Storm preparation...

He's kept us updated. Departure was delayed around two hours. Crossing wasn't too bad. A number were sick, but he was fine.

SteveW

It's not rough until you lose things off the deck.

My dad was proud of not being sick on that one!

Andy

I think they covered their backs pretty well.

On Monday 28 October 2013 22:12 ARW wrote in uk.d-i-y:

I agree.

The dire warnings made me clear the garden of loose crap which was wise - even a big planter with a sage tree in blew over and the wheelie bins were all over the place.

Robertsbridge signalman told me this morning that 4 trees were down on the Hastings line from Tunbridge Wells (= no trains most of the day).

Local devastation was releatively minor from what I saw - but the A21 was shut by a fallen tree and other villages had lots of trees dowm.

We had no electricity from 5am to nearly 10am - possibly related to Dungeness B tripping out (Hastings blipped out the same time we did so it seemed like a wide area fault - but being tiny, we were probably low down on the list of places to restore power to). No big deal - weather was warm - just slightly annoying.

Wind was quite viscious around 3am-8am. Not the worst gales I've experienced by a long shot, but very persistent.

The kids enjoyed the power cut - they busied themselves making art and playing with their non electronic toys. I have threatened a "power cut" every week. They threatened some interesting things back...

I see 3 grades of roughness on the short crossings. Nothing fastened down on the car deck is normal. Next up is lorries fastened down, which means some the passengers will be un-eating their last meal. If they also fasten the coaches down, then almost all the passengers will be making friends on the great white telephone, and they close the galley. I daresay there is another stage where they fasten the cars down as well....

Do you know the roughest crossing I was on was just after some fish and chips and six pints of bitter beer!..

Felt absolutely fine:))..