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Storm Eunice

By SecretPro, in General Chat

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Fox92

Fox92

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1 hour ago, hejammy said:

The women at the end clearly dived. Yellow card for sure! 

She'd certainly know who to dive considering it's Croydon :ph34r:

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weller54

weller54

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3 hours ago, Milo said:

Lost a bit of the side fence here, 3 nine foot panels gone and fence posts snapped off. 
 

One of the posts fell against a widow pane, but didn’t break it. Which was surprisingly fortunate. 
 

Assume I can get a new fence via insurance (?). 

Nope.

The Year Of The Fox

The Year Of The Fox

Posted
Posted
3 hours ago, Milo said:

Lost a bit of the side fence here, 3 nine foot panels gone and fence posts snapped off. 
 

One of the posts fell against a widow pane, but didn’t break it. Which was surprisingly fortunate. 
 

Assume I can get a new fence via insurance (?). 

Depends what your policy says

 

Fences aren’t too expensive to replace anyway. Probably less than your insurance excess

Parafox

Parafox

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50 minutes ago, Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot said:

I'm in Central Nottingham and had I not known any better I'd say it was just a bit windy today. 

Bit windy in Hinckley too. The town centre was virtually empty and our charity shop took a quarter of what we would normally do on a Friday.

Just very windy. Nothing we haven't experienced before but the news(scare)mongers scared people into staying away.

Milo

Milo

Posted
Posted (edited)
3 hours ago, weller54 said:

Nope.

 

3 hours ago, weller54 said:

Nope.

 

3 hours ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Depends what your policy says

 

Fences aren’t too expensive to replace anyway. Probably less than your insurance excess

Yep - can’t claim on insurance. 
 

Ah well. It’s been one of those days. 

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Carl the Llama

Carl the Llama

Posted
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1 hour ago, Parafox said:

Nothing we haven't experienced before but the news(scare)mongers scared people into staying away.

Open your eyes, it's the latest shady Remoaner tactic:  Don't you think it's a bit of a coincidence they called it EU nice?  They're trying to brainwash us all!

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Bellend Sebastian

Bellend Sebastian

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Posted

Youngest was due to go out to see a friend yesterday, wasn't sure this was a good idea but as they were going to just be driven to soft play and be round someone's house for a bit, thought should be ok.

 

As they were being driven to the soft play place, a tree then toppled on to the car in front (occupant apparently unhurt, but understandably very upset).

 

A timely reminder that 'it'll be FINE' is not a reliable concept on which to base decisions.  I mean, it was fine but if they'd been five seconds further down the road it really might not have been

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Guest worth_the_wait

Guest worth_the_wait

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I don't wish to sound like one of those "that was nothing compared to the good old days" ... but yesterday's storm really was nothing compared to the Great Storm of 1987.
 
Admittedly there was a gust of 122mph in an exposed place, probably for a nanosecond, and some trees were blown over, along with a bit of damage to a few buildings.  
 
But this barely compares to 1987, which caused massive destruction, and uprooted approximately 15,000,000 trees.  It had been the worst storm in England for nearly 200 years.   
 
18 people in England lost their lives, and that number was only so low as the storm had struck in the early hours when most people were asleep.   It would have been much worse during the day, if people had been out and about.
 
(admittedly the 1987 one occurred in Autumn when trees were a bit more top heavy with wet leaves.   But the scale of destruction was an order of magnitude greater).
 
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/case-studies/great-storm

 

Jimothy

Jimothy

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8 minutes ago, worth_the_wait said:


I don't wish to sound like one of those "that was nothing compared to the good old days" ... but yesterday's storm really was nothing compared to the Great Storm of 1987.
 
Admittedly there was a gust of 122mph in an exposed place, probably for a nanosecond, and some trees were blown over, along with a bit of damage to a few buildings.  
 
But this barely compares to 1987, which caused massive destruction, and uprooted approximately 15,000,000 trees.  It had been the worst storm in England for nearly 200 years.   
 
18 people in England lost their lives, and that number was only so low as the storm had struck in the early hours when most people were asleep.   It would have been much worse during the day, if people had been out and about.
 
(admittedly the 1987 one occurred in Autumn when trees were a bit more top heavy with wet leaves.   But the scale of destruction was an order of magnitude greater).
 
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/case-studies/great-storm

 

Something bad occurred. Just because something worse occurred in the past doesn't mean we should ignore it. It's not a competition.

leicsmac

leicsmac

Posted
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3 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Something bad occurred. Just because something worse occurred in the past doesn't mean we should ignore it. It's not a competition.

To add to this, those bad things are going to become increasingly more likely to occur in the future.

fox_favourite

fox_favourite

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I think as a county, we did get away quite lightly. Where I was, it was windy but not extreme. Advantage of living in the middle I guess. Either way it came from would be weaker as it hits in land. 

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