Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

SingleSue

A short clip of some of our weather....the person reported he really struggled to get this coverage and eventually gave up as he couldn't stand up anymore!

http://felixstowenews.tv/?p=1357

vivatifosi

We get it worst when it is southerly too. We don't have the coastal issues of you and Sue,more an issue of not protected as at top of a hill.

At one point it was raining horizontally on the bedroom window, which made sleeping a bit of a challenge.

Still, at least we don't have American or Australian weather. Both make last night seem moderate.

SingleSue

I get the double whammy, coastal and top of a hill!

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

Still, at least we don't have American or Australian weather. Both make last night seem moderate.

It is hard to explain to people how much worse the storms are in Aus. A couple of months ago it was raining so hard that the electric cables outside our house were arcing!

Generali

The same beach today:

Generali

Well that's interesting.

I put on White Rabbit to listen to while I wrangled the Generalissimos off to bed. I got all sorts of great music as I, and they, faffed. We got a bit of Rolling Stones and All Along the Watchtower (Hendrix). Now I've got Stealers Wheel and next up seems to be Black Betty by Ram Jam.

I love the Twenty First century.

ETA: Ooooh, I've got Bad to the Bone after that.....B-b-b-b-baaad

zagubov

I usually sleep like the dead, but not last night. Got to walk the dog now. Wonder if anything's been blown over in the park.

kabayiri

I can normally go running through most weather patterns (except icy underfoot).

But yesterday was a weird old mix.

It went from nice sunshine to dramatic thunderstorm and lightning to unpleasant hailstorm, and then threw in gusts of wind to try and blow me in to the canal.

Come to think...I was probably on some new reality game show

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

I usually sleep like the dead, but not last night. Got to walk the dog now. Wonder if anything's been blown over in the park.

I just went for a run which became rather longer than I was planning it to be as there was a large tree down across the pavement and one lane of the Kingston by-pass and I had to backtrack quite a long way to be able to cross the road. Other than that just the odd branch down here and there and some extreme puddles!

ivyleaf

We seem to be unscathed, though part of next door's front fence (a little picket fence) has broken. The owner's DD lives there but is away, so OH and I propped up the broken bit as best we could and I texted the owner - they're coming to have a look at it tomorrow.

Last night at about 1 o'clock I heard car horns and lots of cries of fright from the nearby main road; there's now a car parked opposite us with two of its windows smashed and covered with polythene, so I wonder if it was on the main road and some roof tiles smashed into the windows :eek:

No trees lost just around here as far as I've seen; the big ones over the road have been cut down recently, and the ones which line a lot of the local residential streets are all ones which replaced those lost in the Great Storm of '87. All the local street trees blew down then, and were replaced with types much less likely to blow down (sorry, I can't remember what any of them are.)

Very glad we had our big sycamore taken down last year, as that would certainly have ended up in someone's roof last night :eek:

ETA DS said earlier on that the junction of the A2/M25 was closed because power cables had come down and were hanging over the M25.

Just remembered that Maggie is on the coast and on a hill, in the west, in the caravan! hope you're okay Maggie!