Tomorrows storm upgraded to Red alert

[classic33]

I will took the bin inside the back garden as soon as it will be emptied.

You don't want to join in the great bin hunt!

 

[Ripple]

Nope.

 

[Time Waster]

Forecast here in South lakeland has 35mph as max wind on Saturday. Not really much of a storm up here if that's true. I think we might go camping in the van if that's all its got!

 

[classic33]

Nope.

Stay safe, whether you join in or not.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Going for a pint with a pal,might put my big coat on.

Yea Gods - is it THAT bad???


I mean - they are telling southerners to stay indoors but seriously - BIG COATin the North?????

 

[Alex321]

It's hard to believe what's coming at the moment as the weather is so calm outside.I suppose it's the old saying "calm before the storm"

I'd always thought the calm before the storm was just a figure of speech. But it really is this time.

 

[Alex321]

To add more fun it's bin collection day tomorrow in my town.

Ours would be, but our council (Vale of Glamorgan) have told us no collections tomorrow, they hope to do it over the weekend instead, but we should check the website for when.

 

[presta]

the ice cream shop / cafe they'd been in had vanished entirely

In 1987 there was a transport cafe in a caravan on the A12 at Kelvedon. After the storm all that was left was the axle and floorpan chained to the ground next to the layby, all the superstructure and contents had vanished without trace. (I've just seen it's still there after 34 years, but in a more substantial shipping container now.)

I drove home through that storm. I don't have any recollection of it buffeting the car particularly, but the road was covered in carpet of twigs and debris blown from the trees. It blew our greengage tree down at the bottom of the garden, along with the TV aerial, and the dustbin vanished never to be seen again.

We have alot of delivery's coming in tomorrow all on curtain sided lorry's on a very exposed area at work.
These things are extremely dangerous to open in high winds. The ratchet clips and poles are lethal when the wind gets under the curtains and are impossible to hold onto once undone in high winds.

I drove up to the Lake District for Xmas one year, and there had been a hard frost cold enough to freeze the puddles that had collected on the rooves of fabric covered trailers. On the way up the motorway the airflow was getting under the ice, and heaving slabs the size of manhole covers off the back. Not a day to try tailgating unless you wanted one through the windscreen.

 

[presta]

Ours would be, but our council (Vale of Glamorgan) have told us no collections tomorrow, they hope to do it over the weekend instead, but we should check the website for when.

Ours is due too, but I don't know whether they're coming.

 

[slowmotion]

Spookily calm in London W14. The incense is rising in a single thread into the sky. Hysterics are being sorely disappointed.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I don't think CC has any members who live on the Scilly Isles, but if I'm wrong and there is a such a member online as I post,......is it here yet? 🤔

 

[Roseland triker]

Hooning now
Waves are bashing the buildings in the harbour as it's just about high tide.
Probably blowing around 60mph at the moment

 

[johnnyb47]

Still quite here but the barometer has dropped like a stone overnight

 

[Roseland triker]

My windows are flexing a fair bit and the woodburner is humming it's tune

 

[Roseland triker]

Delivery lorry has made it to the co-op so at least we can get some wine