Storm Eowyn

give it to gordon said:
I'm not saying for one moment saying that it hasn't been bad in some areas. This is about the 4th storm this winter which has been a yellow or amber warning in our area. Again nothing really happened a few bins blown over. People around here are getting pissed of with warnings for what is a normal winter storm.
Thing is if the met office keep issuing warnings and it doesn't happen, people will start to ignore them. We're had about 5 days build up to it on the news etc, and than basically nothing
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It's a question of degree isn't it? They can't get the forecast perfect geographically so they err on the side of caution, I do think public transport companies over-react sometimes but we live in a health and safety, "someone must be liable, who can I claim from?" obsessed society nowadays.
 
give it to gordon said:
I'm not saying for one moment saying that it hasn't been bad in some areas. This is about the 4th storm this winter which has been a yellow or amber warning in our area. Again nothing really happened a few bins blown over. People around here are getting pissed of with warnings for what is a normal winter storm.
Thing is if the met office keep issuing warnings and it doesn't happen, people will start to ignore them
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It certainly wasn't a normal winter storm up here in the West of Scotland,I can't remember a bigger one here .

The only thing I can remember being as bad or worse was when I lived in Asia and we were right under the path of a typhoon.
 
give it to gordon said:
I'm not saying for one moment saying that it hasn't been bad in some areas. This is about the 4th storm this winter which has been a yellow or amber warning in our area. Again nothing really happened a few bins blown over. People around here are getting pissed of with warnings for what is a normal winter storm.
Thing is if the met office keep issuing warnings and it doesn't happen, people will start to ignore them. We're had about 5 days build up to it on the news etc, and than basically nothing
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Well they got this one correct over here.
Status red is serious and not something we get too often.
People were asked to stay indoors and not to travel. There was only one death on the roads reported in the north west.
Average wind speeds of 135kph is quite significant. Record breaking gusts of 183kph in some areas.
It was bad on the east coast early this morning. I’m lucky. Neighbours ridge tiles came down and hit her car in the driveway. Some landed in my side garden near the back door but no damage in my area.

Took the dog out later this evening and there’s debris everywhere.

But the west of the country got a severe battering. Seriously dangerous. Met Éireann called it right.

It’ll take over a week to restore power to the whole country.
 
jimharri said:
Yeah; it was frightening, to be honest. Around 2-6 this morning was shocking, the worst I've ever seen. Record gust recorded in Connemara....

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I'm without power, and could be for days, given the sheer number of outages around the country. The ESB are saying 725,000 customers are without power, and that it could be at least a week before Everyone has power fully restored.
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Ah it's a real pain my power goes every storm so I have my own generator which is a godsend. Thankfully it's passed and the clean up can begin.
 
Some of my friends in Coleraine had no power for over 7 hours now. My brother's was only for few hours
 
give it to gordon said:
I'm not saying for one moment saying that it hasn't been bad in some areas. This is about the 4th storm this winter which has been a yellow or amber warning in our area. Again nothing really happened a few bins blown over. People around here are getting pissed of with warnings for what is a normal winter storm.
Thing is if the met office keep issuing warnings and it doesn't happen, people will start to ignore them. We're had about 5 days build up to it on the news etc, and than basically nothing
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Same here, didnt feel much different to a normal winters day.
 
Gray said:
The lazy twats who live next door to me have had a discarded headboard leaning up against their “garage room” for over a month now.

This morning it has relocated itself to the side of the flower bed between our two semi’s. That is probably where it will stay for a good few weeks.

Anybody else with neighbours like that?
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Set fire to the headboard then put their windows in.
 
give it to gordon said:
Nah our local news have been building it up all week !! We were in a yellow warning area.
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You're probably in a "yellow" area most weeks of winter at some point or other, that's why there are yellow, amber, and red warnings, yellow is meant as "advice", while red has only been issued about 4 or 5 times since it was introduced numerous years ago. Nobody can help it that your "local" news (or even yourself) don't understand the system.

The reds that were issued were spot on, the amber was really only northern England outside the red area, and also about right (though a few spots in northern England might have been just into te red).

Kent was as far away from this storm's red areas as it's possible to get in the UK, hence you barely noticed it.
 
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