Storm Boelo, how did you do?

[midlife]

Trees in the garden were waving around madly, a large eucalyptus was waving around so much it fell over. !

 

[katiewlx]

We stayed indoors it was very windy here, to my surprise a guy posted a ride he had done on the local Facebook group, 40 plus miles, how he stayed upright is a mystery.

yeah I stayed inside, seemed far too windy to risk a bike ride, but saw some people I follow on Strava had gone out, and one group even had the oh theres a fallen tree on our route try to move it, or carry bikes over it experience.

seemed quite alot of trees got blown down, but I only had a wheelie bin lid blow open.

 

[Exlaser2]

No issues in Coventry. It did stop my club dinghy race , but that was more a lack of talent and the age of the sailors . 😀

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

t did stop my club dinghy race , but that was more a lack of talent and the age of the sailors .

I haven't sailed for 10 years but when I did race committees were always absolute thst it's the skipper's decision whether or not to got out not theirs.

One national championship offshore 1 designs (38 foot racing) for a 2 day race, pre race briefing and race committee said they could not get the committee boat out in the gales so would be setting a start line from the shore. They explicitly reminded all skippers it was skipper's responsibility, skipper's choice NOT Race Committee's. I decided we'd sit out the race cos the gales were just too strong. Others did head out but within the hour one boat back with a broken boom, then 30 mins later another back with a crew member with a broken arm, etc.

And we were smug as we got no damage to boat or crew and only one more point (DNC) than most others (DNS or DNF).

 

[Accy cyclist]

It was horrendous! I drove on the unlit A59 on Saturday evening, heading back home. The lights were on when I drove on it this evening. Someone said they'd have been working on British summertime hours on Saturday, changing yesterday/Sunday to winter hours, hence them working this evening. Is this true, I do not know, but that busy unlit road on Saturday was bad! Not only no lights, but the rain was so heavy my wipers couldn't cope with it! I drove over something in the road, with my car lifting on the passenger side as it went over whatever it was! I then hit a big mini lake of water sending this tidal wave across the road hitting another car. I didn't drive on the A59 tonight, thinking the lights might've been out again, instead I went on the bus. 🙄

 

[Jenkins]

Had to go out shopping a bit earlier than I'd have liked to avoid the rain and the stronger breeze on Saturday morning.
Needed a warm coat on the spectator banks at Brands Hatch on Sunday.

Bit of a non-event really.

 

[Spiderweb]

Our power was restored at 4.30pm today after 32 hours without any.