Ready for the winds?
- Thread starter Dav the wheel nut
- Start date
By the seaside...
The Helter-Skelter on Clacton Pier has blown down
The storm blew through parts of England doing millions of pounds of improvements.
Many zed owners were thankful that some areas were levelled, welcoming the increase in the availability of reasonable sized parking spaces.
Many zed owners were thankful that some areas were levelled, welcoming the increase in the availability of reasonable sized parking spaces.
Seems there have been a lot of incidents over a wide swathe of the country, some very serious, but it's not the Armageddon scenario you'd have expected from the coverage leading up to the event :
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...d-with-high-winds-and-heavy-rain-8901530.html
Seems to me the storm was disappointingly disorganised and should try harder next time...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...d-with-high-winds-and-heavy-rain-8901530.html
Seems to me the storm was disappointingly disorganised and should try harder next time...
HughiusMaximus
Member
RubyBlueZ4MC said:
Interesting landing last night, but got home OK.
How bout your parents? Did they get in?
Talksthetorque said:I do hope this is a euphemism.....RubyBlueZ4MC said:My garden fences are down
naughty!
Bing said:
You should check out the free app Flightradar - its scary how many planes in our airspace at any one time. Especially over Heathrow!
Well as a northener living daan saauth - last night was windy where we were (near Hungerford/Newbury) Couldn't sleep a bit with the tiles going, and the fact we live in a forest meant I was watching the trees most of the night waiting for them to crush the zed! Amazingly windy. Found a few of our trees have gone :-(
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
RubyBlueZ4MC said:
that mail thing tho is all hype, if i read that diagram correct they were 100ft vertically apart but ~2.03km apart horizontally (1.1 nautical miles)? so very roughly speaking they were 2km apart... hardly close at all.
its just same as all the headlines and idiots on the radio saying "the UK" or Britain.... there is much more of the UK than the SE! ... this is rapidly becoming something that ought to be in the boil your piss thread!
I've been told that this was the streetPerryGunn said:We're running a BCP/DR test this week and I've just had a call from one of the guys at our recovery centre near Old Street tube and he said that about 40 yards of coping stones (he said they're 2-3ft long and 2-3" thick) have been stripped off the block of luxury flats opposite and ended up on the cars parked in the street below...
...I doubt if it'll polish out
We did get a bit of a battering on the South Devon coast, on one of the local authority sites that I’m responsible for I had several trees down in the woodland, gutters blown off one building, lots of tree branches down, some fence damage, some flooding on parts of the site and all paths, drives and car parks several inches deep in leaves and twigs. To be honest I expected a lot worse, it’s been a long day organising to get it all sorted.
I agree that the media did hype it up a bit, but at least it made most people prepare for it a little better than they would have done.
It always amazes me that some people totally ignore all the warnings, locally warnings were clearly given out with regards to large strong waves crashing in over the promenades, beaches and harbour walls. You always get the idiots who ignore it all because they think they know better, then these same people expect emergency services to put themselves at risk to help them when they get into various situations through ignoring warnings
I agree that the media did hype it up a bit, but at least it made most people prepare for it a little better than they would have done.
It always amazes me that some people totally ignore all the warnings, locally warnings were clearly given out with regards to large strong waves crashing in over the promenades, beaches and harbour walls. You always get the idiots who ignore it all because they think they know better, then these same people expect emergency services to put themselves at risk to help them when they get into various situations through ignoring warnings
What really gets my goat is that every time there is a high wind in the UK or a bit of a storm the BBC drag out the old Michael Fish forecast.
Dav the wheel nut said:What really gets my goat is that every time there is a high wind in the UK or a bit of a storm the BBC drag out the old Michael Fish forecast.
He has clearly got a massive chip on his shoulder because whenever they interview him he goes on about how forecasting is so much more accurate these days due to technological advances.
HughiusMaximus said:
Glad you made it. They did too
My Toolcase and I made it to Molde, via Copenhagen and Oslo. Unfortunately my clothes didn't.
Sorry - to clarify - the suitcase with my clothes in didn't, I'm not sat in the hotel bar in my keks.
I doubt that this is due to the winds, although my toolcase was about 8 kg heavier than my case.
If we were the Daily Mail, we would now be in the newsroom saying
"Right there's 280 members online, and we have a total of 12107 members, therefore up to 97.7% of the population must be without power"
Run it and put a picture of Nigella Lawson holding a broken celery stick with a bit of mud on the bottom next to it.
Sorry - to clarify - the suitcase with my clothes in didn't, I'm not sat in the hotel bar in my keks.
I doubt that this is due to the winds, although my toolcase was about 8 kg heavier than my case.
If we were the Daily Mail, we would now be in the newsroom saying
"Right there's 280 members online, and we have a total of 12107 members, therefore up to 97.7% of the population must be without power"
Run it and put a picture of Nigella Lawson holding a broken celery stick with a bit of mud on the bottom next to it.