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Lincolnshire Tornado - Sniffer - 18th August 2006
Just caught on the news that some dedicated sorts were injured when a tornado hit their site hut in Lincolnshire.
Early reports, but I hope that they all recover quickly. Sounds like an experience and a half!
Lincolnshire Tornado - vulpes - 18th August 2006
Bet that wasn't in the risk assessment! Seriously hope they're all right, maybe we'll get a full report in due course?
Lincolnshire Tornado - the invisible man - 18th August 2006
From BBC News page for LIncs:
The tornado touched down near Thurlby
Five students have been injured after a tornado lifted a portable building into the air in south Lincolnshire.
Archaeologists and archaeology students were working inside a sand and gravel pit at Baston, near the Cambridgeshire border, on Thursday, when it hit.
Four people were taken to Peterborough Hospital in Cambridgeshire with minor injuries, after the building was lifted up by high winds and dragged 70 feet.
Thunderstorms also left 6,000 homes without power across Lincolnshire.
Eyewitness Marguerite Cullen, who lives in Thurlby, said: "I was sitting in the house watching a thunderstorm when it developed a funnel."
"This time last year there was also a severe tornado in the area," she said.
"This one was quite enormous and a lot closer than last year's - I could see the cloud rotating in the tunnel."
She said even though the tornado was "snakey and small" it was clearly touching the ground.
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.
Lincolnshire Tornado - Paul Barford - 18th August 2006
This link appeared just now on Britarch:
http://www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=18301328
Sounds really scary.
Paul Barford
Lincolnshire Tornado - Paul Belford - 21st August 2006
Paul's link goes, bizarrely, to an item on dog surfing. This link...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/5261198.stm
...seems to go to the story in question.
Lincolnshire Tornado - BAJR Host - 21st August 2006
I prefer the dog surfing story
)seriously though, I am glad everyone is not too badly hurt... bet that was not in the Risk Assesment Document.
Best wishes and speedy recovery to all who were affected
Another day another WSI?
Lincolnshire Tornado - ailsajayne - 21st August 2006
hi, quick message... am one of archaeologists involved... was very scary but dont see how could have been prevented!! but yeah we've been advised to consider for the future how to avoid it
We are all doing ok thanks and recovering well!! who says commercial archaeology isn't exciting!!
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Lincolnshire Tornado - Sniffer - 22nd August 2006
Glad to hear you're doing okay - quite a 'Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz' moment!
Lincolnshire Tornado - wombat - 22nd August 2006
I believe the unit in question was Northants. Is Tam still there? Was he involved? (worked for him at Ely).
Has anybody got any other stories of bizarre natural occurrences on site? I was in an earthquake while working in Greece once. All the locals just carried on with their daily business as if nothing had happened.
Lincolnshire Tornado - tom wilson - 22nd August 2006
The fields around the village where I dig in Thailand caught fire once. There were walls of flames marching towards the houses on all sides. We had to get the site buckets and make long chains from the village square. Very exciting.