Preparing for winter III

Confuzzled

kittie wrote: »

don`t give me met forecasts!! we listened to them last night and this morning and got a big load of washing done ready for the `sunshine`, what flipping sun? Its been raining ever since the machine finished

ahh well you need this site for knowing when to put washing out, i find it very helpful and normally quite accurate! http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

btw glad to hear everyone is ok, we got a lot of flat shaking last night but the lights never so much as flickered, still it was a good exercise for my daughter in emergency preparation. she said even though she was a little scared of the winds shaking the house so much she kinda enjoyed it... just wait til midmonth! :eek::rotfl:

Baileys_Babe

Confuzzled wrote: »

ahh well you need this site for knowing when to put washing out, i find it very helpful and normally quite accurate! http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

Thanks for the link Confuzzled, I feel I will be using that site alot.

mardatha

I just get a big grey triangle in the middle over the top of me!

tryingtobethrifty

mardatha wrote: »

Our village is getting money from the windfarms round about and buying a wee mini snow plough

Great minds think alike . I've been trying to get ours to do this too, or at least get some grit spreader to make the road safer when it's icy.

Confuzzled

mardatha wrote: »

I just get a big grey triangle in the middle over the top of me!

look on the left hand side, you need to put in your postcode then it gives you details for your area, the map shows moving weather patterns

yesterday the orange waves of clouds covered all of scotland!

LavenderBees

tugrin wrote: »

Lavender - when I first had cats we couldnt afford a carrier but we had a large canvas bag with a rigid bottom and used to take them (one at a time) in that. In an emergency something like that - you cant be bothered about feline niceties in an emergencies!

Thanks T. I think I'd just grab them both, shove them in the carrier and run. I'm sure they'd forgive me....eventually. It might take a tin of tuna :rotfl:

Hopefully, will never need to :eek:

Haven't caught up on the thread yet, but sincerely hope all our Scottish friends are safe and sound after yesterday. My, was it blowing a hoolie!:eek:

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update :eek:

http://www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=401&c=5

prepareathome

Thanks Kittie.

I think today will be spent stocking up, we came through Thursday with nothing more than the odd strong gust - I picked some lettuces Thursday morning and put them on top of the wheelie bin while I opened the door, then phone went and I forgot them, they were still there Friday night - hubby had noticed them but thought I must have wanted them there so left them and never said a word, he is like that my OH. It was son who came round for a bit at 7pm that noticed them in the dark and asked why they were there. Yet across the road wheelie bins were blown all over the place, really weird.

Farmers Market in the village High street today so think I will toddle up and see what they have as not been for quite a while ( keep forgetting its on)..

I will write a list of what I want to have in my stores to add to what I have and then can sit back and if the bad weather does hit us I know we will be ok..........only these past two years have we actually had proper snowy conditions, yet 10 miles away there can be blizzards, its weird really but why everywhere shut down for 3 days in March 2010 when we suddenly did have snow and lots of it, no one could cope, plenty of people had grown up without ever seeing more than a dusting here ( talking 50 approx and under ), up till then council only owned 1 snow plough, they bought another 6 last December and were glad they did. Its something I could never get used to having grown up in Scotland and being so used to cold snowy winters, did not seem normal at all.

I wonder if those two winters were a fluke and we will go back to cold, icy yes but not snow, but I have always and will always try and prepare the best I can lol, always seemed strange to friends here.

mardatha

Well we woke up to deep snow and its still coming, husband got up at 6 and it was very heavy then and it's still falling. had to go out and give the net roof of the chicken run a good "dunt" as it was sagging right down full of snow. Lovely to see a calm cool day with some real snow Will try and take pics when its light.

rachbc

my 13 yo son is supposed to be flying to Malaysia on 15th-everything crossed he gets out ok (and very glad its his dad and stepmum hanging around the airport with him and 2 under 3's for hours rather than me)