Dudley, a dress rehearsal for Eunice ?

breakstuff

 

randella

breakstuff said:

Getting hairy here in Grimsby now. Boss has sodded off home to Hull early because the Humber Bridge is closed to all vehicles.

Lucky git. 

Yeah I heard that on the news (the bridge, not your boss ). I only once remember it being completely closed, it was usually only to high-sided vehicles. I've driven across it in some fairly lairy conditions.

Philly_Q

Lights just flickered... I hope we're not heading for a power cut.  It seemed like perhaps it was easing off a little.

freakboy1610

It's a little breezy in Ipswich! The new garden furniture that I waited six months to arrive last year thanks to the Suez Canal blockage is now at the bottom of my swimming pool. I think that's what they call a first world problem.

mrkb

bertie said:

Offset said:

Very violent gusts here is South Glozzershire.  Lots of trees down.  Schools shut, businesses closed, everyone hunkering down.  It was supposed to have quietened down by now but not much sign of that yet.

did you see the tree/treehouse video in Stroud ?  twas on HTV news just now

Was that the one on the bbc news? Lucinda was very posh, lots of "Oh my gosh" as a huge tree narrowly misses her house! Mustnt swear in front of the kids!

Storm Eunice: People hurt and buildings damaged as record winds batter UK - BBC News

Grumpyrocker

bertie said:

@Grumpyrocker ;

Bridport

Yes saw that online. Nasty. Lots of trees down in the area. And lots of folks without power including most of our street. But we're next to the substation and weirdly still got power, happens quite a bit. 

Reverend

https://twitter.com/2SevernBridges/status/1494640348366311430

Philly_Q

mrkb said:

bertie said:

Offset said:

Very violent gusts here is South Glozzershire.  Lots of trees down.  Schools shut, businesses closed, everyone hunkering down.  It was supposed to have quietened down by now but not much sign of that yet.

did you see the tree/treehouse video in Stroud ?  twas on HTV news just now

Was that the one on the bbc news? Lucinda was very posh, lots of "Oh my gosh" as a huge tree narrowly misses her house! Mustnt swear in front of the kids!

Storm Eunice: People hurt and buildings damaged as record winds batter UK - BBC News

Good for her.  I'm as sweary as fuck but I don't like to hear people swear in front of kids.  They'll be learning it soon enough anyway.

bertie

mrkb said:

bertie said:

Offset said:

Very violent gusts here is South Glozzershire.  Lots of trees down.  Schools shut, businesses closed, everyone hunkering down.  It was supposed to have quietened down by now but not much sign of that yet.

did you see the tree/treehouse video in Stroud ?  twas on HTV news just now

Was that the one on the bbc news? Lucinda was very posh, lots of "Oh my gosh" as a huge tree narrowly misses her house! Mustnt swear in front of the kids!

Storm Eunice: People hurt and buildings damaged as record winds batter UK - BBC News

I saw it on HTV  (there was a clue    )      big tree with a tree house, in a very large garden.......... took one for the team

Jfingers

freakboy1610 said:

It's a little breezy in Ipswich! The new garden furniture that I waited six months to arrive last year thanks to the Suez Canal blockage is now at the bottom of my swimming pool. I think that's what they call a first world problem.

I live roughly 9 miles from Ipswich and cannot understand what use someone there could get from a swimming pool, unless it's an indoor one, which it clearly can't be. Just saying...

Kittyfrisk

Some possible sweeping subjective generalisations here   

Several major storms since November mainly affecting the NE of England & Scotland (Arwen, Barry, Malik, Corrie) major damage & thousands of people without electricity & water for over 10 days - briefly makes the news headlines, then soon forgotten.
  'Dudley' affected the whole of the UK & now Eunice is proving to be a very serious storm affecting the South most & it's all front page paper headlines plus on the BBC website & radio, call out the army plus 6 pages of discussions here...
Dudley & now Eunice also hit the North too (blowing very hard here now & lights flickering) & is due to continue over tomorrow.

Why does everything seem to be so much more dramatic & newsworthy when it affects the South? 

boogieman

Aaaaaand part of our fence has blown down. The part we didn’t get replaced last summer because “well, it looks solid enough”. Turns out the posts are completely rotten. Ho hum. 

merlin

Kittyfrisk said:

Why does everything seem to be so much more dramatic & newsworthy when it affects the South? 

Actually, everything is South-Centric in the UK. Same as everything is North-Centric in Italy.....and also, Male-centric and White-centric and Money-Centric everywhere. 

We're a pretty lame and stupid species. 

Philly_Q

Kittyfrisk said:

Some possible sweeping subjective generalisations here   

Several major storms since November mainly affecting the NE of England & Scotland (Arwen, Barry, Malik, Corrie) major damage & thousands of people without electricity & water for over 10 days - briefly makes the news headlines, then soon forgotten.
  'Dudley' affected the whole of the UK & now Eunice is proving to be a very serious storm affecting the South most & it's all front page paper headlines plus on the BBC website & radio, call out the army plus 6 pages of discussions here...
Dudley & now Eunice also hit the North too (blowing very hard here now & lights flickering) & is due to continue over tomorrow.

Why does everything seem to be so much more dramatic & newsworthy when it affects the South? 

Before she completely axes the BBC, "Culture Secretary" Nadine Dorries is going to force them to prepare daily summaries of hours of news coverage, broken down into to each separate region.

And if there's too much news about, say, London - a couple of stabbings, perhaps - they'll have to edit the articles to say it happened in Leeds.  And everyone'll be happy.

Levelling up.

fretmeister

Chimney has come off my mum's house and bits have landed on her car. Dented roof and bonnet and smashed the windscreen.

Great. Not.

chillidoggy

It's been dreadful round here. A couple of hours ago I had to tie the veg trug lid shut.

WezV

He had a twister

bertie

Kittyfrisk said:

Why does everything seem to be so much more dramatic & newsworthy when it affects the South? 

I think because (despite what actual outcome there was) in this instance the met office labels of "red alert"  already injected a sense of "Armageddon "  and I will admit -  I was genuinely quite worried about what might happen to my property I don't ever remember having a red alert posted for where I lived,  although I have lived through some pretty adverse and nasty weather much worse than we witnessed today   - so I think today was a case of "here it comes, this is happening........." and then THANKFULLY  -  nowhere near as bad - or at least not as bad in places that were predicted to be bad,  and worse in placed that,  were not (make sense ?) 

I for one am certainly glad it was that way around and not the other.  

In other instances, dont label "London / home counties" as representative of the whole of the south !!     1" of snow up there and you'd think there were bilzzards  

SPECTRUM001

It’s been blowing like crazy in Bath. A big tree down just by our flat - 10 mins after we walked past it too !

Weird thing is that we have been flicking between sunshine and rain all day. We went to a house viewing that was cancelled, on again, cancelled, on again.

And just went out for dinner, then virtually blown off our feet walking home.

Global warming - dontcha just love it !!

I know, I know, we have had storms for years, but worth mentioning just ‘cos of Trump.

Kittyfrisk

bertie said:

Kittyfrisk said:

Why does everything seem to be so much more dramatic & newsworthy when it affects the South? 

I think because (despite what actual outcome there was) in this instance the met office labels of "red alert"  already injected a sense of "Armageddon "  and I will admit -  I was genuinely quite worried about what might happen to my property I don't ever remember having a red alert posted for where I lived,  although I have lived through some pretty adverse and nasty weather much worse than we witnessed today   - so I think today was a case of "here it comes, this is happening........." and then THANKFULLY  -  nowhere near as bad - or at least not as bad in places that were predicted to be bad,  and worse in placed that,  were not (make sense ?) 

I for one am certainly glad it was that way around and not the other.  

In other instances, dont label "London / home counties" as representative of the whole of the south !!     1" of snow up there and you'd think there were bilzzards  

No problem. I consider anywhere further down than Middlesborough as being the deep South