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Hugal
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Are all our British and Irish ship mates ok in the wake of Storm Doris. I am safely tucked up in work on Victoris in Lonfon.

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So far so good in Suffolk, both my wife and I have been out. The wind's been worse to the north of us. The Orwell Bridge is closed and some signs have blown down, so the main roads are heavily congested. Trains too suffering a lot of disruption.
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Fences down in MK, bird feeder blown over and blue recycling bins gaily sliding down the street.
Hoping that the worst is past.

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Noticeably blustery today in the Rhubarb Triangle, but no more than that. We tend to be pretty sheltered here, though. I wouldn't want to be in Bradford or further up in North Yorkshire.

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Jack the Lass

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From what I hear, northern England and southern Scotland have the worst of it, with the midlands and southern England also having noticeable Weather. Here in my bit of the central belt of Scotland it's not too bad at all - light dusting of snow this morning which has just about disappeared, not much wind to speak of and just a bit of rain. It's quite dull really - Hurricane Bawbag was much more dramatic! However, to the south and west of us I think the snow has been a lot thicker - TME started off driving to work, but the closer he got to Glasgow the thicker and higher the snow was, so he ended up turning round and having an impromptu day off. There have been a few hairy-looking videos of the M80 earlier which isn't so far away, but I think we got off pretty lightly.

I'm glad I'm not travelling today though - I'm seeing on facebook that a lot of friends are experiencing delays, crowding, replacement buses etc.

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I am glad I am working from home today. But I know that there will be bits of tree in the roads tomorrow.

Apparently some tiles have come off the roof of our office building, and damaged a car. So especially glad I was at home. Nobody hurt, fortunately, but disconcerting.

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Alan Cresswell

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East Kilbride is carefully placed to get the worst of any weather in the region. But, like Jack a dusting of snow (barely more than 2cm) which has now mostly cleared as it turned to rain in the afternoon, and not much wind. I'm guessing there must have been a very localised bad patch between us as TME had to turn back heading in this direction.

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I'm stuck in London because the train to Edinburgh was all but cancelled this afternoon. We were standing in a packed carriage, because all non-diesel trains had been cancelled anyway, and two trains loads had been squeezed into one. And then they announced that a factory roof at Stevenage was in danger of blowing onto the line, and engineers were going to the spot. We figured were were going nowhere for at least three hours. So we came back to my friend's house, and we will try again tomorrow.

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Sarasa
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Very blowy here in South West London with lots of twigs down from trees and bins blown over. i was going to see my mum two train journeys and a bus ride away, but a quick look at the travel sites led me to believe it would have been a bit of a horrible journey so I cancelled.

I just saw on the news that all East Coast trains have been stopped for the time being. We're driving up to the East Midlands tomorrow so I hope it's blown itself out by then.

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Jack the Lass

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quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
I'm guessing there must have been a very localised bad patch between us as TME had to turn back heading in this direction.

A bit further north than you (he works in north Glasgow so avoids the centre, and thankfully also avoids the M80). I think it was especially bad around Balfron, from what I was hearing on the radio.

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Quite windy down here in The Bottom Right-Hand Corner, with lots of litter being blown about the streets locally (it's bin day...). Otherwise, we have, as forecast, been on the tail end of Doris.

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It's been very blowy in the Flatlands of the East - there's nothing to get in the way of the wind! It's been howling like anything. I've not been out of the house today but saw several prostrate bins from the window and saw polythene bags acting like athletic air jellyfish.

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Jengie jon

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I am stuck indoors trying to get rid of a cold so largely unaffected. It was blustery earlier.

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Hugal
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They have opened a new entrance to the Victoria underground here in Victoria London where I work. Some of the new signage view off and took out a passer by. Nasty lots of blood on the pavement.

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Bishops Finger
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BBC reports that a lady was killed by falling debris in Wolverhampton, so hopefully the person involved in the Victoria incident is OK (even slight head injuries bleed profusely....).

The usual mad March winds have arrived early, it seems.

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M.
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It took me three and a half hours to get home (it's usually an hour).

M.

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David Goode
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It was very windy here, but I cycled to work yesterday unscathed, if not a bit wobbly in the gusts. In the evening, it had died down somewhat by the time I'd dined with a friend at Darwin College and we'd gone to the pub afterwards. Any wobbling on the way home was probably due less to the storm and more to the dining!
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Very windy here (a bit west of Wolverhampton) bins scattered, and bits of trees down. I will out and about later this morning, hope I don't find too many hazards - I have to fetch an elderly gentleman from his lane called "Dark Trees". His house is called "High Trees". It is fairly isolated. [Help]
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All is calm today - yesterday was crazily wet and windy!

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Penny S
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A lot of wind and travel disruption, with dead bits of trees on the roads. Further report later.
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Jengie jon

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A take on info as it came into the BBC can be fournd here

Jengie

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Ian Climacus

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How common is it to name storms? Was it some form of tornado/cyclone? I know we name them, and typhoons, but I couldn't find [on a quick search admittedly] it called one of those.

I also read of a collapsed ceiling at a school in Milton Keynes that left a girl with life-threatening injuries... [Votive]

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David Goode
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Ian, see the UK Storm Centre.
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Ian Climacus

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Thanks David; informative page, and site.
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Interesting day here yesterday just north of the cattle-crossing. We had a power-cut on site in the afternoon, and of course my team are in the only building without a back-up generator! Unfortunately, it came back on almost 1 hour later, just as the boss was considering sending us all home. [Frown]
Later on, when Sandemaniac and I got back from bellringing, there was a very localised power-cut, with everything in a 200-300 yard area off. Including our house. So, being children of the 70s, we used the bike lights to light the kitchen, and thanked all powers that be that we have a gas cooker to make dinner on! [Big Grin] No heating, but at least we could get hot food and drink. Power back on by the small hours of the morning and it's a lovely clear day here now.

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Penny S
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My friend was going up to London to a memorial service. Our usual route to a station uses several treelined lanes, so I went to a more distant station and dropped him, going on my way to a nearby store for a quick shop. I was hardly round the corner when he rang - no trains were running. I went back and picked him up, but before thinking round it, he went to see if there were any news as to when they would be running, and was told about 5 to ten minutes. We waited in the car, but then noticed people walking purposefully as if they knew something. Back again, and he was told that there would be a train on the other platform for London. Off he went. The train came in, and set off in a downward direction, away from London.

I did my shop and set off home, choosing a back, but not lane route, to avoid the traffic for the Dartford Crossing running at half volume because the bridge was dangerous. We'd seen the queues on the main road earlier. But the grid lock had spread, and I found myself in a queue that was only moving forward because cars ahead of me were doing three point turns and going back. After I had made it across the motorway bridge, which wasn't exactly doing the Tacomah Narrows stuff, but wasn't feeling suitable for manoeuvering on, I joined them, and a parallel but less stationary jam. Only to arrive in another one which crept at snails' pace away from the Thames for ages. Eventually I got onto roads not affected by the grid lock, but kept seeing traffic in the opposite direction coming from very odd routes.

Meanwhile, the train had gone round a corner and started towards the metropolis with extended stops en route, very confusing, and my friend made it to his service in time.

Nowhere did I see any reports of what had affected the trains.

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Penny S commented:
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Nowhere did I see any reports of what had affected the trains.
Trees down on line, power lines down, line flooded ...

In our village, a chestnut tree came crashing down on the Royal Mail van; fortunately the postie was out-of-van delivering letters at the time. Apparently he said, of the post still in the van and undelivered: I hope there wasn't anything breakable in there...

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There was a tree down in the High Street blocking the main road. I only realised because I saw the stump later, there are pictures on line if I look. Shame - it was pretty laburnum.

Travel was disrupted everywhere - slowly running overground lines and people diverting around routes blocked by fallen trees. The tiny end of the line tube station I use was packed and dangerous when I arrived with people held outside to allow the full tube station to empty. That happens pretty regularly in the centre of town - Oxford Circus - but is rare out by me. Apparently Liverpool Street station was shut to clear the overcrowding too, and that's a first as far as I'm aware.

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Penny S
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The extraordinary thing about my trip is that no trees had fallen across the lane across which they always fall in such weather. So I didn't need to go the long jammed way round at all!
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The fence panel I was afraid would be down on my return home, after a few days away, was indeed down. And the contents of the recycling bin are strewn across the back garden. The part of the roof of the garage (which is council owned) which is part of the wall at the end of the garden came down pre-Doris. But just the day before.

I've also lost the cover for the whirlygig. As it doesn't work, I'm putting it in the shed.

Sighs deeply and has lunch before going out to tackle it all.

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We lost 3 fence panels...two older ones and a newish one. The new one doesn't look too damaged, so hopefully it will just slot back into the fence posts. We need a new fence along the bottom of the garden anyway as the wooden posts have rotted and the fence is very wobbly. If the wind had been directly blowing onto it from a different direction, it would have come down. The cats are very unimpressed as they can't go out until the panels have been replaced as the garden isn't cat-safe any more...

The (potted) Christmas tree blew over. Strangely, the bird table remained upright, how does that happen?

The wind was so strong when I went across to church in the morning it was difficult to walk into - and it blew me back home rather more quickly that I intended later on!

There are lots of twigs and smallish branches down in the churchyard...so if anyone wants some brash to light fires with, help yourselves!

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