Weather warning

Well it completely bypassed us last night.
Didn't even have to play dodge the wheelie bin while driving in this morning.

Both Severn bridges were still closed when I left the house though, so anyone coming from that side is going to be late this morning.
(For me, it just meant a nice quiet motorway drive)


neil_g said:
:clap:

in other (slightly related) news, trying to do some work at home waiting for more train news..
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:love: Awwww !!!
 
I decided to bring my laptop home on Friday just in case. Glad I did quite frankly as I think that although it may not have been as bad as expected we don't do well with disruption! No trains at all and its gusty enough to make me not want o go on my bike!
 
Well!

It did what it said on the tin here!

Torrential rain and lots of wind, trees down all over the place.

.....however, my brilliant binmen have emptied my recycling bin already and the next lot are just collecting the refuse!

Just seen on the news that south of the Thames they have over 100 trees down on the railway.


Heather
 
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I'm sorry Neil but you can't possibly move for the rest of the day now.


Heather
 
Tigger.ufo said:
I'm sorry Neil but you can't possibly move for the rest of the day now. Heather
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They don't stay still for too long normally. Although Hugo (black) is normally immovable once he's asleep but I think it was too hot so they've both wandered off to play somewhere ( I'll have to go and check as there is a lot of thudding coming from upstairs ) :lol:
 
I came on here to look at comments on the weather and...........got the pussy chronicles :D:D
 
Well that was a bit weird,
Rain smashing on the windows at around 3am, woke me for a few minutes.

Strong breeze at around 05:30 when I was loading the birds in the van.
A reasonable drive (South) down to Ware, in just over an hour.

In the time it took them to deiced to close the landfill due to
flying rubbish and lorries, (about 20 mins).

There were 3 trees down in a 3 mile stretch, of road, 3/4 blocking the roads.
2.5 hours later I'm back home looking at largely clear blue skies and a stiff breeze.

As they say in the States, if you don't like the weather, wait a couple of hours and
you'll get something different :thumbs:
 
Nothing here in Glos. Not even a fart in a jerry can.

We had a bad night three nights ago when the soak-away to the front of the house was overwhelmed, rain water backed-up and guttering was blown apart. The last time that happened was 20 yrs ago.
 
Utter destruction here I'm afraid, massive loss of life, er sorry, fruit from my pear tree as we were battered by winds in excess of 15 mph!
Certainly the worst storm in living memory...................if you happen to be a 3 week old baby:)



Oh, the humanity.

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neil_g said:
i couldve posted some photos of our busted fence but probably would've been told i was overreacting.. :shrug:

:D
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I'm sure no one would have taken oFence at that :shrug:
 
neil_g said:
i couldve posted some photos of our busted fence but probably would've been told i was overreacting.. :shrug:

:D
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To be fair those panel fencing is useless and can blow away in even a breeze :(

I am slightly concerned how mushy some of the female member on here get at the sight of a little pussy...........cat
 
MWHCVT said:
I'm just glad it wasn't a plum tree, the last thing I want is another chaps plums hitting me in the face :eek:
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Teabagged again Matt!!
 
MWHCVT said:
I'm just glad it wasn't a plum tree, the last thing I want is another chaps plums hitting me in the face :eek:
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Leave my pears out of it, they're for the piggies!
Leave my plums alone as well:) OOO-er missus.
 
Yv said:
I guess this is where pilots really earn their wages, don't envy them at all.


Apparently loads of houses have lost power around Exeter...anyone seen Nod, he is normally awake at this time :naughty:

Suddenly getting much windier here
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No power cut here. I was awake but the pit and Land of Nod were fr more attractive places to be than here.

DuncanDisorderly said:
Good point!
Suspiciously quiet...
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:suspect:

MWHCVT said:
I'm just glad it wasn't a plum tree, the last thing I want is another chaps plums hitting me in the face :eek:
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I thought you were used to that! (Glad you survived the night - get that battery sorted!!!)

Pete Allen said:
I came on here to look at comments on the weather and...........got the pussy chronicles :D:D
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Well, that was the only real disturbance I suffered - cat didn't like the howling wing and ****ing rain so needed a 2 AM cuddle for reassurance (hence me still being 1/2 asleep when one member [who shall remain nameless...] texted me.)
 
Nod said:
No power cut here. I was awake but the pit and Land of Nod were fr more attractive places to be than here.

:suspect:

I thought you were used to that! (Glad you survived the night - get that battery sorted!!!)

Well, that was the only real disturbance I suffered - cat didn't like the howling wing and ****ing rain so needed a 2 AM cuddle for reassurance (hence me still being 1/2 asleep when one member [who shall remain nameless...] texted me.)
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Will be next month hopefully :D
 
I've had my car from brand for 14 months and I haven't put a scratch on it. Woke up this morning after the storm we had last night to this.....


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Tiles from the roof blown all over the place.
My back garden is a bit of a mess too with things broken.

Gutted. But at least they are only things.

Got guys on the roof fixing tiles as I type and waiting for my car to be taken away.

It was a wee bit stormy here in Kent last night.
 
Sadly there has been a couple of deaths in London, I just saw on twitter, one from a tree faling on a car just up the road in Watford and another, I presume a tree/house interface as girl apparently died where she slept.


A teeny bit gutted here, the local fields where we walk the dogs have a car park. On one corner is a huge and very old willow that provides shade on the car park in summer and always looked quite glorious covered in frost or snow - Beth took the dogs down there just before lunch and its completely split in half, one half still upright, the other totally horizontal.... no doubt the council will now remove it completely :(
 
Well nothing much here,we were suppose be right in its path,bit of rain and some wind thats about it.

:)
 
We seemed to get away with it here (South Beds). Was surprised a coup=le of our neighbours put their wheelie bins out last night but neither had moved by this morning.

Woke up at 6am and could here the wind & rain but by the time I left for work at 7.30 it was just drizzle and a warm breeze. The 22 mile journey to work was quite clear and the only hold up= was a small tree covering one side of the road 200 yards from work.
 
Well, considering here in South Wales we were supposed to be the first hit, we have had.........nothing. Had more wind and rain on Satuday night than last night!
They were reporting from Cardiff bay last night like the apocalypse was coming, apparently at the time it was already "quite bad" there, and what could you see behind the reporter? A bit of drizzle and not a breath of wind :cuckoo:

It appears to have missed Wales completely, even the plastic garden furniture is still in the same position it was yesterday.
What was gradually annoying me more and more was the ridiculous different trajectories of the storm on each report, don't they all get their info from the met office? So why the massive differences?

I suspect it ran along below the south coast until it reached Isle of Wight and then turned north/north easterly. Completely different to any forecast I saw, up to and including 2am.

Cartainly not the worst storm in recent history by any means. Even reports from the worst hit areas don't match up to the last bad storm that I remember.
 
My mate got hit a bit harder mainly from the rain, it popped his septic tank out of the ground,and he flooder in going to take about a week to clear the water :(
 
A few trees and fences down round here, couple of roads blocked but as per the norm for this area people sooon had chainsaws out clearing them to keep things moving.
Been lucky and not lost the power yet :lol:
It has been very windy all morning, no rain though, that stopped 6am ish looking a bit bleak now though :(
 
Well here in the hillz south of Bath the weather was heavy rain and howling rain.

Got my windfall.... A clothes horse of towels has landed in the back garden with some potted plants in the front garden. Never got the sit on lawn mower I wanted :-(

Our 4 cats sat in the bedroom window then as soon as the rain cleared they tore down to the cat flap and headed to their favourite "rest rooms"..... The rain returned and got the lot of them before they could get back!

Was a wild night but not as bad as some others.

Steve
 
Uneventful drive to gym in Rainham Essex this morning just before 6. was expecting some sort of debris as I drove through the lanes, but nothing, not much in the way of leaves in the roads neither. After gym it was a 5 minute drive onto college where a I pulled up in car park, a 30 second shower of horizontal rain. This then repeated as I walked across the car park resulting in one side of my head getting soaked. Rest of the day has been glorious sunshine and wind. One bloke never made it into college however. The Dartford crossing bridge was closed due to the wind so they had to use one of the north bound tunnels. I think there may have been some accidents resulting in them controlling the traffic travelling north through the tunnel. Bloke lives in Gillingham and made it to the Dartford roundabout above the M25 approach to the tunnels by 2 this afternoon. Not bad going as he'd left home at 7 am.
 
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