Stormy weather

[ACE]

I hope all our chums that were in the way of the strong winds yesterday are all OK. A bit of a blow here but nothing damaged.

[ACE]

[goodlife]

I'm afraid it was more than 'just a little bit of blow' over here. Luckily we don't have any major damage...but garden is in real mess for 'stuff' being blown all over the place...didn't know I had that many plant pots, or the ground must have 'cropped' them all of the sudden. Chicken pen roof, the rest of it, doesn't take much 'tidying up' before we put up the new one...the 'bits' of it just need clearing from the garden now.
The gust were truly frightening last night, fortunately our property is in quite sheltered position so we got off lightly..I know many in the area that wasn't as lucky...

[SamLouise]

Yes indeed, I hope everybody is doing ok x

[pumkinlover]

Ok at home, but allotment greenhouse has had both ends blown out
Could have been far worse and feel for the people who have had damage to loved ones and property.

[antipodes]

Yes, hope every one of you in the UK is safe and sound. You have probably seen that here in Western France we have our fair share of flooding too. Here in the city it's OK (the Loire holds a lot of water!) but in the countryside, there is still a lot of flooding.

[tricia]

So far this winter I have had to replace roofing felt on my shed and both fences. The storms are causing this to be a very expensive winter for me!

Tricia

[Jayb]

Weather has been quite extreme here the last couple of days, lost the shed roof and one poly tunnel lost it's cover, quite a few trees down round and about. But thankful so far, have been spared much damage. Really feel for those who have lost so much.

[Digeroo]

So far not been too bad keep having to put the protection back on the rhubarb.  But at the moment the windows are rattling something terrible, so it will be very windy indeed at the lottie.   

The forecast is for heavy rain but we have wind instead.    I am sure it is worse on the coast but we are not used to it so bad.   Though it has become surprisingly warm.

I hope everyone is ok.

[ACE]

I've got one of those little weather stations and just noticed the reading said 105mph and it was stuck there. Looked out of the window and noticed the little propeller thing on top of the garage has blown away. The house is creaking, windows rattling, letterbox is flapping, so I reckon it's a bit bad out there and it has not reached the full speed yet, according to the weather news. No sleep tonight.

[Digeroo]

Well here was me thinking that 60 miles an hour was going some.  Did you manage to baton the hatches?   Taped the letterbox down no post on Sunday.

There is a lovely Swindonian expression which goes 'Doesn't it ever blow'  Seems rather apt at the moment.

[cornykev]

Hard to sleep last night, with the sound of wheelie bins banging about up and down the road and the windows were creaking and rattling.   

[ACE]

That will soon be the new scale for measuring the wind. It was definitely a 15 wheelie binner last night. They had been recently emptied though. Earlier in the week before the binmen came it would have only been a sixer.

[Poppy Mole]

My bins are hooked to the wall with a bungee thing but they both still managed to turn 90 degrees in the night - think they were trying to get to next doors where their bins were having a party!!

[Borlotti]

As Kev said very windy last night in not so sunny Enfield. Plastic greenhouse still standing, memo to myself should bring the cover inside for the winter.  Cat going mad, running in and out of the cat flap and around the house. Might go for a walk today to the lovely allotment just to see what the damage is.

[Jayb]

Stormy here too, everything seemed to be rattling. Not a good night's sleep.

[BarriedaleNick]

Bad nights sleep here too!  Aside from a newly acquired case of tinnitus which is driving me nuts we had chairs and pots etc flying around the garden all night. Wheelie bins out the front.  Fence panel down (again) and too damaged to reinstall.  Cats seemed a bit freaked out and started meeping at 3am for attention.

Not a lot happening here today aside from rugby on the telly and an afternoon nap!

[galina]

And the same story here too.  Shed roof cover, torn big cloche cover, little cloches smashed, brassica mesh cage had lost its lid, which luckily got wedged elsewhere in the garden.  Both big cloche and cage were tied down in addition to their ground stakes.  And 5 fence panels and a couple of posts.  And the noise!  We do get bad winds here, but this was one of the worst!

OH is just checking satellite dish direction, as there is no signal.

Easing off here now too, very unsettling weather.  Scary gusts.

[ACE]

All safe now the Army has just arrived in a bloody great chinook. Cowes was underwater and some people have had to move out of their houses after a landslip. I've been lucky as I tied everything down yesterday. The garden has turned to mud, and a fence needs a nail or two. When I see what everyone else has had to put up with it saddens me to see their desperation. My small troubles are nothing, still can't find the wind propeller, must have flown miles away. Father in law slipped on a wet patch in his porch and ended up in A & E so I am on my own while the Yeti makes sure he can cope at home. He is very independent and will not move in with us. 

[pumkinlover]

OH is just checking satellite dish direction, as there is no signal.

Hope it was still there

[galina]

OH is just checking satellite dish direction, as there is no signal.

Hope it was still there

Yes just pointing elsewhere.  Thanks PKL