'kinell. What a storm we've just had!

OldCarlos

OldCarlos

Suspended / Banned
Messages
6,882
Name
Carl
Edit My Images
Yes
Started at 6.50 & went on for 1.5hrs.
Haven't seen one like it in the UK for donkey's years. Barely 2 seconds between flashes of sheet lightning & for some time it was constant without any breaks at all. :cool:

Towards the end of the storm the forked lightning was unbelievable, shooting in all directions, then fanning out covering about half of the sky. :wideyed:

Freesat on tv down for nearly an hour. Power off for a few seconds. About an inch of rain has fallen too, so some local flooding.
 
Please send it down here :(
 
:crying:
 
Could do with the air getting a clearing up here
 
It was absolutely spectacular! Still trying to prise my Mrs from under the table.
 
wontolla said:
It was absolutely spectacular! Still trying to prise my Mrs from under the table.
Click to expand...

Haha. There are lots of folk who don't like thunder storms, but I really love to watch them, although with the one that we've just had I was starting to get a bit worried tbh. :runaway:
 
What a beautiful storm that was, incredible.:)(y)
 
OldCarlos said:
Haha. There are lots of folk who don't like thunder storms, but I really love to watch them, although with the one that we've just had I was starting to get a bit worried tbh. :runaway:
Click to expand...

I think she is getting fed up with me, she gave me a bunch of steel keys and told me to lock the porch door!



She also thought locking it would keep the storm out. :confused:
 
wontolla said:
I think she is getting fed up with me, she gave me a bunch of steel keys and told me to lock the porch door!



She also thought locking it would keep the storm out. :confused:
Click to expand...


Is it metal framed too? You insured? :D
 
OldCarlos said:
Is it metal framed too? You insured? :D
Click to expand...

Yeh, it is come to think about it! Our doors and windows are an integral part of the support and have to be specially made with upgraded metal frames!
Hell fire, I need to check the food she cooks from now on!
 
wontolla said:
Yeh, it is come to think about it! Our doors and windows are an integral part of the support and have to be specially made with upgraded metal frames!
Hell fire, I need to check the food she cooks from now on!
Click to expand...
And make sure she doesn't grease the stairs. ;)
 
I was going to video it but I couldn't see it properly from behind my settee :)
Bloody scary it was.
 
It was quite bad locally. Several roads that don't normally flood have flooded. There are a few streets that look like canals. I watched it for a bit then got bored. Lots of lightening.
 
nilagin said:
Only if you can arrange for it to bypass me on the way, I plan on basking in as much hot UK sunshine as possible over the next week. (y)
Click to expand...
Deal.
You have the sun, I'll take the rain!
 
Sun shines on the righteous

Tiling my bathroom next few days and wouldn't mind being a bit less righteous if it provides cooler weather
 
Said on our local news this eve that up to 2" of rain fell, in just over half an hour during the storm!

Beautiful day today. Had a drive over to St Annes, bought a sarney & had a walk on the beach. Luvverly it was :cool:
 
Oh whats up with you all............we were in a tent on holiday and didn't notice a thing
 
Dangermouse1964 said:
We were in Lincolnshire to be precise and it didn't bother us....................;).............at Coningsby :naughty:
Click to expand...

Ah, you camped in a hanger! :sneaky:

I was going to say you were lucky, but you missed out on a fantastic free show!
 
Blimey! Roughlee! We used to have a portion of Roughlee Hall as our District Scout Hostel (Prestwich & Whitefield) in the 60s/70s.
Some great memories of smoke filled rooms lit with Hurricane lamps and firelight, meals cooked on a wood burner, wooden bunks with paper thin mattress, and ghost stories.
Walks along Pendle Water, The Pendle Way, Blacko Tower, and going home stinking of smoke and diving in the shower for the first time in 4 days!
Loved every minute of it!
 
Well caught Dave. I love thunderstorms, but think I might have been a little nervous in a `van with THAT storm. :runaway:
 
wontolla said:
Blimey! Roughlee! We used to have a portion of Roughlee Hall as our District Scout Hostel (Prestwich & Whitefield) in the 60s/70s.
Some great memories of smoke filled rooms lit with Hurricane lamps and firelight, meals cooked on a wood burner, wooden bunks with paper thin mattress, and ghost stories.
Walks along Pendle Water, The Pendle Way, Blacko Tower, and going home stinking of smoke and diving in the shower for the first time in 4 days!
Loved every minute of it!
Click to expand...

A hurricane lamp would've been handy, we had 2 powercuts that evening. It was quite a spectacle though!
 
I knew I had a pic somewhere!

Roughlee Hall Mono.jpg
 

Attachments

  • Roughlee Hall Mono.jpg
    Roughlee Hall Mono.jpg
    92.4 KB · Views: 6
OldCarlos said:
Of Alice Nutter fame. (y)
Click to expand...

Well, yeh, but there's doubt about that now.
The story was that she was taken from Roughlee Hall to Lancaster Assizes, and hence hung there along with 9 others.
The consensus now is she lived in Crowtrees which is just over the hill near Barrowford.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top