Everyone weathered the storms?

[daveg]

Very windy overnight here but calm at the mo - found stuff in the garden that's not ours!

Flat roof still leaking but not as bad since a quick bodge during a 'dry' spell at the weekend.

Hope everyone is coping OK.

Dave G

[ParkeNd]

Very windy in the Wye Valley and rain hitting the house from the opposite direction from normal (no - not up instead of down). In the end us retired folk are going to have to put the proper clothes on and just get out and get on with it. Like that current TV ad themed on enjoying this grey and pleasant land.

Well that's been positive for a while - still darned raining. By the way I hear the flooding has been caused by you people who have spent the summer and about 2500 screws installing decking in your gardens.

[jonclox]

High winds and rain during the night 
drier now but water is rising as it washes down to our levelso the roads getting very damp and the meadow/field behind us is sprouting its lake again. 
Guessing that we still have 1.5 to 2 metres above water level, but that could vanish in an hour or so.
The sooner the environmental Agency is disbanded and we can get back to proper dredging and water management the under people who know what to do the better it will be for everybody.
(edit) Above sounds bad but I better point out that in 39 years of living here we have never yet had the water rise enough to come into the house

[ParkeNd]

But the Environment Agency is so useful. All those thousands of yellow and amber warnings have reduced flooding dramatically.

An Environment Agency spokesman when asked what they had done to alleviate last years level of flood misery in Devon said " We have employed hundreds of additional managers and put out several thousand amber warnings through the night".   Only kidding.

[zwilnik]

Just seen that the sea wall at Dawlish has gone and the famous railway line along the coast there has been washed away.

[EtchedPixels]

Well a chunk of it has gone for a walk. Makes all those climate deniers in government who said there was no need to re-instate the other Exeter-Plymouth route look complete twits given they were told this would happen some years ago.

The work on the Cambrian Coast is going to take four months to fix - so presumably Dawlish is going to take a few weeks as well.

Network Railk posted pictures of the station damage here

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.727521370600075.1073741825.156995514319333&type=1&l=22eaad75f7

and here

https://twitter.com/networkrail/status/430992590117158912/photo/1

it's not entirely clear from the second photo but there is a chunk of missing seawall and nothing under the tracks or the road next to it right close to the buildings.

[Papyrus]

We thought it was pretty bad here in Sussex, but I feel really sorry for you guys in the SW.

Has there ever been a winter like it? I've lost count of how many storms we've had - it must be at least a dozen since mid-December. You get the feeling that this must be what Cape Horn is like.

My sympathies to everyone who's been affected and I hope life gets back to normal soon.

Chris

[EtchedPixels]

Later shot here showing the wall has just gone and the huge hole in the road beyond it.

https://twitter.com/Mrs_Karen_Jones/status/431015178277105664/photo/1

[MikeDunn]

SWMBO just came in from her craft morning ... apparently there are 900 homes without power up the hill & the electric peeps don't know where the break is ... and they don't think they can re-route either ...

[Jack]

It looks like the "Iron Horses" to Plymouth & Cornwall are going to be very few are far between for a very long time! I doubt that will be fixed completely within two to three months in readiness for the start of the holiday season.

That's another knocking for this years holiday/tourist season for Cornwall. While a lot come by road there is still many who come by rail. When you add to the main line damage all the flood damage to the local lines which are well used, and even more so during the holiday times..... 

I have even less windows to clean in St Mawes since the last storms and that's without the ones still to come tonight and at the weekend. One of the main high end hotels, for instances (just re-opened after a very major refit) has had most of it seaward glass smashed through, another one has major flooding in the basement and ground floor.

[CarriageShed]

They were already operating a bus service between Taunton and Exeter until Sunday for tunnel repairs. Now there's likely to be a much longer bus service operating between Exeter and Plymouth after all that damage.

It's been noisy in western Somerset overnight, with winds battering the house and rain lashing against the windows. Fortunately there seems not to have been any further damage after the last high winds (a week ago last Sunday). Next door's flappy, half-collapsed fence hasn't got any worse. I feel for the people on the Levels, though, just 15km or so up the road.

[Newportnobby]

Not a lot going on 'up norf' apart from high winds and driving rain (although we've been threatened with 60mph gusts )
My heart goes out to those in the SW though

[EtchedPixels]

https://twitter.com/stevepriday/status/431027120345989120/photo/1

has a photo from the other end of Dawlish. Wondering what the old trainspotters bit of wall at Teignmouth is looking like

Oakhampton-Tavistock is a bit over 20 miles, looks a lot more useful than HS2

[EtchedPixels]

And FGW have just cancelled the sleeper service... until March

[daveg]

£420 later I still have leaks in the flat roof (I HATE flat roofs!). No chance to try and fix it till all of this is over.

Yes, really sad for the folk that have lost so much so that's my last whinge.

Hope with all the mess people stay safe.

Dave G