Preparedness for when

fuddle

Candle stick, candles, tea lights, matches and lighter out. Sunnan lamp charged out. Flask coffee filled. Hot water bottles filled and in beds. Phone charging.

Anything I've overlooked with regard short term electricity loss?

parsonswife8

All hell's broken loose here in North Kent. The rain is pelting down and the wind is gusting. Trains from London into Kent have been cancelled in a lot of cases. The Dartford Bridge is closed.


We're on an amber alert.


Stay warm and safe everyone.

mardatha

Not sure about in towns fuddle, but up here if the elect goes off then so does the mobile phone signal...so if you ever get a chance try and get an old-fashioned phone that goes into the wall socket.

GreyQueen

Evening all.

My goodness, but it's getting steadily worse as the hours go pass. I visited with SuperGran and another friend after work, never more than 5 mins from home but was walking past some big trees which were groaning and flailing in the wind. Funny how I've walked past them so many times and never noticed that they're really BIG. Quite worrying. Expect they'll be some more people calling in downed and listing trees to us at work tomorrow. As for panel fences - those beggars will be flying tonight.

Rush hour is murther out there plus crazy people are out shopping still. Pal needed a few bits for the christmas bake-a-thon but I persuaded her to improvise, it's no joke out there. She decided to stay indoors.

Really glad that our big communal wheelie bins are padlocked into brackets. I think it's done to stop idiots shoving them in the nearby river, but it's useful in high winds, too.

thriftwizard, glad you're hanging fire on your trip until daylight, much better to see what's about. And, hopefully, some of the people about now will have reached their destinations and bunkered down for the season.

Hoping that those who have to be out and about keeping the rest of us safe are themselves safe at night. One of SG's close rellies is a paramedic, so they're out tonight. And I always have the greatest awe for the lifeboatmen, they're remarkably brave human beings, as are all those who put themselves in harm's way to help strangers.

parsonswife8

My DIL is stuck up in London as trains are cancelled by the minute. Hope she manages to get something soon.

VJsmum

OH just gone to fetch DD from her friend's. Will relax a little when they get back. Keeping fingers crossed the sea defences hold in the Isle of Sheppey and this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery

doesn't decide to blow today :eek: (to be fair she has survived worse!) THen the S really would HTF - if there were one left for it to hit.

we were in N Wales over the weekend (celebrating my "significant birthday" of last week ). The winds up there today are reaching 80kph, and one poor woman has died already Was woken with a start at 2am yesterday thinking a bomb had gone off but it was a MASSIVE clap of thunder and lightning almost simultaneously. took a while for the old adrenaline to dissipate.

I am pretty much ready for Wednesday. Anything not got can stay not got, just some tidying and sorting and wrapping to do. Kids are having pizza too, fuddle, HM lasagne from the freezer for us as I needed the space. A nice plain thing to have before the onslaught of rich food, I feel.

Have got the dreaded mouth guard, worn it for a few hours on and off today. Crikey it's made my face ache so it must be doing something. No one could tell I had it in. I also got the casts of my teeth, so some fun to be had with those, I feel :rotfl:

Might have a glass of wine later - just to make a space in the fridge, y'unnerstand.:p

boultdj

I'm not looking forward to going to work tomorrow,2 of the road's I use were starting to flood on the way home today, still on the plus side I'v got xmas dinner sorted for when I finish work on wensday it's all in the freezer and just need to nuck it in the microwave.

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Still no wind to speak of here, and the rain has stopped too.

GreyQueen

Just spoken to the family across the region. Wild Thing, their can't-bear-to-be-indoors cat has turned tail on the doorstep and is refusing to go outdoors this evening, it's that wild out there.

People, if WT won't go out in it, it's officially vile weather. She doesn't quail from snow, pouring rain or almost anything else.

I'm now playing bag-packing and eating random stuff from the fridge. Will have to eat pasta-thingy up and may well follow it with oven chips, just for lazy comfort food.

Hope family members come back without delays and anyone who is out in the next few days has safe journeys.

mardatha

It's my birthday today so we had a lovely birthday/pre-xmas dinner and sampled the trifle I think we sampled it a wee bit too much.. but it will give me something to do if the power goes off again tomorrow. make another trifle