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They are working hard.
Culter were told 18:00 tomorrow night before it came back.
Mate in the village just text saying it's back on now. So it sounds like they are setting low expectations and over delivering.
So it sounds like they are setting low expectations and over delivering.
That’s been my parents experience. Were told 9 pm and it came back on before 6.
My Mum spent the day mitigating the lack of electricity by spending hours gardening. Lol.
We were told 4pm, but that’s been and gone, so I shall look forward to 11pm which was the next estimate.
We’re now enjoying the solar harden lights which I’ve been out and brought in 😎
MrsSteve lived in Sussex at the time of the 87 storm – her village was cut off for two weeks.
East Sussex. Roads were blocked for a few days and I seem to remember at least a week off school. Maybe more.
Good evening or morning wherever it is.
I’ve been on scene in the hills trying to get a welfare area setup for villagers. Fortunately power has started to be restored so wasn’t needed. I’m now sat in the village as a response as the station has no heating or power, so I won’t allow my staff to be based there.
Wind is but s breeze, snow has stopped and never laid. I’ve found a wifi to leach. I’ve ran out of food as I’ve a microwave meal. 😂
Originally I was based out of control tonight but I dispatched to scene instead as ops command.
Be a interesting couple of nights.
New update. Next best guess is midnight tonight. Awesome. Joys of semi-rural living.
Well done Drac. Not exactly sure what your role is but it sounds vital and likely to be largely unrecognised by most. Hope you get a couple of days off now to rest up
Lost power at around 10pm on Friday.
No cooker, or phone, until 6pm Saturday.
Luckily we have a log burner, so we had heat. Had friends round most of they day, that only have electric heating.
Loads of damage to the village, some people have lost large sections of their roof, trees down everywhere.
I have never felt wind as strong onshore, they recorded a 100mph gust not far away.
My parents in a Lancashire village lost power at 10 pm on Friday. Still off. The electricity North West site just says "under review" so no estimate of when it'll be back on. Slightly worried as they're mid-70's and dad had a knee replacement a few weeks ago so not very mobile.
Joys of semi-rural living
Try full rural living - we used to have at least 2 power cuts a winter, regularly a few days, once was a fortnight.
Not much to show down here in the South, but I think the strong wind is what caused a pigeon to miscalculate and end up suiciding on the front of my car making a neat 6” hole in the grill. Or at least it was neat once the carcass and feathers were removed.
Apparently, there no way to replace just the grill, it’s a full new bumper job, gggrrr.
Pigeon pie?
It was pretty bad for us at the top of Harlow Hill in Harrogate (the hill that featured in the World's a couple of years ago) so we always get the brunt of the wind from across the Dales - we lost a small tree and I was outside at 10pm on Friday night trying to secure our rabbit hutch with fencing pins as it nearly took off. Thankfully I had over-wintered the bunnies with additional insulation and rain cover last weekend. Also had a door ripped off our Keter garden store so will have to sort out the contents at some point as it's all soaking wet through.
Still no power here. We’re a whole mile and a half out of nearest town but due to location of the grid, our feed “sensibly” runs from further inland through two miles of unmaintained woodland. Latest estimate is 11am but update says engineer not even on route yet so I doubt we’ll be back on today. The way the feed runs wouldn’t be surprised if there are multiple failure points. Village is only 40 houses, so not a priority. Used to power cuts a couple of times a year but been here 17 years and this is the longest one’s lasted. At least the water is back on.
Power and Internet still out (since some time on Friday night) and no estimated time of it being restored, its snowing again and was 7° in my living room around an hour ago. Luckily my mother still has heat and power so may end up down there again tonight (she lives around 500 mtrs away)
Roof damaged in a local pub in Weymouth. Luckily they are opening soon so the jam and gig will be going ahead.
Cheers @welshfarmer it’s my job but I also have family in the area. I even tried to see if I could use my parents as a base but it was no good. I’m an area manager is the easiest way to describe my role, part of which is boots on the ground commander for incidents. 2 shifts left so we will see how it goes.
There are still swathes of the area with nothing but its a glorious day weather wise.
Neighbour refusing to pick up rubbish in shared yard as his bin is fine, despite my holding old envelopes with his name on them.
Just stick them back through his letterbox.
the open sections of the M5 between the Barnstaple and Weston-Super-Mare junctions were a little bit precarious.
I know that stretch well, in fact all of it from Exeter to Bristol, but that stretch is particularly exposed - I had to bring a Smart fourtwo back from the deep South-west once, on a particularly windy day; overtaking large trucks got a bit exciting, having to check there was nothing coming up behind in the next lane over…
To those without televisons or those who refuse to watch them: there are some helpful apps available on your phone which tell you the weather forecast.
Perfectly true, that, I’ve actually got three, WeatherProHD, Dark Skies, and Apple Weather - but because I’ve been off work for two weeks, I’ve not been concerned about what I need to wear because I basically haven’t moved from the house, so hadn’t been looking at forecasts, and was only vaguely aware of bad weather coming - I haven’t even had the radio on, or watched much in the way of news.
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Trees were knocked down like skittles along Deeside. Photo was taken near Drumoak.
Looks reminiscent of here...
Some sad news overnight, Twin Pines Mall has been renamed to Lone Pine Mall.
Completely knocked out local transport infrastructure down here.
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Also had no power overnight from 6:30 yesterday and it knocked all the traffic signals out on the A33/M4 around Reading.
I believe the storm bought this to us.... and I was just about to pop up there as well!
Nice.
Mate of mine had a huge tree come down just missing his house but smashing a car and blocking his driveway - I'm going there tomorrow to help him clear it
Trails in the Tweed Valley have taken an absolute kicking. Many are destroyed or badly damaged. Forestry has said all hills are closed as no access for emergency vehicles. Will likely take weeks/months to sort. Local bike shop organising volunteers, but weather stopped play today.
Parents now on 2nd night without power.
Elec company rang them 11am this morning to say they were arranging hotel accommodation, they still are waiting
My parents had power for a few hours earlier, seems to be off again but still no water.
These conifers in Glen Ogle were snapped in half by 100+ mph winds from Storm Friedhelm (or Hurricane Bawbag) in December 2011
I was up there a few weeks later and the damage was scarily impressive
Power just come back on, 42 hours. North Yorkshire.
Super chuffed they’ve managed to get it back but comms from northern Powergrid been non existent. One look at the outage map suggests why though!!!
Hearing trails across North East England badly hit, Chopwell and Thrunton particularly bad. A few lads I know been out 2day and found NO rideable trails at either, whole blocks of trees down like skittles and as a lot were unofficial I fear they're gone for good. Sad times if its as bad as they say
comms from northern Powergrid been non existent
We had 2 emails from Norther Powergrid yesterday - presumably because they have our email address from our supplier (I've never signed up for anything directly with them). Of course, had we been affected by power cuts (near Durham - we've been lucky, other nearby villages haven't) I probably wouldn't have seen them until Monday...
This time with a photo...
Now the power has dropped in voltage so only the lower voltage stuff is working. Alas that means not the boiler / CH and most of the lights are LED that don't like the voltage drop. You can tell the more expensive ones though as they're making a fist of it, the cheaper LEDs are not having it at all though.
All of North Northumberland has no power, water or communications. Those that do are on low power and it drops out. We still have some at home.
I’ve been allocating staff to work from home as we’ve bases that have no power or water. I’m trying to get water and hot drinks to the most rural bases. I’ve driven through whole wooded areas wiped out, roads with literally hundreds of trees still partially blocking the roads, It’s snowed and frozen over, roads are lethal
Stay safe folks
I hope you guys who were expecting power to be restored last night are okay.
All of North Northumberland has no power, water or communications. Those that do are on low power and it drops out. We still have some at home.
Really? What are you calling North Northumberland?
I'm in Seahouses and power was partly restored on Saturday, fully restored yesterday.
Mobiles were patchy yesterday but seem fine now.
Internet was back up Saturday.
Alnwick was back up Saturday morning.
I would say you're all East Northumberland, as a casual NE observer relatively new to the area 😉
I hope you guys who were expecting power to be restored last night are okay.
Struggling on. 😀
Had Sunday dinner at the Scapehouse and it was like a community refugee centre! They’ve promised to open at 10 this morning and told us we can all take stuff that needs charging. Several of our neighbours are now booked into the Pennine Manor, and tell us half the village is staying there.
We’re still ok, gas hob means we can get a hot drink.
Updates from Northern Powergrid are a joke.
"Trees were knocked down like skittles along Deeside. Photo was taken near Drumoak."
@aberdeenlune Not far from there - at the RJS helipad the entire woodland area has been removed. like ALL of it entirely flat.
40 of us sat down in the Old Dungeon Ghyll for a 3 course meal by candle light as Llangdale Valley lost all power. Luckily my van ashtray was full of change so could still go to the bar for a drink. Well done to the staff.
Really? What are you calling North Northumberland?
I’m in Seahouses and power was partly restored on Saturday, fully restored yesterday.
Mobiles were patchy yesterday but seem fine now.
Internet was back up Saturday.
Alnwick was back up Saturday morning.
`Rothbury, Harbottle, Wooler, Ellingham, Belford, Beal, Chatton and Berwick areas.
Alnwick wasn’t effected much at all just short outages. I’ve spent 3 nights driving across those patches, with no mobile or very little mobile coverage. Airwaves has been off it vast areas of those places, the power even when on has been low. So, water stations have struggled to provide pressure, 3 phase supplies haven’t worked too well either.
Some of those areas have been told it may be a day or two yet. Driving back from Berwick around 4 am I could see villages starting to come back on. It was rather nice in some ways when they were off as you could see so many stars.
https://www.northernpowergrid.com/power-cuts
Power just come back on, 42 hours. North Yorkshire.
Where is that? I have been getting status updates from PowerGrid all weekend telling me when my service would be restored although it hasn't been off (Pannal Ash in Harrogate). I do know some people further out of town on the Skipton Road had issues though.
There are more important things than trails when folk are still struggling with power etc but most of the trails in southern Scotland are currently closed.
Drumlanrig - Trail Closures & Diversions- Please Read
29.11.2021 Sadly the trails and walks have been seriously affected by Storm Arwen. We are currently assessing the damage and we ask that you allow us to do so and avoid them for the time being. We hope to be able to update later in the week.
Our power came back up last night, half an hour before we arrived home from sisters. House was taking ages to reheat though. Back at work and totally exhausted after two draining days. Could be worse, friends in Stonehaven had their third night with no power last night.
@johndoe just north of Richmond. I know Swaledale, Thwaite way is still off.