Driving through storm Ciara to Ikea

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Can you all just give my DH a sense check. He thinks this is a sensible idea. We're in Yorkshire and the wind and rain here is biblical

My DH left at 6.30am this morning for Ikea........ But he works there!

Me and the kids have been nowhere today and for good reason! It's bloody awful out there. It was bad enough having to spend 10 minutes out in the garden sorting the animals.

An elderly woman near us got trapped in her car in floodwater up to the windscreen and had to get the fire brigade out to rescue her. He’s nuts.

It's just a storm though, it depends where you live.

The fields around here are still just field, wet and muddy but you are hardly likely to see cows flying around. It's not a tornado.

The forest however I would stay well clear of. The seaside too obviously.

More than popping to the local shops is unnecessary, you are more likely to be left stranded somewhere with flooded roads, trees on the way and all sort of crap blocking the way. I wouldn't enjoy spending my Sunday in the car waiting for rescue, so I wouldn't go!

I can only think people saying it’s fine don’t have the weather we’ve got here

There's an 80 mile hill race happening near me today...

...they are bat-shit crazy though...

I was in an Uber from Leeds to Bradford around midnight last night before it got this bad and it was pretty scary. I wouldn’t go out unless it was absolutely necessary.

No don't go.

I'm planning a trip to the supermarket later and I'm happy to drive but I live down south

We're going swimming! Windy here but not raining

No way! Enjoy the day indoors!

@JosefKeller erm some of us live at the seaside....

We’re in the South East and the supermarket delivery man was just late because a falling tree clipped the back of his van, apparently they are cancelling all afternoon deliveries. Very grateful I’ve got my shopping! Poor chap, he was quite shaken.

Depends how bad it is where you are. We're North Yorkshire, dh has driven to Doncaster today to go to a show with DD. It's wet and windy, it's not a hurricane and there isn't any flooding.

Quite fancy IKEA.

Just had a look on the AA travel map and there is a weather warning symbol just about over IKEA

www.theaa.com/route-planner/traffic-news/leeds

I live relatively near, and while the rain seems to have eased off a little, the wind is still too enthusiastic to be sensible.

btw is it YABU to ban your husband for going or YANBU to go to IKEA?

“ but you are hardly likely to see cows flying around. It's not a tornado.”

No. A 90 year old man was blown into traffic and died - obviously! - during the last bad storm here. Luckily my mum isn’t likely to go out today.

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I am aware of that, and I am sure the majority will avoid going straight on the sea front. We of course will always see the photos in the paper of the morons who will go pushing a buggy and take selfies.

I wouldn't stay under a tree either.

Sickofrain are you Michael Fish?

Our street is a river and the rain is horizontal, I like meatballs too, but not that much.

but you are hardly likely to see cows flying around.

Obviously. Everybody knows it's pigs that fly, not cows.

windy dammit, why didn’t I think of that 😂

Surely depends what your weather is like locally. DH is working today... On a dry ski slope. They are open. We just went for coffee in town- fine. Theres a few fences and branches down, but we've had similar winds many times this winter already.

Other places have a lot worse weather.

I’m still heading out on my bike and I am what it says on the tin (one handed) and 5ft, 32kg.

It’s a personal judgement call and can only be based on local conditions.. some reason here it’s pissing down at the other end of town but it’s just windy up our end. Managed a walk with chihuahuas and a buggy without any of us turning into kites, just common sense avoided the heavily wooded areas and river walks. Unless you’re a trampoline or a wheelie bin you’d be fine here.

Then again we were sent to school in knee deep snow or 90mph winds.. further north you go the more we seem to tolerate . I’ve seen some of these “flooded” roads on social media n it’s just the bit next to the kerb that’s bad. If we didn’t go out when our road done that we’d get about two weeks of outside time a year

Please don’t go, OP. You can see the weather is dangerous where you are. Don’t let DH be one of those foolish people who give the Emergency services a load of extra work and trouble by ignoring all warnings. Your instincts are right.

We're in GM in the NW and not going anywhere.
The wind and rain have been diabolical, rain stopped but still very windy.

dammit, why didn’t I think of that 😂

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