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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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To bloody hate wind

24 replies

dougierose · 31/03/2015 23:50

It's blown over plants in the garden, my wheelie bin, it's blown over lorries on bridges and it's howling down my chimney, making the extractor fan slam, it's opening doors and is howling through my roof so I'm worried about losing roof tiles.

And worse, I've been reading that thread about old houses and ghosts.

What is the wind FOR?? Why do we even have it? It's like the wasps of meteorology.

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Sheitgeist · 31/03/2015 23:55

Ah, just read your title and came on to suggest a spoon of bicarbonate of soda in water.

As you were.

TheFirstOfHerName · 31/03/2015 23:55

Pollination?
Dissipating horrible smells?
Drying clothes?

MrsTerryPratchett · 31/03/2015 23:56

I love the wind. I once lived somewhere very still and we used to go out when it was windy just to throw our arms out and enjoy it.

How would we have started to explore the oceans without it?

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dougierose · 31/03/2015 23:59

A gentle breeze I can handle. Howling gales are different.

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dougierose · 01/04/2015 00:00

Sheitgeist I wish there was a like or favourite button!

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Tubbytimmy · 01/04/2015 00:01

I love the wind spent a nice afternoon in the park in the wind

Sheitgeist · 01/04/2015 00:11

Actually, I do quite like the wind (i.e. the meteorological phenomenon). Its lovely here in the country and can add a bit of atmosphere.
However the winds last night as I lay awake in bed though were pretty scary. And my cat was out so I was worried he'd get blown somewhere out of his usual range and get lost.

Still waiting for someone to come on and explain the science part to us!

MrsTerryPratchett · 01/04/2015 00:14

Without wind there would be no weather. There's your science

Also, I hung a duvet out today and it was dry in about 10 seconds so yay wind!

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dougierose · 01/04/2015 00:20

Yes but no but... i hung a duvet cover out and it ended up right at the bottom of the garden. Wind that doesn't blow your umbrella inside out is fine. Wind that doesn't lift you off the ground is fine. But wind that uproots trees is irksome. And on that note, i am going to bed xx

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TheCowThatLaughs · 01/04/2015 00:32

Something to do with high pressure and low pressure??
A gentle breeze would be nice instead of a howling gale though

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 01/04/2015 01:02

Its getting windy here again. Its making the patio door rattle.

EstRusMum · 01/04/2015 01:12

Arrghhh! Wind nearly tipped over pram with my 3 months old DD in it. I was genuinely afraid for her safety at that moment. Luckily Bugaboos have wrist straps and I am paranoid, so use it every time. Otherwise she would've ended up on the ground, possibly injured.

EstRusMum · 01/04/2015 01:13

Oh yeah - YANBU

MyArksNotReady · 01/04/2015 01:26

The bin was blown over this morning too here. I also found my knickers under a tree. I hadn't heard the weather for cast and left washing out overnight.

UncertainSmile · 01/04/2015 01:39

I also found my knickers under a tree.

That'll be the pixies again.

daisychain01 · 01/04/2015 03:54

Does the wind have something to do with the phases of the moon?

I came on here to say I had such bad trapped wind I had to call NHS Direct as I thought it was appendicitis. Serious stuff this wind yknow.

AnnaFiveTowns · 01/04/2015 06:26

Yanbu. The bastard's kept me awake for two nights in a row now.

ladylily29 · 01/04/2015 07:40

The wind just knocked over my rabbit hutch. Just rescued two rather traumatised wee beasties from inside.

vinoandbrie · 01/04/2015 10:14

The TV aerial has come off our roof, and is clattering about outside DD's window at first floor level.

I have called someone to come and reattach it, goodness knows what it will cost, grrrr wind.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 01/04/2015 11:23

On the plus side. Its making washing and drying easier.

maninawomansworld · 01/04/2015 11:33

YABU to hate wind. Wind is what drives the weather systems across the entire planet so it is pretty much one of the most important things there is. It governs our entire global climate.

However YANBU to hate destructive, high winds.
I hate exceptionally high winds too. I spent most of yesterday fixing the roofs on my stables, chasing tarpaulins that had blown down the fields and cutting up a couple of big trees that had blown down (still at least I've got several years worth of firewood stacked neatly in the barn now)!
This afternoons fun involves mending a couple of wind damaged fences then I can get back to what I was supposed to be doing before the wind caused me 2 days worth of extra , unneeded, work!

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dougierose · 01/04/2015 22:32

And, I should add, it whoooood through the house making Wooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo noises.

I love hanging washing outside, especially when it smells so lovely afterwards. But not when it sends your knickers off on its travels MyArksnotready - that was hilarious!

Apparently 9 people across Europe have died during the past few days through wind related incidents.

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avocadotoast · 01/04/2015 22:50

YANBU. We live on the end of a street at the top of a hill and it is so windy here it sounds like the house is going to fall down. We have to keep our bins chained to the wall so they don't blow away! So annoying.

nocoolnamesleft · 02/04/2015 01:51

I live on the Cumbrian coast. The wind conditions are:

Bit breezy
Ordinary gales
Proper gales
Blowing a hooley

Currently just ordinary gales - wheelie bins only blowing over, not away, large branches down, or shrubs, but no decent sized trees, no trampolines made it over the 6 foot fence...now last winter was windy. The roofers had a very good year.

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