storm reports

[Martin Brown]

It is actually flat calm in North Yorkshire now 1mph gusting to 2mph.

[tony sayer]

In article , The Natural Philosopher scribeth thus

Peaked at 50 Knots here in Cambridge just before 8 am but all abating now...

Not that much damage just a few trees over...

[Huge]

You're not far from me, then. And we've got blue sky, fluffy white clouds and sunshine at the moment. It was a bit windy and wet in the night but nothing special.

[Tim Streater]

On top of the downs south of Canterbury: one pane blown out of the greenhouse, I put it back already (it's polycarb). Another trugfull of walnuts; lots of bits of dead wood blown off the walnut tree, that's good as it makes useful kindling.

Now we have sunshine.

[Artic]

The Medway Handyman scribbled...

Somewhere in Kent, a 17 year old girl killed, asleep in a caravan hit by tree.

[Artic]

The Natural Philosopher scribbled...

We won't hear from those who've suffered the most. Running to the computer will be the least of their worries - more so if they ain't got any lecci.

[David.WE.Roberts]

Storm report take 2. I was typing away about an hour ago when the computer started to reboot - probably power fluctuation but it didn't take anything else out.

Most of the rain missed us. About an hour of scary gusts centred around 08:00 but everything here seems O.K.

Tree down and leaning against a house two streets over.

for pictures.

PC seems to be working again although I had to re-download the headers for the last 7 days as some had gone walkabout.

Cheers

Dave R

[Jethro_uk]

Well the West Midlands seemed to dodge it.

Still, having survived the '87 storm (I was in London at the time) I would rather we had an overreaction, and can joke about how crap the Met Officer are, than have them miss it.

Already 2 dead, so it's quite so funny now :(

[MM]

The Sky News weather presenter, Isobel, was still predicting severe gales over the Wash a couple of hours ago, which is about 2 miles from my house. She was sounding quite miffed that most viewers were not complaining of any storms to speak of. Commuters interviewed on station concourses were pretty scathing about the many train cancellations which were just put in place as a precaution.

MM

[MM]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:41:22 -0000, Artic any lecci.

I don't deny that there *have* been storms right down south, but for several days the Met Office and the newspapers have drawn arrows on their maps to indicate hurricanes right across central England and these just didn't happen.

MM

[Andy Burns]

YOu sure that wasn't the path of the central low, with the isobars tightest below it?

[MM]

Get yourself a UPS. I used to have similar problems before I got mine:

MM

[Peter Crosland]

Of course it was but he is a Daily Express reader so his intellect is insufficient to comprehend that. Anyone who actually read the detailed Met Office forecast for their particular area would have had a reasonably accurate idea of what to expect. Nevertheless storms are notoriously difficult to forecast exactly.

Just for the record maximum gust I recorded here in South Somerset was

62MPH whereas Yeovilton a few miles away, but much more exposed, recorded 75.

[Tim Streater]

One of these is probably better:

/B002RXED6A/

and unless you have genny or something, any of these small desktop-sized UPSes is only going to last 20 mins or so, enough to finish off and shutdown.

[David.WE.Roberts]

Interesting thought.

Alternative might be a new PSU as the PCs upstairs just kept on running.

Nothing else in the house suggested a power dip - usually this resets the clocks on the cookers.

To protect everything I would need (eventually) three UPS - so even with budget short term ones at £70 a pop we are talking £210 to equip the house.

I wonder how these compare with a 12V car battery, a maintenance charger and an inverter on bangs per buck?

The main thing these have is a power sensor so an alert can be sent when the power goes off to allow a smooth shut down on unattended systems.

I tend to leave the systems on all the time, partly through laziness and partly so system maintenance of virus scans and backups can take place overnight.

I have managed so far without a UPS, and Windows on NTFS seems remarkably resilient to the very occasional blip.

Cheers

Dave R

[Dave Liquorice]

No, the BBC had a graphic with the lower half of England shaded red and a big blue arrow and the text "80 mph gusts" next to it. Clearly implying that any where south of the M62 was going to be devasated by "hurricane" winds.

The media completely over hyped the forecasts which look to have been reasonably accurate, ie risk of damage due to high winds along the channel coast and SE corner.

[tony sayer]

In article , MM scribeth thus

To be fair they'd be dammed either way, the railways.

There were a lot of trees down over the network and isn't it better to send out some test/engineering trains c/w crews who can deal with trees than have trains packed with commuters in the way?..

[tony sayer]

In article , MM scribeth thus

And they did point out that these were predictions as no one could know quite what that depression would do till it got here.

A bit like what happened in 87...

[Richard]

Nah. Seems the better thing is to do is piss and moan...

[T i m]

Norf Lundin.

A couple of the older / weaker fence panels had buckled and blown in but are mostly back in place now. Several inter-garden panels have blown down around the locale.

Tin shed door hanging on by one hinge and a the dustbins blown over.

One weird one was a fairly heavy Perspex and metal motorcycle windscreen that I put flat on the grass had blown several feet across the garden!

Yesterday I put one of the smaller black re-cycling bins in the big green wheely bin (to stop it getting blown away as it was empty), pulled the wheely bin back away from the pavement edge (it was only

1/3rd full of cardboard and a bit of food waste) and hold 'her' what I had done. 'She' goes out this morning and puts the wheely bin out for collection ... and it was, so I needn't have bothered trying to protect the smaller one ... ;-(

No missing slates for a change. ;-)

Cheers, T i m