Foul weather

Dull but breezy here, and my greenhouse, having lost its tarpaulin, is now slowly being blown apart.......

Very rough and windy here, nearly got swept off my feet this morning, was in fear for my new knee! It`s 9 degrees, but feels much colder.

Sleet and snow in Eastern Norway.

Slightly embarrassed to say the weather was wonderful today here-and we decided on the spur of the moment to go skiing for the first time this afternoon, OH DD2 and I- and it was very beautiful. Hope the weather improves for you all very soon.

I see David Cameron on the news last night ,saying the obvious this must get done and so must that.
If we were a foreign country as to that get aid , UK gives but we do not get help from others when in need ourselves.
I feel sorry for those who are still trying to electric and other things sorted in SW, Hants and Dorset, Kent , Surrey, and some parts of Wales and Scotland.
Mick

I too feel sorry for those still without electricity, but even sorrier for those without homes, food, clean water, adequate sanitation, who are living with disease, fearing brutality, watching their children die from preventable diseases, and so on and so on and so.

I hold no brief for Cameron (or any politician, come to that) by the way.

Well said,*Ariadne*.

Indeed. In view of last night's news, I do wish I could delete my post from yesterday. It has been said before, but I do wish this site would allow us to alter or delete a message.

Weather is foul here today, raining on top of the heavy snow- but it is just that, foul weather- and so different to what Ariadne wrote about.

Snowing like absolute crazy on wet roads- let's hope all travelling down to the Alps will make it safely (I know it does pale into insignificance compared to so many ills- but 100s are travelling down today- including some GNetters and family)

One of DH's friends lives near Godalming. He said the water was 80 yards from their front door on Christmas day. Christmas dinner was a bacon and sprouts fry up and the power came back on just after they finished eating!

Nothing wrong with worrying about our families, granjura! Some of mine are on the way down to us, and I will only stop when they get here - and it's only raining.

Sorry to hear that you have all been having such devastating weather and I feel particularly sad for those of you who have been without power. I haven't really got used to the sort of weather we have here at Christmas and New Year – it's very wrong-footing. Mind you, it has been quite overcast since Christmas evening with intermittent showers and quite heavy rain today. However, the lawns need it – they are dusty and threadbare – and at least I won't find myself watering my vegetables and herbs at nearly midnight tonight.

Well I shouldn't complain because I haven't been flooded out and my thoughts go to those really suffering this winter. One storm blew 2 of my little plastic greenhouse over, I put them back up again and the next storm blew them over again. I dis-assembled one and stored it and left the other lying where it fell. Glad I didn't bother as yet again another raging storm.
Annoying to me as this weather is, I am one of the lucky ones. I do know what it's like having to desert your home. When my house caught fire I had to live in another flat for 7 months during repairs.

Bristol Channel looks really grim today.

Pretty wild all night here in NW Wales with the met office predicting v windy even after rain stops later. It's heading east!

Dreadfully wet and windy here in Kent. There is so much damage here already with lots of trees down and flooding.
Granjura, when we were driving up to the tunnel on Saturday, the other side of the autoroute had a nose to tail procession of 4x4s with ski boxes on the roof; all heading your way!

Here in Suffolk we had terribly floods a couple of weeks before Christmas barely made the news yet it was worse than the terrible East coast floods of 1953 Suffolk rarely seems to make any headlines I was lucky and was about half a mile from where the water came up to Again the wind is blowing a hooley and I find it quite scary as I have a very large tree near my house but as said before it is nothing compared to the poor folks with no homes no food and little hope and living in daily war zones Although it doesn't feel like it sometimes we are a rich country but just like most places the wealth is not divided correctly

The gales before Christmas caused our roof to leak. We think the tiles at the back, which get the full force of the wind lifted and broke the concrete haunching around the chimney were it meets the tiles, and this let in the rain so we have water marks on the wall in one of the bedrooms. Ah well the room was about to be redecorated.

We had our neighbours around this morning as they can only see one area of their roof from our garden and they seem to be having similar problems.

I am going a little green already thinking of our cross channel ferry journey on Friday. I try not to medicate but I suspect that the first thing I will do on board is take see sickness pills!

Extremely windy all day today. Our daughter sleeps in what was once our front room, and was kept awake all night last night by the letterbox rattling, looks like more of the same for tonight,.

It cleared up for a while this afternoon and I had to go to the chemist, not crowded, then S-------, but everyone else had the same idea about shopping and here it was packed out! But at least I didn't get wet.

Thanks Mamie- I think they all arrived today. It was such a winter wonderland day that we decided to go to our local ski resort. The queues were almost as breathtaking as the views of the Alps. Daughter and I did enjoy a few good runs though finished with a Vin Chaud and a Crêpe au sucre.

I am so sorry to hear of all the destruction and great inconvenience and even hardhsip many are still enduring in part of UK.

The weather here in East Sussex has really deteriorated and it's blowing a gale and heavy rain. The side fence has one post moving and I hope it stays upright until see can get the fencing company out. Though I expect they are very busy.
Water is pouring down the drive and the road is a flood, the electric and phone wires are hitting together but as yet no flickering of the light.
I can't remember when we had so many episodes of bad weather.
Hope everyone ok. I worry that the Tonbridge barrier will need to be lifted and Yalding floods again.

Got a rope round the fence post and round a thick trunk of a bush. The ground is totally waterlogged. It will be a miracle if their is no flooding.

Wow - how awful, I am so sorry. Hardly dare tell you this was a lovely sunny day again in our mountains. A sparrowhawk came to check the sparrows on our birdtable- sitting just a couple of feet from my kitchen window.

Stay warm and safe.

Bluebelle I think the flooding got upstaged by Mandela dying didn't it.