My daughter is called Pia. I had no idea this was going on. However 5 minutes ago she nearly destroyed the front door tying to get in the house.
Not massively damaging here but very sustained, definitely more stuff knocked around here than I've seen since Arwen.
Also it figured out how to make my letterbox knock which is super annoying when you're waiting for christmas gifts to arrive!
Plenty of trees down at Hamsterley Forest. Several trails are closed.
The house/tree interface in my OP has been on national news.
Two more trees there have come down across the road, but missed houses. MrsMC was going to walk that way to the pub 50 yards along for a meal with friends tonight - now a 5 mile diversion to get round. One of the friends is driving them in a Landrover.
We drove from Peaks to Leeds. Lots of trees down. Coffee shop we stopped at lost power as we were mid ordering so that got abandoned. Big Depo climbing wall in Leeds shut due to wind damage (so stopped at wall in Sheffield). Got home to find we are only one of about 4 hours on our street with power and ongoing sound of house alarms. It’s certainly been a bit feisty but thought drive home was potentially going to be much worse.
It worked out well for us overall. Day trip to Glasgow, the train out was 61 minutes late, due to slow running under the wires, we’ll get a full refund of the ticket price, then, our return train was cancelled (15:08), next one was the 17:07, so we again will get a full refund, and the 2 hours extra gave us time to walk around the nicer bits of Glasgow and time for 2 drinks around Merchant City. I would have thought differently if we were on a deadline to get somewhere, and get home earlier, but we were in no rush today.
Sideways action from Manchester
Is that Finnair pilot ex-WRC?
Ah power cut fun here tonight. On-off-on-off. Latest northern power text said we hope to have you reconnected by 1900…tomorrow!!!
Apparently a few trees down around here, we were due to do our Christmas drinks trip to Newcastle on the train today. But we decided to drive instead in case of issues, just as well as hardly any trains running and those that are they are running hours late.
Bizarrely Newcastle wasn’t very breezy.
Castleton has been In the dark since around six this evening but it looks like the power is back on at the moment.
Felt sorry for the families who had travelled to see the Christmas lights as the town was dead
Is that Finnair pilot ex-WRC?
It was their second attempt, first one also very WRC. 6:30 for both attempts https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=fLZKwV04gItUSdoS&v=NuN0w_l7k64
1:04:00 and 1:15:00 on the original vid on page 1
Bump. Anyone hit by Storm Gerrit yet?
Oi! Start your own thread!
Yep, rubbish drive to work (Nottingham), reports of roads flooding already around home.
Yes - I'm getting really fed up of these storms!!
Side-topic: Anyone use the Windy app? It seems to predict mild wind here (Nothumberland coast) tomorrow (Thursday) whereas all the other forecasts are for more gales 🙁
Awful here in Seahouses, Northumberland. Heavy rain and 50kt gusts.
Windy and Met Office giving similar forecasts for tomorrow, both about 15 to 20kts, with 35 kt gusts.
Another wet and blustery day here in sunny Malvern. Getting quite tiresome tbh
Not impressed - fence has just blown down - grr.
In fairness I do live in top of a hill and the fence has been on its way out for a few months - I was just being lazy and waiting for nicer weather to put new posts in.
Only real problem is the farmer has just filled the field with sheep so I'm gonna have to bodge something in the rain and wind. Probably a lesson to be learned there somewhere... 😁
On the windy app the default setting is for average wind speeds, if you toggle the little air sock on the right hand side you'll see wind gusts - often gives you a better understanding of the conditions.
First casualty of Gerrit were my Scott Heater boots, which got left outside last nigjt after getting cleaned.
They've had a thorough second rinse....
Went out on the bike; outbound leg was a bit grey and murky. 2 miles from home wind got up and driving rain. Being blown sideways across the cobbles wasn’t much fun. Glad I had my lights on…
