Manky Monkey Motors

we're in the middle of the worst storm that i remember since moving to this location 7 years ago ,wind are so strong i had trouble walking the dogs this morning,i was getting blown along,heavy rain electricty outages the lot. not a pleasant morning at all and i have 40 miles of motorway to go to work :(

take it easy, hope your return journey is ok, were on severe flood alert. be fun getting to working in the morning!!!! as the store is on a flood plane!!!

Balmy down here , just thinking I may put a jumper on to go out though ;) :) :P

 Tad windy here.

Just started to rain now although it's horizontal.  ;D

We have had gusts up to 140mph in Scotland .
Here in the central belt of Scotland only about 90mph . ;D
Just 2 hours ago I could not see out of my windscreen as the snow was blowing directly at it !!
Thankfully it only lasted for 2 to 3 minutes
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looks like the site where my newly aquired seaside retreat is,, is going to be under water  at high tide .. :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
they reckon its going to be the highest its been for 60yrs on that piece of coastline  :o

just my friggin luck ::)

coming home on the a12 through Suffolk cursing the driver in front doing less than 40 in a 60 zone until he rounded a sharp bend and ran into a fallen tree ,it could,ve been me ,thankfully the careful driver wasn't hurt and we managed to get the tree out of the way

my daughter lost her gate and fence in Leeds, had to go down the road at 5.00 am and battle it back against the wind

my daughter lost her gate and fence in Leeds, had to go down the road at 5.00 am and battle it back against the wind

thought you was on your travels

we've had plod round asking us to evacuate, my mrs is at work doing a lock down, i can guess what her answer will be. the water did'nt make it this far up the road in 53.

To all those in the affected areas- stay safe folks.

just had a phone call from my step daughter , she works at REEDS hotel near the humber bridge,,
the banks of the river humber have burst and the ground floor is flooded and they are all set on the upper floors waiting for the water to reside/retreat. or to be rescued .
but her car is floating somewhere in the car park ,,,its just had all new alloys n, tyres fitted  ::)(her birthday present last week ) ::)

Sorry to hear about all the bad weather and the way it has affected some of you monkeys,  but down hear in Gloucester we have had nothing

Batten down the hatches & look after yourselves guys.

made it to work and back ok so all good there BUT arrived home to find that 2 ridge tiles have blown off the house and landed in the middle of the roof taking every thing they hit out with them maybe another 20 or so tiles FFS just before chrismas...i knew it was a bad storm this morning windspeeds of 102mph recorded here

were sitting it out,sand bags piled up.  promenade on seafront flooded. river through town about to burst.

are you near the sea front then? hope alls well for you through the night ,it must be awful waiting to see if it will happen.

hope all the other monkeys also make it out of the storm unscathed...the worst is past use now

Sorry to make light of what's turned into a very serious situation, stay safe everyone.

don't worry...if you didn't laugh you'd cry  ;)

its all my fault  :D :D when i cleared ,wonderland,, i gave away an old speed boat i,d kept for years n, years and never used  should have kept it a bit longer  ::)

I am. She isnt. We were speaking on skype yesterday :)

NOAH !

we were lucky, some were not but did'nt get flooded till high tide this morning. at least it was daylight.

hope the damage is not too bad Pop,had you moved all your stuff out of harms way?

we'ed moved photos etc but in the end water was no where near us, but we had to do something just incase.

just had my step daughter here ,,her car survived,,just,, but was making a ,,sloshing sound,,, rear footwells need gold fish ,, spare wheel well full , chassis legs full,, sills full,, and i now has ,milky,, oil  ::) ::)

she said because it started when she turned the key it must be ok,,  ::) ::) ::) ::)

its got a two foot tide mark all the way around it  :o :o  and it ,,STINKS,,

ive drained everything i can and chanced the oil.
i,ll change oil n, filter again in a few days then all we can do is dry it out and hope..

I had that happen to a car once althought it was because of a fault with the car and not a flood, the smell is the hardest to shift not nice at all  :(

off to look at the caravan in the morning ,, ::)if its still there  ::)

could be the quickest large money loser i,v ever had  :'( :'(

Hope all is ok

caravan is perfectly safe and all ok appart from a loose guttering joint ...,,,phew,,,,

18 moths ago the enviroment agency added another wall to the flood defences along side the emergancy sluice gate control house at saltfleet haven (the river inlet and land drain outlet)
the walls 4ft higher than anything used to be and the water came within 6 inch,s of coming over the top of it , theres a little localised flooding about saltfleet village but no real heavy damage...
not like mablethorpe where a few low lying homes are flooded out,, hutoft carr ,, view point where the sea has been right over the dunes and the carpark is now 3ft deep in sand and washed up debris,,

skegness has copped it big style sea front huts are no more bowling greens and amusements are washed out and its even been upto the clock tower in the main street :o

but on the good news front .

the ,chippy,, at  chapel st,leonards is open for buisiness and doing good trade  pie n, chips was ace at lunch time  ;) ;)

Phew!

Glad to hear the van's still there Mike!

so am i would have been 15k down the pan :o

couple of the elderly locals have exchanged phone numbers with us and will keep us informed of everything and anything that happens. as they walk through the site every day rain or shine ..

great news mike,

get a dehumidifier in that car.

It's back gale force wind and it's snowing . How pleasant

lost the garage roof last night, well part of it. Both kit cars still safe, few damp boxes of tools, and water dripping off the fuse box! Then the storm was gone, moon came out, temp. dropped so a quick survey and back to bed. This morning it all looks worse then it did last night. New roof needed, probably a rewire, new consumer unit and empty the tools of water and damp. Big machine mart tarp is now encasing the shell so hopefully keep most of the elements out until I can afford a couple of grand to get it all fixed, Am I insured for storm damage? or will they try and wriggle out of this? Merry Christmas?

Blowin' a gale down here in the normally mild South last night too. Fingers crossed for a dry Christmas for everyone.

gutted for you coppersmith we lost some tiles from the house last week and i had to go out last night an tie down the roof of a shed at an empty property next to ours,more for my good than theirs.

hope you insurance don't try to get out of it that would be really unfair

Sorry to hear about what's happen to your garage, hope its not to long before it gets sorted, I got a tarp over mine

insurance man as been and reckons ::), no chance. The roof is over 15 years old and taking that into account etc. etc. etc. So I phoned my friendly builder and got a quote the wrong side of £2000, cash like mate. no paperwork, nudge, wink. So, the tarpaulin stays for a few weeks or that lottery win comes good.

not what you wanted to hear  :o :(

not indeed.what's being over 15 got to do with anything?

seems over ten years its then classed as "fair wear and tear". Several neighbours have been getting the same response but only on the garage roofs not on the house roofs that have been damaged. Flat roofs are only meant to last ten years according to bob the builder!

Sorry to hear about the garage roof.
If you get some good weather, it's not difficult to DIY, but at this time of year that may be unlikely.

I always understood that flat roofs should last 20 years!  Our garage one lasted a lot longer than that.

Ten years was always a safety margin,
If you got longer then you were lucky,
Today's method using fiberglass is much easier,
And simple to repair.