How are you all holding up in this weather..

[sammyc]

..is anyone posting from their phone in an upstairs room with a wind-up phone charger & a camping lamp?

Hope everyone is accounted for.. nothing worse than a couple of fence panels down so far for me, how about you..

[Agent]

Our bin blew over, which is probably the most exciting thing to happen in Stafford for a few years.

[scaryjim]

we lost a couple of fence panels and a porch roof tile last night - nothing too serious. There were a fair few roads around Manchester blocked by trees, which meant our D&D session was delayed though!

So yeah, I reckon we got off pretty lightly. Our landlord (well, their agent) have been rubbish about getting repairs sorted, so I dread to think what situation we'd be in if anything serious did happen in one of the storms...

[ik9000]

my hair got ruffled, nearly had an umbrella pull out my hands and my leather gloves got wet losing some of their lustre. It's awful.

[Barry]

Loads of trees damaged and ripped down blocking roads here but nothing mayor yet but I do hope the wind passes soon as we have very tall trees surrounding the house

[drone567]

Ik9000> losing the lustre off your leather gloves, the Horror! The water has been pouring through one of my roofs. I've had a builder check it, but we couldn't find out where it leaked. It was all sealed and painted in the summer! Stained alot of wood I'd been drying out to carve. What is stupid; we were warned this would happen about ten yeras ago, but it seems politicians only wake up when their political standing slips, or the Thames floods. It must be horrific if your house floods, and then heartless looters remove anything you managed to save.

[peterb]

I guess anyone really affected is probably a bit too busy to be posting here, it must be dreadful to see water rising into your home, and be absolutely powerless to prevent it..

I was amazed by the reports of the high volume pumps being brought in from Holland though, 90 tonnes/second .

http://www.vanheckgroup.com/2014/02/...nited-kingdom/

[KeyboardDemon]

We had a couple of windy nights where the noise from the wind was so bad that I had to shut the window.

[ik9000]

Ik9000> losing the lustre off your leather gloves, the Horror! The water has been pouring through one of my roofs. I've had a builder check it, but we couldn't find out where it leaked. It was all sealed and painted in the summer! Stained alot of wood I'd been drying out to carve. What is stupid; we were warned this would happen about ten yeras ago, but it seems politicians only wake up when their political standing slips, or the Thames floods. It must be horrific if your house floods, and then heartless looters remove anything you managed to save.

water always wins. Only way you'll find it is to strip it back and go over it with a fine tooth comb. Better that than a continual leak that causes a long term damp problem. Sometimes it can be too shallow flashings, other times a punctured membrane, other times porous chimneys the list goes on. But the crazy thing is to just leave it and hope for the best.

Oh and actually the government did listen. The requirements for new buildings in terms of water attenuation, rainfall calculations factoring in 30% yes 30% increases in peak storm surges with a 1:100 year probability and restricting the permitted discharge into the existing sewer system has significantly raised the bar on how new developments (and significant refurbs) approach the issue of storm water. The problem is that people like to live in old properties, buy places built on flood plains, don't object to the council when they have planning consultations about gobbling up the green belt and flood meadows, and then even when things have been shown to be a major flood risk object to the suggestion that perhaps the best thing to do is flatten the high risk housing and build new stock that are better designed to the location. Stilts and the like. The government does not have a weather machine. It does have a problem that people demand more housing, but want it all in the same place, hang the consequences.

Now what the government does need to do is take a docklands-style determination to regenerate the north of england and create a strategy for fostering growth outside of the M25. If it did that population might diversify over a wider area and we might start to get some breathing space to do some more full on flood planning and mitigation designs. With all that budget surplus we have.... oh right. Doh!

[ik9000]

my hair got ruffled, nearly had an umbrella pull out my hands and my leather gloves got wet losing some of their lustre. It's awful.

I guess anyone really affected is probably a bit too busy to be posting here, it must be dreadful to see water rising into your home, and be absolutely powerless to prevent it..

I was amazed by the reports of the high volume pumps being brought in from Holland though, 90 tonnes/second .

http://www.vanheckgroup.com/2014/02/...nited-kingdom/

Those are some serious kit. You're right of course, it would be awful to be flooded out. Perhaps sarcasm is not the most apt thing to put on here when others are suffering with it. Though in all seriousness, if anyone knows how to recondition some leather gloves do let me know...

[=assassin=]

Had a powercut today for the first time in the 15 years I've been at this house/in this area. (Fylde Coast) I know it was only localised though as a mate a couple of miles away said he had no problems.

[stilkun]

All I had was strong wind blowing plus raining and working in a new company it had power surge twice.

Dunno why I had a strange weird thought of going out, find two trees that are close together and start singing Earth song by Michael Jackson during the stom.

[Dooms]

Hertford way haven't been effected at all (personally) except I had to cycle through some big puddles!!!

Shrewsbury has lots of flooding but its not different to what I grew up with when I was there so I don't know why everyone is making a big deal about it, most people have lived through it year in year out so what's the surprise??

[MrRockliffe]

Here in Cardiff it's fine, but I'm supposed to be travelling to London today by train, which doesn't seem likely.

[cptwhite_uk]

Sheffield's got away with it pretty lightly. No flooding that I'm aware of (rain has been on / off, but never constant) but there's been minor damage in the winds, no major trees down in my area but part of the garage fascia has been blown off in Wednesday's strong winds. Luckily I'm planning to have the whole roof replaced soon in any case as it's corrugated asbestos and leaking in heavy rain.

[Kovoet]

Big majority off London we are ok but you guys along the coast I feel for. But I think the whole of the west side of the UK are struggling. Keep safe guys