The wind

[Gav 1,708]

Well don't they get it wrong, the bloody weather people again!

 

They said we were going to get 100mph+ gusts tonight, I had vague recollections of 2003 (130mph+).

 

We live on the west side of the outer Hebrides (isle of lewis - Atlantic side), so we do get the brunt of the winds most of the winter, its not bad, I am thankful for not having fast food chains like macdonalds etc.

 

When we get a met office warning delivered by hand door to door, we generally take action, batten down the hatches etc etc. The main problem with the wind here is not structural, but flying debris. So its in every ones best interests to bring in, or tie down any thing that may be blown away. You don't want a wheelie bin through your window at 3am do you.

 

We have no trees, which speaks a thousand words, so no danger of those flying around.

 

I got togged up around 1am just to brave the weather and make sure our animal stock was OK, oh what fun, the rain, -4.7c wind chill on your face, it felt like tiny shards of glass hitting you, not pleasant.

 

The dogs are having none of it, they wont even face the front door, bloody wimps, its really amazing the power is still on, we have had 50mph gusts and the lines have gone down, no power for 2-3 days. The power going down also means we have no phone lines at all too, the exchanges and the mobile masts all go. Thats is great fun, enough to give you a heart attack and have no hope. Always look on the bright side (my mum taught me that).

 

Anyway peaking at 88mph, I really feel let down, all that hard work getting it all in the barn, tying stuff down, candles and paraffin lamps at the ready, even the electric didn't go off, what a let down. Even so I am glad I didn't put the cover on the poly tunnel this weekend hey.

 

Just shows you huh, it could always be worse,

 

hope you are all safe and sound tucked up in bed.

 

Love n peas,

 

Gav.

[claybusers al 9]

hey gav that was a good read you seem let down you werent put in the dark ages look on the bright side you still managed to get on THL

[biffo 0]

well im glad it wasnt as bad as you thought it was gonna be

 

no trees? thats unfortunate

[mattydski 560]

It was getty pretty blowy here, and it came from nowhere. I've still to check the woods for fallen trees yet, but they are shallow rooted, so i'm hoping for a few.. If there aren't any, well there may be a couple of casulties anyway

[tdavepat 8]

its really amazing the power is still on, we have had 50mph gusts and the lines have gone down, no power for 2-3 days. The power going down also means we have no phone lines at all too, the exchanges and the mobile masts all go. Thats is great fun, enough to give you a heart attack and have no hope. Always look on the bright side (my mum taught me that).

 

Sometimes difficult to do Gav, when the power is disrupted.

 

It blew a stiff breeze here all night after a horrible daytime storm.

 

I was waiting for the rain to abate as forecast as it was a marvellous night for lamping. Although as you pointed out, the windchill felt severe.

 

Problem? My bloody kids decided they all wanted to go out to different venues and come back at different times so bloody taxi driver dad here sat around waiting for the calls to collect.

 

One of my dogs would go lamping at 12 o'clock miday in the middle of summer if he could or in an arctic blizzard. When he spots the lamp he starts whinning to get out no matter what weather or time of day.

 

The other one looks and curls up again, he needs to be dragged out. He's ok once you get him there but he loves his bed a bit too much.

 

Dave

[wilko 1]

glad your live stock is all ok. we woke up and found one of our big conifers snapped in half. i bet thiers a few more tees down round the counrty today.gonna have some breaky. then out for a mooch with the dogs.apparentley thers more to come tonight .

[Guest 10/22]

We lived through the 2003 hurricane, which saw 5 people dead , hundreds of sheep drown, houses roofs blown off and buildings collapse like paperbags. We lost 50% of our buildings, the main one with our dogs in so it was a huge rescue to get them out despite the fire brigade telling us not to go in. A mobile home we had disintergrated and became tiny bits of aluminium blowing round like ninja stars. 16 hours it lasted, after that we said - no more and left, although it took us 3 yrs to do so. I understand what you went though.