Driving through storm Ciara to Ikea

[RickSanchez]

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

I’m in Yorkshire. Looks like we’re about to be fully cut off.

Sandbags being deployed but looking fairly futile.

I live in Yorkshire and my nearest Ikea is Birstall. I would go.

It's not that bad out there. A bit wet but not gale force. I've just been to the supermarket and it was lovely and quiet.
There are a few trees down and a bit of flooding but nothing major

I wouldn’t. We’re in Leeds and it’s bonkers weather. Loads of the roads are flooding and the wind is unreal. Stay safe! X

From the description of where you are, no, YANBU.

No reason not to go out where I am, it's just windy and rainy (Bucks).

People's answers are obviously area dependent but only you know what's it like exactly where you are.

I've just got in from driving 40 miles home after a party. It was a bit wild and woolly but I kept my speed reasonable and gave HGVs a very wide berth. It was OK. Not sure I would venture out intentionally though.

Wow, is it really bad there? It's just a bit windy & raining in NE London so maybe let him go alone as pp said. Having said that, the cats taken one look & come straight back in twice, which never happens when it's time to patrol the borders!

In Leeds and need a chicken. Now I don't know whether to go, especially with the kids. It's windy but partner has just walked to the local shop and said it's fine (he doesn't drive otherwise I'd send him seeing he thinks it's fine)

I had no problem getting to work this morning. I drove rather than walk as I didn't fancy wind and rain together. One of other is fine but not both. It's not too bad here. (Nottingham) must remember to take the car home!

loose you NEED a chicken?

is it so you can do this?

It's just a bit windy & raining in NE London so maybe let him go alone as pp said

“It’s just a bit windy in London, so he’ll be fine 200 miles away” has to be one of the most delightfully bonkers leaps of logic ever!

I'm getting itchy feet and just about to walk into town.........don't even own a coat. I have put my thicker cardie on.

We're in South Cumbria, the land of horizontal trees so this type of weather is pretty normal to me. I don't take stupid risks tho and know the safer, less built up areas to walk.

Further up into the lakes is awful tho. Keswick is flooded in parts, I really hope we don't get a rerun of a few years ago. A lot of the businesses etc are still recovering. :(

I wouldn't go. If your husband is so keen, let him go alone. He'll no doubt be fun but nobody should take risks with children. Surely IKEA can wait until next weekend.

I am a junior parkrun run director and cancelled our event today like most others did. One local one went ahead and thought what a ridiculous decision by the run director and the people that took their children there this morning. What a totally unnecessary risk. We have an amber weather warning, why make unnecessary outings!

Ive just driven a 2.5h journey on the motorway to get home, but I wouldn't recommend it. On the other side of the motorway (M1 through the Midlands) there was an overturned lorry, and a really long stretch of queues because of blown down trees. It might look clear now but you don't know what could happen!

From the description of where you are, no.
Most of the day where I am it would have been fine to go out. Windy and rainy, but fine. But for about half an hour the wind and rain really hit. The rain was so bad that windscreen wipers could not have coped. If I had been driving I would have pulled over till it passed.

@Jumpjumpjumper

Blimey, how many accidents have it had?

It's not been too bad here at all (central London) but all the football lessons at park across the road were cancelled and we only went for a quick swim - so it was a walk not a drive.

Any excuse to say home in my PJs

Guessing you decided not to go.
We had to travel home to Bingley from Halifax this morning and had to go a very strange route due to lots of flooded roads closed. I wouldn’t go out unless I had to today.

Ok so I'm sat in the van (high sided vehicle) en route to Ikea, we have to cross the river Medway on the M2.

At least there's less traffic

This is not fun

We walked through it this afternoon. Dress properly and drive carefully and it's fine. We're hardly in the middle of a hurricane or tornado are we.
Good lord the drama over a small storm is ridiculous!

There are loads of flood warnings out for North Yorkshire so I wouldn't. Plus I think it's actually quite selfish - if your husband gets stuck or a tree falls on the car who is going to rescue him? Does he think it's okay that he puts the emergency workers in potential harms way for an unnecessary trip to IKEA?

Madness. I walked 30 minutes to church this morning and nearly got blown over.

My sister lives in Grasmere and works in Ambleside. She's had to do a job swap with a colleague who lives in Ambleside and works in Grasmere, as the road at Rydal is flooded.

It's a shop not a daycare centre. Surely you could find better ways to spend your day. I risk my life rescuing dudes like you. Sometimes I wonder why.

DH took Ds2 to the Metrocentre, this morning, but it's not so bad, up here. Most of our rain was overnight. Sun is shining, in Durham, at the moment. The wind isn't going anywhere for a few days, anyhow.