Possible severe gales - part 3

[BabylonReturns]

OYBBK really needs a generator!!!!

Hope everyone is safe......

MrsM - its only luck that you werent hit by a powercut, an awfully huge number were.

My dad says he is fine. He sounds normal. I asked in-depth questions which he ha no problems answering. The nurse has given him a thorough check-over and they are getting him an investigate appointment with his GP. There is apparently a bug going, with fever, tiredness aches and pains.

I will hold off with booking any tickets until I know more. One thing is for sure, he is not on deaths bed or any thing. He is shaken and stirred, but fine. He has promised me he will call his best mate to have a good moan later.

thanks for asking.

Glad he's not too bad Quint

Horribly rainy overnight in Cambridge. Bloody cat driving me insane all night - wanted to go out but didn't dare, so slept on my head! The trees in our garden are wobbling but doesn't see too horrific. Little dd7 on holiday in the Norfolk coast - have had report that they will stay in all day !! I was supposed to go to London...staying in bed instead with a very bad throat :(

Branch just crushed a 4x4 a couple blocks away - Amsterdam

Glad you have been reassured over your dad Quint

a 17 year old girl was killed in kent

oh no :(

Anyone who thinks it was an over reaction:

bbc report poor girl was sleeping.

Just seeing reports of a man killed in Watford when a tree fell on his car.

Seeing houses crushed by trees makes me think that people only accuse others of overreacting when they themselves have escaped unscathed.

oh no manky :(

exactly right mignon. It was never going to be a uk wide hurricane. It was a nasty storm with fatal consequences.

MrsM - its only luck that you werent hit by a powercut, an awfully huge number were.

So I told him, OYBBK. And there is still next weekend to come. Also it is still F8 here which is not exactly balmy.
Hope you are getting back to normal now.

Really really heavy rain in Bristol - coming down like stair rods. Wind hit about 4-4.30 but nothing major.

Seeing the devastation caused on that link is so awful. Sorry for those who have lost their lives due to this. We have been so lucky here, but that is purely that, luck.

masses of trees down southern Britain, if you look on bbc travel news

Leicester signing in. Didn't think we'd had that much rain overnight until I had to do the school run and the road to DD1's school was closed due to flooding. A run that would normally have taken just over an hour has taken nearly 1 3/4 hours.
'Tis now bright sunshine and 10.5C.

Gosh, the Watford road with the poor man and the downed tree is about two miles from me. It is calm, clear and sunny now. I was going to go into town shopping but the bus goes up that street.

Newark seems peaceful. I have a small lake at the end of the drive but that's the norm for us.

Wheelie bins have been emptied and are still where they should be.

So sad about the people who died though

So where is the storm now? Are the timings the same as they were giving out yesterday. We are driving to Hunstanton but will leave later when it's passed over Norfolk.

OYBBK What's the long range outlook for next weekend looking like? We are due to travel abroad at the weekend and I'm really hoping there's not a repeat of the storms.

Trains not running but I was WFH anyway.

Wouldn't mind a short powercut as an excuse to not do any work... No, that's a bad wish because I'd just have to do it later.

OYBBK More mocking because I said Id got prepared etc. Extra milk in freezer, tins, candles, batteries for torches. Stuff we should actually have in as winter in coming.

To be honest they would be the first to moan they weren't prepared and I'd rather be able to feed my kids and know who to report a fallen tree to/power cut then suddenly think bugger should have been prepared.

Plus the damage upcountry shows the warnings were necessary!

And now deaths just makes me want to tell them to fuck off!

No No storms allowed next weekend please .I I have whole weekend of from dc as going to friends wedding