What's Your Weather Like...? MK7...

I may have to weigh the dog down with a couple of sand bags on our walk today

 

Very hairy here, neighbour told me in passing that the winds here got to be about 90mph at aroud 5am. Not sure how he can gauge that! all I know is that I was woken up about 10 times during the night. No trees down but lots of small branches scattered about. Artic lorry blown over on a bridge not far away in Perth and some idiot ignored the cars only signs for The Forth Bridge, started to go over the bridge in a Luton van and then bottled it...plank! As a result The Forth Bridge has had to be shut when it would still be passable without a Luton abandoned on it. Evidently the van has to checked (bomb?) by the powers that be before it can be removed. I certainly hope they throw the book at the idiot as it's caused mayhem especially with no trains running and has put paid to my visit to Edinburgh. Was worried about my daughter (artic lorry driver) but she phoned me to say she was in London where it's fine and she only , ONLY! has massive traffic to deal with.

 

Bridge at Perth has been blocked by blown over lorry nearly all day. We set out for a dental appointment at 9.00am, got into the traffic jam and it took us 80 minutes to move one mile and we'd still at least another 4 miles to go to the city. Gave up and came home. Dentist when we phoned to cancle appointments told us Perth had been gridlocked. This evening at 4.30 there's still a 5 mile queue trying to get to Perth and the south. The main problem in the morning was the Tay bridge at Dundee had been closed due to the wind so a vast amount of additional traffic took the Perth route. Reporting of the traffic jams into Perth were very poor.

 

A6 at Bakewell is still closed due to fallen trees. My buddleia's going for a burton and it's started to SNOW!! The wind's still crazy out there as well.

 

Wow, this stormy weather has had less emphasis put on it than the previous severe weather alert I think. Don't like the sound of this sea surge,
take great care all of you,
Jenny

 

I had a stack of 5 x 125L bags of MPC at the plot and the top 3 bags were dislodged by today's wind. If you've ever manhandled one of those bales you'll realize it must have been quite some gust to blow the top 3 bales off.

 

Just got home to find 5 fence panels smashed to bits. Not my side either so I doubt they will be repaired in a hurry
Greenhouse missing a few panes too.
Plants look ok though
Got a day off tomorrow so that's my day sorted
Been mainly clear here but the wind was Servere .
Trees down all over the place on the way home from work

 

http://www.exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk/environment/history/lynmouth-flood-1952

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_flood_of_1953

 

Yes i believe the Lynmouth floods were '52...but the devastating floods of Gt Yarmouth were in '53....

 

Not liking this weather - leaves swirling up past the windows at work and as I am a H&S officer the staff called me to look at the trees in the car park in full sway. Think they thought I would nip out and cut them down - must admit they were playing a merry dance.

 

Lynmouth flood in 1952 was due to torrential rain on Exmoor (been in the Museum Flood Memorial Hall there many a time), and the East Coast floods caused by a storm surge were in 1953 (one of the partners at the second practice I worked for was involved in constructing flood defences there following that disaster).

An incredible coincidence is that both the Lynmouth flood and the Boscastle flood in 2004 were both on the 16th of August. We bought a teddy bear for our (then unborn) daughter from a shop at Boscastle that we subsequently watched being destroyed by the flood, so that bear is the one is being saved.