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Post by mcf on Feb 13, 2014 14:48:08 GMT
This thread is the perfect example of scare mongering and a molehill quickly becoming a mountain. I won't criticise anybody for not going last night. It's a personal decision and safety always comes first, especially if kids are involved. If you were to read this thread last night though, you'd assume we'd been hitten by a tsunami worse than Phuket 2004. When we were travelling to the game Radio Stoke were interviewing a woman who had to deal with a blown down tree in her street. As the interview played out it transpired it was in fact a large branch. We live in a social media world and a time when almost everybody has access to the internet. As soon as we have the first snow of winter, Facebook folk will tell you we've had a blizzard and you should stock up on bread and water. The club couldn't win last night. No matter what call they made they would've been criticised. In the end, conditions were fine and nothing out of the ordinary for a British winter. I've sat through worse up by the incinerator. 'a large branch' PMSL
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Post by werrington on Feb 13, 2014 14:48:45 GMT
This thread is the perfect example of scare mongering and a molehill quickly becoming a mountain. I won't criticise anybody for not going last night. It's a personal decision and safety always comes first, especially if kids are involved. If you were to read this thread last night though, you'd assume we'd been hitten by a tsunami worse than Phuket 2004. When we were travelling to the game Radio Stoke were interviewing a woman who had to deal with a blown down tree in her street. As the interview played out it transpired it was in fact a large branch. We live in a social media world and a time when almost everybody has access to the internet. As soon as we have the first snow of winter, Facebook folk will tell you we've had a blizzard and you should stock up on bread and water. The club couldn't win last night. No matter what call they made they would've been criticised. In the end, conditions were fine and nothing out of the ordinary for a British winter. I've sat through worse up by the incinerator. You may well have sat through worse mate as it did indeed die down But between 4-7pm there were power cuts galore and the local constabulary telling people not to travel due to falling debris and trees being uprooted I myself left my home in darkness ( power cut ) and roof tiles coming off so dunna make out like it was just a normal windy day in Stoke....it wasnt The met office issued a RED warning for our area and some took hours to get home or even to the Brit risking their own safety Between 8-10pm i also have sat through worse but prior to that it was a danger to public safety Opinions eh ( smiley )
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Post by mcf on Feb 13, 2014 14:53:23 GMT
puff
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2014 15:19:25 GMT
This thread is the perfect example of scare mongering and a molehill quickly becoming a mountain. I won't criticise anybody for not going last night. It's a personal decision and safety always comes first, especially if kids are involved. If you were to read this thread last night though, you'd assume we'd been hitten by a tsunami worse than Phuket 2004. When we were travelling to the game Radio Stoke were interviewing a woman who had to deal with a blown down tree in her street. As the interview played out it transpired it was in fact a large branch. We live in a social media world and a time when almost everybody has access to the internet. As soon as we have the first snow of winter, Facebook folk will tell you we've had a blizzard and you should stock up on bread and water. The club couldn't win last night. No matter what call they made they would've been criticised. In the end, conditions were fine and nothing out of the ordinary for a British winter. I've sat through worse up by the incinerator. You may well have sat through worse mate as it did indeed die down But between 4-7pm there were power cuts galore and the local constabulary telling people not to travel due to falling debris and trees being uprooted I myself left my home in darkness ( power cut ) and roof tiles coming off so dunna make out like it was just a normal windy day in Stoke....it wasnt The met office issued a RED warning for our area and some took hours to get home or even to the Brit risking their own safety Between 8-10pm i also have sat through worse but prior to that it was a danger to public safety Opinions eh ( smiley ) I'm well aware of the conditions. I still believe the actual problems were exaggerated by most. I travelled from Biddulph to the ground and back with no problems whatsoever. We encountered no trees on the road, no traffic, no accidents and no dead bodies. Local rradio advised of any potential problems on the roads so a safe route was easily determined. The club obviously had the weather forecast and the information was that the conditions would die down towards kick off. And that was bang on the money.
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Post by thischarmingmanc on Feb 13, 2014 15:34:07 GMT
Well i could not get to the game that I bought a ticket for because the rail network in the north of England was just not working. No trains south of stockport going anywhere.
Add to that motorways at standstill and local road blocked.
My commute home took 4 hours, i got home to Congleton by the time the 2nd half started
It looks like about 7,000 of the 25,000 who tickets were sold to couldn't get either.
Maybe some thought to paying punter should have said postpone the game, and done so early.
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Post by jeycov on Feb 13, 2014 16:00:48 GMT
This thread is the perfect example of scare mongering and a molehill quickly becoming a mountain. I won't criticise anybody for not going last night. It's a personal decision and safety always comes first, especially if kids are involved. If you were to read this thread last night though, you'd assume we'd been hitten by a tsunami worse than Phuket 2004. When we were travelling to the game Radio Stoke were interviewing a woman who had to deal with a blown down tree in her street. As the interview played out it transpired it was in fact a large branch. We live in a social media world and a time when almost everybody has access to the internet. As soon as we have the first snow of winter, Facebook folk will tell you we've had a blizzard and you should stock up on bread and water. The club couldn't win last night. No matter what call they made they would've been criticised. In the end, conditions were fine and nothing out of the ordinary for a British winter. I've sat through worse up by the incinerator. [The club couldn't win last night. No matter what call they made they would've been criticised. In the end, conditions were fine and nothing out of the ordinary for a British winter.? I've sat through worse up by the incinerator. If the team had won then the decision would have been the right one? If we had lost there would be some very angry responses on here and beyond. 2 main issues here. 1. If police are advising people not to travel then that should apply to football fans - travel plans on a "normal" match day can be quite challenging, a majority of fans travelling by road. 2. The club and everyone else with responsibility for health and safety ( there would be some very different posts on here if there had been a serious incident because of the game) around the ground,and beyond should have made a clear decision by 4pm at the latest.
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Post by Northy on Feb 13, 2014 16:34:00 GMT
This thread is the perfect example of scare mongering and a molehill quickly becoming a mountain. I won't criticise anybody for not going last night. It's a personal decision and safety always comes first, especially if kids are involved. If you were to read this thread last night though, you'd assume we'd been hitten by a tsunami worse than Phuket 2004. When we were travelling to the game Radio Stoke were interviewing a woman who had to deal with a blown down tree in her street. As the interview played out it transpired it was in fact a large branch. We live in a social media world and a time when almost everybody has access to the internet. As soon as we have the first snow of winter, Facebook folk will tell you we've had a blizzard and you should stock up on bread and water. The club couldn't win last night. No matter what call they made they would've been criticised. In the end, conditions were fine and nothing out of the ordinary for a British winter. I've sat through worse up by the incinerator. You may well have sat through worse mate as it did indeed die down But between 4-7pm there were power cuts galore and the local constabulary telling people not to travel due to falling debris and trees being uprooted I myself left my home in darkness ( power cut ) and roof tiles coming off so dunna make out like it was just a normal windy day in Stoke....it wasnt The met office issued a RED warning for our area and some took hours to get home or even to the Brit risking their own safety Between 8-10pm i also have sat through worse but prior to that it was a danger to public safety Opinions eh ( smiley ) The red warning was for West and North Wales, Lancashire and Cumbria, it was Orange down in Staffordshire www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26153889I'm a bit worried about flying over to Belfast on Saturday in a prop plane
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Post by stokeramblers on Feb 13, 2014 17:04:22 GMT
This thread is the perfect example of scare mongering and a molehill quickly becoming a mountain. I won't criticise anybody for not going last night. It's a personal decision and safety always comes first, especially if kids are involved. If you were to read this thread last night though, you'd assume we'd been hitten by a tsunami worse than Phuket 2004. When we were travelling to the game Radio Stoke were interviewing a woman who had to deal with a blown down tree in her street. As the interview played out it transpired it was in fact a large branch. We live in a social media world and a time when almost everybody has access to the internet. As soon as we have the first snow of winter, Facebook folk will tell you we've had a blizzard and you should stock up on bread and water. The club couldn't win last night. No matter what call they made they would've been criticised. In the end, conditions were fine and nothing out of the ordinary for a British winter. I've sat through worse up by the incinerator. Spot on. It's The Daily Express culture. If the media is not scaring people witless it is not doing its job! I think you'll find that the Daily Express put the strong winds down to Prince Phillip and a team of SAS operatives on mopeds in a Paris tunnel....
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