Storm Darrah

paulchapo said:
Yes I did but as a kid who had motion sickness I suffered badly the first few days of every trip for a couple of years until I eventually got my sea legs. I wouldn't give up though and spent 42 years at sea.

I worked on the cross channel ferries for the last 27 of those. While you do get used to it the downside to working in such weather conditions is fatigue. The constant strain on your legs and body to stay upright during your 12 hour shift is tiring. Then trying to sleep through the crashing and disturbances as the ship pitches and rolls. After a couple of days you are shattered. For passengers not used to such it was often a big shock and to some very frightening. The best thing for seasickness is to lie down flat near ventilation. It eases the violent motion which distorts your inner ear and balance, which makes you sick.
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Agree totally about the effort trying to stay upright, it was exhausting & we thought it best to go & lie down in our cabin & hope for the best.
I was with my first wife & our two young kids on that awful journey home.
I won’t lie, I was so worried for them that the ferry was going to sink.
It’s that feeling of being completely helpless & just hoping to get through it.
It put me right off the longer channel crossings & i have only used the short crossings or the channel tunnel since then.
Fair play to you though, I cannot imagine 42 years at sea.
 
Manc baggie said:
Agree totally about the effort trying to stay upright, it was exhausting & we thought it best to go & lie down in our cabin & hope for the best.
I was with my first wife & our two young kids on that awful journey home.
I won’t lie, I was so worried for them that the ferry was going to sink.
It’s that feeling of being completely helpless & just hoping to get through it.
It put me right off the longer channel crossings & i have only used the short crossings or the channel tunnel since then.
Fair play to you though, I cannot imagine 42 years at sea.
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Yes people often overlook how draining working in such conditions are. It's natural to be worried in rough weather if you're not used to it but the crews used to be very well trained if the worst happened. You're also in a very busy stretch of water so help would have been plentiful.
Mate, I never imagined it myself lol! If you stay in over a couple of years you usually end up staying longer. It's unlike no other job, even if you only work on the ferries where retail, food and beverage areas etcetera are similar to shoreside it's still very different. The culture, banter, lifestyle are all unique, well they used to be.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Thinking of venturing out today for milk, risky I know but seems less severe than yesterday and the death toll seems to have slowed. All the leaves gone from the trees here, we'll be singing folk ballads and telling folk of 'the big one of 24' for many a year.
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Ha... reminds me of this..

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Here, east of Pennines, it rained heavily, nothing else in my region at least. The previous storm took our bin 50 yards down the road. We never got the lid back, but the council are apparently incapable of supplying a new one.
 
For those that got a good laugh out of this storm.
Truth is, Holyhead port still isn’t fully open due to storm damage and shortages of some foods and electrical goods on the shelves in shops are expected if the port doesn’t get operational soon.
There are hundreds of container lorries held up on both sides of the Irish Sea.

Yo ho ho! Merry Christmas.
 
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