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HipChick

(25,485 posts)
Sat Feb 15, 2014, 02:27 PM Feb 2014

America and Britain have always enjoyed a special relationship, but this takes the biscuit..




Incredible satellite imagery from NASA's Worldview shows the monster storms swirling 'arm-in-arm' across the ocean. The storms in the US have left 21 people dead and caused thousands of flights to be cancelled, bringing the east coast to a standstill.

Meanwhile, in Britain, heavy rain and winds up to 80 mph devastated parts of the south, aggravating areas already flooded after the wettest January since records began in 1776.


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America and Britain have always enjoyed a special relationship, but this takes the biscuit.. (Original Post) HipChick Feb 2014 OP
Somebody get out there shenmue Feb 2014 #1
These monster storms are something else. LuvNewcastle Feb 2014 #2
Amazing malaise Feb 2014 #3
K&R! It wasn't too many millions of years ago they were even closer. Enthusiast Feb 2014 #4
Looking at that second picture, no wonder a lot of the buildings are made of stone. Wonder how many freshwest Feb 2014 #5

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
5. Looking at that second picture, no wonder a lot of the buildings are made of stone. Wonder how many
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 02:34 AM
Feb 2014
times this has happened in the thousands of years the UK has been inhabited and what was washed away in the years past. They seem well prepared for water and tides.

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