Poor you! We used to be quite resilient in our old house with open fires, gas hob and copper landline. Now we are all electric I’d be forced to go for a bike ride to keep warm!
Storm Darragh
- Thread starter Smokin Joe
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sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
Just back from an Evening dog walk here in Lowestoft, Suffolk. Dry, calm, warm. Quite a pleasant evening infact. Especially mid-storm in December 🤷♂️
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Still being battered here inland. I believe further west they've really copped thing badly.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
wind is getting stronger again in the midlands and its bitterly cold
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Aye lad, that wind is driving some seriously cold air long.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Got a 100km ride in today. It had lost its bite by time it reached Essex.
Cathryn
Legendary Member
- Location
- Marlborough, Wiltshire
Yeah, we had nothing! Everything is electric! But we had coats, hats, blankets, duvets and three cats!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Camping stoves?
OP
OP
Smokin Joe
Squire
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
I've got one for emergencies. Even when we had gas once the electric went neither the hob nor the boiler would ignite with these modern safety requirements, no power and the gas shuts off.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
What you need Joe is a camper van with a gas hob, big fat lipo leisure battery and big-O solar. Mine even has a diesel heater. I've almost been hoping the electricity will fail so I can retreat out there.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Round Peterborough, the forecast has been pretty much the same yiday and tomorrow circa 35mph winds gusting to 50 and a bit.
Yeah it's windy and quite cold out in it...seen worse.
Yeah it's windy and quite cold out in it...seen worse.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
It's been pretty grim here in East Cambs since about lunchtime. Mind you, out in the fens, there's no stopping a hoolie from blowing through. I only went out to top up the wood bins in the house, and that was a singularly unpleasant task, as I had to face the teeth of the gale. Rain's not been too bad, but the wind chill from that northerly is nasty.
Trees are wanging around like crazy. I expect a few will have fainted once this has blown through.
Day been spent wisely indoors.
Trees are wanging around like crazy. I expect a few will have fainted once this has blown through.
Day been spent wisely indoors.
Toshiba Boy
N+1er
- Location
- By the beach, West Zummerzet
- Location
- Glasgow
Yes, same here in Glasgow.For a change, west/central area of Scotland has got off lightly. Very heavy rain and strong east wind (about 40/50 mph) overnight but since then just a bit windy. Nothing out of the ordinary in these parts, and not much different from the "summer" we had this year.
Hope the worst has passed for all those who were not so fortunate and were more affected by Darragh.
Strange!
Just the -usual for this time of year- freezing drizzle yesterday.
The sky was very dark around 3 pm, so I thought that the storm would come soon.
We just had heavy rain last night only, not much wind yesterday or today.
