Seems quite a lot of trees down between Chesterfield and Matlock, couple of issues on the M1 J28 to 29a....
Anyone else had wind damage? Just finished chain sawing and removing our huge blue spruce from neighbour's drive. Lucky, only damage is a phone line - missed cars and caravan, didn't kill the postie!
Pity it missed the caravan
Seems quite a lot of trees down between Chesterfield and Matlock, couple of issues on the M1 J28 to 29a....
We had a crisp packet blown into our garden. Now I have to go out there, pick it up and put it in the bin.
I saw a dog get blown inside-out this morning. It looked like a barking rubber glove.
Just been asked to stay at work - looks like the site will flood due to high tide and storm surge appearing at the same time, and we'll have to shut the plant down, including our power station and isolating the mains incomer (20MW), so that will be fun!!
Heading back from a job in cumbria to north london, M6 shut both ways.
Seems its windy enough to blow 7 1/2 tonne lorries over :-(
My 8ft trampoline ended up in another county, well it certainly felt like it carrying the bloody thing half a mile through the farmer's field
I live in grimsby, but our workshop is on Immingham docks. Weve been told by ABP that the water will come at least 200mm higher than the quay side :-o Weve tried to stash as much of our gear as possible up out of the way, but in a large engineering workshop there is only so much you can move :-(
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Originally posted by Andybarbet
Heading back from a job in cumbria to north london, M6 shut both ways.
Seems its windy enough to blow 7 1/2 tonne lorries over :-(
My BBQ got blown over and landed on the front side, luckily the handle has protected the knobs from damage. covered in crap now as the cover has blown
off too. 
pretty bad up here today! we were working right on the coast and the house got battered all day by spray from the waves. was quite good to watch really
Walked the dog 1/2hr ago around the local country park. From the top you can see as far a Wales on a clear day. Tonight I could see the lights as far
as the other side of Manchester, so probably 10-15miles Was a bit windy but not too bad. Then in less than 30 seconds viability dropped to zero and
we were in a full on white-out blizzard and could hardly stand up. Lasted 5min then stopped as quick as it started.
Saw 2 large trees down at lunch time as well. One was snapped off half way up the trunk.
I had a wasted day. We were due to refloat a sunken barge in the river today on the top of the spring tides. It was all arranged with a tug and
salvage pumps etc. but the tide never came in!
The river floods east to west and the wind held back the tide, and it was actually 1 metre BELOW prediction, not 1 metre above as all the pundits were
saying.
We will have another go tomorrow, and if the same thing happens then the barge will have to stay where it is for another month or so. Its a bu**er as
I only get paid for success.
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Originally posted by owelly
I saw a dog get blown inside-out this morning. It looked like a barking rubber glove.
I've got a ridge tile embedded in my front lawn, that would have hurt! Also rubbish everywhere from bins going over.
It's not looking good on the East Anglian coast - the BBC reporter was shown in the upstairs of a pub in Wells-next-the-sea, and what should have
been seen behind her was the road over the sea wall - all that could be seen was sea. Later on she said that she had been told to leave the pub as
the downstairs was deep in water! This was several hours before high tide.
Many thousands of people have been told to leave their homes - any that decide to stay have been asked to sign papers to say that they've been
told the risks...
Reached high tide here in Boston and it's started to flood at about 19:15.
The wind brought some water with it....
Whitby 5th December 2013.
Large pear tree managed to precisely hit the middle of the shed (missing my house and the neighbours fortunately)
Shed is dead
treevsshed
[Edited on 5/12/13 by iank]
We had a couple of hours flying a kite over the newly scrape neighbouring site for 220 new houses !
Flat as a witches t1t, and no hedges or such!
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Originally posted by owelly
The wind brought some water with it....
Whitby 5th December 2013.
^^^^ Is that the Claymore?
it certainly is
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Originally posted by Matt21
it certainly is
it still is!
the management are ruining the place too, iv been here 2 years and its gone downhill so much!
and because of them pissing people off theres all sorts of crap going on to make the place even worse!
Who/where was the pic took!!
Thats the claymore oil rig, where im sat right now waiting for my flight home 
was taken on thursday
115mph gusts and 9m waves considering its a fixed leg platform it didnt half rock!
I had wind damage. Brown stained pants!!!!!!
Got delayed flying out of Denmark (to Durham Tees Valley via amsterdam). 4th set of booked flights saw me leave Billund at 06:00 last Friday. 5 mins
before landing in Amsterdam, on arguably the worst flight I've had in a long time (and I've flown virtually every week for the last 3 years)
we were struck by lightening. Not nice