Batten Down The Hatches Yet Again, And Get Out The Sandbags - Here Comes Debi?

[Canary42]

https://news.sky.com/story/storm-debi-uk-and-ireland-weather-warnings-issued-amid-flooding-fears-13006278

[Hopkirk]

Another wild night with Debi, eh?

[Canary42]

LOL

[barry1010]

I've been lucky, no storms this year and Debi is missing me

[Barmaid]

I feel really sorry for the people who have already had a battering and are now facing another one.

Whilst it's useful to have these warnings, i remember winter storms as a child being a regular thing, with serious damage but it rarely made the news.

[Buenchico]

Here in Suffolk, we're not really in the path of the storm but we've still got winds of around 45mph forecast.

Gness and Dave might be seeing the worst of it though:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-67394420

[barry1010]

It probably made local news and weather.  Maybe all these warnings are a reaction to Michael Fish's cock up in 1987.  There will not be a hurricane, he said, laughingly.

He laughed on the other side of his face next day 

[Buenchico]

^^^ There wasn't a hurricane.  It was only a strong storm. 

There wasn't even a lady who'd called in about a hurricane; Michael Fish made that up!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-19923565

[Canary42]

The reason for the change of approach (and I agree about storms when we were kids) is the result of the advance of the Blame-and-claim Brigade (fueled by no-win-no-fee rogues) - they could well try suing Met if unwarned storm caused damage - that's yet another silly habit inherited from our highly litigious friends from across the pond.

[jno]

I haven't been here as many decades as some but I don't remember storms like this - either this often or this fierce. I've had to install drains under the lawn to carry rainwater off without flooding the house; now I'm starting to think they're not enough.

[webbo3]

Debi does England, don't remember that one.

[Canary42]

Yes jno, as far as childhood storm memories go, I think you're right in respect of excessive rainfall, it's only the equally severe winds I remember.  The Great Floods of '53 were caused by the (wind-driven) sea, not rainfall.