"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

[amaraal]

Funny fellows you have :)

[shepet]

Wow! That's impressive!
*remembering anxiously the house with 'russian banister'* Hope he well protected?

[aletheiafelinea]

Must be fun to be a resident lighthouse keeper. Yup, loads of fun. For one, you have really clean windows at home.

[kittycallum]

Those are serious waves indeed! I always love walking on the beach in stormy weather, but those would probably deter me. ;) Weather reporters do enjoy drama, don't they -- I remember last year we had about three 'snowstorms of the century' which produced a foot or so of snow each.

[stevie_carroll]

That's some impressive weather. I thought we had a bit of a breeze in Huddersfield, but nothing to compare with further north.