rosie Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 How is everyone getting on in this awful weather? We are doing ok here in the south coast. The tides are not so high although the winds are pushing the waves ever bigger. The forecast for this evening look dreadful over the west side if the UK. Stay safe peeps xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Today the sign into Wellow had another sign attached "Twinned with Atlantis" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I here its gonna get bad in Wales and England. Hope its not going to be so bad. Take care all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon_M Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 The weather is bringing out a plague of politicians to add to your misery. Fairly windy and stormy round here in Scotland, but nothing out of the ordinary summer weather....:blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff66 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 hope every one is ok sunday here looks ok gonna take ferret for a drive then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 Very bad here in North Wales, flooding and roads blocked with fallen trees, huge no's without power, phones not working. My son is cut off in the farm because of a large no of big fallen oak trees and he has no power at all. Serious because he can't get out to feed large no of animals and cannot get through to anybody, nobody answering phones just get music playing on the lines, very frustrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyFowler Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Sorry to hear of your problems Degsy , hope they get sorted soon mate ! Stay safe ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Oh Bloody hell mate! It's just so persistent. No grazing down here either. Ground is either waterlogged or churned up. Have you started lambing yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 Just got back from the farm, trees down all round the house and buildings but not hit anything just fences and destroyed a big trampoline and the children's outdoor toys, tractors, swings etc but at least nobody hurt. Took some enthusiastic driving in the Land Rover to get a back way into the farm via field ,track and waste land. The trees that are down are massive and until we can properly assess things in daylight tomorrow it's uncertain whether we can cut and move them with our own machinery. My daughter in law and the children were lucky for the second time in three weeks, previously a tree fell on a car just behind her today it was a car in front of her that was hit by a tree, both times on the main road close to my house. She and the children will now have to stay with her mother until we can clear an access and get power back on. thanks for your good wishes Andy and Tony, no not lambing yet, 2-3 weeks to go but I'm afraid it will be very poor again this year due to the constant bad weather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Just you and the family TAKE CARE!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 It's gonna take time.............softlee, softlee catchee monkey:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeferret Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Sorry to hear of your bad weather over there...A lot of us in the USA have snow and record cold problems....I hope everything settles down soon for everyone... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Has anyone used their MV for rescue purposes yet? There's a photo of a London tour DUKW on the BBC website. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Lets hope the weather changes soon Degsy, and be careful out there.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redherring Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Really sorry to hear about the flooding and particularly the loss of mature trees. I was slightly alarmed to see this photograph on the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26150788 On the other side of the globe it's dry and hot and we've been grappling with dozens of fires down here in Victoria for a couple of weeks now. Luckily not too close to our farm, but devastating for others... quite a lot of roast lamb unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Hmmm, having to evacuate back in 1995 because the riverdikes threatened to burst was a bit unnerving. But hearing your stories makes me feel bad for those afflicted. Stay safe and wear a helmet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosrec Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 just got back on line now no power 36 hours not flooding but gales. Frightening live in a newish house (13yrs old) it was creaking two trucks in yard flipped over one gone about 30 yards on its side (18 tonnner). called out to an artic with tilt on polish driver who had taken an alternative route due to traffic chaos and had ended up on lightly forested private road. so parked up. Tree started falling around him so pulled along road and when he emerged whole truck was blown bodily in to a field dropping 4ft down and clearing a dyke with no wheel marks gave the lads a right headache getting it back out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share Posted February 14, 2014 We got the road open yesterday, took 5 men with chain saws and a digger to cut a way through but we can still only walk to alot of the fields. Looking around all that can be seen are shattered trees with tops missing and huge branches ripped off and these are scattered over the fields hundreds of yards from their origin. Talking to a neighbours son who works for th Environment Dept who have a weather monitoring station just along the road, winds peaked at 108 mph, no wonder it cut such a swathe through the trees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 we just moved into a bigger house due to new baby but its high up over sheffield thats a good thing no floods but we take all the high winds been next to an open field ! all stay safe and batten down the hatches :shocked: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosie Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 we just moved into a bigger house due to new baby but its high up over sheffield thats a good thing no floods but we take all the high winds been next to an open field ! all stay safe and batten down the hatches :shocked: We've just had a flood warning. Our actual road has been mentioned on the warning!!!! High tide at 2330 astronomical high tide expected to be 1.76m along with a 1.12m surge. Force 11 winds just recorded to. Sleepless night coming up and not for the right reasons on valentines night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 so sorry to hear that rosie stay safe and hope all goes well ! :shocked: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosie Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 so sorry to hear that rosie stay safe and hope all goes well ! :shocked: To be honest we should be ok, we will be cut off for a while but shouldn't suffer much more. It's the wind that's the scary bit. We have a large tree in the front that has shifted and I'm worried will give in and fall soon. BUT that's nothing compared to what others have and are suffering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 yes i know hope the weather changes soon. bring on the sunshine and a new show season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 To be honest we should be ok, we will be cut off for a while but shouldn't suffer much more. .......... You should have let R3 buy that nice GMC pontoon rig c/w pontoons.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Just keep all your heads down! The wind is blowing a hooley around here, but fortunatley the ground is high and clear of major rivers. Just the run off underming feild boundrys and trees coming down. Apparently the water table has risen 21 meters in Croydon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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