Preparedness for when

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Thanks greenbee, I`ll have a look outside in daylight. The wind has been in an unusual direction today and has, I think, whipped the rain under the window surround as I think that area wasn`t properly sealed, where it sits on the floor. I`ll have to wait for the storm to go over and look and then decide what to do finally. Normally that area is protected by an overhang

I came on to say about the head torch. Honestly I looked everywhere several times over for the headtorch. I gave up and googled how to find things and came across this youtube hypnosis video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUj8ktYFEJo

I listened to it with headphones, it finished and I went straight upstairs to where I had tidied away the dress I had hemmed, in a wardrobe. There it was looped onto the belt of that dress. I would never have looked in there. I am gobsmacked, just shows how the mind remembers things deep down

It is howling here, already scary wind, SW, sounds very loud upstairs. I may well sleep downstairs on the sofa tonight. That sort of wind wakes me all night and is very frightening. I bet there are scared people all over the place tonight, lots of areas in wales had standing water in fields, they are saturated

ivyleaf

Thanks for that link kittie. I was a bit nervous but gave it a go. Certainly very relaxing, and the strong wind isn't bothering me for now! I haven't found my kitchen timer yet, but perhaps very soon. I'll let you know if I remember where it is!

Just looked up and seen that the TV has lost the satellite signal. Not really surprising! Ah, it's come back now, but I won't be surprised if it goes again.

The front of the house faces South and I was wondering about bringing the recycling bins through the house and putting them out the back, but I've decided it's raining too hard

So sorry about your windows kittie.

Keep safe, everyone. I expect the trains into London will be up the creek tomorrow.

We have torches and candles, a transistor radio, and luckily a gas cooker. My elderly neighbour's house is all-electric though, so I'll be boiling kettle and heating soup for her if the power does go off. The ignition on the cooker is battery-operated as it's such an old cooker!


ETA I haven't found the timer, but I have remembered when I last used it, so that's a start!

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you made me smile ivyleaf. I still have no idea where the remotes are, I just keep seeing a box. Still chuffed at finding the head torch, which I put handy last night. I only lasted half an hour in bed,wind was so loud and slept 6 hours on the sofa, one of the upsides of having shrunk in height. The wind has terribly built up again

I had a couple of flashes of thoughts in my sleep re the water ingress. The main idea will be for me to get a deflector rigged up ie strong polythene, which I have and I will wedge it under the french door, which is part of the window system opening onto the bacony, which runs along the house. Wedge it and stuff it down the gap between balcony and house, so that it hangs from the base of the door over the wooden frame. It wasn`t much water but does spread through carpet

water kefir grains came on saturday, will start them today. May or may not keep them going, depends of effort/reward

moneyistooshorttomention

kittie wrote: »

Never more so that a widow who can cook, has a pension, own home and a car. I already had one lonely man at the door, saying how lonely he was :rotfl: yes and this woman wasn`t born yesterday. Age and looks don`t matter when it comes to money grabbing potential

Similar set-up to me these days then:rotfl:.

Actually - at our age I don't tend to think its any financial angle to it (at least not directly). What I do wonder is if women of our age are married by men our age (or older) in order to get a carer lined-up for themselves - rather than as a "wife" iyswim?

A same age group friend married a much older man that seemed intent on doing so and he came down with dementia very suspiciously soon after he had persuaded her to marry him. Now if someone you've been with all along comes down with a severe illness then that's one thing, ie the "for better for worse" etc stuff. But to come down with severe illness so soon (ie within a year) of having persuaded a woman to marry you does look rather suspect imo that he knew about it at some level and was lining-up a free live-in carer.

Obviously there are the odd few exceptions and I go "Aw! That's nice" along with everyone else when two older people meet and genuinely fall in love and get married and think "How nice for them to have a bit of happiness in old(er) age" (and I have a feeling we will all be congratulating someone on the Boards for this in years to come).

Re money-grabbing potential - I'm always conscious that I have been (and am) on such low income that a man would have to be badly off indeed to have less money (or even the same money) as myself. I've always had a "female" level income (darn it!) - so have always assumed a man would earn noticeably more than me. Well - my father would be earning somewhere between £30,000 and £60,000 pa these days if he were still working (and I suspect it would be nearer the £60k) - and hence I guess I've always had the assumption a man would earn quite a bit more than myself...so no risk of being wanted for my money if someone was on at least twice as much as myself LOL.

Just part of the fact I've always consciously known that my "blueprint" for "what a husband is like" was based on my father largely.

mardatha

Strong winds will drive rain through the tiniest gap - even double glazing. It hits our front like a pressure hose when the wind is from the south. I lay old towels along the windowsill to soak it up. Very stormy winter so far, I think we've had something like 7 storms so far- something like that.
I just want some decent snow, canny stand a winter without snow! But it's getting light a lot earlier now, 7.30 this morning.

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Morning all, no damage here but we're going to have to take out a tree which has cut free from its support and loosened its roots, no saving it as it's too far sideways. Shame but it's only a smallish sapling, been in for about 4 years so shouldn't be any bother to take out.

Hope you are all OK in the south, weather forecast says that 11ish this morning is when Imogen will be at her most potent in our neck of the woods. Lots of rain last night and high winds too but I've looked out from both sides of the house and can see no damage. Trouble is the amount of rain we've had lately will have made the ground so very soft that a very large gust could feasibly bring down trees easily. Roll on spring eh???

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right, going to make myself go to fitness class very soon, don`t feel like it at all

I cannot do any gap filling from the outside as there are no gaps, been out to inspect, it was the wind from that particular direction, so have decided on a solution. Rain was hammering on the window (unusual) and running down, somehow seeping through at the bottom, which is siliconed. I only need a barrier at the base of those windows, which sit on a wide wooden frame. Don`t want to fix anything permanent as normally perfect. So have ordered 100% waterproof nylon, to make snakes about 15 cm deep. I can get enough for all windows out of 2m and best value is ebay at £13.50 in total. Cordura and canvas products will be too heavy as I want it conformable. I will make 1 m tubes, to half fill at one end with sand. Sloppy sausages. That and the rope caulk will sort it. Pity about the carpet as water makes a dark stain but will slowly try dry powder to remove

Amazing how solutions come out of the blue Mar

Karmacat

The storm is forecast to be at its strongest around me at around midday today ... I already had a flicker of the power this morning, and last night when it was really blowy already I had my little torch in my pocket at all times. Sorted out my kitchen for the morning too - if the power had gone off at 10pm or so, I'd just have gone straight to bed, but I don't want to come down to a mess if I don't have to Reseated the loft hatch too, which had blown off its moorings!

All's well for the moment though.

thriftwizard

OH's office is one of the buildings that's taken a hammering; they've closed the road as the roof has become unsafe & there's no access. It's his day off today though! The water's over the wall & the road at Sandbanks, too, but I expect if you can afford a property down there, you can afford the insurance premiums!

moneyistooshorttomention

Just been out in all the gales - as I wasn't going to miss my fitness class either. It's at "you gotta be joking" level:( and the weather forecast for here tells me that is 56mph wind.

Think I got just as much exercise battling my way back through that wind as I got at class:cool:

Needs must - and hoping it will have died down before tomorrow's different fitness class.

Must keep up my new-found mantra of "3 miles or 30 minutes daily" (as in either 3 miles walking or 30 minutes workout).