Storm Eunice, 18th Feb 2022 - news and discussion

[tonysingh]

I need to pop out and get fish food but all local bus services have been suspended which in turn places increased demand on sherberts and Uber with the latter charging £16 for a journey thats usually a fiver.

I might just stay in tbf.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I used to work round there and even at the best of times, that's a massive wind tunnel .

Glad I didn't go to work today, I can't imagine how windy Holborn is (leaving the tube is always in the face of a gale)

 

[pesh]

i hope it takes off.

Oh my god!
Millennium Dome!
Oh my god!

 

[Kaka Tim]

Proper prophesied End of Days stuff

Did it hit partick troughton when it landed?

 

[nogojones]

Looks great out there. I'm off for a walk down the docks

 

[A380]

 

[marty21]

Went into work the train from Clapton to Liverpool St took 43 minutes (usually does it in 12) as we were stopped outside Bethnal Green Station for about 30 minutes due to something on the track . Tube was OK , although some delays. Headed back at lunch-time as it was bound to get worse , and was greeted at Liverpool St by loads of cancellations , no trains were leaving at all. Got on the 1st bus that was going in the right direction . Walked home from Stoke Newington (about 15 minutes away) a massive branch had fallen on Evering Rd , narrowly missing some cars . I got hit by a twig (I am OK )

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Not sure the tone of the commentary here is entirely appropriate.

 

[Hollis]

Currently the garden fence has collapsed, and the "patio door" has also imploded. Apart from that everything going well..

Figure I'm only a couple £k down, so think will order a curry tonight.

 

[tonysingh]

Went into work the train from Clapton to Liverpool St took 43 minutes (usually does it in 12) as we were stopped outside Bethnal Green Station for about 30 minutes due to something on the track . Tube was OK , although some delays. Headed back at lunch-time as it was bound to get worse , and was greeted at Liverpool St by loads of cancellations , no trains were leaving at all. Got on the 1st bus that was going in the right direction . Walked home from Stoke Newington (about 15 minutes away) a massive branch had fallen on Evering Rd , narrowly missing some cars . I got hit by a twig (I am OK )

More importantly, is the twig OK?

 

[existentialist]

Quite a lot of West Wales is without power. I feel for those poor Western Power types out in this, and presumably with loads of jobs still to do.

 

[marty21]

I used to work round there and even at the best of times, that's a massive wind tunnel .

Bit like that around Pancras Sq in Kings X .

 

[StoneRoad]

There's going to be a lot of exceptionally tired OHL technicians in the near future ...

At least the Western Power ones will not be working in the sort of snow that Arwen & Barra dumped in Scotland & NE England.

 

[editor]

 

[Sue]

Went into work the train from Clapton to Liverpool St took 43 minutes (usually does it in 12) as we were stopped outside Bethnal Green Station for about 30 minutes due to something on the track . Tube was OK , although some delays. Headed back at lunch-time as it was bound to get worse , and was greeted at Liverpool St by loads of cancellations , no trains were leaving at all. Got on the 1st bus that was going in the right direction . Walked home from Stoke Newington (about 15 minutes away) a massive branch had fallen on Evering Rd , narrowly missing some cars . I got hit by a twig (I am OK )

Where about on Evering Road?

 

[Gerry1time]

If that person doesn't get employee of the month for dedication to their job, then I don't know what is.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Not sure the tone of the commentary here is entirely appropriate.

There's a live feed.

 

[platinumsage]

Hope the birds and other wildlife ok

The pigeons are really showing off with their acrobatics here now. I can't work out if they're taking the piss out of the other birds with their skillz or just being stupidly foolhardy.

 

[Gerry1time]

The slightly interesting one about this one is that a spire falling off a church in Wells is a part of the plot of Simon Pegg's film Hot Fuzz. Thankfully this one didn't apparently hit anyone.

 

[Badgers]

 

[editor]

Bloody hell

 

[platinumsage]

 

[Crispy]

My shed has been blown over

 

[platinumsage]

My shed has been blown over

So has an Isle of Grain power station chimney:

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Ok 122mph is a bit much, could you all please be a bit more careful than some of you are being!

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

good effort mind you

 

[rubbershoes]

The slightly interesting one about this one is that a spire falling off a church in Wells is a part of the plot of Simon Pegg's film Hot Fuzz. Thankfully this one didn't apparently hit anyone.

It's just the one spire, actually

 

[tonysingh]

So has an Isle of Grain power station chimney:

I used to live by there. The Isle of Grain is a shithole par excellence. A falling power station chimney can only have improved the area.

 

[pogofish]

Despite not even being in the Yellow zone, it has been rain, full-on snow, sleet and more rain here today and the wind has been getting stronger and stronger.

To the point where we have all been sent home from work.

So I got home to find another slate off the roof that will need fixed when the weather settles down.


Mrs Fish's middle girl managed to get a great date for an interview for a new job - tomorrow, in AVIEMORE. Guess which idiot said yes, that will make for a nice day out!

I'm now hoping they call her and cancel because no fucker can get there!

 

[Schmetterling]

This is were i meant to sit.