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It's starting to get windy ... very windy. Schools here are closing at lunchtime on the assumption that the worst of the weather is due in the afternoon, but this storm looks like its coming in quicker than forecast. Central Scotland (where I am) has a Met Office red alert out for the wind at the moment.

If I'm feeling psychotic I might go and try to get some wild photos later today.

Anyone else feeling the effects yet? How far south into England have folks been warned to prepare for a battering?

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I need to pop out and really don't fancy it!

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No its not too bad down here yet as the wind is not really blowing that much at the moment.

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The weather app on my new phone is insisting that it is a bright sunny day and yet it's wildly windy and raining at the moment..and of course this was the morning I chose for the hairdressers.

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Quite breezy here, this storm is a taster for the biggie being shown for 10 days time....

Today -
http://hw.nwstatic.co.uk/gfsimages/g...06/h500slp.png

Next weekend -

http://hw.nwstatic.co.uk/ecmimages/2...ecm500.240.png

If that happened I think DanielF would be able to walk to his homeland.
:shocked::shocked:

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Oh dear l hope you do not get too wet Maggy.

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Quite windy here in the Midlands.
I can hear the wind blowing through the roof panels.

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hey maggie dont worry..i could pop round with my clippers.. :D:D

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its extremely windy in liverpool, howling windy infact

also lots of rain and bloody huge hail stones, the dog is refusing to go out and has now taken to relieving himself on the outside of the conservatory and then running back indoors!!!!

due to the fact our car thinks its a hovercraft (stupid rear wheel drive and hugh wide wheels, yeah my hubbys choice) its safer to walk lol

oh the joys, roll on the summer so i can complain its to hot!!!

Juliexx

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Oldham is always windy, imagine building a town centre on the top of a hill.
It's been really grim for a few days what with winds that blow you off your feet, sleet, rain and freezing cold. Roll on the snow.... :dunce:

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Love that the storm here in Scotland has been renamed and is the top trending tweet in the world

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Yorkshire's been issued an Amber Alert for Wind of 70mph+ today. It doesn't feel too bad right now but I'll wait and see... was a bit blustery on the m/way today.

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Damn, this could be the last straw for my dodgy conservatory roof..

Just a bit gusty in Lincoln right now but if it gets worse I'm fully exposed, right on the hilltop.

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I just brought some of the more vulnerable looking outside christmas ornaments in...... 2 days after putting them out.. More Ho Hum than Ho Ho Ho.:(

On the plus side I've already done 3 diy jobs that have been needing done. She who must be obeyed hadn't even started nagging yet:D

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a little windy down south in Crawley. airvents making the usual whiny sound :D don't know why I'm smiling, I might need to go out :(

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Getting a bit battered out here in the cab!

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Getting windier now down in Plymouth.

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Well that's the price we pay for living by the sea...;)

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I think as far south as Plymouth you're probably going to get away with it. However, right here, in a forest clearing in central Scotland, the noise of the wind is quite something, I can tell you.
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I typed that out at 10am ... Just as the power went off. My iPad has helpfully submitted it as soon as our interwebs came back on with the leccy.

SSE Landrovers have just passed the window even though the power's been on a few minutes now - looks like they have some proper damage to fix. Ah, rural living. :D

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We're in an elevated position up on the northern tip of the sandstone ridge in Cheshire and it's getting a bit wild and nasty out there now after a relatively calm morning.

My nephew commutes from Edinburgh to East Lothian and he's been told to stay at home today.

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I have been doing the rounds on the STV Web site and found reports on STV Bellshill says that it main street has been closed because of a roof coming off an local shop.

https://twitter.com/STVBellshill

I hope everyone is safe and well.

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Not too bad in Leeds but just had to go chasing empty wheel bin up the street, not good on crutches lol

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Mr Breeze just decided to pick my glass bin up and dump it unceremoniously in the driveway!! What a noise it made!!!

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My next doors bin was half way down the road this morning.

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Port Talbot is getting a battering too, the wind is howling out there and visibility on the roads is down to about 200 metres.

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you have a bin made of glass??? that's just asking for trouble :)

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It is terrible here in Scotland today with wind and rain. So Glad I am not going out. Not many people about at all.

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A bit of a light breeze on south essex, but nowt to right home about.

Bring on the snow, wind etc, I ain't afraid.

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You just want to stand outside and scream This Is SPARTA!!! ;)

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Met Office have reported a gust on Cairngorm summit of 151mph :shocked:

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Our restored power only lasted 20 minutes. We've abandoned ship for the duration and are staying with family in Glasgow. We got some dramatic photos on the way down here. I'll upload a few whenever we get back home. :D

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must be bad if Glasgow is considered safer :)

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It's fine, the wee needs are all hiding indoors to stop their white tracksuits from getting wet and muddy.

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He didn't say that it was safer - it's just that the wind on the loch was slightly less toxic...

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Winds seem to be getting stronger now in Glasgow I hope my TV is ok tonight as we have a freesat dish. Never seen anything like this since 1969. It was bad then and we stayed in a highrise flat at the time. Neighbours were going out to stay with the relatives, They were scared to death. But we survived ok Thank God

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Was that the January gales? I remember an old neighbour getting blown off her feet at the corner of our street. I stayed in East Kilbride at the time and the place was littered with trees and fences the next day.

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Thread title updated in honour of the fact that Scots, of whom there are but 6 million, have managed to get 'hurricane bawbag' trending worldwide on Twitter. Wha's like us, eh? :D

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If anyone in M41 or M32 has received an air born present of a couple of brand spanking new green nylon garden rubbish holders with with red handles could I have them back please. Apparently they were last seen rocketing over my roof this morning. :D

On a more serious note I hope all my fellow members are safe.

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It's so windy in Manchester, Jo's lost her nylons. Hey, did I say that before Mr Love Monkey? :D

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You lookin' for a chibbin', monkeyboy?

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lmao

It's raining; it's pouring.
The old man is snoring.
He went to bed and bumped his head,
And he couldn't get up in the morning... QUICK SHUT DOWN THE UK..

btw I saw something about that volcano popping up on the news yesterday.. apparently more dust is coming our way too :confused:

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You just had to post that didn't you. You naughty boy https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/12/70.jpg No Christmas Cookies for you milad. :D

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Have you learnt a new language Hugh.:)

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Well can l have his please milady.:D

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I believe it must have been at that time. We stayed in the Castlemilk High Flats and some of the windows were blown in and the school roof was blown off and scattered all over the place.;)

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There was quite a few people killed in Glasgow. My Mum knew a Woman who was kille when the chimney collapsed through the roof in her tenement.... think it was Dalmarnock road but might be my childhood memory playing tricks.

Most of Glagow looked the same to me in those days :)

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Yes The old buildings caused a lot of problems. Anyone coming back to Glasgow now would not even find their street. Like all cities they change so much, for the better I suppose,

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Oops!

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-cen...-hit-scotland/

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On the brighter side I got a few hours off work which will annoy the Daily Mail greatly. :D

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These are costing the country a fortune and this is what happens

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If I knew what one of those were.....

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Maybe this will help you l hope.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chibbin

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Its dry and mildish for the time of year but is blowing very big gusts here in Harlow.

Nothing too untoward at the moment though,unless the gales raise the stakes later.;)

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My Freesat TV keeps losing the picture Just had to put it off. Lucky I have Virgin in another room.

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The sort of extreme weather caused by climate change is exactly the reason we need the wind turbines.

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Panic buying in Glasgow caused by hurricane Bawbag (who come up with that name?)
has resulted in shelves being stripped bare of Irn Bru, Pot Noodles and green Rizlas.

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what's a "Bawbag" ?

really blowing strong in newcastle now if this keeps up won't be taking any windows out tomorrow

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It's a bag to keep your baws in?

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thought that was a sporran

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Policemen getting time off or Wind turbines?:D

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Could be, but that would require an operation. :shocked:

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-16094360

I just had to laugh at the last image..Am I a bad person?

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nope ,i thought it was hilarious .wrong kind of wind ....goes right along with wrong kind of rain or wrong kind of snow :D

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A scrotum.

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God. I can't take you anywhere. can I?

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Nope. No, you definitely can't take me anywhere at all. :erm: :disturbd:

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Scrotum doesn't quite encompass the whole meaning portrayed by the word bawbag. Only a sassenach could think there's a direct translation :D

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Oh, believe me, I understand the nuances ... But if I related them in full I'd have to ban myself from the forum. ;)

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cheers chris ,not sure i wanted to know that hurricane scrotum is blowing my bins all over the garden :D

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Wrong context.....

Chib

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I'm wryly amused to think of all the rest of the world using the word and thinking it's a place in Scotland..:)

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In Summary- you're in for a chibbin if you steal my Kentucky Fried Chibbin

The main difference is a chib usually only scars you for life, whereas KF chibbin will eventually kill you.;)

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You're in for a chicken if you steal my chicken?

which Chav thought that one up?

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probably the same one that decided to deep fry a mars bar :D

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It's probably a cultural thing but it was more likely to be a ned who thought that up.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ned

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Nope it's called Glaswegian and Hugh's a native IIRC, so really English is his second language... :D

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Sorry teacher so that means detention for me l suspect.:D:)

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I much preferred the chicken explanation... I thought I was going to get a free dinner :)

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yeah it got very cold as my house has poor insulation.

However that was it.

I have seen and been in winds worse than this.[COLOR="Silver"]

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Lucky you weren't further north in the red alert zone then.

Our house still has no power, which means it's almost certainly going to be well into tomorrow before it does.

Still, we've gone 48 hours without leccy before now and our super duper fridge and freezer both cope with it very well. Asda delivered our Christmas meats just before we abandoned the house so they are currently freezing down nicely at the in-laws' house ... Where we are all about to spend a second night in exile.

Can anyone recommend a good brand of emergency generator? This is happening to us rather too often. I need one with enough output to run the central heating stove (auger, fans and water pump), the fridge and freezer so we don't have to leave them shut for the duration, and ideally a little left over to run an iMac and a BT Homehub.

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yeah I meant just not that bad here, I respect its worse in other areas.

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You would probably need up to about 10KW to be comfortable. For a Honda engine petrol unit with electric start and enough capacity you're looking at about 2-2.5 grand for a new one. I would be wary of secondhand ones from ebay or the classifieds and even some of the old MOD surplus stuff because they do go wrong they'll end up causing you more problems than they solve.

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I'm not looking for something to run the whole house off ... I'll need to look up the rating plates when I get home, but the demand from the stove is not high, well south of 500W IIRC. With the rest of it thrown in I would hope to get away with generating less than 2kW. We can do without lights, showers and the cooker.

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What kind of stove is it?


...sorry I've just re-read your post (been a long week!) I had envisaged some kind of electric stove requiring a 30A outlet supping lots of juice and a separate electric heater but I guess you have an all-in-one unit. I have a couple of generators here: Honda EU20i which is the 2KVa model in their portable suitcase range and a 1KVa Clarke which is basically a re-badged Kipor generator made in China and a blatant attempt at cloning the EU10. For half the price of the equivalent Honda models I really can't say anything bad about the Clarke, ok it's a bit louder and sounds a tad unrefined when it's running close to idle in economy mode but the power delivery is consistent and I've never had any problems powering a laptop, radio equipment and TV so I would imagine that the 2KVa version under whatever guise it's badged is equally acceptable for less than 400 quid.

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I am saying nothing.

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It's a biomass stove, burning compressed wood pellets. It has an electric element for ignition, but even at that stage the demand is under a kilowatt. Thereafter the power demand is from the central heating pump, fans and the fuel-delivery auger.

I'll look out for the Clarke brand. Presumably you would warn against the sub-£300 bargains sold by the likes of B&Q?

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I would most defintely give any of those cheaper frame generators and such like from the DIY chains a very wide berth and certainly wouldn't plug any sensitive electronics into them. The Clarke generators you will also see badged-up with the Kipor brand name with a model number prefix of "IG" followed by the VA rating. This is the cheapest I've found the 2.2KVa model:

http://www.tool-net.co.uk/p-347966/clarke-ig2200.html

Hyundai also do a decent line of inverter generators which come somewhere between this price point and the genuine Hondas, certainly worth a look.

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the south is set to take a hit :( on a plus.. hello Nazaneen :D http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16128077

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I've already bet 10p that it won't be a white Xmas this year. and I've cancelled the rock salt delivery.

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Yes l have just remember that you are short of money.:)

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/22...-im-skint.html

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does anyone have youtube clips or similiar of the rough seas in scotland last week? that pic on the sky site I like, I love watching rough seas.

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I have a clip of Loch Lomond which I'll try to upload later. The water doesn't pile up in the same way as it does on the sea but it's still pretty wild.

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Christ Chris it looks pretty rough to me and l suspect Nessie stays well down in the depths at 20,000 fathoms.;)

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It's a video file ... did it play ok for you?

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How stupid can l get as l just looked at it and thought it was a picture:dozey::dunce: and l have just checked it again and it plays fine but it was certainly was a day to stay in keep warm and on bad weather my relatives certainly remember the winter last year as they had some truly terrible weather in Perth which seemed to last for a eternity.

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That was some storm ye had. Video is playing

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nice link

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There's more to come, according to the BBC. The Atlantic pressure charts for tomorrow and Thursday/Friday are looking pretty hairy. At the moment it looks like the high winds are tracking further south than they did last time as well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2635167

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Back in 1986 I spent 2 nights in a tent on the shores of Lock Lomond, and it wasn't that bad.

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Unsurprisingly, it doesn't blow a gale every day of the week here. You would have been very unlucky to have had weather as bad as this when you visited. ;)