Anyone enjoy that racket last night?

[metalangel]

Man, Mother Nature went for it last night, I went to bed at about 3 and didn't realize just how bad it was until I looked out the front door and saw the long grass and trees at 45 degree angles in the wind!

More than ever before I was convinced the roof was going to be torn off Wizard of Oz style.

This morning there's a piece of plastic of what I assume is someone's guttering or something in my flowerbed. At work practically every rail line has either got a flood warning, actual flood, landslide or fallen tree.

Everyone ok?

[Bluepete]

I was up at five pooing it! Our house is at the end of two lines of houses, back to back. The wind funnels between those houses and hits the back of ours, right onto our bedroom window.

My SV was damaged years ago when a slate came loose, so every noise had me checking outside. The greenhouse undressed itself and I've only just found all the panels of plastic...

Just back in again, one roof panel just gone who knows where!

Bloomin wind.

Pete ;)

[Ibike12]

http://news.sky.com/home/politics/article/16141135

it only seems to be getting worse!! bikes away for a few days i think :(

[-Ralph-]

My neighbour in Scotland has one of these electronic weather stations, which mounts on the roof and a cable runs back to a digital display in the kitchen. It has one of these thingys attached

http://www.trutrack.com/wind_speed.jpg

Like an SV speedo, I suspect it needs some calibration :lol:, but it recorded a top speed of 112mph!

Actual calibrated weather stations in Edinburgh recorded 102 mph, that's not far off sea level, and and my house is at about 900ft, so I can believe the wind speed was higher.

[Kilted Ginger]

my streets a disaster, every house is missing tiles, house 2 down from mine has lost most of front roof, massive trees down everywhere. Currently at my dads as i've no elec again

[metalangel]

I'm reluctant to put my recycling bin (full to the top with festive bottles and cans) out tonight, especially after seeing a similarly full one overturned on the way in to work today.

Wondering where the heck that piece of plastic guttering came from too.

[carelesschucca]

I've not been out to check the house yet but I'm planning on putting a brick through the neighbours car window ever time its windy its alarm go's off this time it was about 5 in the morning!!!

Most annoying part is the bl00dy car never moves, he doesn't use it!!!

[DarrenSV650S]

We lost a couple more fence panels which I'm getting the blame for because I was meant to take them down after the last wind blast

[Bluepete]

I'd love to have been to the Singing Ringing Tree

4B0hGyKV9


Pete ;)

[missyburd]

It's times like these you become very thankful for garages where bikes can be stored safely. The wind was so strong on the way to work the SV was struggling to maintain speed when hitting it head on! Felt like it anyway.

[dizzyblonde]

Mortar has thrown itself off the front of the house, from under the slates. Thankfully the car wasn't there. So far the roofer has been up there three or four times since the beginning of December, replacing missing roof parts, so he'll be off up there again at some point.

The bus is still snug hidden behind the bushes, its cover has survived being blown off this time, oddly enough!

Next doors wheelie bin lid has been banging all night, and today, disturbing wee mans sleep, poor mites scared :(
My front door has finally given up, and its letting in more water than the Titanic, thankfully a new one is on order, and I'm just waiting for it to be fitted.


The funniest thing is, there is new housing by the council being built behind my house. They have two giant metal signs on poles waggling around like flags, precariously over one of the neighbours garages. I don't like him, since he blamed my bikes for scratches down his car(funny he parks right up against privet hedges), and hes only just rebuilt it......I've been wishing them to come crashing down into it for some time, but they are hanging on by a thread!

[Bluepete]

We were at a petrol station earlier. I was putting fuel in, a lady at the pump next to me had just finished.

Suddenly, a huge crash and bang and a six foot piece of metal crashed off the petrol station roof and smashed into the car next to mine!

Her back bumper was badly scratched but what made us shiver was the fact that if she had been still filling the car, the metal would have hit the lady, doubtless with a nasty outcome!

Pete ;)

[keith_d]

It was dark when I went to work, and dark when I got home. So I won't know 'til tomorrow, but I'm expecting to see next door's fence across my garden (again).

Keith.

[andrewsmith]

I knew that moster curry and the tour of the Stella brewery was a bad idea

Well we've seen bits of hoardings and signs go flying past work, and I've put off going and checking a load of duct filters until it dies down on Friday.
I dare not look in the yard and see what come off and landed near the bike.

[DarrenSV650S]

It's times like these you become very thankful for garages where bikes can be stored safely. The wind was so strong on the way to work the SV was struggling to maintain speed when hitting it head on! Felt like it anyway.

Did the wind change direction at some point?

[Biker Biggles]

There was a passing Saab squashed by a falling tree in Barnet.Occupant walked away.

[Bluepete]

There was a passing Saab squashed by a falling tree in Barnet.Occupant walked away.

Tree mendous!

When did he twigg something was wrong?

Did it hit the bonnet or the trunk?

Coat please!

Pete ;)

[andrewsmith]

Tree mendous!

When did he twigg something was wrong?

Did it hit the bonnet or the trunk?

Coat please!

Pete ;)

It must have been a sticky situation for the police and emergency services to deal with.


Taxi's already on its way

[jonny.boyd]

Looking like it's going to be much the same tonight!! What a windy couple of days!

[Bluepete]

Not slept a wink, howling gales around the house. The greenhouse is shagged.

Mum and Dad are on South Uist where the wind really knows how to blow, so a bit worried about them too.

Tired and jumpy.

[Shawthing]

No TV this morning!
Outside i see Aerial is pointing 90 degrees in wrong direction.

[missyburd]

It's taken me ages to get to sleep these past few nights, and much of last night and this morning has been spent locating and catching leaks in the house, the combination of torrential rain and gales is not working to our advantage at all, grrrr! And I have to think twice about leaving the house on the bike, now that really does try my patience :smt013

[BigBaddad]

Lost a ridge tile last night.......luckily I have spares.

[dizzyblonde]

I thought the house was going to take off last night. The bedroom ceiling I swear was moving. I live in a wind tunnel on our street, its rather exposed and quite high up. The amount of banging and clanging going on I'm surprised nothing isn't really damaged badly this time. Being so high, I've gotten used to having slates etc replaced over the last 12 years.....but I've never known it to be pretty much continuous for a month! The roofer has been up the ladder three or four times, and is likely to be going up again as a lot of mortar from under the front slates has dropped off the front of the house this last couple of days...thankfully not on the bonnet of the car.

Have to say that Dorothy and Toto weren't at the door this morning, and that sign for the building site is still attached to its pole.....damn :lol:

[DarrenSV650S]

I thought the house was going to take off last night. The bedroom ceiling I swear was moving........... The amount of banging and clanging going on I'm surprised nothing isn't really damaged badly this time. ...........I've never known it to be pretty much continuous for a month! The roofer has been up ...... three or four times, and is likely to be going up again..........

giggidy

[Bri w]

We aquired half a shed last night.

We're a long way from Kansas...

[Mr Speirs]

Our bin fell over this morning....idiot.

[-Ralph-]

giggidy

Beat me to it!

[DJFridge]

Well the two panels I had to replace just before Xmas are still there but there's a big ol' hole where next door's fence on to our front garden used to be. Bikes are both safe in the garage, luckily.

[keith_d]

I went outside tonight, my fence is down on one side and next door's is down on the other. Fortunately both fell outwards but I think I'll be replacing a couple of fence posts come the weekend.

[Davies]

Sucked! Lost covers all round and the bbq is on it's way to Richmond :(

[-Ralph-]

Fence panel down, back gate damaged. Glad I have a landlord :)

[Owenski]

At home the winds coming over the top of the valley which we're just the other side of so the house uphill to me is providing perfect shelter to my garden. Unfortunatly its also making it the final resting place for quite a lot of other peoples garden furniture. Next door has a compost bin they've never used, I swear its spent more time in my garden than his.

Interesting ride home yesterday too, a good 20deg lean on the motorway trying to maintain a straight track. Ended up cheating and finding a lorry to follow, tail gaiting a 12 wheeler is prob more dangerous than the wind though so not sure if it was a wise move or a cocky one.