"plenty of wind"

[anteros_lmc]

We've been having a bit of weather up here, which has resulted in some rather hysterical news reports, however amongst the hyperbole I came across this masterpiece of Hebridean understatement on the BBC news website, from the Barra Lifeboat coxswain...

Speaking from Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Donald MacLeod, coxswain of the island's lifeboat,

Comments

[vespican]

A little breezy!

[eglantine_br]

Sporty!

[mylodon]

I love Carol the weather girl on the BBC - typically Scottish and understated, she said that we were just having winter. :)

[katriona_s]

Oh terrifying but beautiful photos!

[lemurling]

You folks would die laughing at the hysteria out in CA over our incoming storm. I mean, it's going to blow a bit, and some trees might even come down if we're unlucky, but waves aren't going to be knocking cars off bridges or swamping Alcatraz or anything. Those pictures are pretty darn intimidating!