Storm Doris

[Dis86]

I havn't, was lovely here this morning (Houghton-Le-Spring, Nth East), sun was blazing, hardly a breeze, then around half 12ish, wind got up, went dark, started sleeting/raining, then about an hr later it eased off, as did the wind, now its just dark, raining, bit breezy.

Houghton is never lovely.

 

[RJC]

Currently at my parents and no issues here, not been home yet!

Managed to leave work early

 

[grudas]

Saw 2 women in Canary Wharf get blown over and whilst not seriously hurt, still were flung hard off their feet. Looked like someone did a force push on them. At one point I was being pushed along by the wind at quite an alarming rate.

I'm half happy that I'm wfh due to feeling sick today! cycling would not have been fun.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Houghton is never lovely.

 

[ci_newman]

Lost a ridge tile on the top off the roof... the same one that was replaced two years ago.. damn it!

 

[diamount]

The usual, bins all over the place - hopefully the fences hold up.

 

[FTM]

north east coast is getting away with it largely

the centre of the storm is passing over us so the strongest winds are out on the leading edges..no worse than any other winters day here

 

[manic_man]

Flat roof came completely off one of the buildings at the lab where I work, must have been loose to begin with as no other similar buildings have suffered.

Insulation flying all over the place!!

 

[opstrat]

we just got some snow followed by muppets who don't know how to drive in said snow so decide to shut various roads.

 

[MikeTheNative]

It's quite sunny here but really really windy.

 

[DaleTheWhale]

Dreading my journey home, New Street is suspending lines left right and center.

Derby to Birmingham is looking like it's now just local trains = hundreds of people crammed onto 3 carriage trains.

 

[SDK^]

A big tree was blown down in the restaurant car park where we were having lunch - luckily I had parked away from trees

 

[peterwalkley]

Two ridge tiles down and they broke some tile on the garage roof when they landed. Three fence panels also trashed. Not the only one, house behind mine has lost ridge tiles and one down the road has lost a whole line from the top down to the eaves.

Quite a bit of damage in the area when I look at Ellesmere Port polices' twitter feed.

 

[wez130]

Hardly a breeze here in the valley, though on the coast it's apparently been windy.

 

[Cosimo]

Some of our neighbours patio plants have been blown over. Occasionally been blowing like mad during the afternoon but wind dropping off now.

 

[Glanza]

Had a few bins roll past work but apart from that nothing out of the ordinary.

 

[Bickaxe]

1 fence panel down. Its the neighbours and should slot back in. Too windy to actually do that at the moment though. Might suggest a few holes and some cable ties looped though.

 

[Akagi]

Also am I the only one who keeps thinking of 4t5?

Not anymore.

 

[HazardO]

Walked into town at lunch time down a long avenue of ancient chestnut trees. You could hear a massive roar before each gust of wind hit you, small branches all over the place. Returned 40 mins later to see one of the trees I'd walked past had come down blocking the road and had hit the cab of a passing truck (glancing blow as it was on the other side of the road). The tree had sheered off at the base.

 

[McBain]

******* piece of **** storm, all trains currently suspended out of Euston so i'm stuck down in this dump until they're running again.

Not impressed.