Storm Darragh

cremedemonthe said:
No electric for 18 hours now, 99mph wind recorded on next hill. Roof of my field shelter trying to go awol. Even been up a step ladder out in that in deep mud putting concrete paving slabs on the roof to hold it down. Still flapping up and down though! So many trees down, more down than left standing now .2 of my trees down and taken next doors powerlines out .
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snap with the flapping roof! I didn’t think of slabs! I’ve put some hay bales up there but hoping it will be enough 🤞
 
cremedemonthe said:
No electric for 18 hours now, 99mph wind recorded on next hill. Roof of my field shelter trying to go awol. Even been up a step ladder out in that in deep mud putting concrete paving slabs on the roof to hold it down. Still flapping up and down though! So many trees down, more down than left standing now .2 of my trees down and taken next doors powerlines out .
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Feeling for you, similar at my home, but I'm not there so OH is on his own. Our horses live out and usually have haylage, no point putting that out. Fortunately there is still plenty of grass. I just hope it passes over soon.
 
This coming week's weather looks good once this storm passes. However, are we going to get storm Éowyn next weekend? Hopefully the depression will track away from the UK.
 
Gloi said:
This coming week's weather looks good once this storm passes. However, are we going to get storm Éowyn next weekend? Hopefully the depression will track away from the UK.
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What?!?!? Another one?? For goodness sake. Heidi is going to be a fresh as a bunch of spring daisies by the time I get to ride. I'll be putting my seatbelt on alongside the sports bra!
 
It was eerily quiet here this morning. Wondered if it had missed us, looking at maps, we were in the eye it was curved round us. Then all hell broke loose at lunchtime.
It's settling now, but wonder how long for.
 
SO1 said:
At home in bed with hot water bottle. We had our yard Xmas meal out and enjoyed it. It was windy and cold on the yard but at least not heavy rain.

Yard manager said it was very windy at turnout but horses sensible so no point keeping them in and they don't want to be skipping them out all day and topping up hay which they would need to do if kept in. Normally staff all leave at weekends at 9.30 and nobody back till 3pm but yard manager lives on site. Nobody waiting at catch in to come in but everyone was well rugged before turnout and there is plenty of grass so should be comfortable.

Do people feel this is climate change and that we will have to adapt the way we keep horses over winter or just that storms sometimes happen some years in the same way that sometimes we have cold winters with snow or very hot summers etc.
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Sadly I think it is most certainly climate change. We have globally reached 1.5C of warming above pre-industrial levels now and there is plenty of data to show this will increase the likelihood of extreme weather events. Devastated for this beautiful planet that we call home; it didn't have to be this way :(
 
Miss_Millie said:
Sadly I think it is most certainly climate change. We have globally reached 1.5C of warming above pre-industrial levels now and there is plenty of data to show this will increase the likelihood of extreme weather events. Devastated for this beautiful planet that we call home; it didn't have to be this way :(
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I don't understand how some people still deny that climate change is happening. How can they deny so much evidence, so much death and destruction?
 
The storm has woken me up and I’m lying awake worrying if I was right to keep my horse in. I can’t believe how viscous the wind is! Her field is on exposed hill with no shelter but now I’m thinking I’d worry less if she was out. It’s an old stable block but at least no trees nearby that could fall on it.

Our fencing was obliterated yesterday afternoon so not sure what it looks like now. Cats are worried about all the noise and are snuggled up in bed with me.
 
It's been quite bad here in N. Staffs. Both roads out of the village have been blocked by fallen trees. We've lost a reasonably small part of our roof, a low bricked wall greenhouse roof and shed roof. The fields have damaged fencing and some damaged tack and feed doors. The roads are littered with debris.
However, it's nowhere near as bad as 1987, with the flattening of whole forests in Suffolk coastal, along with houses, cars and boats lost. It was the most profoundly sad national event I've lived through.
 
Main road to town closed indefinitely as a lot of solar panels have come down and more are loose.

Another three trees down on the way to the yard this morning, all big beautiful ones which will leave such a gap in the hedges.

Pensioner ponies still amazingly blase about the whole thing. I think they’re calmer than I am

Power was off for great chunks of the night again, I’m fairly sure most of the freezer contents are going to be history or at least disgustingly mushy.
 
Cowpony said:
We flew back from Lanzarote today. Pilot tried to land at Gatwick twice, aborted twice. We're now in Amsterdam!
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Bf is in a similar situation albeit he was supposed to land from Beijing at 5.30 this morning
I land in Frankfurt on my direct flight from Taipei, and get a text saying he has also landed here, but is stuck on board and still waiting for news
 
Snowfilly said:
Main road to town closed indefinitely as a lot of solar panels have come down and more are loose.

Another three trees down on the way to the yard this morning, all big beautiful ones which will leave such a gap in the hedges.

Pensioner ponies still amazingly blase about the whole thing. I think they’re calmer than I am

Power was off for great chunks of the night again, I’m fairly sure most of the freezer contents are going to be history or at least disgustingly mushy.
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Keep the freezer shut, it will be fine. In 87, I had no power for 3 weeks and the contents of my big chest freezer stayed frozen
 
We got off very lightly here. Gusts were around 50 to 60mph, but last year they reached almost 80mph during one storm.

I remember 1987. It was terrifying. I remember they shut school early. I walked from my school to my little sisters school. Dad met us there and i have a very vivid memory of us both holding on to my sister and dragging her with us as we crossed the playground as her feet kept lifting off the ground (she was a tiny little thing).

When we got home I remember looking out the window and seeing all the cars on the street rocking violently in the wind.
 
southerncomfort said:
We got off very lightly here. Gusts were around 50 to 60mph, but last year they reached almost 80mph during one storm.

I remember 1987. It was terrifying. I remember they shut school early. I walked from my school to my little sisters school. Dad met us there and i have a very vivid memory of us both holding on to my sister and dragging her with us as we crossed the playground as her feet kept lifting off the ground (she was a tiny little thing).

When we got home I remember looking out the window and seeing all the cars on the street rocking violently in the wind.
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I can't remember exactly which year but about 15 yrs ago, I remember a shocking storm, the wind locally was gusting at 100mph, it blew something against our back kitchen window which broke, then blew out the front kitchen window. Fortunately we had builders on site and they very kindly cleared up the mess and sheeted the gaps up until the new windows could be fitted.
I was working in a school over 10 miles away. The same storm took the roofs off the block of flats where some of my pupils lived and then lifted the roof on the junior school hall, so that the school had to be closed.
We have lived here, in a very exposed part of the South Pennines for 30 years, we have storms every Autumn. This year hasn't been too bad so far here.
Climate change is certainly happening but it isn't solely responsible for bad weather. I can remember my mum remonstrating with Dad about putting lights on a Christmas tree in their garden in high winds, almost every December and they lived much lower down than we do.
 
Well I’ve counted at least three small trees down outside this morning (and haven’t been to all the fields, praying the shelter roof survived as havent had time to check yet and can’t see it from the house but haven’t had any more calls from the neighbour and if it’s survived up until now the rain will be weighing those hay bales down. 🤞) chucking it down and still very windy so horses are still in but they seem a lot calmer this morning thank goodness. All mucked out and sorted for the day and I’ve just got to work - lovely day to be delivering parcels in this! Who decided to have Christmas in December?! 🤪

Then possibly when I get back, I *might* be able to get them out for an hour but possibly going to have sedate the friesian who is on field/box rest again and put him in a square in the garden as don’t fancy flying a 17h kite 🪁 to the field and back. My mare is hardy and prefers to be out - even if on her own so she should at least be able to get out but you know what horses are like - if one goes out the others will get unsettled and want to go out too.

It was actually quite scary last night, I was looking out the window in the dark check the stables were still ok at one point because we had some crazy gusts of wind.

Hope everybody is ok and have managed to escape without too much damage.
 
Wow that was quite the storm and we are only in a yellow zone so dread to think what it was like for those of you in red. If this is how it's going to be for the future I can imagine a few people will be contemplating their lifestyle choices!
 
scats said:
The damage in daylight
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Eek 😳! Have you been able to locate the missing corrugated sheets? It must have been lethal when they were flying around.

No more serious damage here at home bar the two downed garden trees. Horses back out now after 24 hours standing in.

Just up the road from here, just one of numerous trees down on the roads in these parts.

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