Winter 2023/24 - It's FREEZING!

[Captain]

With no tumble drier and the heating off, I've been struggling to dry clothes on the airer for the last couple of weeks. I gave in and put the heating on for a couple of hours to dry most of the big things. I put the airer in a small room with the radiator on full, the window ajar and the door closed, then turned the rest of the radiators in the house to their lowest setting.

That's the bulk of the washing dry now, but I wanted to avoid putting the heating on just yet. I will consider this as a needed burst and hold out putting the heating on until about December, or just before.

All that faffing around, just buy a dryer, they’re not expensive.

 

[Uther]

Couple of guys driving around guernsey live streaming it

Aren't you under a red warning out there? Pretty stupid to be doing that if so.

 

[Diddums]

Starting to pick up here in Putney, hope we get a decent show

 

[robfosters]

Winds arriving here

 

[mushtafa]

Google weather suggests we'll only see 50mph winds peak, but it's certainly making a lot of noise out there!
I expect to see a few trees down in the morning

 

[tenofspades]

a bolt of lightning caught me right off guard, I thought it was my Xbox somehow taking a picture of me.

 

[bingham67]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1719846134758224144

 

[chaparral]

Aren't you under a red warning out there? Pretty stupid to be doing that if so.

Yes to the red warning

During the live stream the police phoned them (See video at 1h 26m )

 

[bingham67]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1719856627661324602

 

[XeNoN89]

Looks like it's tracking further south as the models predicted and so away from the south coast and Kent should be fine

 

[darael]

All that faffing around, just buy a dryer, they’re not expensive.

I'd rather faff around than be bent over for the running costs of a tumble drier.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Wind has gotten steadily worse over the course of the evening we're under an amber warning for wind was nearly blowing me over an hour ago not much rain though we had plenty of that yesterday but its dry this evening. Its blowing so much though I'm expecting loose tiles to blow off and trees down tomorrow

Looks like it's tracking further south as the models predicted and so away from the south coast and Kent should be fine

Its blowing like mad down here work may text they're closed tomorrow

 

[Rroff]

Very quiet and calm in the eye of it now just the odd rain squall. We had those stormy gusts of wind which sound like they are roaring overhead but it was relatively tame stuff, I'm guessing won't be much different in the morning as the tail end of it passes over.

 

[Captain]

I'd rather faff around than be bent over for the running costs of a tumble drier.

I don’t think you know how much they are to use if you think they’re expensive to run.

 

[robj20]

I'd rather faff around than be bent over for the running costs of a tumble drier.

You haven't heard of heat pump dryers have you.

 

[labbby]

just a lot of rain in Suffolk, no sign of the wind yet.

 

[tenofspades]

Well in Devon right now it’s a particularly feeble wind. A wheelie bin or two might have fallen over.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

Getting hammered now, 40mph winds with gusts up to 70. Sleep is over for tonight.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Oof roads closed due to fallen trees trains cancelled power outages all over still on here at least. Community school around the corner has announced they're staying closed today. Rain blattering down now

 

[Pickers]

Battered here... Dreading going out later to inspect damage. Power cut too - planned to be back on by 6pm this afternoon