Today's storms and flooding

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Did anybody else get hit by the storm last night / this morning ?

My chicken house roof has gone, the garden is trashed, wheelie bins no nonger need emptying and my bird feeders are nowhere to be seen.

On a more serious note - sounds like there could be some severe coastal flooding down South on the East coast so good luck to anybody living down there.
 
dinners said:
Did anybody else get hit by the storm last night / this morning ?

My chicken house roof has gone, the garden is trashed, wheelie bins no nonger need emptying and my bird feeders are nowhere to be seen.

On a more serious note - sounds like there could be some severe coastal flooding down South on the East coast so good luck to anybody living down there.
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hope your girls are ok. i woke up to find our chicken run roof somewhere down the street. and the walk to work was an experience.
 
The chickens are fine.

It's a chicken wire roof with a roof on top of that. The roof has gone but the wire is still fine.

There's a trampoline arrived though lol
 
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view of the Garden.. that is after the thunderstorm we had at 6am and god knows what to come.. (remember living here is all new to me)
 
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view of the Garden.. that is after the thunderstorm we had at 6am and god knows what to come.. (remember living here is all new to me)
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looks a bit noisy ;)
 
Aye, didn't get much sleep for it last night.

Luckily just a flying swing seat this morning.

My mate had a shed before he went to bed last night, now he has a greenhouse!

Snow was on about half an hour ago but now brilliant sunshine.
 
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Next door has lost some ridge tiles, the problem is they are just sat on the roof waiting for the next big gust. I have moved my car down, just waiting to see where they land.
 
Not been too bad here, although I've not ventured to the beach today. Reports of a few garden walls down, minor damage so far. However, the National Glass Centre on the Wear estuary has closed on advice from the coastguard! Can't recall this ever happening before.
 
Our garden has been bouncing around all day. The swing decided to take a trip to next doors garden but stopped at the fence to enjoy the view.
Very windy, but that's about it (In North West England btw).

I feel for those that have been really in the thick of it. Scary how damaging it can be.
 
Nothing badly wrong in the Midlands, wind 30mph and wind-chill of -2c. Hope you lot up North and on the East coast are OK:thumbs:
 
A few trees have fallen over locally. M6 has been shut so there has been traffic chaos. I haven't heard anything fall off...not been out in it to check. Rhyl is under water apparently.
 
feeling for those up north - we had a storm a few weeks back, and our estate had about 5k of tree damage - we don't need another one any time soon
 
yep i live overlooking the dee estuary north wales ,the whole area was on lock down today so i went down to flint castle on the dee estuary .i have never in 30 years of living round here seen it so high ,the benches in this shot are normally 30 metres away from the highest normal tide point

picnic anyone by blackfox wildlife and nature imaging, on Flickr

this next one shows the moat full of water ,never seen this in 30 years .the normal high tide only reaches to just the other side of the fence at top right of picture


flint castle moat ,full up by blackfox wildlife and nature imaging, on Flickr
 
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Some flooding around walney island in barrow... Caused £££ worth of improvements...
 
I had to put in ear plugs last night ... and still struggled to sleep! No power loss here though and overall nowhere near as bad as Cyclone Ulli (January 2nd-3rd 2012) - that one was a real piece of work and very localised over the west and central belt. I still haven't uploaded the video my mate took but there's a hillside near me that was completely stripped - and I mean stripped - of all its trees.

EDIT: correct date from 2011 to 2012 (I always get that wrong).
 
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I had to put in ear plugs last night ... and still struggled to sleep! No power loss here though and overall nowhere near as bad as Cyclone Ulli (January 2nd-3rd 2011) - that one was a real piece of work and very localised over the west and central belt. I still haven't uploaded the video my mate took but there's a hillside near me that was completely stripped - and I mean stripped - of all its trees.
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That was Hurricane Bawbag wasn't it ?
 
Nearly ran into a blown-down tree on the way home tonight. I have reported it to the local council and added it to the humungous list they already had. My log store has collapsed, the lid of my coal bunker has vanished, a water butt has been wrenched from its mountings, and Mrs Y spent a happy half hour picking up the contents of one of our wheely bins which had been blown 100 yards down our garden.

Normal life on the east coast really!
 
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That was Hurricane Bawbag wasn't it ?
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no (easy mistake to make, though). Hurricane Bawbag was the one a month or so prior. The one on January 3rd 2012 wasn't, as far as I am aware, very well forecast or predicted to be as strong as I had no idea it was coming. It was only a "small" storm, as most of the high winds were very localised over the central belt, whereas most (such as Bawbag) are far larger and tend to span most of the country. This one was also fairly unusual in that it was deepening as it crossed the UK and carried on for a bit afterwards, whereas most depressions that hit us are beginning to unravel and calm down as they cross the Irish sea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Bawbag

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Ulli

Although not as "bad" overall as Bawbag or many other storms, for those people in the right (wrong?) place Ulli was devastating. Some houses in my area were without power for a week, parts of the town here were ruined, huge trees down, roofs off, the hillsides stripped of trees. I love storms but this one genuinely scared me and I'm surprised the house wasn't scrapped. Worse was I had no idea it was coming. According to the wiki the met office eventually upgraded it to a red warning for wind which I don't think I've ever seen before, and is basically a "hang on for dear life" situation.

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Windows were smashed, caravans lifted and blown through the air, roofs torn off, etc etc.

EDIT: revised dates to 2012 - the storm occurred January 2012 NOT 2011 - apologies.
 
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Yeah, 04:30....tree was blown down....crushed the greenhouse and fence.

Worse still...I booked Friday off for a tog trip. The day will be spent hacking at a tree :mad:
 
I thought the West Midlands had escaped this one, but I came home this evening to find my TV aerial lying dead on the roof. :(
 
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I thought the West Midlands had escaped this one, but I came home this evening to find my TV aerial lying dead on the roof. :(
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So something positive has come out of the storm so.:);)
 
Absolutely nothing down my way.(west Berkshire).....was a little chilly earlier but I put that down to it being December......

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Glad my aerial didn't blow over. Its in the loft so I'd be in big trouble ;)
 
Only damage here is to some christmas lights attached to a tree which snapped when said tree took off down the driveway. Even got some blue sky at one point. Dad was in Llandudno attempting to take students on a photography field trip! Bit rougher over there!
 
nothing here although nothing was forecast for here anyway, just a little windy and chilly, nowt out of the norm. Hope everyone who is affected is safe and well
 
Yes we got hit quite bad

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This is the field I usually fly at Brightlingsea

It's now a lake.
 
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