I presume everyone has seen the weather forecast for Sunday into Monday, where winds up to 80mph and driving rain are threatened
Last I saw tonight the main area affected is the south coast but this storm could change direction.
Wherever you are, batten down the hatches and keep safe please.

That'll be fun on the way back to the depot when my truck's nearly empty then! 


Paul

Just do what the yachties do - tack into the wind 

Did something similar years ago when I drove for a local stationery company. Their trailers were 15'6" high double-deck, and coming back along the M6 from Birmingham that trailer was reaching some VERY scary angles when emerging from cuttings and bridges

Turned off and found a layby facing into the wind, parked up and told my boss I ain't moving until the wind dies down He was happy to pay the extra overtime rather than contemplate having to replace or repair 150 grand's worth of artic if it had gone over


Paul

Maybe time to go and get some 2stroke and check the chainsaw still works.
Looking at the large Oak tree near to us and thinking how close bits  could get to the house.

Quote from: Sprintex on October 25, 2013, 04:10:43 AM
That'll be fun on the way back to the depot when my truck's nearly empty then! 


Paul

Just what I was thinking, it was bad enough crossing the Severn Bridge Sunday night/Monday morning with a double decker on 

Just had new windows fitted to the house, should be a good test for them whilst under their warranty! 

At worst it could be another 1987 (for those of us old enough to remember that event ) There is currently a dying tropical storm called Lorenzo floating around in the Atlantic and it's this system that could generate into Sunday night's storm.

Stay safe everyone.

Oh great - I will be running around the Brecon Beacons for 2 days over the weekend.  I might take a kite!

Cheers, Mike

Quote from: red_death on October 25, 2013, 11:09:17 AM
Oh great - I will be running around the Brecon Beacons for 2 days over the weekend.  I might take a kite!

Cheers, Mike

Sounds like you could end up accidentally hang gliding then, Mike

Quote from: newportnobby on October 25, 2013, 11:20:58 AM

Quote from: red_death on October 25, 2013, 11:09:17 AM
Oh great - I will be running around the Brecon Beacons for 2 days over the weekend.  I might take a kite!

Cheers, Mike

Sounds like you could end up accidentally hang gliding then, Mike

Anything to avoid having to run up the hills! 

Coming back from the Great A4 gathering in NRM on Sunday by coach should make for an interesting trip
Graham

I'm a little bothered that every update they move the big arrow closer to Swansea

Alan

Not sure what happened elsewhere but here in Cornwall we had a lot of rain from about 8-00pmlast evening then some quite strong gusts of wind from about 11-00 but nothing out of the ordinary.
I feel that we got off lightly - others may have fared a little worse .

Traffic nightmare around London - two trees down on Blackwall Tunnel approach*, QE2 bridge closed at Dartford, M11 closed Stansted to Harlow due to lorry gone over, lots of tube lines closed or truncated due to fallen trees, etc. That's just the bits I'm aware of!


Paul

*one straight through the back window of a nice shiny new BMW X6, there is some justice