Hows the wind damage?

[Biddlesby]

Just wondering how the wind damage is across the country. College is littered with some quite large branches, but nothing too dramatic.

Whoops noticed these threads:

 

[leon-b]

our fence got blown down and a 30 ft metal chimney nearly hiy my dad as it fell down
leon

 

[copper_head]

Seems to be raining roof tiles over here!

 

[leon-b]

yes where my dad works the slate roof tiles were flying off, i saw on the news that 7 people have been killed today
leon

 

[ilan]

Bit of felt of the flat roof on our extension pain that will be fence is rocky as well next door has one of those weather stations wind speed 50 mph in london think it was 90+ of the iow and 70+ inshore Sad tho a number of people been killed .

 

[Biddlesby]

Killed? That's terrible.

[edit]Sorry to go OT on my own thread, but I see you got your bushcraft blog back and running leon. Good stuff![/edit]

 

[leon-b]

thanks mate
leon

 

[Dougster]

In my 25 mile journey home today. I saw 15-20 trees down, they were all small or dead standing. That was all along an A road mind. Neighbours have lost a few slates and the doors of my shed have GONE.

All safe though, have to think of the families of those who were killed today, especially that little lad a wall fell on.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6272193.stm

 

[fred gordon]

It really sounds terrible further south. We have 3 inches of snow here and the wind was quite high. However, nothing like you guys in the south.

 

[g4ghb]

Just finished adding a blue tarp to waterproof my workshop roof! and have a couple of fence panels to replace on the weekend


though in the grand scheme of things I have got off light!

 

[andy_pevy]

My next door neighbour lost her entire chimney.
Luckily her car, which is normally parked where it fell was in for a service so it was spared.

Lots of fence panels laying in the road on the way back from the salt mine. I left early because the power was up and down it was not worth trying to do any work


Andy

 

[BorderReiver]

Power off for a few hours,trees down,sheds in orbit,main roads closed.

Could have been worse.

 

[RichUK]

We had 74mph at 3pm today, it got a little hairy at times, also so walkers had to be rescued from the roaches this morning at 3am bbc news

 

[mojofilter]

It has been pretty much calm here all day, has built up to no more than a light breeze at the moment.

 

[mark a.]

A roof tile lost, a few more loose, and a fence panel down. Oh, and the bird table fell over.

But fortunately that's it, so again we got off fairly lightly considering. The train journey home was slow, though.

 

[andyn]

lost a couple of fence panels and our gate and opposite neighbours' green house pretty much exploded. good job my car wasn't in the car park at the time as all the roof panes landed in the car park.

But pretty light compared to the damage elsewhere.

 

[Scally]

a good few rows of tiles gone, front porch damaged, lots of timber to be sectioned for logs and all the refigerator and freezer lost (lots of game *********)
been on to the insurance firm for ages power has just come back on after 24hrs but dogs and us are well hope it doesnt rain. Got the stoves and lanterns out and brewed up and fed and washed last night and this morning luckily off work today!!!!

 

[Big John]

Seems like we got off lightly, compared with some. Lost a couple of fence panels - well technnically our neighbour did as it's her fence so she'll be paying.

 

[malcolmc]

Thurs 18 Jan PM. Many trees went over in Savernake Forest. Two A roads closed for several hours whilst fallen trees (large) were cleared. A lot of minor roads blocked. Wind blown debris common on all roads.

At home the house was OK but significant damage to outbuildings. I've just finished making them secure - not much chance of doing anything else this weekiend.

Hope no one on the forum was hurt.