Has the storm arrived where you are.

[old man]

8 hours ago, mel b3 said:

I was thinking ark 😁.

You can take the lad out of tipton , but , you can't take tipton out of the lad 😁.

A good job too bud!😃

[Morkin]

Now getting really windy our there now , And chucking it down with rain

[Mice!]

5 hours ago, old'un said:

Think its the first death reported, Lancashire, a man in his 40s died after a tree fell onto his van.

Not far from us sadly. 

Trees down, Jack knived lorries, been a day for staying in, and Wales got it worse. 

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, Sad occasion for a Narrow Boat owner, Lost his lovely Boat to the fast current, Lucky he and his dog escaped before it sank , now lodged under water against the Weir, Going to be weeks before anything can be done to lift out, He was insured but likely a complete write off including all his personal belongings, 

[goldie]

Just lost our apricot tree 10 minutes ago just east of Hull

[Raja Clavata]

14 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

Bouncy, but you may arrive early.

 

12 hours ago, chrisjpainter said:

descend aiming for Heathrow, end up in London City Airport?

Three aborted attempts to land at Heathrow, currently sat on the tarmac in Brussels, waiting to find out what’s next.

Hope everyone is ok.

[ditchman]

little bit rainy little bit windy...thats all

[Minky]

2 hours ago, Sciurus said:

A bit gusty and miserable in S Lakes.

😄😁😃😁  expand the above post to see the context of m post.  I remember the hurricane of 87.  A bloke a couple of doors away had a garden shed which disappeared without trace leaving the contents scattered around his garden but another shed from somewhere else was planted on the concrete base pad. He asked around to find the place/person where the shed had come from. No one knew.  It was as if a helicopter lifted his shed away and another helicopter had lowered another directly in place.  Another neighbour always wore a flat cap.  He opened the door at about 4am and his cap was gone. !!!  He was lost without his cap.  It was found up in an apple tree about a month later about 6 doors away. 

Edited December 7 by Minky

[marsh man]

Sadly some people in the UK have suffered a lot more than others but we are in the middle of the Winter , it isn't that cold , the wind is strong but nowhere near gale force , it have been raining but not hard enough to cause any flash flooding and now everything is dying down , we can't really do much with whatever weather they chuck at us so are we getting a nation of panic's when we keep getting all these weather warnings , if we ever got another Winter like 62 / 63 then god help us , we would all get severe Red warnings and be told to stay in until it is safe to go outside , that Winter the temp was below freezing for three months around here so that would be a hell of a long time to stay indoors and the kids wouldn't go school from the Xmas holidays till after the Easter holidays , that would be fact and not fiction .   MM

[Mice!]

50 minutes ago, marsh man said:

Sadly some people in the UK have suffered a lot more than others but we are in the middle of the Winter , it isn't that cold , the wind is strong but nowhere near gale force , it have been raining but not hard enough to cause any flash flooding and now everything is dying down , we can't really do much with whatever weather they chuck at us so are we getting a nation of panic's when we keep getting all these weather warnings , if we ever got another Winter like 62 / 63 then god help us , we would all get severe Red warnings and be told to stay in until it is safe to go outside , that Winter the temp was below freezing for three months around here so that would be a hell of a long time to stay indoors and the kids wouldn't go school from the Xmas holidays till after the Easter holidays , that would be fact and not fiction .   MM

I'm just glad it's hit at the weekend,  it's still gusting up here, and most can just choose to stay indoors, when it's snapping trees, blowing piers apart, then it's serious enough to take notice, plenty of flooded roads as well to make driving interesting. 

We've got stuff blown around outside,  but nothing that can't wait till tomorrow, thankfully no 6ft fence panels!

I can't imagine what would happen if we had a big freeze like that, my work commute is about 80 miles each way a few times a week, and lots of others will do that daily, I'd like to think it would be dealt with better these days, but somehow I doubt it.

[Miserableolgit]

Bit blowy here in S. Norfolk this evening but it's subsiding now. Nothing to write home about here really. Rain most of the day though, our land was already a tad wet.

I remember walking the woods after the storm in October '87 looking for damage to the pens, checking wires, traps etc and finding disoriented birds all over the shop. I remember my old chap opening the back door back door the winter of 63/62 to find a solid wall of snow from top to bottom which continued along the porch, around the corner and out the back. The shovels etc were in the shed which was cut off so tools were borrowed from somewhere or other.

[ditchman]

very blustery and driving rain...eased off now

[JohnfromUK]

I had a small (3 or 4 inch diameter) sycamore branch down on the lawn mid afternoon on Saturday.

I noticed the first bigger incident when taking the dog out around 21:00 on Saturday with an old crab apple tree down blocking the road.  I'm guessing it has also taken out the (phone) line on the poles seen as it fell.

I came in and reported it (not an urgent problem as there is another road in and that can be seen well in advance from both sides) on the highways website.

Not long afterwards the power went off - and came back on shortly before midnight.

This morning it is quieter, but I suspect many smaller roads will have trees down similar to the above.

[marsh man]

10 hours ago, Miserableolgit said:

Bit blowy here in S. Norfolk this evening but it's subsiding now. Nothing to write home about here really. Rain most of the day though, our land was already a tad wet.

I remember walking the woods after the storm in October '87 looking for damage to the pens, checking wires, traps etc and finding disoriented birds all over the shop. I remember my old chap opening the back door back door the winter of 63/62 to find a solid wall of snow from top to bottom which continued along the porch, around the corner and out the back. The shovels etc were in the shed which was cut off so tools were borrowed from somewhere or other.

I remember both the 62 / 63 Winter and the 87 gales very well , I left school at Christmas 62 and started at a building firm just after Boxing Day when the bad weather started , we couldn't work outside and after 2 or 3 weeks clearing things up in the workshop we all got laid off due to inclement weather , we had to sign on but we were not unemployed , this lasted for nearly six weeks , In one of the ole Guinness book of records it used to state that Lowestoft had nearly three months where the temp didn't lift above freezing point , the sea itself started to freeze over and my boss had a photo where he was driving his Land Rover over Fritton Lake , we have had cold winters since but nothing near to that one.

In 87 when the storm hit we had Fir tree woods that got the tops snapped off on every single tree with only the trunks left standing , in the hall gardens the gardeners spent weeks clearing the falling trees up and the head gardener called it a Vortex , segments of each tree were on display to the public stating how old the tree was and how many man hours it took to clear up , on the building side we were on storm damage for months with the cattle sheds roof's blown off and even the church roof was blown off , we had a big Oak tree down and my boss donated it to the church and it was sawn up on site to replace and missing rafters , hopefully it will never be repeated , but who knows ?     MM

[oldypigeonpopper]

12 hours ago, Minky said:

😄😁😃😁  expand the above post to see the context of m post.  I remember the hurricane of 87.  A bloke a couple of doors away had a garden shed which disappeared without trace leaving the contents scattered around his garden but another shed from somewhere else was planted on the concrete base pad. He asked around to find the place/person where the shed had come from. No one knew.  It was as if a helicopter lifted his shed away and another helicopter had lowered another directly in place.  Another neighbour always wore a flat cap.  He opened the door at about 4am and his cap was gone. !!!  He was lost without his cap.  It was found up in an apple tree about a month later about 6 doors away. 

Hello, Ah we all remember Michael Fish, Storm, What Storm !!!!!!

[7daysinaweek]

Early yesterday morning came out of our front door on way to work, noticed one of our big bins missing, gone, nowhere to be seen. Driving rain and super blowy, found it about 50 yards down our road.

Driving into work down one of the country lanes, passed one of the glass bus stops. On way home about 9.30 in the eve, bus stop flattened by a big old tree. Tree had been cut up and placed on a grass verge, when it fell it must have blocked the road.

A lot calmer here this morning.

[Rim Fire]

Just got in from feeding  it was to dangerous  yesterday as you can see these trees got to be hundreds  of years old at least they missed  the feeders 

Edited December 8 by Rim Fire

[old'un]

Looks like its been bad in Blackpool

 

[mel b3]

[JKD]

5 minutes ago, mel b3 said:

And fencers, tree surgeons, and bricklayers.

Not trying to make fun of it, as there are those that have died, and many others have severe damage to property etc 😒

[JohnfromUK]

1 minute ago, JKD said:

And fencers, tree surgeons, and bricklayers.

Not trying to make fun of it, as there are those that have died, and many others have severe damage to property etc 😒

It's an 'ill wind that blows nobody any good"

[old'un]

Well the day started off with it being a bit windy and no rain, we actually had a bit of blue sky and sunshine…...but this last hour the winds have picked up and the heavens have opened, its peeing down and the gusts are nearly as bad as yesterday.

 

[JKD]

7 minutes ago, JohnfromUK said:

It's an 'ill wind that blows nobody any good"

My work, insurance repairs, involves rebuilding/replacing the damage caused by these storms. Yes it keeps me [and others] busy, but I personally don't take any glee from the extra work.

It's been not too bad here in NW Kent, south east area in general, but there will be property damage for sure.

[Minky]

Today it was a bit blowy and a bit rainy but I went out and had a good look round for anything that might have been moved or damaged.   We look to have got away without any damage or loss.  Been lucky.  When's the next one due to come through,?

[amateur]

We had no problems at home, but I went over to the rental that we are in the process of selling and found the garage door wrenched off and two fence panels smashed.

Damn