Storm Eunice, 18th Feb 2022 - news and discussion

[existentialist]

another tree down in biggin hill ....farage territory



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The very embodiment of an attention whore.

 

[tonysingh]

The Twig is somewhere off the coast of France now , hopefully still OK
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#prayfortwig

 

[existentialist]

#prayfortwig

A metaphor for these times...

 

[Pickman's model]

The very embodiment of an attention whore.

Looking forwards to him being horizontal like that tree.

 

[Bingoman]

Today I saw people fishing, by the river near me which one of the most bizarre thing in have seen in high winds?

 

[MickiQ]

Power update. They don't expect to get my (and the entire area's) power back on until 6pm tomorrow. Which, since my sole source of power is electricity (oh, and personal charisma, obvs) is going to mean waiting a long time for that cup of tea.

I have this vision of you sat there in the dark wrapped in blankets, shivering against the cold whilst the wolves howl outside. Your frozen hands shaking as you hold your phone waiting for the last few precious moments of battery to run out.

 

[TopCat]

My big sister is accountable for a older peoples home on the south coast that has no power light or heating right now....
UKPN lorry with generators stuck on road cos fallen trees.

 

[UrbaneFox]

Power update. They don't expect to get my (and the entire area's) power back on until 6pm tomorrow. Which, since my sole source of power is electricity (oh, and personal charisma, obvs) is going to mean waiting a long time for that cup of tea.

Put your hands on the screen and feel the loving warmth from Urban75.

 

[Dogsauce]

I’m finding it slightly amusing that all the news programmes sent their correspondents out to the South West for some live action yet barely anything of note happened here, and while they were away it was all kicking off in London. All the man news programmes are reduced to just showing the same Twitter clips we’ve all seen on here.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Oh, we made the regional BBC news, I love the workers trying to sweep the sea back to where it belongs.

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[TopCat]

I have seen things never seen before in my lifetime (I was drunk and asleep on a doorstep in the big eighties storm). Wheely bins aloft and atwirl, going round and around in the air.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

I was thinking of this biggin hill in SE19 - I puzzled for ages why there was a bus going to Catford Bridge until I realised it was the other Biggin Hill

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Oh, we made the regional BBC news, I love the workers trying to sweep the sea back to where it belongs.

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The phrase "flood defences" will never sound the same to me ever again. If those of us in Orkney aren't at the barricades every winter with a broom, can we really claim to have ever experienced a 90mph gale?

 

[TopCat]

I was thinking of this biggin hill in SE19 - I puzzled for ages why there was a bus going to Catford Bridge until I realised it was the other Biggin Hill
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Lazy sods.

 

[RubyToogood]

I braved the walk through the park to the sports centre which wasn't too bad, but cut my swim short when one of the skylights over the pool kept lifting up and slamming down again.

 

[cupid_stunt]

What I find most strange about this storm, despite the high winds, we didn't have a drop of rain, most odd.

 

[Dogsauce]

We had some big hail for a few minutes. Youngest son got very excited about the ‘snow’.

 

[kabbes]

ninth hour with no power now. They think they’ll have it back in the small hours. It would have been a terrible hardship had I not spent the last four of those hours in the pub

 

[Hollis]

Big Jet TV is strangely addictive..

 

[Mr.Bishie]

What I find most strange about this storm, despite the high winds, we didn't have a drop of rain, most odd.

I got fucking soaked walking to work at 7am!! But yeah, a dry & bright sunny day on the whole.

 

[pogofish]

Today I saw people fishing, by the river near me which one of the most bizarre thing in have seen in high winds?

The height of the river by me today might suggest that somewhere upriver is going the experience the best salmon run in years, so I can actually understand why.

Salmon and sea trout always run best against the fastest current/highest water.

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

ninth hour with no power now. They think they’ll have it back in the small hours. It would have been a terrible hardship had I not spent the last four of those hours in the pub

Did you basically lead a party to The Winchester?

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Big Jet TV is strangely addictive..

That guy loves to see a pilot land a jet. LETS SEE HOW THE RUSSIANS HANDLE THIS!


He's an idea whose time has come for sure.

 

[existentialist]

I have this vision of you sat there in the dark wrapped in blankets, shivering against the cold whilst the wolves howl outside. Your frozen hands shaking as you hold your phone waiting for the last few precious moments of battery to run out.

Nah, this was me...

 

[existentialist]

Power back on now!

 

[elbows]

Big Jet TV is strangely addictive..

I even watched the bit towards the end where we got to watch the ITV interviewer lying to him about being live.

 

[Ax^]

Big Jet TV is strangely addictive..

not sure on here showed it to me last year during the last storm but who ever it was is a star

got to work today around 11 am late because of watching it and then suddenly it went viral

fair play to jeff the guy deserves some more exposure

 

[Smangus]

 

[existentialist]

Off again. Then back on #bride'snightie

 

[TopCat]

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Its certainly a great night for burglars.