[Closed] Windy? It's worse than I thought!

Loads of wood for yer pile 😉

Good job it missed that Porsche, it was fairly epic here (for Staffordshire) died down now.

more free wood. Lucky bstard.

😉

glad everyone's OK.

the ride from the coast into newcastle was mental today, looking forward to the return leg though!

Please post in 3 months when you have created another new log pile house....

Jeez.. heard it was howling oop north, spoke to one of my work colleagues north of the border, reckons there are waves on his glass of water at his desk and the whole building is shaking..

Honestly thought a tree was going to fall on me this morning out on the bike and had to actually pedal to get down a fairly steep downhill it was that blowey..

Way worse for us than the celebrated Hurricane Bawbag

A steel roof has been torn off a neighbour's roof here just north of Glasgow. Numerous trees down. Greenhouse glass gone in next garden. Kkingston Bridge in Glasgow was closed both ways for overturned HGVs.

your'e gonna need another wood store................ 😉

Aye, grim here, downstair's wheely bin's fallen over and everything!

My wife just called from Glasgow airport saying that she had to land the plane in a (constant) 90mph wind. Apparently the fact that it was constant, rather than gusting, made it less scary than that sounds!

Her flight back has just been cancelled and it looks like there won't be many planes getting out today.

We had a wheelie bin casualty too - always sad to see 😥

Was planning on a trip round Gt black today, thought better of it around 6.30 this morning!

did she get a round of applause for keeping it rubber side down GT?

Her flight back has just been cancelled and it looks like there won't be many planes getting out today.

I'm hopeful that situation changes later in the day, as I'm due to fly out at 7pm!

My BBQ tried to escape out of the garden earlier :/

😯

How lucky is that one by the wood store.. easy life!

I'm hopeful that situation changes later in the day, as I'm due to fly out at 7pm!

They've now closed the airport. Apparently there were bits of roof leaving the terminal and striking planes so now every plane currently at Glasgow has to be checked for damage.

I wouldn't be holding my breath for a 7pm to leave. Even if the airport is open again, there will be a backlog and planes in the wrong place.

did she get a round of applause for keeping it rubber side down GT?

Not this time round, but they more or less did last week when the wind shear was around 40 knots. The Captain had to take control back at just 500ft because the parameters were outside what an FO is allowed to land in. Even the captain had a hard time getting it down and thought they may have scrapped an engine pod on landing (they hadn't, but it was a 'brown trouser' moment for everyone!)

The suns just come out here BTW

Reports of a wheelie bin blowing across the M4 on BBC Wales Traffic News this morning!

EDIT: geetee's post has now made this sound even more trivial in the grand scheme of things...

I've made a start.

I'm going to need another woodshed. 8)

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Wow

We were in the Cairngorms this weekend. We didn't climb yesterday, but on Sunday the wind on Braireach was insane - had to hit the deck and bury my axe three or four times and was lifted clean off my feet once!

Wow Mcmoonter! You must have a seriously large chopper 😛

Couldn't you have sold it MC?

British hardwood = £££ no?

😆 thats quality.

Couldn't you have sold it MC?

Al, it was mostly long dead Elm and Beech. I'm not sure if there is a market for it. Too late now, its all chopped up.

How lucky is that one by the wood store.. easy life!

Even luckier than that. It missed the coal house and the car that we usually park there. Phew!
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Our local roofer spent a happy lunchtime walking up and down the street chapping on doors and telling people "Don't know if you've noticed but your chimney's fallen off, here's my card. Happy new year!" Big metal thing fell off the top of ours onto my car but landed on the thule roofbars luckily. Just about every house in the street's lost a chunk.

But most importantly I've failed to go for my first ride of the year, [i]again [/i]:(

I drove the last Queen St to Waverley train today and have never been so glad to see Edinburgh. Got to Linlithgow to see a Class 170 with shattered window and battered roof. Massive trees branches everywhere and took twice as long to get back as normal. The waverley station had pains of glass flying on to the concourse and got home to find both fences and my gate knackered . Also lost a few tiles.

Still took the dog out though . (NAILS).

Yeah it's wild out there, do we know how long it supposed to last ❓

Died down here now, Shirley same with you?

Or are you hiding in the cellar with a tin foil hat on? 😉

I drove to London in some pretty decent wind. No real probs though, apart from a scary moment when my car got blown a foot sideways on the Severn bridge.

The rain though was a bit bonkers in London - driving along the North Circular I could see a great sheet of rain up ahead, it was like driving into a car wash at 30mph. Then there were the enormous puddles which were quite fun when a lorry coming the other way ploughed through them and dumped a few hundred gallons of water on my windscreen 🙂

No power in our street since 8am this morning. Power company say it [i]might[/i] be restored at 6pm.

It's going to be a chilly night if they don't sort it! 😯

If everybody turns the heating up, drives more and wastes as much energy as possible then you can have even more spectacular storms in the future.

We had an (estimated) 80yr old Ash Tree go over on the farm in the top field over night and earlier I drove down the M1 home and watched nerviously as those long wheel base vans teetered on two wheel more than once, but got down to the M25 and it was like a late Autumn day, lovely.

Our house was alright. Went upto the stables at the farm and found 1 of the caravans there on its roof, one blown halfway across the field half of a shed roof missing and various ridge flashings an tiles gone, a few tress down and thats about it.

On the prom down the front, whether its been the water or the wind, its lifted the tarmac surface clean off the prom in places. Need to take a pic tomorrow

A friend took this earlier today...
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Anyone for a game of jenga??

Rob

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"If everybody turns the heating up, drives more and wastes as much energy as possible then you can have even more spectacular storms in the future. "

Or it might just be weather. Like the hurricanes in 1968, 1987, etc etc.

We haven't helped the situation, but this is more that just our contribution, it's a cycle in the universe that happens periodically.

That is to say every few thousand years, most if not all of the ancient cultures have legends of world storms and massive flooding.

As for my tinfoil hat, I used my black belt in origami to create a shisha bong out of it and am now smoking dried banana skins 😉

Was out with my saw providing a bit of public service clearing some of the wind blown off the old A9 earlier. I now have more Oak and Beech rings than I hav space for - time for another new wood store 😀

I now have more Oak and Beech rings than I have space for - time for another new wood store

Wood stores are a bit like the ideal number of bikes. n + 1.
You can never have too many.

The windows of the my neighbours got smashed by pebbles being picked up off the beach and flung into them .
One house abit further along had 10 smashed windows , it was like a Schwartzneger filmset .
The joys of living a 'stones throw' from the sea i guess .
My neighbour reckoned for about a minute it blew a mini tornado as the air was filled with very fast moving fog / water vapour .
My roof tiles were lifted and will need reseating at some point .

singletrackmind - Member

The windows of the my neighbours got smashed by pebbles being picked up off the beach and flung into them .
One house abit further along had 10 smashed windows , it was like a Schwartzneger filmset .
The joys of living a 'stones throw' from the sea i guess .

The beautiful sub tropical Island of Hayling
Portsmouth , Hampshire.

That is to say every few thousand years, most if not all of the ancient cultures have legends of world storms and massive flooding

Yes but they knew f all about weather forecasting.

A bit like us now then, this is normaly winter time 😉

There was some amazing footage on the 6 o'clock news of a bridge flexing and twisting in the wind, and one of those big wheeled plastic dumpsters on its side being blown along a city street at around 20mph. A bloody scary thing to have come carreering towards you totally out of control.