Hows everyone faring in the wake of the "storm"

[Andy Monty]

Well we have escaped it ooop in East Yorkshire just pissed it down with rain all morning but not overly heavy......


Hope all the Southern softies :devil: have managed to avoid any damage and got through the storm ok

(don't expect any one with no electric to reply for a while yet) times like this is when a car charger for the mobile comes in very handy


Know of one member has a slate loose (you know who you are Jon )


Seriously though hope everyone is ok and will be back to normal soon

 

[hennabm]

It was windier yesterday afternoon before the "storm".

I travelled to Bristol yesterday and Bristol had very little damage, just a load of rain.

 

[twinairturbo]

On sky news there was a 500L with a tree on top of it good job I'm north west

 

[Meski]

No trains meant I had to get the bus to work. Loads of branches in the roads through the villages here, but no big issues luckily. Slept through it like a baby

 

[scout]

A plastic chair in my garden got blown over but apart from that we had some wet stuff.

 

[inki]

No real problems down here on the South Coast a few trees down, roads were clear for the commute to work & roads weren't busy due to half term. Sad to hear that a 14yr old lad was washed out to sea off a Newhaven beach on Sunday,unfortunately despite searching, they have not found him & emergency services have know been stood down.

 

[Peter Pick-Up]

In the Northern part of Holland, where I live, we got "code red"...
Which means something like stay inside, it's dangerous outside...
One woman was killed under a fallen tree in Amsterdam.
I got the afternoon of from work, and while driving home, I noticed lot's of trees fallen down, fences blown away etc. etc.
In our garden a tree went down as well, causing no damage, so in two years it is going to be burned in our in house wood burner ( don't know what it's called in English ).
Everything went to normal when the evening came, it was the worst storm in 23 years....!!

 

[StevenRB45]

Storm? Where?

 

[austenw90]

Just a bit of wind blown out of proportion! The council here were more interested in putting out temporary traffic lights than actually getting the trees shifted out of the roads... H&S gone mad!

 

[Razman]

Classic british media, I'm pretty sure that no-one really believed anything bad was going to happen.

Generally it's worse when they dont predict it!

 

[The Beard]

What storm?

 

[scout]

I may have slept through it.

 

[dave]

i had no electric all day until just now (so mrs dave took me out to dinner )

1 road into town was blocked by trees for a bit. my car was covered in twigs n crap

ran out of camping gas so i couldn't even make a cup of coffee after 2 cups.


Clacton Pier's helter-skelter got blown down http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-24702946

 

[Ziggy122]

There has been a storm?

 

[dave]

yeah but it was down south so there isn't a million threads winging about it

 

[JessieJN]

We have been lucky in the Midlands, escaping it! However, my plant pot was knocked over.

 

[Andy Monty]

i had no electric all day until just now (so mrs dave took me out to dinner )

1 road into town was blocked by trees for a bit. my car was covered in twigs n crap

ran out of camping gas so i couldn't even make a cup of coffee after 2 cups.


Clacton Pier's helter-skelter got blown down http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-24702946

sod camping gas its bloody expensive

get one of these

http://www.sailsmarine.com/ItemDetail.aspx?c=165580&l=g&cc=GB

and

a can of this

https://www.carspares.co.uk/catalogue/details.php?p=TETPWD005&a=NEWadd&shop=Tetrosyl&pg=2

or unleaded petrol but every 3 fills run the above through it or coleman fuel to stop it gumming up :idea:

 

[dave]

i dont use one enough to pay out for new one, my stove was free and havent had to buy gas for years, i have a spare gas some where safe. feck knows where that is though,

 

[Didge3]

Basically what everyone else said...

Down here in Portsmouth it was supposed to be 'really quite very bad' but basically it rained moderately and was a bit breezy, some scaffolding was damaged and some leaves and twigs have fallen from some trees. Heard of nothing more...

 

[austenw90]

The Daily Mail (online) seemed to blow it out of proportion the most.