JeffHs
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 03:45 PM |
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Windy!
Anyone else had wind damage? Just finished chain sawing and removing our huge blue spruce from neighbour's drive. Lucky, only damage is a phone
line - missed cars and caravan, didn't kill the postie!
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r1_pete
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 03:49 PM |
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Pity it missed the caravan 
Seems quite a lot of trees down between Chesterfield and Matlock, couple of issues on the M1 J28 to 29a....
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AndyW
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 04:03 PM |
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We had a crisp packet blown into our garden. Now I have to go out there, pick it up and put it in the bin.
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owelly
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 04:05 PM |
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I saw a dog get blown inside-out this morning. It looked like a barking rubber glove.
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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hughpinder
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 04:14 PM |
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Just been asked to stay at work - looks like the site will flood due to high tide and storm surge appearing at the same time, and we'll have to
shut the plant down, including our power station and isolating the mains incomer (20MW), so that will be fun!!
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Andybarbet
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 04:15 PM |
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Heading back from a job in cumbria to north london, M6 shut both ways.
Seems its windy enough to blow 7 1/2 tonne lorries over :-(
Give a man a fish & it will feed him for a day, give him a fishing rod & you've saved a fish.
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sdh2903
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 04:50 PM |
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My 8ft trampoline ended up in another county, well it certainly felt like it carrying the bloody thing half a mile through the farmer's field
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Davey D
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 04:55 PM |
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I live in grimsby, but our workshop is on Immingham docks. Weve been told by ABP that the water will come at least 200mm higher than the quay side :-o
Weve tried to stash as much of our gear as possible up out of the way, but in a large engineering workshop there is only so much you can move :-(
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trextr7monkey
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 05:08 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Andybarbet
Heading back from a job in cumbria to north london, M6 shut both ways.
Seems its windy enough to blow 7 1/2 tonne lorries over :-(
Yeah school buses running late, part of dinner hall roof blew off so local baker knocked up a couple of hundred Cornish pastes and sandwiches. Weather
station on Art block roof picked up 60 mph gusts at about 10 am
atb
Mike
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14016102@N00/ (cut and paste this dodgey link)
Our most recent pics are here:
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ste
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 05:43 PM |
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My BBQ got blown over and landed on the front side, luckily the handle has protected the knobs from damage. covered in crap now as the cover has blown
off too. 
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daniel mason
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 06:39 PM |
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pretty bad up here today! we were working right on the coast and the house got battered all day by spray from the waves. was quite good to watch
really
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adithorp
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 06:44 PM |
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Walked the dog 1/2hr ago around the local country park. From the top you can see as far a Wales on a clear day. Tonight I could see the lights as far
as the other side of Manchester, so probably 10-15miles Was a bit windy but not too bad. Then in less than 30 seconds viability dropped to zero and
we were in a full on white-out blizzard and could hardly stand up. Lasted 5min then stopped as quick as it started.
Saw 2 large trees down at lunch time as well. One was snapped off half way up the trunk.
"A witty saying proves nothing" Voltaire
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plentywahalla
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 07:13 PM |
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I had a wasted day. We were due to refloat a sunken barge in the river today on the top of the spring tides. It was all arranged with a tug and
salvage pumps etc. but the tide never came in!
The river floods east to west and the wind held back the tide, and it was actually 1 metre BELOW prediction, not 1 metre above as all the pundits were
saying.
We will have another go tomorrow, and if the same thing happens then the barge will have to stay where it is for another month or so. Its a bu**er as
I only get paid for success.
Rules are for the guidance of wise men ... and the obedience of fools. (anon)
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 07:18 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by owelly
I saw a dog get blown inside-out this morning. It looked like a barking rubber glove.
As originally said by Mike Harding, circa 1980! 
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JoelP
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 07:20 PM |
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I've got a ridge tile embedded in my front lawn, that would have hurt! Also rubbish everywhere from bins going over.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 07:23 PM |
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It's not looking good on the East Anglian coast - the BBC reporter was shown in the upstairs of a pub in Wells-next-the-sea, and what should
have been seen behind her was the road over the sea wall - all that could be seen was sea. Later on she said that she had been told to leave the pub
as the downstairs was deep in water! This was several hours before high tide.
Many thousands of people have been told to leave their homes - any that decide to stay have been asked to sign papers to say that they've been
told the risks...
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Dualist
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 07:47 PM |
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Reached high tide here in Boston and it's started to flood at about 19:15.
Rotary build coming soon...
quote:
Originally posted by RichardK
I recently discovered that pigs can p i s s sideways when being transported 
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owelly
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 11:48 PM |
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The wind brought some water with it....
 
Whitby 5th December 2013.
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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iank
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| posted on 5/12/13 at 11:56 PM |
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Large pear tree managed to precisely hit the middle of the shed (missing my house and the neighbours fortunately)
Shed is dead
 
treevsshed
[Edited on 5/12/13 by iank]
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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slingshot2000
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| posted on 6/12/13 at 12:26 AM |
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We had a couple of hours flying a kite over the newly scrape neighbouring site for 220 new houses !
Flat as a witches t1t, and no hedges or such!
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Matt21
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| posted on 10/12/13 at 08:11 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by owelly
The wind brought some water with it....
Whitby 5th December 2013.
Whitby was hit very bad from what my gf showed me, she works at the new weatherspoons and it was bad there!
it was a bit windy out where i was too.....
115mph gusts recorded and 9m waves
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daviep
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| posted on 10/12/13 at 09:47 AM |
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^^^^ Is that the Claymore?
“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.”
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Matt21
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| posted on 10/12/13 at 10:15 AM |
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it certainly is
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daviep
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| posted on 10/12/13 at 10:30 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Matt21
it certainly is
Surprised it hasn't fallen in to the sea yet 
I've not been on it in the last 7 years but it was a rotten dirty dark hole then. CAPP was quite nice though.
“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.”
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Matt21
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| posted on 10/12/13 at 10:33 AM |
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it still is!
the management are ruining the place too, iv been here 2 years and its gone downhill so much!
and because of them pissing people off theres all sorts of crap going on to make the place even worse!
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