Madeira faces new storm threat tonight
Friday 26th February 2010, 2:59PM GMT.
A signed Cristiano Ronaldo shirt is being auctioned tonight in aid of Jersey Side by Side’s Madeira appeal. The Real Madrid top goes under the hammer at the Hotel Ambassadeur tonight. The sale, which is part of an evening of entertainment and fundraising for St Patrick’s Church, starts at 7 pm (00899782)
MADEIRA was braced for more flooding today as a major storm is forecast to batter the island this evening.
Torrential rain and severe gale force winds were due to roar across the island overnight – just one week after the area was devastated by flash floods and mudslides.
At least 42 people died, dozens were injured and hundreds were left homeless following the disaster. It is feared that the death toll could rise to 70. It is expected that the financial cost of the floods could reach nearly 200 million euros (£176 million) in Funchal alone.
Now Madeirans are being warned that another storm system will pound the island from about 6 pm today – bringing the threat of more severe flooding and hampering the clean-up operation. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office and UK Met Office are so concerned that they are liaising with the Portuguese authorities as the storm moves in from the Atlantic.
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Since when did the Jersey Evening Post start printing weather reports for Madeira? I expect to read local news and weather in one’s local newspaper, the Madeirans can log on to ThisIsMadeira.com if they want to read what’s happening back home.
Unless, that is, you plan to start publishing international weather reports in the JEP?
Whilst I do concur that there are enough Madeirans here to make it of interest to a sizeable percentage of the resident population, I would still argue that this is supposed to be about JERSEY news. As an analogy, the events of September 11th 2001 were probably of interest to 100 percent of the resident population, yet that story did not feature so prominently in the local press.
Were I a cynic, I’d be thinking that we’re following the UK tradition of bending over backwards to appease minority groups, lest they play the race card.
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Having perused the above stories about the Madeiran incident, I was just about to post a cynical comment along the lines of “we can now expect to be inundated with several hundred immigration applications from Madeira”.
But, then I remembered! we don’t actually have an immigration policy, the island has always been open to anyone that cares to get on the next boat here.
Silly me.
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Hey Jersey Evening Post editors, be careful with all these news about Madeira. I don’t think ClipClop Horsey can handle it, he is going to start malfunctioning soon.
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What a conceited, selfish bunch you are. If Jersey sank in mud, how would you feel seeing a letter like that about you. Where’s your Christian hand outstreched to those requiring help? Just remember that it’s foreign money keeping this little island afloat. Investors sre skittish in the present financial turmoil so any perception of change will see it gone in a flash. So be kind to your neighbours and kindness will be repaid to you.
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No 1 – if the tourists knew what you thought, no one would come near this place. What a conceited bunch you are.
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Clip clop your a bad, bad man!!!I do hope your roof falls in this weekend during our gales!!
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What an insular person you are.Life goes on outside of your little parish.have you ever been away,IE into St Helier.GET A LIFE
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Jersey christian??? are you having a laugh!
Take a look around at all the dysfunctional misfits “still” go to nightclubs in there 50s.
Observe the kitchen porters and the wealthy driving at you in there Range Rovers.
I doint remember christ being an advocate for misfits and sleazebags in Range rovers full of debt and twice as ugly.
Jersey christian? no they worship golden calfs.
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Clipclop – you are being very unfair. The Madeirans who reside in Jersey are contributing to the island and most would purchase houses here if they could afford them.
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“Observe the kitchen porters and the wealthy driving at you in there Range Rovers.”
That’s probably in retaliation for all the times they’ve been driven at (scarily, on the wrong side of the road) by clapped out Fiestas and Novas!
I was going to keep out of this debate, but as that scare has happened to me in the past I thought I would mention it. And there I was assuming that those drivers were kitchen porters!
As for nightclubs, us over 50s know more about a good time than a lot of youngsters do!
Agree with you about the golden calves, though.
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Farisa – you are quite mistaken, not all those who drive rangerovers are ‘dysfunctional misfits’ on their way to nightclubs! Most of them are just divorced people who are very lonely.
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