Dudley's coming........

[Pete.]

This is just down the road from me. Reckon the road will be closed for a week it's so unstable. Just when the school's go back.

I can't see how the school will be able to open. They can't funnel all the traffic down the little lanes and there are a lot of pupils that come from beyond walking distance.

 

[Onoff]

I can't see how the school will be able to open. They can't funnel all the traffic down the little lanes and there are a lot of pupils that come from beyond walking distance.

Be handy if you get the demo job! Almost working from home

 

[Morrisman]

Yes that's roughly what I meant, the Met Office is mistakenly trying to compete with other online sources of weather info, (of which there are many excellent examples, eg Windy).
And another thing, the culture of naming storms is an unwelcome (to me at least) import from the USA. In the States, storms arguably deserve names because they can be huge and devastating, and regularly destroy lives and infrastucture, whether farmland or whole cities, New Orleans is a notorious example. (Also many Americans are functionally illiterate, and need simple labels.)
Over here, the damage is *relatively* rare and insignificant (not to denigrate those who are affected, mainly mariners and farmers who are dependent on the weather for their livelihoods).
Also giving storms (deep Atlantic depressions) silly names accelerates the infantilising, or dumbing down, of the basic knowledge of basic weather which until recently has been part of British life.
(Perhaps I should have posted in Codgers' Corner, instead of here..)

My first visit to the US I was working in New Orleans, in some shipyard. We had a lift back to our hotel one night after work and the guy driving pointed out an area of devastation in the middle of a town, that was once a school. A tornado had come through, off ground, but had dipped down and destroyed the school, nothing else. Then it had left.

Ten years later I flew in, 4 weeks after Katrina has been through. It was a very different situation that time.

When something is that bad, causes that much damage and destruction and misery, you need a name for it, not just ‘that hurricane’.

 

[Robotstar5]

This is what happens when the grids on the lane are full of carp, which is always. I usually end up emptying them. There's a big grid I installed at the top right of the steps with a 6" drain, this is the excess that jumps over a 6" stone lip below the grid. There will be another couple of barrows full of top dressing gravel in the sump by now.


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Looks like Chatsworth house has competition...

 

[roofman]

Tomorrow WILL be better. Trust me ;-)

It'll be windy, but there will be a good few rays of sunshine about. T-shirts? Maybe not, but it will be a day to make the most of.

don't ever become a weather man...****** down here till 3pm

 

[Cobbler]

don't ever become a weather man...****** down here till 3pm

Sunny in Gloucestershire today, very windy though.

 

[pedrobedro]

don't ever become a weather man...****** down here till 3pm

Matlock will be pleased to see the back of it. There's a builder's trug on our yard outside the greenhouse which was empty yesterday and it had 6" of water in it this morning.

 

[voipio]

don't ever become a weather man...****** down here till 3pm

The weather has been a fickle thing lately!! Tomorrow should be better, and Friday the best of the week.

Are you in the Cheshire Gap area by any chance? The weather man's Bermuda Triangle, where accurate forecasts disappear in mysterieous circumstances!! ;-)

 

[roofman]

The weather has been a fickle thing lately!! Tomorrow should be better, and Friday the best of the week.

Are you in the Cheshire Gap area by any chance? The weather man's Bermuda Triangle, where accurate forecasts disappear in mysterieous circumstances!! ;-)

Sorry i should of told you i live on the Wirral (Its own climate)) and after almost 45 years roofing the weather is my hobby

 

[voipio]

Not too far off, then, location wise. I was over egging the Bermuda Triangle bit ;-) The Cheshire Gap does tend to funnel weather systems. I'm in Mid Wales at the moment, and the locals reckon the weather over the last few days is the worst they've seen.

 

[Pete.]

Ey up, someone's missing a pontoon, winch, diesel cube etc. I hope they had the cap screwed tight onto that cube...

 

[Fastdruid]

Ey up, someone's missing a pontoon, winch, diesel cube etc. I hope they had the cap screwed tight onto that cube...

Think that's here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/M...f8385bb9e0230a5!8m2!3d53.8041446!4d-1.5799151

To give you an idea of the normal river height (and the flooding by the time of that video had already ripped the railings off the top).

 

[pedrobedro]

Think that's here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/M...f8385bb9e0230a5!8m2!3d53.8041446!4d-1.5799151

To give you an idea of the normal river height (and the flooding by the time of that video had already ripped the railings off the top).

The one in the video has no railings, it looks like the next one down in the map might be the one that got destroyed.

 

[Fastdruid]

The one in the video has no railings, it looks like the next one down in the map might be the one that got destroyed.

Yes, they were torn away earlier. There is another picture of it with them half hanging off.

You can make out the very distinctive brick pillars at the end left of the bridge in the video which you can also see in the previous photo (and actually in the picture above as well).

 

[Fastdruid]

More video of it from another angle here (beware it is a bit sweary): https://westleedsdispatch.com/incredible-footage-shows-pontoon-destroy-bridge-near-armley-mills/

 

[pedrobedro]

You're spot on there's an interesting article about the bridge, an old horse ford built in 1856 by Joseph Butler & co. Nice bit of background and piece of history.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

and piece of history.

Sadly no longer

 

[ukracer]

Last two days we have had winds far worse than when Dudley was in town. Strange really.

 

[MetalMonkey]

Last two days we have had winds far worse than when Dudley was in town. Strange really.

Eunice and Franklin... Keep up!

 

[MetalMonkey]

Our third consecutive night of powercuts here. Seems they just get it back on and it's gone again. I reckon their overtime bill is going to be something epic...

Now in day five of power cuts. Off six hours yesterday, the one today is expected back on at five pm. Generator has now packed it in too and it's started raining again. Ever get the feeling life is giving you a hint to just stay in bed some days?