The Impending Storm

Diamond Geezer

Diamond Geezer

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24674537


Everything in the garden tied down or put away in sheds, my other half has a hospital appointment she may cancel Monday morning. Both our daughters and their families are travelling here for half term, we've told them to leave it for twenty four hours but they both reckon it won't be "that bad" and are planning on travelling.

Anyone else got any journeys they are a bit wary of or any precautions you are going to take in view of the forecast ?
 
FFS, they're only talking about 80mph winds.

We get them every year at some point.

The Beeb just don't want another Michael Fish moment.
 
just seen the forecast..looks like the worst is from Birmingham downwards..so hopefully our mud huts up north should be ok...let soft southern buggers have it;)...Clive...pull up the drawbridge and get yer stamp collection out

its hard to believe that in the 70's we actually thought we could survive a nuclear war..there was a firm near us that made underground survival shelters..basically a cafe coffin

now..we get a bit of rain..snow or wind ..and its panic mode
 
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It's amazing how much panic gets whipped up!!

I hope all my farming and horsey mates are ok, all roofs etc stay on and nobody gets hurt. Where I keep grape we are running a book on if the ponies field shelter stays up - we can't decide if all the holes in it will help or make things ten times worse!

as for us - I've put the bins on their sides already and the bird table (only cos I don't want it to break) but there's no other reason to worry I don't think, I know the coast is meant to get the worst of it but I can't think it will be anywhere near as apocolyptic as they are suggesting!!
 
They seem to be quite concerned about this one in all fairness.

Glad I'm not flying this half term.

At least this has kept the false widow spider panic and the hunt for stolen gypsy babies away from the news for a day or two
 
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It's been a giant pain for those of us organizing horses in for Tattersalls HIT sale....selling starts tomorrow, but as there's so many double standings we've been having to ship in early and find space elsewhere for fear the ferries will be cancelled leaving horses stranded in Ireland instead of going though the ring!
 
trudij said:
Oh god, don't start me off about the sodding spiders.....
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Had a wonderful Villa in Florida this summer. Only problem were the Brown Widow spiders that were nesting outside and I had to fish 3 out of the pool.:ninja:
 
One of the girls at work could write for the sun, the mail and the Sunday sport she's gone so overboard about them - had a total meltdown when we had one at the surgery the other week and can't see that if you don't pose a threat to them then they won't get you and even if it does bite, unless you are allergic it won't do much!!
Boss killed the one by the light (much to the rest of our disgust - it was on the ceiling and no threat to anyone!!) and we haven't yet told him there's another one on a different light!!
 
I usually just gather spiders up in a cup or summat and release them outside. They're our friends, after all.

At this risk of sounding like Old Jim in the Vicar of Dibley, I remember the great storm of January 1968. My parents were up all night boarding the windows as they blew in one by one. My father actually stood and held a board against a window from about 2am till about 6am, when the winds started to abate. All in all, seven windows were smashed by the wind.

There were a number of deaths in Glasgow due to falling trees and chimneys falling through the roof of tenement buildings. We got to school that morning only to be told to go back home as there was so much damage to the school. The wind that night peaked at 134mph and it was around 120mph in the city.
 
My son has an early morning flight from Southend tomorrow. Railway stations says no trains before 9.00am. Great. The Dad's taxi service is required! Our Toyota weighs around 3ton if I have calculated the conversion correctly so hopefully will not be too badly impacted by the wind. Mind you there won't be any flights if it is too bad.

Reminds me of 1987 when I arrived home a 2.00am and thought it was odd that there were fireworks on the horizon. It was live electric cables flying around.
We lost a lot of trees and nearby roads were impassable with 100's of trees down or in a dangerous condition. In the morning my boss in Tokyo thought I should set an example to the staff and get in to the office. His suggestion was helicopter, cue nervous laughter, loss of telephone signal and mutterings of "fecking Kamikaze". Best community spirit I have ever seen locally with everybody out helping to clear up.
 
Hope you've got him there ok tout!

All fairly calm here again now, fr what I could hear outside I'm not suprised at the 99mph recording at the needles - they aren't so very far from here and obviously a lot more open to things. At first glance there's not been anything bad happen here either, still got power which is an improvement on a lot of houses not too far from here - and other than the garage door blowing open (closed it when I let the dogs out earlier) I've not seen any glaringly terrible stuff. There are some trees down round and about a and some localised flooding on some roads (according to the local paper's twitter feed!) but that's to be expected really.

Hope everyone else did as well as I seem to have done....
 
Quite a lot of rain, two of the main routes into Cheltenham closed due to flooding, the A46 Shurdington Road and Leckhampton Hill, but hardly any wind. Sounds as if the main event, such as it was, was a bit further South.
 
Its been very gusty down here in Central London but so far nothing major in our area (ok admit I havent been out!) but watching the news to see Victoria shut down makes me feel a bit smug having booked this week off (didnt realise it was half term!)
 
Had a phone call from one of the other nurses telling me not to attempt the Heath as she'd been out for an hour already and not add it to her horses yet,but I hadn't planned to go that way today anyway so that was fine. random trees and branches down but actually, Poole going inland seems to have done ok. Very impressed with the bonfire at ferndown church which doesn't have so much as a twig out of place - cudos to the builder of that!!
 
Sky News funny: headline stood in a pub garden watching if the "Hurricane" would blow a plastic canopy off!

Not really Katrina?
 
Lets see how quickly they get the leccy back on for the South of England then. 5 days it was off for with -10 temperatures at my gaff after the storm in Jan 2012.
 
Never went off. Vital to keep the economic engine of the country going rather than the subsidy junkies
 
Isolated flooding and tree damage but thankfully minor compared to 87. Stood at Westcliff to watch the tail end charging up the Thames, amazing combinations of clouds and later sunshine. Really a pleasant morning from a selfish PoV.
 
Must have been some sight. I'm on 37th floor canary wharf with a client and although calmed down now, the sky's are still spectacular

I fcking Can't stand heights though
 
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