Gales

accymel · 08-01-2005, 04:27

cant sleep at mo its blowing right strong gales ere its that bad its reminding me of '87 n wish i had double glazing

black_flights · 08-01-2005, 10:20

yeah I know how you feel it kept me awake aswell. Oh and the double glazing didnt make theblindest bit of difference. It was that bad I actually thought it might shatter the glass.

Acrylic-bob · 08-01-2005, 11:07

It was so bad in my neck of the woods during the night that it has quite put Acrylic-Biff off his porridge. If you knew the fuss he makes about porridge you would understand how significant this is. He has not moved from his preferred position in front of the radiator all morning.

janet · 08-01-2005, 11:34

The gales have kept me awake most of the night also,all i could here was lots of fencing crashing down. Helped one of my neighbours this morning to move her fencing so she could get to the rubbish and wheelie bin which is being emptied today.

janet · 08-01-2005, 11:38

I forgot to mention that when i took the dogs to the park i noticed one tree had been uprooted and two more broken in half, i wont be venturing out again today unless the wind drops.

Steph · 08-01-2005, 11:39

Well' I understand what you are all saying as it kept me awake too. When I got up this morning my gutter has come off the front of my house and is wrapped around next doors chimney, part of my chimney is missing and my aerial has blown down!

Mick · 08-01-2005, 11:42

I have just been uptown and the amount of roof slates and signs on blackburn road
this wind is cousing a lot of damage

There is a taxi firm just near the viaduct on blackburn rd and there arial has blown down too .
Thats going to cost as they dont know about it yet and they cant work without it

Acrylic-bob · 08-01-2005, 11:45

Comiserations Steph, I hope it doesn't cost too much to put right.

Busman747 · 08-01-2005, 12:32

Oops, I seem to have managed to sleep through it all...but I wondered this morning how my wheelie bin managed to get down the road all on its own

black_flights · 08-01-2005, 12:38

You slept through it all? lol. it seems our climate is changing considerable. I can't believe the amount of damage this gale has caused. My friend has a motorbike and it blew over in the night, smashed it up a bit. Ah well I suppose the sleeping thing doesn't bother me really I'm an insomniac anyway.

accymel · 08-01-2005, 12:55

Gee we have major damage up ere n the council arn't gonna be best pleased when their phones are jammed monday morn, woke at 3.45am n didnt get any more sleep till 9am, had the great pleasure of telling the neighbour that i watched his fencing slowly be ripped apart from 4 am, several roof tiles are missing off a lot of houses , mine has one to my knowledge tho surprised at that cos it defo sounded like the whole roof was gonna be blown off.

accymel · 08-01-2005, 12:57

LOL Acrylic-bob i hope Acrylic-biff managed to have some porridge this morning aw bless

accymel · 08-01-2005, 12:59

Was peeved of with the recycle chaps this morning puttin everyones blue box in their gardens....... did they do same for me - NO they let me box blow away!! I went up to complain to them despite being nearly blown away n they said not our fault its blown away....bloody gits. So will now have to order a new blue box just for the sake of saving the bin chaps a second n time.

Doug · 08-01-2005, 13:01

It's was bad up here last night, but the rains stopped for now and the sun is out. Still very windy.....up to 80 mph in some of the flatter parts of Blackpool.

Margaret Pilkington · 08-01-2005, 14:02

My bin blew over and I spent the best part of an hour picking up all the household rubbish that had blown all over the back alley.