawbag almost killed me today. No joke.

Left the house at 7am, 2 hours of disrupted public transport later and I'm walking the remainder of the journey to college next to a main road.
Huge gust of wind blows me and 3 other people straight onto the road. Literally could do nothing to stop it and if I wasn't so shit-scared it would have been an incredible experience being literally lifted up by the wind.

Luckily the driver approaching at speed was on-the-ball, because he emergency stopped and nobody got hurt.

Amazingly after that I arrived at college, happy to alive and indoors only to be told 30 mins later that they were going to close the college for health and safety reasons. Fucking exceptional. 3 hours back home.

I think the record gust was 185mph today up in the Shetlands. We only had 100mph in Glasgow, but that's a fuck when you're in it. Horizontal hail stones didn't help.

Excellent photo btw:
A wind turbine's generator literally explodes due to being overworked.

Whoa, lucky!

Good thing no one got hurt. Wear some lead xD
Also that picture is cool, turbine got owned.

I thought all the wind we were getting here was bad. At least here it's not lethal. D;

We've had some grim forecasts in Dundee, but nothing quite as insane yet.
Epic photo of the wind turbines.

I think the most amazing thing about that photo is how straight the smoke is going. Really shows how windy it was that it's not dropping or rising at all. Hot air currents are no match for dat wind

My forecasts are always insane.

Holy crap. I didn't even know there was a hurricane in the UK area, and that sounds intense. Far worse than anything I'm likely to ever be caught in the middle of.

It wasn't really a hurricane - just a gale-force storm on a mass scale.

"Hurricane Bawbag" is just Scotland being Scotland. I think you'd have to live here to understand.

Even so, winds that powerful... We had what I would have otherwise called fairly strong winds in my area today, and they didn't come anywhere near having enough force to do anything more than add a bit of resistance to movement.

HEV suit required.

That's crazy Archie, I couldn't imagine actually being picked up by winds.

The only bad experience I've had with strong wind is on my way to a beach nearly 10 years ago (!). I was carrying a boogie board in front of me and turned the corner of a steep hill that turned out to be acting as a kind of wind break. Board instantly met face. :<

Better a board than waves trowing you, hitting your head, onto the ONLY freaking rock in the entire sandy beach.

Good point.

thats scary Archie, glad you survived. And I feel you on the college part, my college is the same, fkin annoying, last week had to come in and none of the teachers were there, didn't even get cover teachers just got forced to sit there for 5 hours.

I had no idea UK is subjected to such extreme weather :.

It's usually fairly mild, but island nations are always at risk of crazy ocean storms coming in-land

It's officially called bawbag? Haha.

Scotland, you are offically awesome!

what sort of name is bawbag?

i thought Scotland only got alot of rain and snow.

Ballbag ; scrotum.

And if we get rain and snow , why wouldn't we get gales as well?