August 25, 1814
The clouds began to swirl and the winds kicked up. A tornado formed in the center of the city and headed straight for the British on Capitol Hill. The twister ripped buildings from their foundations and trees up by the roots. British cannons were tossed around by the winds. Several British troops were killed by falling structures and flying debris.
The rain continued for two hours, dousing the flames. The British decided it was time to leave.
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The lady answered, “No, Sir, this is a special interposition of Providence to drive our enemies from our city.”
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-tornado-that-saved-washington-33901211
What a strange tale yet today there is a legacy of a rebuilt Washington in white.
How rare are twisters in Washington? Not that I would write double.
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‘The lady answered, “No, Sir, this is a special interposition of Providence to drive our enemies from our city.” ‘
They don’t talk like that any more 😉
‘British diplomats in Washington are apologizing for Twitter posts that made light of the 200th anniversary of their troops torching the White House in the War of 1812.’
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/25/brits-apologize-for-twitter-posts-implying-party-to-mark-1814-burning-white/
Reblogged this on the WeatherAction Blog and commented:
Very handy to know. Thanks Tim.
oldbrew says: August 25, 2014 at 7:19 pm
‘The lady answered, “No, Sir, this is a special interposition of Providence to drive our enemies from our city.” ‘
They don’t talk like that any more 😉
That was hope! Language changes. The same thing now is closer to the Brittish viewpoint at that time, “AW Shit”! 😉
Will Janoschka says: August 26, 2014 at 12:32 am
oldbrew says: August 25, 2014 at 7:19 pm
‘The lady answered, “No, Sir, this is a special interposition of Providence to drive our enemies from our city.” ‘
They don’t talk like that any more 😉
That was hope! Language changes. The same thing now is closer to the Brittish viewpoint at that time, “AW Shit”! 😉
Can anyone back translate the current invective “AW shit”, to what those Redcoats were expressing to each other?
Yes sir. We call it “climate change”.
tchannon says:
August 26, 2014 at 1:54 am
Yes sir. We call it “climate change”.
Tim, Climate change can never be an invective, only a fantasy. I’ve been among similar to the Redcoats. We call it AW shit!
Hmm, the Brits celebrating kicking our butts and getting their just desserts? Think I’ll write a poem about that if I can find a good drinking song to accompany it.
tchannon says:August 26, 2014 at 1:54 am
‘Yes sir. We call it “climate change”.”
Tim, do you have any input to the change in linguistics, independent of your nonsense climate?
Yes sir. We did Orwell and recently Douglas Adams.
Government gook-speak has become a fine art, really what this is about is reframing. Simple instances are renaming of unavoidable entities to change or include hot words.
DE department of environment — alter to DECC department of environment and climate change
Hot also means emotional, violent, climatic forcing
Violent events are associated, more language trickery, place side by side..
A quick link, not entirely what I mean
http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=31454
Redcoat.
Damn fool colour for the military but it was deliberate. The colour of violent, blood, anger.
And stupid if surprise is needed.
Here is framing
“(Reuters) – A Space Exploration Technologies’ Falcon 9 rocket suffered an anomaly shortly after launch on a test flight in Texas on Friday, triggering its automatic termination system, the company said in a statement.”
— http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/23/us-usa-texas-spacex-idUKKBN0GN03I20140823
tchannon says: August 26, 2014 at 4:20 am
“Yes sir. We did Orwell and recently Douglas Adams.
Government gook-speak has become a fine art, really what this is about is reframing. Simple instances are renaming of unavoidable entities to change or include hot words.
DE department of environment — alter to DECC department of environment and climate change
Hot also means emotional, violent, climatic forcing
Violent events are associated, more language trickery, place side by side..
A quick link, not entirely what I mean
http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=31454”
Ok Tim, The words and their current meaning have nothing to do with the current physical or “is”.
Only many illusions, somtimes “mine”. This “is” will always be different,next time you poke at it!
Which must be then!
My concept of “AW shit” seems to be persistant both forward and backward!
Yet another war wrongly claimed by the Yanks as won by them. We all know who invaded whom, don’t we? Strange how the Russians seem to have a similar failing. But, lessons for all… Brett
@ Brett Keane says:
With all due respect (lol), are you asking for a rematch?
@Sera: why would a winner need a rematch? I repeat, lessons for all. Like, harassing friends doesn’t pay off. Brett
@Brett:
I’m scottish- are you canadian?
@Sera: Kiwi, so we’re both mainly Scottish, like Canadians. Prone to terse humour. Ah, history. Responds well to the scientific method too, not that I’d claim to be a historian. And bi-centenaries are usually marked, just not in the USA for such as this. Understandably. Brett
Take a look at the last half century of tornado tracks here…
or here…
http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2012/05/tornado-tracks.html
You can see that tornados are rare in western Virginia and West Virginia, but occur more frequently to the east around Chesapeake Bay and the D.C. area.