Marthanoir
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The wind is really starting to pick up again now, looks like we set for some more fun,
WEATHER Strongest Jet Stream Ever Recorded To Bring Two Super Storms To United Kingdom Region This
It is much more common to have the Mini-tornado systems go over head,
funny you should say that in 2006 I was driving to work in Bracknell Berkshire when I happened to look up at the sky and saw a tornado like cloud formation very high up towards the North over the London area, then later in the morning a tornado hit North London
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_London_tornado
funny you should say that in 2006 I was driving to work in Bracknell Berkshire when I happened to look up at the sky and saw a tornado like cloud formation very high up towards the North over the London area, then later in the morning a tornado hit North London
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_London_tornado
Marthanoir
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There was a mini tornado hit Birmingham, caused thousands of pounds worth of improvements 
Marthanoir
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I always bake my ham after boiling it improve the flavour vastly,
I reckon we'll lose power soon, won't be missing much on TV if it does go out, glad we have plenty of books & board games
Marthanoir
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Bushmills Blackbush
But just a small one incase I need to do a bit of emergency chain-sawing
It's gone really wild out there, the only thing between me & the Atlantic is the trees at the front of my house and they're thinking about moving around the back of the house
Melodi
Disaster Cat
Friends in Cork posting on facebook "electricity seems to be becoming something from the past" and another friend "lights flickering here at the rectory..." Here at this Old Rectory (no longer owned by The Church Of Ireland obviously) winds are loud enough I just posted "Here Comes the Storm, Nada, Nada, Here comes the Storm" but so far we have power and internet.
We had a love late Yule Diner (St. Stephan's day feast if you like, since that's my husband's name even thought he wasn't born on the 26th though I think half our friends think he was) he was feeling well enough to eat it and so was I - he picked up something the last week of medical school and is just now getting hungry again.
I made lots of extra potatoes, carrots and parsnips and we have bag full of cooked apples as well as cider ham (prefer apple cider to booze on ham) and home made bread - so if the power goes out we are good to go in terms of food, it is cold enough we wouldn't have to worry about freezer spoilage for days and we have a back up generator just in case.
Hopefully we will not need the chain saw, usually when the trees fall here they are way to big for a personal chain saw anyway; except for the branches, I wonder if our sideways one we haven't been able to get anyone to sort will go down? In leans over the old path to the grave yard and into the next field, but to pull it down properly would require machines and stuff to pull it backwards which no one around here has; thankfully no animals in the field this time of year so the main problems would be fixing the fence.
We shall see - I'll report in as I can..stay warm Marthanoir!
We had a love late Yule Diner (St. Stephan's day feast if you like, since that's my husband's name even thought he wasn't born on the 26th though I think half our friends think he was) he was feeling well enough to eat it and so was I - he picked up something the last week of medical school and is just now getting hungry again.
I made lots of extra potatoes, carrots and parsnips and we have bag full of cooked apples as well as cider ham (prefer apple cider to booze on ham) and home made bread - so if the power goes out we are good to go in terms of food, it is cold enough we wouldn't have to worry about freezer spoilage for days and we have a back up generator just in case.
Hopefully we will not need the chain saw, usually when the trees fall here they are way to big for a personal chain saw anyway; except for the branches, I wonder if our sideways one we haven't been able to get anyone to sort will go down? In leans over the old path to the grave yard and into the next field, but to pull it down properly would require machines and stuff to pull it backwards which no one around here has; thankfully no animals in the field this time of year so the main problems would be fixing the fence.
We shall see - I'll report in as I can..stay warm Marthanoir!
Marthanoir
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Yeah the lights are flickering, we haven't lost electricity yet but I'll be shocked if it doesn't go out, Mrs Marth is watching the Downton Abbey Christmas Special and she'll be fuming if she misses it, she's a big fan of Downton, although she thought season 4 was lacking,
It's toasty warm, I'm sitting here in a t shirt, the range is still going and the sitting room fire is going too
Yeah we have a couple of good chainsaws plus we have a splitter that goes onto the tractor pto, we do a lot of farm an forestry management,
I was gonna try the Nigella Lawson recipe for Ham in Coke, funny I always thought it meant coca cola
Stay safe up there
mzkitty
I give up.
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More than 80-mph winds recorded on Isle of Man; reports of more than 100-mph gusts in Wales are to be verified - @itvnews
http://www.itv.com/news/story/2013-12-21/flood-transport-travel-christmas-weather-rain-wind/
More than 80-mph winds recorded on Isle of Man; reports of more than 100-mph gusts in Wales are to be verified - @itvnews
http://www.itv.com/news/story/2013-12-21/flood-transport-travel-christmas-weather-rain-wind/
vessie
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I can just imagine how bad it's blowing in Conwy and Llandudno. Phew! Glad I'm not there right now! V
Marthanoir
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Well that was exciting, the winds were hurricane strength, we frequently get strong storms and often get the tail end of your hurricanes but I don't remember anything like that , crazy
They reckon it was well over 90mph
We lost a tree and another on is looking unstable so we'll take it down before the next storm on Sunday night,
House is fine but friends lost a load of roof files in there's
They reckon it was well over 90mph
We lost a tree and another on is looking unstable so we'll take it down before the next storm on Sunday night,
House is fine but friends lost a load of roof files in there's
Melodi
Disaster Cat
We're still on line, even made it out to a very early morning trip to Lidle's as they opened for an on-sale item, turned out to be a break in the weather and it is back blowing again.
They said the storm was the worst in 15 years, which puts it back with the storm I talk about sometimes when the tree fell across the road and took the power out for four days and nights; we ended up eating versions of the Yule ham for the entire time and I showed my husband how to make olive oil lamps when the regular lamp oil ran out using cotton crochet thread, a pudding dish, pebbles from the garden and a nail (plus the olive oil).
Our local area to Birr was mostly clear but we understand there are a lot of downed trees and power lines blocking traffic, creating problems etc- our neighbors obviously lost at least one more tree and there were a few others by the roadside. One of our nearby towns is said to be without power and I gather there is damage in Cork, Limerick, Galway and Dublin. I expect I'll know more after news in a few minutes here.
They said the storm was the worst in 15 years, which puts it back with the storm I talk about sometimes when the tree fell across the road and took the power out for four days and nights; we ended up eating versions of the Yule ham for the entire time and I showed my husband how to make olive oil lamps when the regular lamp oil ran out using cotton crochet thread, a pudding dish, pebbles from the garden and a nail (plus the olive oil).
Our local area to Birr was mostly clear but we understand there are a lot of downed trees and power lines blocking traffic, creating problems etc- our neighbors obviously lost at least one more tree and there were a few others by the roadside. One of our nearby towns is said to be without power and I gather there is damage in Cork, Limerick, Galway and Dublin. I expect I'll know more after news in a few minutes here.
Greetings, Melodi: Thank you for the updates. Say safe. BREWER
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http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-12-27/around-70-000-without-power-in-ireland-after-storm/
7:40am, Fri 27 Dec 2013 Cameron: 'We've got to do more' to prevent flooding
Around 70,000 without power in Ireland after storm
Last updated Fri 27 Dec 2013
Around 70,000 customers are without power in Ireland following the "worst storm in many years", ESB Networks said.
The company warned that they expect this number to rise as the morning progresses.
Strong gales and flooding have caused widespread damage to the electricity network across the country, with the South and South West of Ireland hit particularly badly.
ESB Networks said all crews had been mobilised to fix the problem, but insisted their immediate priority was to ensure the network was safe.
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-12-27/around-70-000-without-power-in-ireland-after-storm/
7:40am, Fri 27 Dec 2013 Cameron: 'We've got to do more' to prevent flooding
Around 70,000 without power in Ireland after storm
Last updated Fri 27 Dec 2013
Around 70,000 customers are without power in Ireland following the "worst storm in many years", ESB Networks said.
The company warned that they expect this number to rise as the morning progresses.
Strong gales and flooding have caused widespread damage to the electricity network across the country, with the South and South West of Ireland hit particularly badly.
ESB Networks said all crews had been mobilised to fix the problem, but insisted their immediate priority was to ensure the network was safe.
Doomer Doug
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This is a direct result of the 2010 British Petrol Horizon oil volcano. The oil has permanently changed the gulf stream which is why Britain has violent and cold winters and springs since 2010. The cold water is raising temps along the British coast and causing the temperatures to fall. Britain is in the same latitude as Canada's Nova Scotia? The colder gulf stream means it is no longer warmed by the gulf stream. the colder gulf stream also interacts with North Atlantic air masses and impacts the jet stream. Yep, it will be decades before all the oil from Deep Horizon works itself out of the gulf stream.
Doomer Doug
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make that lowering water temperatures along the British coast which is in turn lowering both winter, spring and summer ambient air temps in Britain, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. If people have been following the weather news in England since 2010 they will note MASSIVE winter storms over Scotland that resemble the one in that movie. I saw one a couple years back that looked all red over all of Scotland and northern England.
Marthanoir
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Cell phones are back up after being down since I posted yesterday, landlines still down, on the plus side I have enough word to survive an ice age
Back to work cutting trees, laters
Back to work cutting trees, laters
Melodi
Disaster Cat
All fine here, never lost power or phones this time (so far) about 5,000 people still witout power and about the same number without phones/internet - government already said these will be very slow to fix because they are individual problems (like our downed tree last week that took us off-line for four or five days). They did get most of the 70,000 people back on pretty quickly all things considered but so many trees fell all over the place that a lot of single lines are down.
Thankfully no one was serious hurt by this storm in Ireland (according the paper) but they estimate about 100 and 150 million Euro's worth of damage; weather is supposed to stay unsettled for the next week but not as bad as that storm.
Thankfully no one was serious hurt by this storm in Ireland (according the paper) but they estimate about 100 and 150 million Euro's worth of damage; weather is supposed to stay unsettled for the next week but not as bad as that storm.
Marthanoir
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Tomorrows storm is not set to be as bad but my father in Law said there's supposed to be another one coming in Thurs / Fri that's just as bad,
He said the storm that just hit us is the worst since 1936, much worse than the one in the mid 80's and he said he's never know storms to piggyback like this
Both ESB & Eircom have done a cracking job getting everybody back, especially when you look at how the UK is fairing
He said the storm that just hit us is the worst since 1936, much worse than the one in the mid 80's and he said he's never know storms to piggyback like this
Both ESB & Eircom have done a cracking job getting everybody back, especially when you look at how the UK is fairing
Melodi
Disaster Cat
Thank you I hadn't heard that yet - I know they were saying it was as bad as the mid-90's one when we moved here - there were two of them actually but with a calm year in the Middle one was Christmas Eve/Day and the other was also St. Stephan's day and I'm not sure which was officially the stronger as both were very bad here.
Whereas this storm, just in our local village the storm last week was actually worse, though of course it you tried to drive to the village next door the road was blocked with downed trees - I have seen years with storm after storm after storm (usually January-Feb) but they are not this bad, just constant and the damage is from winds blowing over long periods of time (usually between 40 to 60mp with higher gusts) that gradually just weaken things (along with the rains) until trees start falling, the wind tore off our conservatory roof (with me inside - I got away unhurt), etc
If we get another powerful storm, this will be unusual...though perhaps a mega version of a more typically "stormy" Winter...
Suzieq
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That is so sad! Wonder why the owners did not have a barn with hay for them to go into.