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Agh it's getting a bit wet and wild out there now and I have to carry all of my gear out to the car. Need to build an underground car park!

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The weather in Bonnie Scotland has always been far far better than Wales, the last time I had a two week holiday there it only rained 3 times "Morning, Noon & Night" :D

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Fed -up with this windy weather. No picture again on the Freesat. Have to wait till Monday, Should have stayed with Virgin.

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Yes as we have had some bad storms lately and yet the TV picture was perfect throughout.:)

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Yip agreed..in fact i actually think the HD channels on my TiVo look better since the storm last week and today they look crisp lol and its blowing here :)

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I will see how long it will last from Monday. Thanks Den

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Nashie, if your picture is failing in bad weather then your dish is not aligned properly. Who fitted it?

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Euro Aerials Ltd

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If they did it recently, then you need to call them back and complain. A dish that has been securely fixed to your wall and accurately pointed at the correct part of the sky should give you good reception on all Freesat channels at all times, in all weather.

The only issue you might have is they may well try to suggest the dish suffered storm damage thanks to Hurricane Bawbag last Thursday. You need to be very clear with them about it if the disruption was obvious before that.

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The first time he came a good few months ago. He said he made it more secure to the wall. I don,t want them to start charging me if I have to call them out again.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...tland-16327598

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Hope I don,t have to go through this again.

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Even worse today!

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What are they calling this one?

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sounds like that weather is here today.

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I don't know what it's called but some of those gusts are damn scarey. It may be coming in a different direction but it seems to me to be stronger than bawbag. :shocked:

Main road bridges all closed (including the Kingston), Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley train stations also closed.

The end is nigh :erm:

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Worse than bawbag? How about Hurricane Tadger?

It is bad out there, I've never been so glad to be inside and not out and about.

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and its gone as quick as it came.

For about 5 minutes I suddenly had massive winds and the rain was hitting the window so hard I thought my glass would break.

Now its calm again.

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As in that well known phrase "You can blaw away my bawbag but you'll never blaw my tadger"? :D

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Not here on the South Coast it isn't...We are expecting more of our fence to be down today.

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Very windy down here since last night and for the last 10 hours it has been raining with that rain becoming torrential in the last two hours and floods becoming widespread on most of the roads down here.

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Back to more TV problems. But I feel sorry for these people who have no roofs on their houses at all

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Some amazing pictures of damages caused by the latest wind in Scotland

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-16392381

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These Pictures are really ver frightening. I think the one in Kilcreggan in near my brother, I will have to phone him. now.

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I agree nash, and hope your brother is tucked up away from the winds. I also hope all our members and their extended families and friends are safe.

It's been a tad wild in my corner of Manchester and my husband nearly took off whilst helping a neighbour move a 6ft fence panel earlier but so far I haven't heard of any structural damage.

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Hope you all stay safe.

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It's a bit wild and windy in West Yorkshire.

Here's hoping it calms down for tomorrow, as we have to drive over to Manchester Airport to drop my lad off, who will (hopefully) be catching a plane to Atlanta.

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Hope all is well tomorrow Hugh,

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the weather was pretty awful, strong winds and heavy rain caused flooding in my area in London this morning, and i was out in it.

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For the benefit of anyone planning on travelling north of Warrington on the M6: Just been informed that the Thelwall viaduct has been closed with diversions now in place.

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Hugh

There are ongoing road works near the airport for the metrolink extension. I would suggest you add a bit of time on incase it slows you down.

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Hope i don't have to travel anywhere in Warrington tonight then. Every time that motorway shuts Warrington grinds to a halt.

Viaduct Camera Image

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#SonOfBawbag wrought absolute havoc here today - far worse than last month. A house close to us had its living room window blown out; by which I mean the entire PVC double glazing frame, plus glass, is now lying on the front lawn. Probably doesn't help that the house has been unoccupied and poorly maintained for a few years, but even so ...

We lost a roof tile, which is very rare indeed for us, plus our B&B sign and the lid of our compost bin went airborne for a while too.

Needless to say the power is off. It's been off since about 7.30 this morning and on past experience we're unlikely to get it back before Thursday.

And we've not got round to buying a generator yet. :(

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Obviously I can't give figures but it was very, very busy for Plod, the ambulance crews and the water fairies up here with what seems like a lot more damage than the last time. :shocked:

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Very Bad news from you. Hope it goes on soon,

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It is a lot worse. We lost count of the number of fallen trees cleared from the road as we came down to Glasgow. If it hadn't been a bank holiday in Scotland today, the roads would have been full of commuters right about the time all those trees were coming down.

I bet you had a very busy day.

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My Brothers house is 2 houses from the one on the storm link. Thanks God him & his family are ok along with his house

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Glad to hear they are okay nash.

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What, the one with the roof from the block of flats all over it?

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The one in Kilcreggan

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Thanks den

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Ah, the Grand Designs house ...

Glad he's ok though, that must have been hairy scary.

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I didn't. ;)

My colleagues had a hell of a day and there were some very lucky escapes for people. As you said if it was a normal day it would have been carnage with almost guaranteed fatalities.

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Lucky you ...

Normal-ish working day for me, so long as I can get somewhere there's WiFi. Like McDonald's in Balloch, or the in-laws in Glasgow. :D

I keep phoning our house to see if the power's back on (the answer phone will pick up if it is) but no joy yet.

I really need to sort out a generator!

Re: Batten down the hatches (it's Hurricane Bawbag)!
 

well st helens new stadium has taken a battering.......................




they haven't long taken delivery of it and haven't played on it yet - first game is due on the 20th, which i believe is to do with the safety certificate hence the capacity has been cut.

the funny thing is that our roof at work has been bouncing up and down like a pro's draws, and our unit is just across the road from the stadium and iirc the builders of the stadium are also the builders/landlords of our premises :erm:

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Oh well two fence panels isn't such a pain to replace.;)

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Hehe, yeah. I've done breakfast by candlelight when we had the B&B in Wales. Luckily we had a gas hob so I could cobble up enough hot water and fry-ups to get the job done but having the 'leccy out can really mess up your day.

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time for underground power cables?

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Was really scary today. I got to central station about 3 mins before all trains got cancelled. Noise of the glass roof rattling and was really scary. They even told people to leave for safety.

About 5 mins after that the Xmas tree in George Square blew down. Needless to say I came home and was lucky that I could work from home.

Have just checked the Scotrail twitter and website and currently most train services are still off, so may be WFH again tomorrow.

So much more damage than last time.

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We have been to St Helen,s 3 times twice to a concert in the Royal Theatre & once in the Mossbank Labour Club, . We intend to go again in June or July for another concert. Country Music singers from USA, Nice Town too. ;)

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You are right there. Aerial people want £54 to fix, as they say it is an act of God. They are making a fortune.:mad:

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Nashie, if it's the same company that put the dish up for you in the first place, remember they didn't exactly do a brilliant job of it (you have channels that disappear in the rain) ... Consider getting a different company to quote.

If you do stick with the original company, remember it's not unreasonable for them to charge, your dish being brought down by a hurricane doesn't in itself prove their original job was substandard.

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Thanks for that message. I thought you had to stay with the one company, that put it up.

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No, you have a Freesat installation. The whole point of Freesat is that you are not in a contract with anyone for anything. You have bought the dish and the box and you can get whoever you like to repair it if it goes wrong.

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no u dont also there are 2 types off sky dish's that can be used zone 1 for down south and zone 2 for up north for your area up north a zone2 would need to be used do you have a pic off urs and i can tell you if its the correct one

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I've never seen a zone one dish around here Iain, I'd be amazed if any local installer has given Nashville the wrong one.

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just lost a large chunk of ridge tiles off my roof ,worrying thing is the wind is getting stronger and now it has a way to get under the rest of the roof .Hard to see in the dark but it looks like one full gable end of ridge has landed on my van

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Damn, that's bad news. It's really gusting hard in Lincoln now and the 'leccy has flickered off a couple of times. Still worrying about my conservatory roof but it's holding on for now.

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hope it's ok ,i've had to repair quite a few due to high winds in the past . It's not the roof itself that gives way it's the house roof loosing tiles that does the damage .Going to move my van off the drive as i just eard a few more tiles coming down .

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Sorry to hear this bad news Martyh and l hope when you look in the morning no more damage has happened.

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Still no power here in the windswept west Highlands. 50 hours and counting. SSE are now saying there are another two days of repairs required, such is the damage, and are bringing up a generator this morning to get us and our neighbours some much-needed leccy.

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Sorry to hear about your problems Chris and l do hope things will improve soon for your family and your neighbours.

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I am not sure what type of disc I have , I have a great picture till there is a strong wind & then no signal.

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This must be awful for you all. Hope it get fixed soon,

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is the dish mounted on a pole to raise it over the gutter? even if it's a short pole there might be enough sway in it to affect the alignment of the dish when it's very windy.

Could also be a tree which gets blown into the line-of-sight between your dish and the satellite.

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The dish is put right on to the wall. But I think they have put it too near the corner of the building & the wind is catching it as it whirls round. This has happened 3 times. I have had it in 11 months, I think it should be under guarantee, They are coming on Monday, If I have to pay I will be better of with VM as I already have it in one room.

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its bloody freezing https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/01/26.gif

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Power came back via generator at about 3pm. We are home and the place is warming through nicely. We've defiantly put all our Christmas lights back on for another night to make up for lost time. :D

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Great to hear the good news Chris.

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good news for you :tu: i just have to wait for my roof to be repaired we took our deccies down yesterday perhaps we should have waited for saturday before taking them down :(

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Excellent news Chris :tu:

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yup good to hear :tu: its freezing outside

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Annnnd its baack!

Bawbag strikes back. Wind is already getting to gale force and rain is lashing here in Glasgow.

Possibly up to 100mph by tomorrow morning.

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You are right Stephen, just arrived in the house , all the bins are blow all over the street,

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I've a funeral to attend tomorrow early morning. It's going to be interesting at graveside!

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Linky

Bit blowy round the Trussocks. :D

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I know. :(

We lost power at 2.45am and I had to take the kids to school at 10 after waiting for the road to be cleared of trees.

I'm currently sitting in a branch of McDonalds having breakfast.

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Seems to be a lot calmer this morning,

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Yes. It's moved on a bit quicker than predicted. Hopefully the linesmen can get on with repairing the leccy now. It was SSE men who were removing the trees from our road this morning, which was encouraging. When we had the storms a couple of years ago there was so much damage we never saw anyone from SSE in our area for about 2 days.

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I'm interested to know if the SNP is blaming Westminster for all this... :D

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Well its pretty calm down here currently in Gosport.

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Lovely here right now in N. Kent. Blue sky, few fluffy white clouds...

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Not at the moment. Their ultras are still busy insisting the falling oil price is a Westminster conspiracy.

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Yes well if I'd based a whole load of costly promises on a the value of something the price of which is entirely beyond my control, I'd be keen to hide my embarrassment and blame someone else too... :D

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Hope it is not too bad tonight as I am going out,

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Stay safe Lads and Lasses up North.

Beautiful here today just like a spring day, strange old Island with live on.

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Thanks Richard

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Ditto

Some tiles off a few neighbours homes thankfully we were okay.

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Wheelie bins are playing at Daleks in Cardiff.....

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Well its getting a bit windier now in Fareham.

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Well it's blowing a hooley here in Lee..I'm supposed to be going out..Brr!

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Been out and had a good night, but strong wind and gales starting up again,

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Same here although it looks a bit calmer now.

I was in Merchant City all night in Tollbooth bar.

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Must be all them left over brussels!

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Well that's one thing l avoid at all costs.