BS: Storms in UK

Subject: BS: Storms in UK
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 12:49 PM

I hope our UK and Irish friends stay safe. Good luck to you all especially during the coming 72 hours.

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 01:02 PM

Thank you, Guest. Here in Norfolk UK, we're preparing for a very high tide combined with a gale-driven storm surge. The wind is already howling outside. I don't live too near the coast, but they're evacuating people in advance from Wells and Hunstanton into local village halls for safety, I believe. Lots of branches and even trees down on our roads. My lights have flickered on and off, so may have a power cut later. Stay safe everyone!

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 01:07 PM

Power cuts in some Alberta areas, and it is minus 20 or more.

Good luck in England; enough damage last year.

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: maeve
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 01:23 PM

Jacqui is heading that way- safe travel!

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 01:37 PM

No big winds in the West of Ireland. A bit breezy this morning but nothing unusual. It had all blown over by mid afternoon. Ofcourse we had only a tailend of the storm.

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 02:24 PM

How's Megan L? Giok? If anyone hears pass along the news. Seems it's the east coasts the storm/tide people are worried about. The various estuaries. Glad you're safe there, Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: Will Fly
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 02:33 PM

A bit windy in Sussex this morning - all quiet now - and the forecast is nothing out of the ordinary. But that's just the south coast...

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: Megan L
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 02:58 PM

Well that was a bit brisk was told it gusted over 90 mph at the airport boats and planes cancelled today. tomorrow they hope to run a daylight boat if they can to bring in supplies. Now it is snowing and a wee bit wind , the gusts have dropped to around 51 mph.

Hope Catters in other areas and countries with Weather are stayin safe.

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: GUEST,musket
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 03:22 PM

Here in North Lincolnshire, I lost a whole strip of ridge tiles off a single storey part of the house but oddly the main roof, much higher, is intact.

I had as opposed to have a trellis screen around the kitchen door area to hide the bins and coal bunker. As I said. I did have. . Had a rose bush and some jasmine growing up it too. ...

I was the one hanging on to a pergola to stop it uprooting and going for a brisk walk too. One shed lost all its roof felting and another ripped some. Our cleaner left us to go to her friends and rang to say she was stuck there as a tree now blocked the only road down the turbary they live down.

This normally happens to "other people. " weather fine now. Still and if it stays still o have cancelled some work commitments and will start the tidy up and making safe in the morning. A company our insurance use are supposed to be ringing to turn up to make the roof safe and watertight tomorrow too.

I wonder which deity I upset?

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: kendall
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 03:30 PM

I'll be watching her flight on the computer.

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: skarpi
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 04:26 PM

Since I know alot of people in the UK and you are getting a storm
and floods again , I hope you are all save and away from this .

We are getting one after Friday night , the frost here is now -25
over 400 mtrs high , - 8 here down the shoreline .

so snow storm is coming .

But all the best all Skarpi Iceland .

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 05:02 PM

musket said, "I wonder which deity I upset?"

In your case, I don't know that there's enough bandwidth to handle the list.

Glad you're ok. Damage can be fixed.

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: Les from Hull
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 05:18 PM

Somebody's Thor at you, Musket!

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: Will Fly
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 05:59 PM

The Thunder God went for a ride
Upon his favourite filly.
"I'm Thor!", he cried - the horse replied:
"You forgot your thaddle, thilly!"

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: akenaton
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 06:29 PM

Really wild on the West Coast, all communications have been down until this evening....and my phone has been ringing nonstop ever since.
Lots of damage to roofs, chimneys etc.
"It's an ill win, thit blaws naebiddy ony guid"

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Dec 13 - 02:08 AM

"I wonder which deity I upset?"

Guest 5:02 beat me to it, Ian. I was going to say that from the sound of it, you upset them all. :)

(Never fear- if there are deities, I should think they would be beyond being upset. Kind of like a wise parent with a three-month old babe.)

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: GUEST,musket again
Date: 06 Dec 13 - 02:36 AM

Yeah, well their naughty step leaves a bit to be desired!

Everywhere around seems ok other than fence panels, so just me then. Annoyingly, had remedial work on the roofs in the summer, had everything checked and cracked tiles replaced. Two of the missing ones were only a few months old.

Still waiting for the 24 hour emergency repair people to ring back. Grr.

I recall a Spike Milligan book where a priest rolls his sleeves up to give a bloke a good hiding saying "My God is an angry God. " He appears to have brought his mates with him.   Still. Soon be next Easter when folk clubs have to put up with my tedious impersonation of Jesus on a rubber cross.   If himself can concentrate on the greenhouse next time, I keep meaning to have one further up the garden and make a log store just there anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 06 Dec 13 - 05:05 AM

A huge fir tree lay right across Haddenham [Cambs] High Street as I drove along it yesterday afternoon. I gathered it had blown down just two minutes before; so it could well have got me if I had happened along a teeny bit earlier. Had to turn round and go another route; then revise that one to a slightly longer one as another tree, smaller but enough to block the road alongside the recreation ground, had fallen likewise.

Seems quieter this morning.

Hope all of you out there safe likewise.

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 06 Dec 13 - 06:38 AM

Sorry to have to say this, but this is what happens when you ignore nature, treat the environment as irrelevant and try to cram as many people as possible, and their dwellings, on to every square mile. Obviously, you can't attribute this particular event to climate change blah, blah, blah - but as the atmosphere and the oceans warm up, expect more and more and more events like this!

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 06 Dec 13 - 07:08 AM

The post eater ate my post, bah.

I am in an area of "severe flood warning" but I think people overlook the fact that the Hoo peninsula had its flood defences massively reinforced and raised after the 1953 surge flood.

Apparently 30 houses, some in Faversham, some in Sandwich, have been flooded in East Kent.

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 06 Dec 13 - 07:35 AM

Couple of roads closed by tree falls here in Airedale yesterday but aside from that we don't seem to have suffered too much. Quite scary watching next doors huge willow tree waving about though!

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Dec 13 - 08:03 AM

Stay safe and watch for downed wires. People often think they are not live and find out the hard way that indeed they are.
Scotland seems to have gotten the brunt of this.
Everyone OK?

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 06 Dec 13 - 10:21 AM

Bit windy in Staffordshire yesterday, but calm today.

Musket, The lower roof tiles were probably lifted off by a low pressure area caused by the wind going over the main roof...like the low pressure created on the top of an aircraft wing that allows planes to fly.

Hope everyone stayed safe.

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 06 Dec 13 - 10:50 AM

No probs here in East London, although The Thames is not far away. The Thames barrier has been raised, so let's hope it does the job for which it was designed. Concerned about Wendy & Billybob. They live out on the east coast. I've posted on 'Jane's Rainbow', but too soon for a reply.
       Stay safe, keep dry,
                                     Musically,
                                                   Nigel.

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 06 Dec 13 - 12:28 PM

Judi came home from walking the dog on Cannock Chase with some pics of uprooted and broken trees. Only a couple of miles from here and fairly exposed landscape in some places.

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: Jim McLean
Date: 06 Dec 13 - 01:19 PM

Sitting by the fire here in Highgate, North London. A bit chilly outside but otherwise a beautiful, Autumn afternoon.
Sorry for those suffering.

Subject: RE: BS: Storms in UK
From: Jack Campin
Date: 06 Dec 13 - 08:49 PM

Looks like Whitby has been pretty badly damaged by the storm surge - everything immediately around the harbour went under water. Almost complete power cut, rail services out.