pedrobedro
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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.
and piece of history.
Eunice and Franklin... Keep up!Last two days we have had winds far worse than when Dudley was in town. Strange really.
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?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...
Last two days we have had winds far worse than when Dudley was in town. Strange really.
But my point was the next two were not supposed to be as bad as the first one..lolEunice and Franklin... Keep up!
I think it depends on where you live. Dudley always was forecast to hit more to the north and Eunice more south. Here in Cornwall Dudley (on Feb16th) was a bit of a dud peaking with a 58.4 mph gust whereas Eunice was Eunasty at 89.5 mph. Franklin was frankly as big a dud as Dud!
Totally.After getting things so wrong in the past I think the Met office now err on the side of caution by forecasting the worst and then hoping for the best.
Bob
After getting things so wrong in the past I think the Met office now err on the side of caution by forecasting the worst and then hoping for the best.
Bob
As proven by the ‘worst winter on record predicted’ headlines that the gutter press spew out ad infinitum every year.
I finally got my cheque from npower yesterday for our five days off grid and genny living during storm Arwen.We're still on the genny from Saturday, So far so good...
I swear the electric induction hob was cooking hotter the other day, i had to turn it down a notch, gennies often run slightly higher voltages than grid supplies and as we're at the end of a long overhead run we probably normally have a fair old volt drop.
power back on today, delayed from yesterdays 11pm prediction.
90 something hours on the genset, didn't miss a beat.
Western Power have been fairly on the ball with this down our way. I had a chap wandering around my place and he was a tree company working on their behalf. Said they were going to prune a hazel below my incoming line and wantedd permission, said they'd be around in the New Year in a few weeks time. I thought surely not but 2 weeks later they were there and then all over the village pruning back potential hazards.Of course if many of these power companies didnt use run to failure maintenance strategies and cut back some of the trees we would get a bit less of this.
Surprised you're that light! My 2CX is 5.5t without implements. Although it's a dense old thing.I could feel the current pushing me towards a car ,water up to the top of the dash,yet I was 6t !