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scannerzer
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« on: December 05, 2013, 07:10:53 AM »

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 Sad
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« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2013, 11:32:40 AM »

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!!!
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« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2013, 12:43:30 PM »

Balmy down here , just thinking I may put a jumper on to go out though Wink Smiley Tongue
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« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2013, 02:20:47 PM »

 Tad windy here.

Just started to rain now although it's horizontal.  Grin
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« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2013, 03:33:25 PM »

We have had gusts up to 140mph in Scotland .
Here in the central belt of Scotland only about 90mph . Grin
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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« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2013, 04:37:39 PM »

looks like the site where my newly aquired seaside retreat is,, is going to be under water  at high tide .. Cry Cry Cry Cry Cry
they reckon its going to be the highest its been for 60yrs on that piece of coastline  Shocked

just my friggin luck Roll Eyes
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« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2013, 05:03:34 PM »

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
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« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2013, 05:40:00 PM »

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
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« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2013, 06:16:46 PM »

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
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« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2013, 06:23:52 PM »

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.
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« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2013, 07:18:42 PM »

To all those in the affected areas- stay safe folks.
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« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2013, 07:30:49 PM »

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  Roll Eyes(her birthday present last week ) Roll Eyes
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« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2013, 07:57:43 PM »

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
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« Reply #13 on: December 05, 2013, 08:32:28 PM »

Batten down the hatches & look after yourselves guys.
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« Reply #14 on: December 05, 2013, 08:58:52 PM »

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
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