Storm Eowyn

[peds]

Anyone got anything fun planned? Schools closed tomorrow, and the fella I work for on Fridays has rightfully said we'll call it off... so in my house we'll probably have a lie-in, relaxed breakfast if we've got power, then I might take the dogs for a cautious stroll up the hill, observe the carnage.

 

What's the threatened damage around your way?

 

 

Edited January 23 by peds

[sime42]

Ooooh. Hope it's not too Ouch.

[Dan Maynard]

You'll be back to those Leylandii you stood up!

 

Never turns out as dramatic as they say here in the east.

[Steven P]

Work are going mental, it is going to be windy, so far I've had 5 e-mails and 2 texts to tell me this. See what it looks like in the morning but nothing outdoors planned

[Big J]

Stay safe everyone. My friend at the Met Office reckons there is a good chance that the all time record for highest ever wind speed in Ireland will be broken (currently 182kph). 

 

I've never seen forecast wind speeds like these before. This is for a village on the west coast called Carna. 

 

For reference 47 m/s is 170kph and is verging on a category 3 hurricane.

[peds]

14 minutes ago, Dan Maynard said:

You'll be back to those Leylandii you stood up!

Never turns out as dramatic as they say here in the east.

 

Well we only left a few feathers on them, but with 200kph winds (some say...), anything is possible! 

 

Some of the orange and slightly red warnings we've had lately have turned out to be a damp squib... which doesn't reinforce the faith people have in the forecast... but I think this one might get a bit exciting. 

[carlos]

nice and calm now, i think it will be bad though, just praying my lovely big sitka doesnt blow over, not near anything much but a nice tree. 

[Mark Bolam]

I think we’ll get a stiff breeze here in Kent Peds, but it does look like you’re in for a real battering.

Stay safe mate.

[peds]

Topped half a dozen cypress this morning, then rush job to get these two down before the storm arrives tonight... the beech wobbled a bit during the last storm and made the hole in the wall, I'd say today was its last day on the planet regardless of whether or not we pulled it down onto the lawn, and with the lean Eowyn would have put it across the road. Same with the spruce, too big, wouldn't be there tomorrow.

Breaks my heart though... I had to knock over an apple tree that's probably as old as the house, 1830, to clear the path for the tirfor.  

 

So that's three trees that Eowyn can't claim!

 

 

[eggsarascal]

Should be going upto Bury to recover a Luton van, might slip off the.M6 before Thelwall and slink back througjh the Cheshire countryside if it's blowing a good'en