Nice people thread

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's one hell of a gale howling here. Horrendous. I won't be able to sleep tonight, with the howling gale and rain lashing ferociously against my window.

Yes, it's started here too....and sounds like it will get worse. I can sleep in a hurricane if needs be.

Now if I had that windmill generator thing....;)

Davesnave

sss555s wrote: »

Aint that Catherine Tait a tw*t

True story, I knew a girl whose second name was Titt. She wanted to become a teacher. :eek:

After some thought, and a teaching practice, she changed her surname to Tait.
She's still teaching.

treliac

Davesnave wrote: »

I can sleep in a hurricane if needs be.

Me too. Except when I became a mum 'their' sounds woke me up instantly. My brain now seems able to filter out unimportant noises, however loud, and I sleep right through and important noises, which wake me immediately.

Davesnave

I learned to sleep in a noise when I spent long nights at UFO & Middle Earth in the Camden Town Roundhouse back in the 60s. The main band would appear around 02:00 and finish around 03.30, so after that, many of us would roll out a sleeping bag and just kip in front of the stage, while a support act blasted out at full volume overhead!

Must have been a bit disheartening for the late performers!:o

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

It was yipee no snow ......and then the rain started.
A few days time I will no longer be able to walk against the wind and rain as it is so strong off the sea here.

If there's one thing I learnt from owning my house it was this: if you can see the sea from your house and you're in the West, the wind comes howling for 3000 miles, raging and racing across the Atlantic Ocean until .... the first thing it hits is YOUR HOUSE!!

I've spent many a night in the roof space watching the roof lift and wondering if it was about to disappear. On older houses the roof wasn't always fixed, but relied on the weight of the slate to keep it in place.... at 80mph I realised this wasn't as good an idea as it sounds ... and 80mph would happen at least 3x a year.

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

Yes, it's started here too....and sounds like it will get worse. I can sleep in a hurricane if needs be.

Now if I had that windmill generator thing....;)

Did you see my response to your wind generator posting, where I mentioned some chap (loony as it happens) who has developed what sounds like a bit of a winner solution ... as he's based near you?

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

Did you see my response to your wind generator posting, where I mentioned some chap (loony as it happens) who has developed what sounds like a bit of a winner solution ... as he's based near you?

Yes, thanks, and I responded to it. It's just one of a few ideas going around in my head.

I was thinking of something bigger, which has to be at least 75m from anyone's house. The idea would be to export electricity to the grid, but you are right, the coastal locations win hands down for viability. I have checked out my location here:

http://www.berr.gov.uk/windspeed-database/page27326.html


I'm pretty marginal.

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

I have checked out my location here:

http://www.berr.gov.uk/windspeed-database/page27326.html


I'm pretty marginal.

Mine is 5.7-6.9 on that site.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

Mine is 5.7-6.9 on that site.

That's quite high. Only 4.7 - 6.1 here.

Still, I'd rather be in a not-so-windy place, because a lot of it is destructive, and tiring too. We have very noticeable wind microclimates here, so some bits of the land stay pretty calm, while others are being battered.

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

That's quite high. Only 4.7 - 6.1 here.

Still, I'd rather be in a not-so-windy place, because a lot of it is destructive, and tiring too. We have very noticeable wind microclimates here, so some bits of the land stay pretty calm, while others are being battered.

I hate wind - it's weather you can't "dress for". I was awake until about 7am as I can't sleep when it's that wild out there ... I feel I have to be alert/ready in case some part of the house drops off or blows away - and I have to peer out of the window at every unexpected noise. Feeling kn4ckered this morning though!