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Storm St Jude...
Sounds like it could get ugly.
Some TOCs are planning on running an amended timetable (East Coast, c2c), others have one up their sleeves, ready to go (or not go, as the case may be). This afternoon might be a good time to go out and enjoy the splendid autumn colours - in southern Britain at least - might not have any autumnal leaves left on the trees come tomorrow, indeed might have fewer trees as well. |
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In message , at 13:13:57 on Sun, 27 Oct
2013, Mizter T remarked: Sounds like it could get ugly. Some TOCs are planning on running an amended timetable (East Coast, c2c), others have one up their sleeves, ready to go (or not go, as the case may be). This afternoon might be a good time to go out and enjoy the splendid autumn colours - in southern Britain at least - might not have any autumnal leaves left on the trees come tomorrow, indeed might have fewer trees as well. I agree. I remember the 1987 storm, and the smaller one in Jan 1990 which was actually more of an inconvenience (both for my personal transport needs and for domestic electricity supply). Like 1990, this one is apparently going to be in the daytime, which makes it more disruptive than the 1987 one which was at night. I've changed my plans and will be doing some errands this evening that were pencilled in for Monday morning, and stay at home tomorrow. -- Roland Perry |
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On 27/10/2013 13:25, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 13:13:57 on Sun, 27 Oct 2013, Mizter T remarked: Sounds like it could get ugly. Some TOCs are planning on running an amended timetable (East Coast, c2c), others have one up their sleeves, ready to go (or not go, as the case may be). This afternoon might be a good time to go out and enjoy the splendid autumn colours - in southern Britain at least - might not have any autumnal leaves left on the trees come tomorrow, indeed might have fewer trees as well. I agree. I remember the 1987 storm, and the smaller one in Jan 1990 which was actually more of an inconvenience (both for my personal transport needs and for domestic electricity supply). Like 1990, this one is apparently going to be in the daytime, which makes it more disruptive than the 1987 one which was at night. I've changed my plans and will be doing some errands this evening that were pencilled in for Monday morning, and stay at home tomorrow. In '87 I was woken by a crashing sound. The lights were out. I used my lighter to get down stairs to find a box of candles. A hundred year old apple tree had come down blocking the back door and French windows and the dog excitedly wanted to go out. Derek. |
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In message , at 16:37:02 on Sun, 27 Oct
2013, Derek F remarked: In '87 I was woken by a crashing sound. I was awoken by (probably) the sound of wheelie bins being blown down the street. No doubt they had been put out for an early morning collection. -- Roland Perry |
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Roland Perry wrote:
In '87 I was woken by a crashing sound. I was awoken by (probably) the sound of wheelie bins being blown down the street. No doubt they had been put out for an early morning collection. Did they have wheelie bins as early as 1987? I thought they came in a bit later. -- My blog: http://adf.ly/4hi4c |
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On 27/10/2013 22:37, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote: Roland Perry wrote: In '87 I was woken by a crashing sound. I was awoken by (probably) the sound of wheelie bins being blown down the street. No doubt they had been put out for an early morning collection. Did they have wheelie bins as early as 1987? I thought they came in a bit later. Exactly my thoughts on reading that! |
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In message , at 08:22:46
on Thu, 31 Oct 2013, remarked: In '87 I was woken by a crashing sound. I was awoken by (probably) the sound of wheelie bins being blown down the street. No doubt they had been put out for an early morning collection. Not in Cambridge then? Wheelie bins came in later that year. Brentwood, roughly in the middle of my time working at Amstrad. -- Roland Perry |
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"Roland Perry" wrote in message
... In message , at 13:13:57 on Sun, 27 Oct 2013, Mizter T remarked: Sounds like it could get ugly. Some TOCs are planning on running an amended timetable (East Coast, c2c), others have one up their sleeves, ready to go (or not go, as the case may be). This afternoon might be a good time to go out and enjoy the splendid autumn colours - in southern Britain at least - might not have any autumnal leaves left on the trees come tomorrow, indeed might have fewer trees as well. I agree. I remember the 1987 storm, and the smaller one in Jan 1990 which was actually more of an inconvenience (both for my personal transport needs and for domestic electricity supply). Like 1990, this one is apparently going to be in the daytime, which makes it more disruptive than the 1987 one which was at night. I remember being on the 10th (top) floor of the ICL tower block in Bracknell during the 1990 storm. I swear the building was swaying slightly - certainly coats on a coat-rack well away from the windows were swaying. And the aluminium window frames were rattling like crazy. I worked with a disabled guy who was allowed to park in a special place beside a 15-foot high 100-yard long brick wall that separated a path from the loading bay. That lunchtime he'd been out and found a lorry parked in his space so he'd parked in the normal car-park. And he was very glad - later that afternoon the whole wall collapsed, right onto where his car would have been :-( I noticed that when the wall was later rebuilt, it was much more substantial, with buttresses every so often and a double course of bricks with some through bricks - they were taking no chances of it every happening again. The 1987 one was very frightening: my house was a few hundred yards from the thick pine forest just south of the railway line between Bracknell and Ascot, and I could hear the crack and crash as one tree after another fell over. Interestingly, many of the trees had snapped off low down and then the top bit had landed, still fairly vertical, to one side, rather than them being horizontal as I'd imagined. I earned a lot of brownie points as I was one of relatively few people who made it into work that morning, having walked a couple of miles after deciding that the local roads were so clogged with stationary traffic that it wasn't worth even *trying* to drive. My wife was living in Worcestershire at the time (long before we met) and did not have a TV so she never saw a news report. And it wasn't until several months later when she say huge gaps in woodland when she went to visit somewhere in the south east that she even *heard* that there'd been a great gale and that it had devastated huge areas of woodland. She'd been far enough north west to avoid the effect of the gale and had never seen/heard anything on the news, though it's surprising that no-one she worked with, who may have seen a news, mentioned about it at the time. |
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Storm St Jude...
In message , at 14:12:21 on
Sun, 27 Oct 2013, Paul Corfield remarked: I suggest you check the weather forecast again. The storm is scheduled overnight not during daylight hours. I am amazed given the never ending hype about the storm that you've got the time wrong! I haven't, the winds have been getting later and later quite consistently. (The rain will precede the winds by a few hours though, but it's the winds that are more likely to affect transport and electricity). I've changed my plans and will be doing some errands this evening that were pencilled in for Monday morning, and stay at home tomorrow. I suggest you review your plans then. I suggest you re-check the forecast! The Amber Warning for London doesn't even come into force until 3am tomorrow morning. In the north of Cambs, the highest wind speed is at 9am (under the Met Office's 3hr granularity). 26mph gusting 45mph, which is quite a bit lower maximum than for London (eg 33/60 at Heathrow at 6am). -- Roland Perry |
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