We went to bed with a certain amount of trepidation having heard the weather forecasts last night but when we woke during the night all seemed/sounded peaceful  and this morning the sun is shining and theres just a hint of frost on car roofs 
I feel for those in areas less fortunate than us though 

Quiet here in the Wye Valley after a mainly dry day but with raging wind. Fences are being pushed over at crazy angles because the posts are now just in saturated mud. Tomorrow it starts raining for 36 hours. The fence repair men are going to be driving Porsches by summer.

Let the dog out for a bark at 11.30 last night. The glass recycling box had been blown half way across the yard. This box usually sits in front of a green plastic shed/cupboard thing, holding the doors shut. As a result the brooms and mop had escaped and were also spread across the yard - something else for the dog to bark at. Have apologised to neighbours!

Fortunately the roofer finished fixing various ridge tiles and bits down before it hit.

We did go down to the beach when the wind dropped a shade and the tide well out but it was really hard to walk. The blowing sand was vicious so after doing a normally humanly impossible leap up the seawall with wind assistance we decided ice creams indoors would be wiser

Alan

And after today's calm, another storm for tomorrow. Hold onto your hats again, and good luck.

Hi all
Just read in the paper about the flooding of the Thames pretty full on! Yesterday a convict pop into the wife's shop and she was telling us bad it was back home with floods
Hope everyone fairs well
No all too well about floods living in Maitland
Be safe
Bart

The wife had to unwrap her temporary greenhouse from around the back of my car last night while I was in the pub. Quite a deep scratch was all that happened, just as well it's a company car. It was time for the greenhouse to go anyway, I found it in the front garden on Wednesday evening even though it's usually in the back garden 

Had one fence panel decide to part company with its fixings
Panel is mounted to two uprights bolted to two brick pillars and sits
on top of a 3.5' wall with the pillars each end. The two uprights are
still attached to the pillars. This so called professionally fitted fence
had the panel attached by screws that only went into the uprights by
about ¹/₂". The matching longer one in the other bit of wall and timber
boundary fitted by me, a total amateur is still standing and is as solid
as a rock. The panel that 'fell' out is now re-attached using screws 3"
longer. Hope it holds

Roger

Next door's huge eucalyptus tree fell at just after midnight Saturday morning.

It was just the other side of our one year old fence and pukka shed (in which I have been building a new layout recently)  but fell the opposite way to our garden thank goodness.

Quote from: Gordon on February 16, 2014, 12:20:25 AM
Next door's huge eucalyptus tree fell at just after midnight Saturday morning.

It was just the other side of our one year old fence and pukka shed (in which I have been building a new layout recently)  but fell the opposite way to our garden thank goodness.

Phew! That was close!

My neighbour's neighbours lost one of their two small trees. It's bent in half at the trunk, resting over their garden. My immediate neighbours will have to replace their entire fence where it borders me. The old one is listing worse than the Costa Concordia. Their extremely full-of-water paddling pool was punctured and is now slowly flooding parts of my garden (but don't worry, they say they will empty it today and, apart from a swampy chunk of bedding, most of it seems to be draining away).

  We have a 50ft conifer that has tilted but not dropped, would be easier too deal with. Will chop up when I can afford an extendable chain saw or pay someone to deal with...... Also next door's 5 fence panels blown out and mashed. ( They proudly told us in summer whilst I was treating our side that they own them ). That will be their bill then. 

One effect of the Dawlish sea wall collapse is that Cross Country have at least 4 Voyager sets trapped in Devon/Cornwall.
Driving past Laira at the end of last week there are at least two sets on view and at Long Rock another two. FGW are using HSTs/DMUs on local (Pzance to Plymouth/N Abbot) services so the Voyagers are stuck.
No doubt this has a knock on effect on CC services Up Country.

Quote from: port perran on February 20, 2014, 02:57:11 PM
One effect of the Dawlish sea wall collapse is that Cross Country have at least 4 Voyager sets trapped in Devon/Cornwall.
Driving past Laira at the end of last week there are at least two sets on view and at Long Rock another two. FGW are using HSTs/DMUs on local (Pzance to Plymouth/N Abbot) services so the Voyagers are stuck.
No doubt this has a knock on effect on CC services Up Country.

The other effect is that the trains, particularly the down trains, are generally on time too|