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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: tizaala on February 10, 2014, 10:12:44 pm
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Forecasters have warned the ENTIRE COUNTRY to be on alert for 80mph gales and torrential downpours.
A deep low pressure system is currently swirling over the Atlantic and heading straight for our shores.
Forecasters warned Britons to expect a “Valentine’s Day massacre” as the frenzied storm rips into the UK on Friday night.
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well if we can't blame the EA or the government, surly we can put this at the door of the yanks..its coming from them
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Must be them.
Er ... hope it's gone by Saturday. We're going away. Only to Liverpool (about 2 hours away) but I don;t fancy driving in those conditions.
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My brother's in California - I told him it was his fault but he reckons he's blameless as they have a drought!!!!!
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We have snow this morning :(
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which country Doug? yours or mine? ;D If they mean the UK I'll start panicking, just booked a Valentines afternoon tea for the hubster and I...by the river Avon which is most likely spread across evesham by now...
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Becoming the norm ::)
We had ice and snow yesterday morning. The lane was treacherous and the minibus couldn't get here to take the children to school. Gone by mid-morning.
Snowing heavily again this morning .... white over. Very pretty but guess it will soon just add to the mush.
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Welcome to climate change folks!
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We had heavy snow and a good covering this morning, its changed to drizzly rain now so going to be even more water and mud when it melts, river is also coming up :-\
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This is the scene about half a mile away from our house. we are up a hill (fortunately for us). This caravan park has flooded three times this year already. The fields are like lakes and where theres not a lake, its just thick mud, yucky!
however, we could be worse.
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BBC is showing quite a nice day where I am on Friday...
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Where are you KC? We'll all be moving that way.
Snow is staying down today, pretty chilly, but the sun is out now.
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We had a bright couple of days, intermittent wind and the odd sleety shower, but I was just out feeding in a fleece and suddenly it went from blue chilly winters day to blizzard :o First real low ground snow of the year here, we had a sprinkling over hills last night but nothing that lasted the first shower.. Glad I'd gone out to feed before it started!
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Don't bother going to the river Lisa, the river will come to you.. :excited:
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Don't bother going to the river Lisa, the river will come to you.. :excited:
its inching closer by the day ;D got to get Murph to the vet in evesham for his jabs friday, might use the dinghy...
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Well we started with snow then after rain we had a nice day, at 5.15 pm tonight it was dry and quite mild. at 6.20 I went out and we have blizzards, already about 3" of snow with about a foot where it has drifted still snowing and the wind has got up :o
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it snowed for an hour or so here today, started hard with strong winds which was exciting for 10 minutes but it soon tailed off...
almost all melted though, so any hope of sledging is fading fast!!!
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4" of snow here now and some minor drifts. Roads not nice, just had a careful journey home from work - had an evening 'do'.
Powercut apparently when I got back too, but fortunately just the main lighting fuse being blown by the garage light. Who knows what's the matter (mice eating the wiring I suspect) but as long as I don't switch it on, the rest of the house seems to be staying lit. :fc:
Tomorrow forecasting more snow and high winds :-\
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OH went outside to put the recycling out and it was hammering down. His coat was soaked through. An hour later it was snowing hard, an hour after that the sun was out and the snow all melted. This evening it is dry but windy and bitingly cold. When they talked about climate change, I didn't realise they meant all in one day.
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Had a couple of 'normal' days here , but very windy here all morning and since about 11 am , have been getting very strong winds again .
Could only just about keep my footing at one time , and that was between gusts .
The noise was deafening . If you heard it on a film you would say it was over the top .
The rain has stopped atm . Wind eased a tad .
Heading off to north wales now i think , hang on to your hats up there , it is rough !
Take care all .
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Just watched a forecast and it's not supposed to hit Pembrokeshire coast until 1pm and then track north.
Been pouring in Powys all morning but now the wind has picked up and it's getting pretty rough. OH just been to make sure everything is well pegged down. West Wales and then North is supposed to be worst and warning updated to Red. We look on the edge of the red band.
Keep safe.
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Coming in in waves again . Each wave is getting steadily stronger .
Had a lull for half an hour , but getting hit hard again now . Radio 4 has gone walkabout ? , leccy is flickering !
Just saw a cow get blown off it's feet , it's ok and back up now . Radio 4 is back again .
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we have had the worst in Essex.... winds up to 24 mph!!!!
We will have 26mph winds on Friday!
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We've just hit 70mph not sure how much longer we'll have power for, so cooking tea early and rolling beeswax candles ;D
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One of the farm sheds has begun to lose its roof .
Talking to someone in the village who said their neighbours barn went today and a few more are about to go and garden sheds have gone all over .
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So will I be better in a small birch wooded caravan park in Aviemore or behind a pub on the shores of Loch Lomond, assuming I can make it there?
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I'm trying not to think about it. I've already had to abandon my car two villages away. I was given a lift through the floods by a very kind passing tractor driver. Goodness knows when I'm going to be able to get out to civilisation again.
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108mph winds , 60,000 homes without leccy , wind and snow tonight for north west England and Scotland , more flooding to come over next couple of days , and then another HUGE storm for friday and the weekend .
Good 'ere init !
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The storm was scary here in South Somerset earlier. We are ok (although the house is drippy in places) but OH is flying down from Aberdeen and now the storm has moved up there. I will worry until he gets home. I hope they delay the flight until it calms down.
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darkbrowneggs - I'd go for the pub!! providing its open that is!
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My vote would also be for the pub providing you can get there safely!
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just took the dog for a fly…you couldn't call it a walk :o
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I daren't go outside because I know I wouldn't be able to stand up in it. My OH had to go and bring the goat in to be milked this evening. I don't know what the wind speeds are here but they're very strong. I don't want to think about the huge sycamore in the garden behind ours.
My son rang earlier from Todmorden (west Yorkshire way) and I could hardly hear what he was saying because of the noise of the wind there.
Horrendous. stay safe everyone.
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darkbrowneggs - I'd go for the pub!! providing its open that is!
Just had Victorian Farmer down who is local to here. He says just do a straight run for the ferry tomorrow, though I have to stop at a caravan site for at least one night as she has been very kindly taking forwarded things for me.
If it looks windy and stormy I may stay there longer and just take the ferry when the ferry folk say its a good sailing. Thc caravan site is less than an hour from the ferry, though from memory she said it was very windy there.
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It's been an interesting day managed to generate 5 Kw Hr. of electricity on the Solar PV system . I managed to batten down the hatches around the garden just in time and also managed to sort the recycling stuff into the correct bins before it slashed it down , driven by very strong winds with ice cold stair rods of rain , sleet , hail and a bit of snow
We've had a dozen or more couple of second power cuts throughout the day when wires have touched each other it's only an hour or so ago the Alison reset the cooker digital timer/clock set up .
Things have calmed a lot , earlier today at about 16.00 our 1250 kg 5 berth caravan managed to get the wind ward side steady stands a good two inches up off the drive way .
I decided to drive 1/4 mile down the hill to collect Munchkin when they got off the school bus at 16.20 hrs. I'm glad I did , as several junior school kids on their way home from the local junior school were having a really hard time staying up right so were their mums .
OhO .. A few second of loss of power/ lights , a wee bit dim for a while.... Glad we've had the forethought to buy a stand by genny and almost got all the stand by wiring circuit & power sockets set up in the bungalow . The wind picked up for a good blow for a few seconds there.
When I returned home with Munchkin I decided to park the car broadside to the caravan to try and deflect the wind . Munchkin was blown 10 mtrs from the car into the five barred gate that leads into the yard . Though I suspect it was as much her as it was the wind , for she did a perfect karate type move to vault over the gate & land on her feet with her rucksack still on her back....... laughing like a drain .
Just before teatime Munchkin said she saw the caravan clear the ground with the front left hand steady, just enough to see under the foot and then it was back down again.
It seems my parking the 2,000 kg KIA SEDONA along side the caravan was a wise thing as the wind was really howling at the time much stronger than when I saw the lifting effect 1/2 hr. earlier .