Tomorrows storm upgraded to Red alert

[Accy cyclist]

I wonder what wind speed would be needed to blow my 'beer bottle' bin over? 🤔 I'll try to wheel it onto the pavement later, for its every 3 weeks emptying in the morning. It must weigh about 100 kilos.

 

[icowden]

Didn't see much of the wind myself. Started in the Cairngorms on Friday, with snow coming down thick and fast. Drove the hire car to Aberdeen (took most of the day with sledging, lunch and highland wool purchasing stops) - one of the scariest drives I have ever had (snow to the left of me, snow to the right, here I am stuck in the middle on more snow...) thanks to the hire car being on summer tires and no 4x4...

Half way to Aberdeen - flight cancelled due to Storm Arwen. Scramble to find airport hotel- have to book two rooms as kids are too old (teens) for pull outs and no family rooms. A bit later - BA books us in for a return flight on Sunday evening . Phone call to hotel to extend stay to two nights (whoop)!. A short phone call later we manage to get the flight moved to Sunday morning at 7:15am.

So - an impromptu day sightseeing in Aberdeen (well half a day, then we'd seen it all). And the piéce de resistance - our flight was the only flight that returned to Heathrow on Sunday . They were still cancelling flights today...

 

[Ripple]

Came to work after 4 days off and was very pleased to see that our little booth survived the storm on Friday. Bin is also ok. 👌
But there are an extra bin, 2 fire extinguishers, a bucket and a cigarettes bin next to the booth. Nobody claimed them back yet.

 

[classic33]

Came to work after 4 days off and was very pleased to see that our little booth survived the storm on Friday. Bin is also ok. 👌
But there are an extra bin, 2 fire extinguishers, a bucket and a cigarettes bin next to the booth. Nobody claimed them back yet.

They're yours if no-one comes to claim them within 40 days.

 

[fossyant]

I wonder what wind speed would be needed to blow my 'beer bottle' bin over? 🤔 I'll try to wheel it onto the pavement later, for its every 3 weeks emptying in the morning. It must weigh about 100 kilos.

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Blimey Accy, we fill one bin for a family of four adults every 4 weeks, and I like my beer and milk (drink loads of milk).

 

[fossyant]

Lots of branches on the canal this am, including another cut back tree that had fallen next to the one that fell down before these storms.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Getting about in Shrewsbury today:

Edit to add: this is due to the combined efforts of storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin. It didn't quite manage to match the record from 2000 but came fairly close.

 

[MontyVeda]

Getting about in Shrewsbury today:
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Edit to add: this is due to the combined efforts of storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin. It didn't quite manage to match the record from 2000 but came fairly close.

I think you'll find it's pronounced Shrewsbury

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I think you'll find it's pronounced Shrewsbury

Aaah, no, please don't start that.