[Closed] Jeebeeesssuus it's windy!!

Currently hitting 50+mph here in South Moulton!

Just got woken up by a chunk of my roof clattering its way to freedom

milton keynes windy as you like, just about to go ride 7 miles to work, expecting a tailwind and a record time,

Head and side winds on my ride to the station. At a couple of points the wind nearly won too. Certainly a lively return to work!

Howling in Swansea and lashings of the wet stuff as well, who is working out side today?? Oh joy deep deep joy.

My ride home at 1.30 this morning was "challenging". V tempted to take up the offer of a lift from a workmates but glad I didn't now. Might drive in later though......

Wind and Rain of Biblical proportions in Manchester. I am sat in the office wearing a suit that is completely saturated from my knees downwards. Do I take my shoes off to let my socks dry?

the rain and wind has been waking me up all night, oh, and the car alarms going off 😐

mental here in the southside of glasgow. loudest winds I've ever heard. Been up since about 4 feeling like my windows could cave in at any point. a look up the street and there's a fair bit of carnage I can see. defo worse than last time.

Just about to say the same as seosamh77. In work today and the drive from Kilmarnock was very scarey at some points. There's 'stuff' being blown all over the road, a road cone sitting in the outside lane of the m74, various roadworks signs littering the road. Walked from the car to the front door of the office and got blown off course.

We had a power cut before I left for work, paper recycling wheelie bin and glass/cans box out so paper and bottles blowing all over the place. Phoned my wife when I got to work and she told me there's a pair of shoes in the front garden which must have blown off someones front step.

Driving conditions this morning are far worse than hurricane bawbag.

I think the term you are looking for is......working from home.
7 miles in this after a week of man flue is not the way I want to start the year.

Ride into work cancelled - flooded roads and fallen branches call for the 4x4 to be fired up, glad it's got a snorkel.

I bailed on the ride into work, I did 3 windy days last week and the weather predictions put me off for today.

Doesn't actually look all that bad out there though so I probably should have ridden.

Cambridge area, the weather is generally more civilised round here!

Shoes are off!

Mrs S managed to let go of the back door in a gust and that's torn a hinge. Just been out in the howling to make repairs...

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If I'd tried riding to work in that I wouldn't have made it.

Colleague just told me that the traffic lights along from the office have blown over!

Seems to be calming down a bit now though.

Hmmm. I was about to take my 4yr old nephew out for a walk. Might have to tether him to something sturdy*

*After Xmas excess, that will probably be me.

Lost a tree at the front of the house. 🙁

Bloody new years resolutions!!! Mine was to MTFU, stop whining about it being cold/dark/wet/windy and commute more on the bike

Well, that went well then! I've just commuted the 15 miles in, and on the exposed tops it was bloody terrifying!!! Swirling, gusting side-winds and driving, horizontal, torrential rain. Its going to be a soggy lycra-tastic ride home.

Is climbing back into sodden lycra officially the worst feeling in the world? 🙁

Just spent the last hour tracking down errant parts of the shed roof, and making sure the rest doesn't follow suite. So what's this hurricane being called?

My pants are still wet.

Lovely and sunny here in Madrid, glad I was in London last week and not this one 🙂

I'm still in bed after finding out yesterday I've got ANOTHER week off. I'm beginning to think I'm no longer employed. I've been off since November 6th o.O Still getting paid, mind.

There comes a point when you have to say 'it's not really that sensible to ride in that', I apply that rule to ice and 70mph winds. With the guts we've got in Glasgow you could easily get swept into the path of a car.

scruff - Member
My pants are still wet.

Rain or fear?

Been very blowy just outside Glasgow - power went off for an hour or so as well, but it's just come back on - hoping it didn't involve engineers having to fanny about up pylons in this wind!

Another one here who had to bail the ride in this morning. The ride was short but have to take a lot of kit in today to go swimming after work so wasnt worth the risk of bieng blown into traffic.

On the plus side there was a chicken blown into the garden this morning! Not a tesco one, this was alive and feathered, albiet a little ruffled! trouble is i know of no-one else locally who keeps chickens, so altough it wasnt one of mine (its a light sussex)i will add it to the flock tonight!

😀

binners - Member
Bloody new years resolutions!!! Mine was to MTFU, stop whining

You could have just stopped at "whining"... 🙂

rode in but it's only two miles going the shortest route and fortunately most of it is through parks and along cycleways. Spent most of the time leaning over at what felt like a 45' angle and trying to stay in a straight line. Not too sure if I'll be riding home for lunch!

Kev

Salvaged our trampoline from the hedge to see it get lifted into it again. Wedged a railway sleeper under it. Saw the lamp off a streetlight fly by and smash into the roundabout at the bottom of the street. House across the street has a hole in the roof. Worse than bawbag I reckon

A leaden sky of apocalyptic grey hangs heavy over That London. Wind and rail howling around in it.

Peak windspeed in Edinburgh just reported at 102mph

I had to drive in this morning, was bringing in a load of work kit which I couldn't carry on the bike.

Speeds on the motorway were down to 30mph with the spray then heading into Manchester it dropped further with the torrential biblical deluge. Wipers on full speed, 20 mph, rivers of water pouring down the windscreen and roadside fencing, signs and traffic lights shaking madly in the wind.

just gone eerie quite round her. Anemometer showing steady 10mph.

Worse than bawbag? 😯

Has this one got a name yet?

Anyway... you'll all be relieved to hear that I've blagged a lift home. The bike can stay here for the night. Discretion is definitely the better part of valour on this one I think! There's no way on earth I'm doing another 15 mile ride into the teeth of that today!

Eye of the storm, Stoner.

I would say worse than bawbag, driving conditions were certainly far worse this morning and there's far more debris on the road, traffic lights for example.

Couple of ridge tiles dislodged and now perched precariously over the conservatory roof.. That'll be the wee man barred from his playroom then!
Just outside Glasgow in Stepps here, honestly thought the windows were coming in this morning.. Bonkers.

binners - Member

Is climbing back into sodden lycra officially the worst feeling in the world?

No it is divine retribution for fashion crime.

Donning a wet wetsuit beats it and is not considered punishment by the good Lord.

No it is divine retribution for fashion crime.

But....but.... I had even soggier baggies over the top of them? Surely I should be exempt. S'not fair! 😥

In east kilbride and a lot worse than a few weeks ago. carnage in estate with tiles onto cars, fences airborne etc. I got up at 5 and was genuinely concerned for the roof...calmed right down now and the whitelee turbines switched back on about an hr ago !

More damage visible so far here (Dunfermline) than was caused by Bawbag - gutters, tiles, patio heaters, birdhouses etc scattered over neigbouring gardens. What will this one be called - ballache maybe?

Baggies over Lycra = polishing a turd!

We've already got a leaky roof. This is not going to end well...

Blue skies and very little wind at the moment.

We've already got a leaky roof. This is not going to end well...

+1 :/

Carnage here in Herts. One of the neighbours' recycling bins blew into the road!

Actually it is hammering it down sideways, but not exactly gale force 10.

O/T Bregante - the email in your profile is bouncing (re the bike for sale).

I rode in - fellow soggy-panter.
The wind gets channelled through the streets between the high buildings in the City and packs quite a punch. I set off from some lights this morning into a sudden headwind and literally didn't move the wind was that strong.
hoping for a tailwind home...

Boss just gave me grief for working from home...seriously, wft???
With all the extra last minute shiat we deal with, seems being flexible is a one way street.
Might have to reassess doing on call at the weekends.

Yeah, the weather is becoming increasingly unstable.

Now that we can't predict it I wonder what comes next, on the bright side I've got 15 mins before I go back to working.

So I'm off to watch people getting blown down the street, who's with me 😯

hoping for a tailwind home...

Brakes, it'll be a London Headwind*, and you know it!

*So called because it miraculously changes direction during the course of the working day to ensure a headwind on both legs of the commute! 🙂

Abandoned ride and went for a run in the woods this morning. Wet but fun until I climbed hill summit and left trees to be hit by the full force of the gale. Even my dogs hated that!! Conscious of lots of creaking branches in the woods as I ran past...but lucky to miss all the debris on the ground.

it'll be a London Headwind

you're probably right, the sun is shining now, which will no doubt bring some sort of pressure change and make the wind blow the other way

So we now half blue and half black sky and it's hailing like ****!

I'm sitting in the middle of the Norwegian North sea right now & things are getting, er....interesting 😯

Just nipped out to get some petrol there. On my less than two mile journey I saw the following

* Tree blown down and through wall just at our car park entrance
* Traffic light posts with the traffic light bits missing (they were in the middle of the road earlier on)
* Another tree blown down and through a wall and across the main road
* A black bin (those stone ones that sit on the pavement) sitting on the inside lane of the road.
* High mast arial on roof of taxi company bent in two.

Got to petrol station and was shut because one of the pumps had blower over - the highlight wtf of the journey. Next petrol station 2 mins along the road was fine though.

Never mind, it'll be snowing shortly in Glasgow.

[img] [/img] hi rise roof looking like it's came off and landed on some poor buggers house! In parkhouse i think, north glasgow

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in the gorbals.

[img] [/img] some other hi rise some where in glasgow, stuff living in one of those this morning!

took these from another forum.

Ah that's why all the fire engines and police were at the flats across from the office (gorbals)

Blimey! 😯

not quite an OMG trampoline moment, but still! 😀

loads of pictuires on the above link, ones out in yoker seem to be the worst.