No wind in Bradford but horrendous black ice everywhere. Cars crashing all over.

For the 2nd time this week a 15 minute journey took 2hrs

I was up at a high school event in Alloa last night, got a “LEAVE NOW OR YOU WILL DIE” message from the boss, drove back on the deserted motorway with all the big signs saying DO NOT TRAVEL BY ROAD AFTER 9PM.

It rained a bit.

The Hague is at a standstill:

https://www.htm.nl/

All public transport stopped until the storm is over.

Day 1: Humanity is on the brink:

I was woken up in the middle of the night by the sounds of someone’s recycling bin going flying. I guessed it was the recycling bin by the sound of smashing glass bottles.

All the bins were over when I looked this morning, other than mine, which were still upright.

I’ve now armed myself and taken to the road to try and find the last dregs of humanity.

I’m in West Norfolk and we’ve had 9 trees down just in my village, route to work in Norwich was interesting with 30 metre long PIG SHACK* taking up the first lane of the A47, but all i can think is…woodstore will be restocked at weekend!

*Saw that in EDP on-line.

5am seemed to be the peak in West Norfolk.

nealglover – Member
It’s as windy here in Norfolk as Windy.com said it would be
Yeah, but Notwindy.com said it wouldn’t be.

So how are we supposed to know.

Errr… get the app? Learn how to read a meteorological chart? And don’t use notwindy.com, obvs 😀

Just had power restored and the uk power networks chaps said there were 72,000 homes without power in the local area, which must be pretty much all of them!

”’Tis all calm now 🙂

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAQpyoCls7Y[/video]

Pretty bad in Amsterdam too.

A self-proclaimed amateur meteorologist on Mumsnet predicted it on Sunday evening, whilst the Beeb didn’t see it coming at all.

I looked at the BBC weather app on Sunday or Monday and saw the forecasts for 45mph+ winds last night/this morning, so they did see it coming, and because of them I did too.

Yeah the beeb were banging on about it most of Sunday.

Eeek.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKBI_bVFSfs&feature=youtu.be[/video]

😯

I used to live in Wellington and that sort of landing wasn’t particularly abnormal which is a bit worrying !