Have you had any damage from Storm Arwen?
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We lost power, phone line, internet, mobile signal at 10pm friday and got it back yesterday.
Only damage was a very heavy outdoor table I have made from an old stable door (one inch thick wood) which had lifted itself from our patio, cleared the wall and landed upside down, smashed into pieces, on our drive missing all the cars and horse trailers (thank god)
I have never known the wind be so strong in my 21 years living here. On friday night out taking the dogs for a walk I could barely stand upright.
seeing footage, it was amazing how powerful it was. Trampolines flying through the air I could understand but the wheelie bin going 400 foot up in the air is incredible!
This was a friend photos from the Saturday at Seaham. The lighthouse is 77 foot tall for reference.
Only damage was a very heavy outdoor table I have made from an old stable door (one inch thick wood) which had lifted itself from our patio, cleared the wall and landed upside down, smashed into pieces, on our drive missing all the cars and horse trailers (thank god)
I have never known the wind be so strong in my 21 years living here. On friday night out taking the dogs for a walk I could barely stand upright.
seeing footage, it was amazing how powerful it was. Trampolines flying through the air I could understand but the wheelie bin going 400 foot up in the air is incredible!
This was a friend photos from the Saturday at Seaham. The lighthouse is 77 foot tall for reference.
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That video and those pics are amazing! Never seen anything like that wheely bin and trampoline being blown around in mid air like that, like what you'd expect from an American tornado rather than a UK storm (I guess the wind pattern in that are might have been close to forming a tornado?).
Must have been a pain going without power for so long, good that it's been sorted now.
Can only feel sorry for the 140 houses in swaledale that it looks like will have been without power for 4 days by the time it gets fixed: https://www.richmondshiretoday.co.u...ales-residents-enter-third-day-without-power/
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I can't believe its taking so long even after the "Fish incident" power was out for most of the day but was back by evening even though the phones took longer and we had trees down here there and everywhere half a dozen down our street alone and over 100 in the parks the main road was blocked all morning till they chainsawed a major tree fall
i can. I saw the photos of the power lines where I live. When you see every electric pole for miles lying on the floor, its understandable that its going to take the days to get the final people back on.
At the start almost 220,000 people were off. By 48 hours that was down to less than 80,000. Some villages further out from my arent expected back on until 2nd December at midnight so another 2 more days for them.
I know mountain rescue went and got one elderly person yesterday who was feeling unwell
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Well the emu compound tree that crashed down has been cleared and the fence repaired with three new 9 foot posts and a new section of weldmesh, that took all of toady. Tomorrow we start on the cattle's electric fencing which has four or five big trees over it that brought it down and smashed a few of the new posts. I only repaired the bloody thing a few weeks ago due to about thirty posts being old and rotten...
That's incredible! It was windy here near Stratford but nothing like that. Still not heard from a couple of friends up near Torphins so I assume they are still huddled round a log fire in the dark.We lost power, phone line, internet, mobile signal at 10pm friday and got it back yesterday.
Only damage was a very heavy outdoor table I have made from an old stable door (one inch thick wood) which had lifted itself from our patio, cleared the wall and landed upside down, smashed into pieces, on our drive missing all the cars and horse trailers (thank god)
I have never known the wind be so strong in my 21 years living here. On friday night out taking the dogs for a walk I could barely stand upright.
seeing footage, it was amazing how powerful it was. Trampolines flying through the air I could understand but the wheelie bin going 400 foot up in the air is incredible!
This was a friend photos from the Saturday at Seaham. The lighthouse is 77 foot tall for reference.
Yeah I know people out that way that still don't have power.
Thought so. Someone did post about food wagons going around giving out hot food and drinks.
Still without power, coming up to 7 days now. We're not even in a remote area, and the fault could be fixed by linesmen in under an hour. The estimate this time yesterday was by 10 pm tonight, then late last night they pushed it back to the 8th of December at 10 pm.
No complaints about the guys on the ground working on it, but Northern Powergrid's customer service and systems need a massive overhaul after this. It was the first red alert by the Met Office for many areas in a long time in terms of windspeed etc., and they reacted far too late.
No complaints about the guys on the ground working on it, but Northern Powergrid's customer service and systems need a massive overhaul after this. It was the first red alert by the Met Office for many areas in a long time in terms of windspeed etc., and they reacted far too late.
Still without power, coming up to 7 days now. We're not even in a remote area, and the fault could be fixed by linesmen in under an hour. The estimate this time yesterday was by 10 pm tonight, then late last night they pushed it back to the 8th of December at 10 pm.
No complaints about the guys on the ground working on it, but Northern Powergrid's customer service and systems need a massive overhaul after this. It was the first red alert by the Met Office for many areas in a long time in terms of windspeed etc., and they reacted far too late.
Agree with you., The guys on the ground have been fantastic but NP customer services and information lines have been appalling. They have also being cheating so they dont have to compensation. I have friends who took screen shots when the power first went off and shows Nat grid dhows it as off at 10.08pm on Friday night. Funnily enough now they got power back at 3am Monday morning the online update shows their power now supposedly only went off on Saturday morning so they havent been off for 48 hours and are no longer due any compo
Its not a lot, as its £75 I think if off for 48 hours plus another £75 every 24 hours thereafter so will add up in your case.
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I noticed the kettle taking ages to boil two days ago and put a calibrated RMS AC voltmeter on the supply from the meter. 159 volts! I had also semi noticed the microwave had cremated my baked potato the day before and the wife said the toaster was acting up. The reason a microwave might mis- time it's cooking period, assuming it has a modern digital timer is either an odd internal circuit board fault or the mains AC frequency is wrong. If it's say 45 Hertz and not the correct 50 Hz it will cook longer than set for, hence my overcooked spud. It's very rare for the mains to be out on frequency, so what the hell had occurred I don't know. A lot of modern devices rely on it being spot on 50 Hz
I rang Scottish Power and told them we were way low on voltage plus I suspected it was off frequency and overnight it had been brought back up to its normal circa 230 volts. I should have measured the frequency, stuff like that fascinates my geeky side. The microwave times accurately again as well now.
I rang Scottish Power and told them we were way low on voltage plus I suspected it was off frequency and overnight it had been brought back up to its normal circa 230 volts. I should have measured the frequency, stuff like that fascinates my geeky side. The microwave times accurately again as well now.
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Not sure what pet name this new storm has but it's given my neighbour an early Christmas gift from me. Luckily he is a lovely chap and has taken this new wooden gift in the same spirit as a much larger gift of four wooden toys a few years ago.
Unluckily he's an ex Mc.Laren carbon composites engineer, now working independently, so wood is not his thing... The wind seems to have died down now, but who knows if it was just a prelude of what tonight has in store?
Unluckily he's an ex Mc.Laren carbon composites engineer, now working independently, so wood is not his thing... The wind seems to have died down now, but who knows if it was just a prelude of what tonight has in store?
