Keni Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Having viewed the pics online from The Telegraph, I was amazed at the scale of damage from the freak tornado, as it is being described. I hope no-one was seriously injured - it does not give any information in the pictorial.Compared to the tornadoes we have been having around this area, it looks to be on a much larger scale. Which area was it in - Normady or Brittany?Have a look on the Telegraph web site -what is ahppening to the weather? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maricopa Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Depending on which news report you watch, there are 3 dead and between 9 and 14 injured[:(]. It looked like a bomb had gone off, not a small tornado. It was in dept 59 (Nord, in Nord-pas de Calais) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keni Posted August 4, 2008 Author Share Posted August 4, 2008 Thanks Maricopa,I see the government has already sent ministers to see what is needed, I hope they will be more use that what happened here in Evesham last year - some of us are still waiting for insurance payouts, never mind an assessor!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybananasbrother Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 [quote user="Maricopa"]Depending on which news report you watch, there are 3 dead and between 9 and 14 injured[:(]. It looked like a bomb had gone off, not a small tornado. It was in dept 59 (Nord, in Nord-pas de Calais)[/quote]Ah, could you be closer to the truth than you realise. Was it really a tornado? Look at the damage. It is too extreme for a European tornado. I reckon the government knows more than they are letting on.[6] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard-R Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 "Ah, could you be closer to the truth than you realise. Was it really a tornado? Look at the damage. It is too extreme for a European tornado. I reckon the government knows more than they are letting on."Well there is the matter of all that missing semtex, oh and bomb makers in Limoux...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 http://fr.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080804/video/vfr-mini-tornade-dans-le-nord-de-la-fran-3837155.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybananasbrother Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Bomb dropped by accident or for trial from plane? Completely obvious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keni Posted August 4, 2008 Author Share Posted August 4, 2008 The devastation is pretty severe - even when we had that tornado last year in Birmingham it did not do that much damage! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 Nobody had a mobile phone to video it? Everyone's a reporter now and if it happened in the UK for example there would have been dozens of clips on YouTube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 Well it crossed fields and touched 2 other villages - some bomb. Andthe victims described a roaring sound lasting several seconds.(talk about misinformation on open forums[8-)]) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 Just to add to the conspiracy theory.Look at the plaque de matriculation of the one car shown in the rubble, it has a French symbol on the plate indicating a plate made over here but the number REX MISS ????????Fiat 126 by the look of it, clearly the wheels of choice for home made bomb makers.I wonder if they had registered with the Mairie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybananasbrother Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 I thought an air dropped bomb perhaps, which accounts for the wide reach, one of those that explodes a certain distance above the ground. And it is awfully near NATO set up in Belgium, no more than a minute's flying time, if that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maricopa Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 [quote user="Maricopa"]Depending on which news report you watch, there are 3 dead and between 9 and 14 injured[:(]. It looked like a bomb had gone off, not a small tornado. [/quote]To quote myself, I merely said it "looked like a bomb had gone off". Today on TF1 they had film from a helicopter clearly showing the path of a Tornado (the wind, not the aircarft) across the fields and then through the village. The number injured had risen to 18, but thankfully no further rise in those who unfortunately died.Edit: Thanks Clair! And the B is so near the P on my keyboard..........not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 [quote user="Maricopa"]...they had film from a helicopter clearly showing the bath of a Tornado (the wind, not the aircarft) across the fields and then through the village...[/quote][blink][:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 A bomb would not have been accompanied by torrential rain WBB. They mentioned another death last night, an elderly man who committed suicide after the loss of his house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert the InfoGipsy Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 [quote user="Christine Animal"]A bomb would not have been accompanied by torrential rain WBB. .[/quote]Presumably that's what Maricopa meant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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