WARNING:prepare for the weather storm all day Friday

No need to panic, but Squiffy's right that a little preparation costs nothing. Ten minutes is plenty: tie down or bring in garden furniture and bins, charge your phone and any power bank, put a torch where you can find it in the dark, and fill a flask on Thursday night. If the power does go, 105 is the free number to call. And if you know a neighbour on their own, a quick knock on Friday morning is kind.

Beechnut

JenniRen

Lupatria

i've got a hair appointment on friday so I'll be going out. i'm not cancelling due to a bit of rain and wind!

Take one of those plastic concertina rain bonnets with you!
My mum-in-law always carried a couple in her handbag.

I haven’t seen one of those for years. Where do you find them these days ?

Our pharmacy sells them. After all it is Glasgow!!!

We have had power cuts on and off all weekend. Sixty one post codes were affected.
Thank goodness we cook with gas, I had a roast dinner to make!

Our pharmacy sells them. After all it is Glasgow!!!
Marydoll 😁

Sadly what were once decent forums(I include Gransnet in that comment).
Gransnet has started to turn into facebook and twitter.
I posted what I thought was good advice for sme residents of the country and get negative responses from those who live very small Worlds.
If you want to be negative go over to facebook and twitter where you will be in your element..
Maybe those who have negative lives should get the videotape of BAMBI,where Thumpers Mum said if you don't have anything good to say,just keep your mouth shut.

I don't blame you for being cross infoman, there have been some sharp comments here. I don't know why people can't just ignore and move on rather than be unkind.

Some of us don't want to live in a world where we are frozen by fear. These weather "events" have happened forever.

I think it's best to wear a rain hat and carry on.

I'd better warn sis in Somerset!

Thank you for your support,it just seems that some contributors are looking for a fight,and the same individuals seem to keep coming up all the time,because they live in a negative unhappy box.
Last time I posted a severe weather comment,I said about, IF, you have a chainsaw in your garage put it in the boot of your car just in case.
The flack I got was "where do you get the electric power source from?"
Chainsaws, not the Amazon forest ones,come with rechargeable battery facilities,they won't have the guts to get a large oak tree out of the way, but it would suffice on a small trunk tree blocking the road.

I think this type of thing makes some people fearful.

But a majority of others welcome the advice.

Infoman, I am sorry you have been upset by some comments. I understand, that you are trying to help and are always respectful.
A member of the group, I volunteer with, says I'm better than the BBC, World Service , when it comes to disseminating public information 🤣 .
However, I stick to the facts, no teaching my granny to suck eggs.
You need to know your audience.

However, I don't think it is intentional, but posters may take issue with the fact, that you assume, we are unable to read the news, listen to the weather warnings, research on the Internet etc.
Some posters are actually very savvy on here. including me! 😉

Keep on posting Infoman ! I would miss your posts.😊

PS, Gransnet has evolved over the years, and there have always been negative posters, but like Twitter and Facebook, that's a NO from me.

30+ years ago we lived in South Oxfordshire, I had two young children.

We had the mother of all storms, the village school was evacuated after I saw one of the Victorian chimneys swaying, then the old disused bicycle sheds literally lifted off the ground than fell back in many pieces!

It was too dangerous to leave the house due to falling trees,slates etc.

My husband called to say he was on his way home, it took him 4.5 hours to drive 15 miles.

The village and surrounding areas were without power for 5 days, we couldn’t even get fuel.

The local Coop was profiteering and put the price of everything up.

I wish I had been prepared!

Sago

30+ years ago we lived in South Oxfordshire, I had two young children.

We had the mother of all storms, the village school was evacuated after I saw one of the Victorian chimneys swaying, then the old disused bicycle sheds literally lifted off the ground than fell back in many pieces!

It was too dangerous to leave the house due to falling trees,slates etc.

My husband called to say he was on his way home, it took him 4.5 hours to drive 15 miles.

The village and surrounding areas were without power for 5 days, we couldn’t even get fuel.

The local Coop was profiteering and put the price of everything up.

I wish I had been prepared!

Was that the great storm of 1987, actually, it probably wasn't as that was at its worst at night. There was another one in that area(we lived in Reading then) a year or 18 months later.

DD travelled to Newbury each morning to college. She was a big girl, several stone overweight, and a gust of wind nearly blew her onto a main road and under a car, except that she managed to catch her arm around an adjacent lamp post, but her arm was very sore for several weeks afterwards

PS, Gransnet has evolved over the years, and there have always been negative posters, but like Twitter and Facebook, that's a NO from me.

They are always the minority.
But speak loud[fwiw, I havent looked back on this thread to see who might be upsetting you].

And I notice, if a poster is missing, they move on to someone else to "pick" on.
So it is their character or whatever. On the whole anyway.

I always think they have things going on in their lives. Or have had a "bad" life. Or are having a bad day.

M0nica

Sago

30+ years ago we lived in South Oxfordshire, I had two young children.

We had the mother of all storms, the village school was evacuated after I saw one of the Victorian chimneys swaying, then the old disused bicycle sheds literally lifted off the ground than fell back in many pieces!

It was too dangerous to leave the house due to falling trees,slates etc.

My husband called to say he was on his way home, it took him 4.5 hours to drive 15 miles.

The village and surrounding areas were without power for 5 days, we couldn’t even get fuel.

The local Coop was profiteering and put the price of everything up.

I wish I had been prepared!

Was that the great storm of 1987, actually, it probably wasn't as that was at its worst at night. There was another one in that area(we lived in Reading then) a year or 18 months later.

DD travelled to Newbury each morning to college. She was a big girl, several stone overweight, and a gust of wind nearly blew her onto a main road and under a car, except that she managed to catch her arm around an adjacent lamp post, but her arm was very sore for several weeks afterwards

Yes it was the one 18 months later, the M40 was closed so my husband had to dodge fallen trees and closed roads.

The landscape near us changed dramatically as the beech forests were so badly affected.

It was very hard with 2 children, no school, no television and petrol for emergencies only.

I went with my husband and the children to his office that had electricity one day, I put the TV on and set about cooking the food that I could salvage from the freezer.

I am eyeing next door’s large trampoline with some trepidation ……..

OOh.

You do see them flying about.

Next door's trampoline lifted up a few years ago and came down on our shed! Our garden table turned upside down and cracked . And we are in N Surrey not the Outer Hebrides. I don't think very strong winds were forecast that day.

I have a new torch so one upstairs one down. A relation on the se coast says the wind is really picking up and they have secured all loose garden items.

Anyone annoyed by Infoman's post can just scroll by. Doesn't take much energy. I scroll by loads of posts. I expect many scroll past mine. Who cares

Anyone annoyed by Infoman's post can just scroll by. Doesn't take much energy. I scroll by loads of posts. I expect many scroll past mine. Who cares

Exactly!

Aquaplaning with a large motohome wasn’t a barrel of laughs. 😱
We were living on board then. Fortunately the tide never came in that night. I think it would have been abandon ship if it had.

I’m sorry infoman that some of the responses to your initial post have been somewhat snarky. There really is no need for it, instead these posters can choose to scroll on by.

I know that not all parts of the country are expected to be affected severely by this storm, but it does not harm, in my view, to post the suggestions you have done - people can choose to heed them or ignore them but certainly don’t have to be unkind in their response to you.

henetha

I'm going out today to do all errands. Then batten down the hatches. My little car doesn't like bad weather.

😄 I imagine it as a sweet little Noddy car with an anxious face.

I think weathermen have been over egging bad weather for some years now, in Autumn and Winter we have to expect some don’t we? I expect here in the South East it means windy and rainy weather.I doubt I will be blown away into the sky when popping out to my Co-op.
Famous last words eh?😁

I like that GN still have the little blue bird rather than a black X but Twitter can be horrendous and nobody seems to care what they say so I'd steer clear of that.

It's good advice infoman but a lot depends on where you live.

Well I’m sitting here waiting. My daughter says the sky is black over Lundy and the breeze has dropped here. 🤞

Another Wolf, ..unless it isn’t. But they do exaggerate.

Oreo

henetha

I'm going out today to do all errands. Then batten down the hatches. My little car doesn't like bad weather.

😄 I imagine it as a sweet little Noddy car with an anxious face.

I think weathermen have been over egging bad weather for some years now, in Autumn and Winter we have to expect some don’t we? I expect here in the South East it means windy and rainy weather.I doubt I will be blown away into the sky when popping out to my Co-op.
Famous last words eh?😁

Perhaps having not over-egged it in 1987 🌬

We've done our supermarket run, battening down the hatches now. We're lucky, many people have to go out in it.