Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Chucking it down here, but a disappointing lack of chunder and blunder.
Thunderstorms - anyone else being deluged?
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I was told that they went off in Hebden Bridge, but I didn't hear them in Todmorden and I was in all day. I think I can hear them from inside the house, especially at this time of year when I have 3 or 4 windows open.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
For heavens sake man! Your house wont float with the port holes open!
classic33
Leg End Member
Council leader has said that householders should do more to prevent their properties flooding, in case it rains whilst they're away on holiday.
OP
OP
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Pre-bedtime weather check. Looks like more rain, more thunder, more lightening and to cap it all some hail here in the SE Lakes tomorrow.
More turbo instead of the real thing tomorrow.
More turbo instead of the real thing tomorrow.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I used to sleep in the attic bedroom in my old house in Hebden Bridge. One summer many years ago it had been a very muggy night so I had the Velux window wide open. I got up next morning and went off to work.
That evening I was on my way home on foot in Hebden Bridge town centre when a thunderstorm suddenly let rip. The rain was coming down so hard that it was bouncing back up into the air from the ground. I took shelter in the doorway of the local Spar and got chatting to someone who was also standing there under cover. He said he was glad that he'd remembered to close his attic window before going to work ...
So, after sprinting home and getting soaked, I dived into the house and ran up two flights of stairs to find water gushing in through that Velux window! My duvet and mattress below the window had acted as giant sponges and absorbed a lot of the water, and the overspill had soaked the carpet but I had got there just in time to stop it going through the floor and bringing the ceiling below down!
It took me a couple of days to dry the bed and the carpet.
classic33
Leg End Member
You were lucky your bed was where it was.I used to sleep in the attic bedroom in my old house in Hebden Bridge. One summer many years ago it had been a very muggy night so I had the Velux window wide open. I got up next morning and went off to work.
That evening I was on my way home on foot in Hebden Bridge town centre when a thunderstorm suddenly let rip. The rain was coming down so hard that it was bouncing back up into the air from the ground. I took shelter in the doorway of the local Spar and got chatting to someone who was also standing there under cover. He said he was glad that he'd remembered to close his attic window before going to work ...
So, after sprinting home and getting soaked, I dived into the house and ran up two flights of stairs to find water gushing in through that Velux window! My duvet and mattress below the window had acted as giant sponges and absorbed a lot of the water, and the overspill had soaked the carpet but I had got there just in time to stop it going through the floor and bringing the ceiling below down!
It took me a couple of days to dry the bed and the carpet.
Still if the standing water came in that way, you'd have a few more worries.
Foghat
Freight-train-groove-rider
Had the mother of all thunder/rain/hail storms here in the French Alps last Thursday evening. THIS POST refers.
And this is just one result, of many, from it, the kind of problem that ended up curtailing the last two Alpine Tour de France stages:
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And this is just one result, of many, from it, the kind of problem that ended up curtailing the last two Alpine Tour de France stages:
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Water can get into the cellar of this house in very wet conditions. There is a small gap in the mortar between a couple of stone blocks near the bottom corner of the cellar where the water dribbles in. I thought about blocking it up, but the water dries up fairly quickly from the floor. I'd rather have that than a damp wall which might affect the room above.
I've just been down to check it. There is no standing water but the floor has a damp patch where water has been over the past few days. There isn't anything of value down there but the electricity distribution board and meter are on the wall about 1.5 metres up from the floor. If the cellar flooded that would be a huge problem, but 1 cm of water for a couple of days once or twice a year isn't a big deal.
I've just been down to check it. There is no standing water but the floor has a damp patch where water has been over the past few days. There isn't anything of value down there but the electricity distribution board and meter are on the wall about 1.5 metres up from the floor. If the cellar flooded that would be a huge problem, but 1 cm of water for a couple of days once or twice a year isn't a big deal.
Nigeyy
Legendary Member
- Location
- Massachusetts, USA
Still light outside, 33'c and clear. I'm hoping I missed all those thunderstorms.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
You won't be getting ours but we might get yours in a week or so, once that pesky Jet Stream has blown them over here!
Nigeyy
Legendary Member
- Location
- Massachusetts, USA
You won't be getting ours but we might get yours in a week or so, once that pesky Jet Stream has blown them over here!
cookiemonster
Legendary Member
- Location
- Hong Kong
Yup. Getting the tail end of a typhoon. Not much wind but, boy, is it hammering it down.
We had some thunderstorms yesterday. The dog dashed to the window and barked at them and then looked at me as if to say, look this is important big noise, come and look. So he wasn't satisfied until I got up and went to the window with him and assured him there was nothing there. Low growls continued to emanate every time there was a peel though.
