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Get the chainsaw ready!
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Tis a tad wafty in Blackpool - but then it usually is.
Just been out along the coast some seriously high wind gusts, and high tide after midnight,
Nice tailwind on the way home earlier this evening
Merry christmas to Lady Gresley .
Going off in Dorset
Fairly breezy here in Wiltshire, but we're 70 miles inland.
Walked back from cinema earlier, chucking it down, only wearing a soft shell. Called in at the supermarket near home, jacket soaked through, water dripping off my nose, girl behind the till genuinely asked me if it was raining
I don't think we've got enough wood in the house to last the night and the store is at the top of the garden - eek!
Aye, I saw that the other day, dave. pretty good innit!
A bit breezy in West Yorkshire now, at least it is on the hill I live on!
I'm in North West Wales so we're getting battered here.
I've just took the net off the trampoline, it'll be mk3 if we leave it up, ****in thing. More southerly here but its seriously gusty already 😯
Wet and windy in Devon..
Drowned rat, woods too wild, aborted night ride
Moist n drafty on Mendip
Hissing it down and blowy in Brizzle.
Just in time for the rebuilt chainsaw 🙂
I think our roof might be off tonight!
Had to stop on the lane earlier to move some large branches and feeling slightly nervous as we live on the edge of a pine forest that starts about 5m from the living room window!
Grim in the south coast
I bloody love weather.
Hope it isn't too breezy tomorrow morning here in East Yorkshire. I want to explore how dire the riding is.
Proper grim in Devon...blatantly procrastinating on the decision to get the Turbo out in the kitchen or go for a run round the quay.
Neither are appealing but slightly more appealing than working :-/
Might just put a couple more logs on the fire just in case.
The winds have just died down. I wonder for how long?
Waves crashing over the sea front and branches blowing down on my wobbly commute home just now in Swansea!
Bloody loved it though! Ave that nature!
Wet and windy in Devon..
Just a bit, drive home from Totnes was a bit mental in places.
PB on my way home.
PB on my way home.
Strava?
Hmmm...regretting not fixing the fence from last months storm...bet it will be on the floor tomorrow morning 🙁
Fingers crossed in Fife.
Rain is properly lashing against my 13th floor window here in London. It's making me feel cold, I've turned up the heating in the room 🙂
Record river levels on dartmoor, seems to have eased off for now.
Still pretty biblical here in North Hants.
Hail stops play in the League Cup at Stoke...
Just landed into Leeds Bradford......weeeee!!!!!
Bet that was bouncy...
Slight drizzle in deepest darkest Essex.
Just been out for a run in Berkshire and its a scene of devastation, big puddles and several twigs underfoot.
Some of our more boring trees have blown over in the recent gales, as long as we continue having winds that only affect boring trees I'm happy.
Just recorded 60+mph winds here for the last 3hrs - dropped now but it won't be for long once the tide changes....
Gotta love being 1/2mile from the Solent....
wish I'd turned Strava on on the way home. for the first time in 2 years of this particular commute I had a tailwind. a tailwind uphill - I was FLYING. WWEEEEEEE!!!!
Came back late on the train after Christmas meal, rang to get the wife to pick me up from next station along as tree down near my station; she collected me OK but then told me not to let this happen again, I should check the weather to see if it's likely a tree might get blown down apparently.
It's a wheelie bin carousel round here, the 3rd time we've had windy bits on bin day...just tidied up after the last one!
Nice & calm in the Ford of Staff'shire, now.
Are we over the worstest then...?
Jeez, it were windy last night!
Lost a ridge tile, which is a shitter. What's the STW guess on cost? Bearing in mind I'm up North?
Pissing down in Madrid. Sunny Spain my arse.
Normal winter windy night south of Glasgow
It was a bit rough on the ferry to Dublin last night but the A55 to Holyhead was worse.
I am "virtually" windsurfing from my desk in the office..
It's not quite the same, a little dryer and with coffee breaks but I'd rather be getting salty.. 😉
Lost a ridge tile, which is a shitter. What's the STW guess on cost? Bearing in mind I'm up North?
Down South £200 +VAT
Up North £6.20 worth of Greggs' finest lard bake.
Lat night's commute home was about the hardest ever. It was okay through town but as soon as I got up on the moor it was mental. 10 miles heading south west into a ferocious wind and torrential rain - I could taste the sea air in the wind.
Still loved it though 🙂
So ... the largest tree in the garden came down during the night. 😯
The good news is that it hasn't damaged my neighbour's fence as it's just resting ... at the moment.
Standard wednesday evening night ride last night turned into one of those 'do you remember that ride' kind of rides.
Gusting to at least 50mph with driving rain. Only once have my face and eyes hurt more due to rain! An 'experience' rather than a ride for most of it!
Waterproofs couldn't cope and post-ride pint was abandoned for fear of getting a ban from the pub on the basis of leaving a small pond everywhere we stood for more than 30 seconds.
Now desperately trying to get kit and shoes in particualr dry for tomorrow morning in the the Peaks - the old 'stuffing with newspaper and putting on a radiator' trick seemed to have part-worked this morning. Removed the paper (now papier mache) and put back on the radiator for some air-drying.
good job my garden fence was blown down last week, it was right windy last night
[i]Only once have my face and eyes hurt more due to rain! An 'experience' rather than a ride for most of it![/i]
Agree, a cap worn under your helmet is great in those conditions as it really deflects the rain. Unfortunately mine was in my back pocket and I wasn't stopping to put it on. It was dry when I left work and too warm to stick it on 'just in case'.
Down South £200 +VAT
Up North £6.20 worth of Greggs' finest lard bake.
Sounds about right! Got a reasonable quote, quite a few other tiles are damaged too. Getting sorted tomorrow, hopefully before the next bout of wind.
spooky_b329 - Member
Hmmm...regretting not fixing the fence from last [s]months[/s] week's storm...bet it will be on the floor tomorrow morning
Bodged mine last Sunday, with my brother's help, panels falling apart and the posts rotting at the base. Long chunks of timber, and some angled braces mean it'll stay upright until the Spring.
Hopefully.
Actually, it survived last night's blowy conditions, and tonight's going to be a bit breezy, and the rest of the weekend, it seems.
Been up nearly twenty years, about time there was a good reason to replace it...
Nice day in London today, until I got caught in a windy cold very wet and thundery squall near Paddington!