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A tornado has hit a North London street, severely damaging several houses.
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12-07-2006, 01:34 PM
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Updated: 12:31, Thursday December 07, 2006  A tornado has hit a North London street, severely damaging several houses.
Eyewitnesses said it lasted only a few seconds, but it ripped off at least one roof and tore down the side of a house.
It is not thought anyone was hurt, but cars, houses and street furniture were damaged. Sky News: UK News, World News and Business News. The First for breaking global News!
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12-08-2006, 09:36 AM
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12-08-2006, 10:41 AM
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Country: | yes, happy to see no one was killed in this freak storm
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12-08-2006, 11:07 AM
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Country: | Hey I heard on the radio here in the US today that the UK gets more tornadoes that most individual states in Tornado Alley. Is that true?? 
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12-09-2006, 08:21 AM
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i know bad weather, believe me
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12-09-2006, 08:48 AM
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Country: | Pennsylvania just got hit too and not to far from where I live to. 3 tornado's hit.
2 people were killed. It was bound to happen here again eventually I just wish I wasn't around to see it, or hear of it.
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12-09-2006, 09:55 AM
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#7 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | It is starting to get bad over here with them as well. Germany would only get a few a year and they were not very common. (in 20 years I had never seen one in Germany) Now though they spring about 30 times a year here around Germany. Earlier this year one came down over Dresden, Germany.
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12-09-2006, 10:04 AM
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Country:  | They called it a 'mini-tornado' but the weather guy said is was a Cat 1 or 2. I was looking out of the window a couple of miles away at the time (about 11am) and the sky went black, there was lightning, a huge wind blowing, and horizontal hail, it was amazing...
We get about 30 a year, but nothing like the US ones, and there has not been one like that in London since 1954.
Global Warming?...
Seems like they are going to rebuild now instead of demolishing: BBC NEWS | England | London | Tornado homes escape demolition
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12-09-2006, 10:29 AM
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Country: | I agree with your global warming assessment. It has completely turned the climate here in Germany. Last year at this time we had about -1 to 0 degrees C temp and several feet of snow and this was the norm. This year we registered 21 degrees C last Thursday and we have not had any snow. I drive home from base and the wild flowers are blooming again. I dont need a jacket during the day.
The weather is bizzar and I think we as the world if we dont do something to stop this global warming it is going to bite us all in the ass sooner.
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12-09-2006, 11:37 AM
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Country: | I somewhat agree and disagree...
I think global warming as a result of fossil fuels are affecting the earth, a proven fact, but I could remember bazaar weather events 20 or 25 years ago (1969, a huge blizzard covered NYC for weeks, 1974, 75 degree temps in Jan., and the summer of 1975, 107 in NYC). It's also been proven that just by inhabiting this planet all life forms are contributing to global warming in one form of the other. In the mid 80s I remember the big craze was acid rain, hardly mentioned anymore. Yes we need to have alternate sources of energy but at the same time things need to be put into perspective and balanced - do we destroy the earth, keep living our lives with conservation in mind or revert back to the middle ages?
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12-09-2006, 12:15 PM
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Country: | Yeah but it has been warming up here in Germany over the last 5 years about a degree a year. It has been a gradual increase, not like it just happened overnight.
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12-09-2006, 12:49 PM
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Country: | There are natural cycles of warming and cooling - half of the UK was covered in glaciers at one point - but it seems that right now we are accelerating a natural swing...
I think it would happen anyway, but industrial activity is pushing the effect harder than nature would normally allow. This may be recoverable if everyone takes action, but the more worrying side is the possibility of a sustained reaction, where the heat just keeps increasing no matter what we do.
This is one good reason to favour the Space Program - we might just have to leave here and find a new planet one day...
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12-10-2006, 01:07 PM
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Country: | Scary thought Clave. But I think you are right. If not for climate changes, then for sheer physical space and resources. Not in my lifetime though. Nor likely in my kids, kids either.
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12-10-2006, 01:08 PM
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12-10-2006, 03:16 PM
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Country: | I'll bet if they find a cure for ageing, then everyone will be interested in global warming.
It's just one of those gradual things that will kick us in the head as a species...eventually...
I wish I had an answer, but I still have to drive my car to work, I have bills to pay... 
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