We've been battered down here, 90mph gusts from three this morning till about mid-day when it eased a bit. Still reaching seventy now and only gradually subsiding through tomorrow. All the bus services were cancelled and no trains ran all day.
We have got away with one fence panel destroyed and a section of vertical blind torn apart after an unsecured window in the conservatory got sucked open by the passing wind. If it had been from the other direction the window would have been torn off it's hinges.
Saw one house that lost it's roof, tiles and slates gone elsewhere and debris all over the roads. It got very frightening at times, waiting for a crash to tell us something major had been dislodged.
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Fortunately we moved orf Bodmin Moor last week so It's not so exposed where we are now.
Went out for a walk earlier, didn't see anyone else or a single car.
Speaking to a chap out yesterday who was walking his Portuguese Water dog, reckons the snow was 4ft deep here 2 weeks ago!!
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Our decorative metal goose is on its side and an empty plastic flower receptacle appears to have moved to the wrong end of the garden.
Maybe more seriously, the flat roof appears to be leaking (again!)
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>> Fortunately we moved orf Bodmin Moor last week so It's not so exposed where we
>> are now.
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It seems only a short time ago that you had moved in to a new house on the moor Dog?
Didn't you like it?
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>> Didn't you like it?
I think he fell out with the heat pump...
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Blowy as hell all night, few twigs in the garden and the last remnants of the squirrel's dray in next door's walnut tree gone.
Rained too but hopefully not enough for floods to return.
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Yes wild ole night in the Surrey burbs, everything seems to be in tact in the homestead, tho the local gossip is of a few trees down across minor roads and footpaths.
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>> Yes wild ole night in the Surrey burbs, everything seems to be in tact in
>> the homestead, tho the local gossip is of a few trees down across minor roads
>> and footpaths.
We had reports of a tree down on one of the local minor roads which is currently seeing more use than normal due to closure of a weak bridge over the West Coast Main Line. Soon gone I think.
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>> >> Yes wild ole night in the Surrey burbs, everything seems to be in tact
Errr. I thought so but.........
We have two HV power transmission lines about 200 metres away, I have looked at these things for 35 years. Two pylons from separate circuits are visually in quite close line of sight, One is an L6d type, the other an L12,
The visual angle between the two has now changed, and the insulators are now no longer hanging perpendicular. One or both have twisted slightly.
I wonder if a quick call to UK Power Networks will see the yellow chopper out?
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Very blowy here over the last couple of days.
I was taxi service to Miss and Mrs Z last night, picking them up at a rural station after they had a day in London seeing a show.
There were numerous small branches in the road and a small log in the unlit main road between the towns which you had to swerve to avoid. I did report it in case it caused an accident.
Our patio set has been blown over, but I don't think there has been any other damage.
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Well CS, we've got a heat pump here too :) A Samsung this time, the last one was a Daikin Altherma.
ASHPs are ok in new builds, or well insulated properties ... with a wood burner!
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Too windy up there and MD was right about new builds being made of yogurt and soft cheese, plus it was a semi and we've always had detached, apart from flats in London.
We're in a place called North Petherwin now - very rural and quite nice, plus it's got an 8kw Burley Carlby wood burner :)
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Storm Darragh - Dog
