What's more current than the weather?

[Undertoad]

Here I am, but the Cellar servers are 30 miles south, in a data center with a big-ass diesel generator for backup power.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays Undertoad from getting it up.

[Sundae]

Been raining very hard here, with high winds for this area.
I arrived at work looking like I was in a wet waitrose uniform contest. Had to go into the disabled toilet and take my shirt off, try to dry it under the hand-drier.
I made sure I switched the chicken rotisserie on well before I went to date-check the items in the chiller.
FSM knows what I'll do if it's like this tomorrow; it's a Bakery shift, so I start half an hour earlier (which means I'm less likely to get in early) and my first stop is the freezer. No choice, no question, straight into -20.

Actually I'll just assume its going to be as bad and wear other clothes to work. And take a towel. The weather report conspired against me this morning, as did a temporary lull while I was getting ready.

One think that did make me chuckle was as I was walking past the mosque on the way home, the wind blew over a recycling bin, out for collection. The chap whose house it was came out in a panic, looked relieved for a second that it was nothing more than the bin, then horrified as paper, cardboard and fast food containers took to the skies, and soft drinks cans skittered away, mosque-bound. As I carried on walking, the last I saw of him was his mad grabbing dance. I did wait a decent distance before sniggering.

[glatt]

Last week's ice storm in Slovenia. No matter how bad it is where you are, just remember it can always be worse.

[xoxoxoBruce]

That guy must be driving someone else's vehicle, like government or company owned... or he's just stupid.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

That guy must be driving someone else's vehicle, like government or company owned... or he's just stupid.

I saw that video on the Capital Weather Gang website. And there were pictures there too, of people cleaning ice off their cars using ʄucking metal hammers. And one shot showed a smashed rear window. Imagine that. Idiots.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by glatt

Last week's ice storm in Slovenia. No matter how bad it is where you are, just remember it can always be worse.

I kept hearing a frog.

[Sundae]

I got myself a second-hand Regatta jacket from eBay.
That's a proper outdoorsy walker kind of jacket and is properly waterproof.
I've only had it a couple of days but it's shaping up to be the best purchase of 2014. Big pats on my well protected back.

Floods are still big news here. They're spreading for a start.
We're so lucky not to be affected, in this town and in this house.
Large areas of the Thames Valley are underwater, as is most of the South-West it seems. And the rain is still falling from a relentlessly grey sky. Being warm and dry seems like a distant memory.

http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26131515

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Here I am, but the Cellar servers are 30 miles south, in a data center with a big-ass diesel generator for backup power.

What a coincidence. I also have a big-ass!

[Griff]

They sent us home early. I would like to thank Suzuki for a kick-ass little car.

[Sundae]

I've never heard the wind blow this hard against and around the house.
There are serious gusts.
I know I always say it, but I do live in a very protected area, geographically, so this is shocking.

I'm glad the 'rents are moving, despite the stress to me. They don't have to worry abut maintenance any more. And they're not just moving onto another hill, they're also on the first floor (second floor in US terms). They're also right above the offices of the charity they're renting from, so they'll never be stranded without power, because someone will know and come to check on them.

In the mean time, I expect to see trees uprooted when the sun comes up, because the wind is so strong and the ground so sodden. And damage to property; shed roofs and chimneys and fence panels and the like. No fatalities I hope - someone has been killed in London tonight by falling masonry.

[DanaC]

Yeah. Was bad here too, but not as bad as last Thursday. That was mental. I was scared to go out with Carrot, because when i did I felt like i was going to be blown over. Then I told myself off for being dramatic. Later, I thought the windos were going to blow in, and again berated myself for being dramatic.

Then on Friday I saw the damage to manchester on the news. People being blown of their feet, uprooted trees, a train station evacuated because the roof was torn off, and a street evacuated because the fronts of three houses were ripped off.

Similar story in parts of Yorkshire.

Round here it looked dramatic, with wheelie bins and garden furniture, roof slates and and the like scattered about, but aside from a couple of uprooted trees and a collapsed wall blocking a road, there wasn't anything major.



100 miles an hour wind. 110 in some parts of coastal Wales.

[Carruthers]

Last Wednesday, in Shropshire...



It isn't clear what type of building it was that now has a sky view, but the escaping roof didn't look very substantial, did it?

[Griff]

Pretty shoddy...

[Griff]

Dynamite downhill ski conditions today. Went to Greek Peak and made 19 runs for about 10800 ft of elevation skied. Pete's top speed (app on her phone) was 42.5mph not bad fer an old broad. Which reminds me, I'm gassed, good night all. Sposed to be an evil rain coming this week.