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TB63 wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:04 am
I can't stop watching...
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300 yr old 100ft high yew tree just blew over in my ex's, south Oxfordshire..
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My parents seem to be the last people in Cork who still have power.
My sister is a new homeowner in the countryside and she's learning a bit of a hard lesson re preparedness for stuff like this.

And our plant in Cork is down. They better not switch out my plant!
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Our back fence has now been obliterated - will need completely replacing, posts and all. Probably getting on for a couple of K :sad: Assuming I can find someone to do it - I'm guessing they'll all be very busy.
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I know I’m going on about this but it’s really interesting. Isn’t it? BBC still forecasting 80+ here, EUMETNET mid 30s, which seems much more like it.
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Ovals wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:45 am Our back fence has now been obliterated - will need completely replacing, posts and all. Probably getting on for a couple of K :sad: Assuming I can find someone to do it - I'm guessing they'll all be very busy.
About £120 a meter for labour and materials up here. That's the ones not taking the piss after a storm like this.
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Glorious morning in central Edinburgh, feeling a bit of heat from the sun for the first time in months.

Kids very pissed off.
All the money you made will never buy back your soul
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Ovals wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:45 am Our back fence has now been obliterated - will need completely replacing, posts and all. Probably getting on for a couple of K :sad: Assuming I can find someone to do it - I'm guessing they'll all be very busy.
Yep panels just gone both sides here!!
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GogLais wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:46 am I know I’m going on about this but it’s really interesting. Isn’t it? BBC still forecasting 80+ here, EUMETNET mid 30s, which seems much more like it.
80+ is gusts and mid-30s is more sustained, no?
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That Heathrow stream is wild.

Fuck that for a game of soldiers.
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JM2K6 wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:57 am
GogLais wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:46 am I know I’m going on about this but it’s really interesting. Isn’t it? BBC still forecasting 80+ here, EUMETNET mid 30s, which seems much more like it.
80+ is gusts and mid-30s is more sustained, no?
Yeah. It'd be nice if people actually understood what they were reading, eh? It's not actually that hard.

Meanwhile, pricks still want to shout 'bUt We SuRvIvEd ThE bLiTz'

And are there two g’s in Bugger Off?
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For any of you mad Welshies driving out there.
The M4 is now closed from J 37
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Really picking up now near SE London, you get 10 - 15 mins of just very windy then suddenly a series of massive gusts that shake everything about. Hopefully this is the peak of it as an hour of this will be enough, thanks :problem:
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Margin__Walker wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:59 am That Heathrow stream is wild.

Fuck that for a game of soldiers.
Keep watching, my wheelie bin is on final approach..
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TB63 wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:15 pm
Margin__Walker wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:59 am That Heathrow stream is wild.

Fuck that for a game of soldiers.
Keep watching, my wheelie bin is on final approach..
:lol:

Mesmerising to watch. It has all the feeling of one of them flipping... hopefully not though...
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Biffer wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:01 pm
JM2K6 wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:57 am
GogLais wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:46 am I know I’m going on about this but it’s really interesting. Isn’t it? BBC still forecasting 80+ here, EUMETNET mid 30s, which seems much more like it.
80+ is gusts and mid-30s is more sustained, no?
Yeah. It'd be nice if people actually understood what they were reading, eh? It's not actually that hard.
Charming. I am aware that wind gusts but it hasn’t been anything like 70 here at all this morning. I’ve spent enough time looking out of the window wondering whether to drive to Manchester.
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GogLais wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:18 pm
Biffer wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:01 pm
JM2K6 wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:57 am

80+ is gusts and mid-30s is more sustained, no?
Yeah. It'd be nice if people actually understood what they were reading, eh? It's not actually that hard.
Charming. I am aware that wind gusts but it hasn’t been anything like 70 here ever here at all this morning.
Where are you exactly? They've recorded gusts of over 100mph in parts of Wales.
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JM2K6 wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:19 pm
GogLais wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:18 pm
Biffer wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:01 pm

Yeah. It'd be nice if people actually understood what they were reading, eh? It's not actually that hard.
Charming. I am aware that wind gusts but it hasn’t been anything like 70 here ever here at all this morning.
Where are you exactly? They've recorded gusts of over 100mph in parts of Wales.
The Wirral. We don’t get many extremes here.
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Long way to go yet, I'm probably the most westerly of boardies, & after a lull up until an hour ago, the gusts are building again.
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Just been out to shops, roofing sheets and downpipes everywhere..
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mad fucking roofer on the neighbours just now. WTF!!!
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Insane_Homer wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:34 pm mad!.pngmad fucking roofer on the neighbours just now. WTF!!!
That is just daft. Surely he should be saving his energy for next week when he will be coining it?
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Biffer wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:01 pm
JM2K6 wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:57 am
GogLais wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:46 am I know I’m going on about this but it’s really interesting. Isn’t it? BBC still forecasting 80+ here, EUMETNET mid 30s, which seems much more like it.
80+ is gusts and mid-30s is more sustained, no?
Yeah. It'd be nice if people actually understood what they were reading, eh? It's not actually that hard.

Meanwhile, pricks still want to shout 'bUt We SuRvIvEd ThE bLiTz'

The technical term for this sort of cuntery is "Luftwaffle".
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One for Galloway

Anti-stormers and Eunice-sceptics gather on South West coast

Brave anti-stormers are refusing to live in fear or believe the mainstream media’s ‘narrative’ today.

https://newsthump.com/2022/02/18/anti-s ... est-coast/?
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One gust of 122mph on the Isle of Wight set an interim record in England.

The gust was measured at The Needles, an exposed point at the western extremity of the island.
That is a very exposed location that is prone to extreme wind gusts though
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tabascoboy wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:24 pm
One gust of 122mph on the Isle of Wight set an interim record in England.

The gust was measured at The Needles, an exposed point at the western extremity of the island.
That is a very exposed location that is prone to extreme wind gusts though
in 1992 they recorded 197mph in Shetland before the equipment broke. :shock:
And are there two g’s in Bugger Off?
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The O2 is taking a bit of a battering.

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Lobby wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:44 pm The O2 is taking a bit of a battering.

Well it does look a lot like an upturned trampoline ...
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Anemometer on top of Salisbury Cathedral spire has gone off the clock with gusts over 100mph and we’re not in the red warning zone.
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fishfoodie wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:47 pm
Lobby wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:44 pm The O2 is taking a bit of a battering.

Well it does look a lot like an upturned trampoline ...
Literally the first thing that springs to mind whenever the word trampoline is mentioned.

https://youtu.be/il8Q5ZoJELQ
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Wind has carried some crap with it, had a couple of squally rain showers and the windows are filthy
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tabascoboy wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:13 pm Wind has carried some crap with it, had a couple of squally rain showers and the windows are filthy
Our prayers are with you...
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Sadly just been announced that an Irish Council worker in Wexford, died earlier today, after being struck by a falling tree.
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Blackmac wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:22 pm
tabascoboy wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:13 pm Wind has carried some crap with it, had a couple of squally rain showers and the windows are filthy
Our prayers are with you...
LOL, wonder if it's salt from the Channel, we're 40 miles inland but it happened in the 1987 storm too. Seems to have quietened temporarily here and no obvious signs of carnage for now - all fences up and down the street look intact, waste collection was cancelled and people put their bins away so now wheelie bin races.

London seems to have copped it though with one serious incident reported so far from falling masonry and a woman badly injured in Bucks
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My neighbour's brick wall for her front garden has blown over (this is in London).
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Genuinely scary going out in it a while ago.

Had to avoid roads where the wind would push me off the sidewalk, into traffic, and turn around and walk into it..which wasn't much better.
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Biffer wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:01 pm
JM2K6 wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:57 am
GogLais wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:46 am I know I’m going on about this but it’s really interesting. Isn’t it? BBC still forecasting 80+ here, EUMETNET mid 30s, which seems much more like it.
80+ is gusts and mid-30s is more sustained, no?
Yeah. It'd be nice if people actually understood what they were reading, eh? It's not actually that hard.

Meanwhile, pricks still want to shout 'bUt We SuRvIvEd ThE bLiTz'

And pricks like him will expect others, to risk their lives, to save their moronic, selfish asses, if they get washed into the sea, or blown off a cliff,or whatever.
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