More Severe Weather - Wednesday Affecting All Areas Partic W/nw/ne

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Wednesday is not looking good - the next low is throwing everything it can at us.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/...&zoom=5&lon=-3.50&lat=55.50&fcTime=1392163200


Amber warning winds for wales/West side of country stretching up through Yorkshire to NE England

Yellow warning of wind and rain - many areas...

...............also yellow warning of SNOW!

Lots of rain also expected friday/saturday.


Wherever your are based in the country, ..particularly if you still have animals kept outdoors and are in low-lying areas, you might wish to re-evaluate your current risk (as opposed to past non-risk) from storms and flooding - including your route out to a safe place if you have to evacuate.

We have seen the slow but forecast rise of the Thames over a period of a week in response to the incessant conveyor of rain. Other watercourses such as the Severn are also affected. RSPCA now heavily involved helping get animals including horses out of flood-stricken areas where access has been cut-off.

Stay safe all, keep an eye on the flood warnings and take care if out on the roads tomorrow.

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Just been warned of the amber warning for tomorrow at work. Should make for a busy shift! :eek:
 
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Thanks! My grandparents toyed with the idea of driving from North Wales to Glasgow today to surprise my uncle on his birthday. Thankfully my mum talked them out of it! (Honestly don't think my uncle would've been impressed much anyway!).

Really hope they're staying safe down there.
 
Stay safe everyone! Its just rainy here and a bit windy glad the animals are indoors though!
 
Thanks to the red alert, my shift has been extended to 6pm and I'll be patrolling the second highest stretch of motorway in England. There is already heavy snow up there, with the wind, there is going to be some drifting! last year we had 6 foot deep snow drifts blocking 2 lanes! :eek: One small consolation is the £80 overtime for 3 and a half hours overtime. :D
 
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Thanks to the red alert, my shift has been extended to 6pm and I'll be patrolling the second highest stretch of motorway in England. There is already heavy snow up there, with the wind, there is going to be some drifting! last year we had 6 foot deep snow drifts blocking 2 lanes! :eek: One small consolation is the £80 overtime for 3 and a half hours overtime. :D
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Stay safe man, sounds pretty hellish up there :(
 
Be safe Boss Hog. I hope that nothing happens on the motorway :(

It sounds like the Yorkshire moors out here in Nottingham. I have just seen to the ponies and nearly got blown over. They are staying in as its too dangerous to put them in the paddock and the paddock is part under water anyway.

I'm ready for Spring, now, please...?x
 
We're not too bad at the moment, the winds are only reading 64mph and are in a south to north direction, which means traffic is either heading into it or away from it. We get mega problems when its blowing across the carriageway, the last time it was like that, we had 12 heavy goods vehicles blown onto their sides in one hour - one of them on top of one of our patrol cars, flattening it! :eek:
 
Boss Hogg - that is terrifying. I do hope your colleagues in the car survived......I hope you get paid well for your job. You should get danger money.
 
They were already out of the car dealing with another wagon that had blown over! The pay could be better, we only earn 25k a year.
 
I am in the Northwest - 60 miles from Sourhport and Blackpool and the wind and rain is horrendous and we are inland but up in the hills.

My pigs live in a shed but they are currently indoors for something unrelated. The cats have just come in and we have made the decision not to let them out again until tomorrow.

This is definitely not the weather for unsecure outdoor hutches so please bring your pigs and buns in even just overnight. A cat carrier or open lidded box will do given the circumstances.

My back garden is currently full of rubbish that has been blown from various places and wheel bins are already on the move. Even my car is being blown from side to side whilst parked up.

We have been advised not to go out unless necessary. Unfortunately I start work at 10pm tonight until 7.30am tomorrow and can safely say I am not looking forward to the 15 mile drive to work.

But it is those on the coast who will be hit the hardest

Stay safe everyone
 
Mine are in the shed, the shed is very secure and well fastened to the ground and the roof is securely bolted on. I've just got out of the patrol car, the wind nearly blew me off my feet and I'm 6 foot tall and 20 stone!
 
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Mine are in the shed, the shed is very secure and well fastened to the ground and the roof is securely bolted on. I've just got out of the patrol car, the wind nearly blew me off my feet and I'm 6 foot tall and 20 stone!
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Yes sheds aren't so bad. Mine would probably be in there too but I am currently medicating and monitoring.

It is rickety outdoor hutches and chicken coop type runs etc I am concerned about.

It sounds bad where you are too.

Stay safe especially whilst you're out at work!

I'll probably get blown down the motorway later tonight...
 
I am in Preston and have been practically blown all the way from uni back home. Have resigned myself to a night in doing work, not even planning on opening the door. Let alone going out!
 
got blown over when I got out of the car ... adds to falling over this morning on the ice rink that was my road when I was over enthusiastically hacking the ice off my windscreen! yeyyyyy
 
Just returned home to find my fence now on its side in the middle of next door's garden :( That was after I had to chase me wheelie bin down the street, and retrieve my recycling boxes from the road.
 
Now heading back to the station in Carlisle, setting off from Tebay Gorge, hopefully its an uneventful trip back.
 
Live in north west, my daughters 6 ft trampoline with enclosure has just lifted blown over to bottom of garden :/ off to find a rope to tie it too post, be safe all
 
Big disruption on trains now - West Coast a mess and now overhead wires down at Wakefield so East coast gone pear shaped. OH gone back through storm to join disruption team. :no: Take care all travelling home.
 
Live in the South West - sister told me not to open the shop today as had to go with daughter to her college interview at 11-15 and as weather so bad no one would want to go gift shopping anyway - so going back home at 1 o'clock down the lanes van coming towards me flashed madly,so slowed down,and on the next bend were 2 police cars and a fire engine as Eddie Stobart lorry had been blown over.
 
Nearly 1/2 a million people without power now.
 
Finally home after 12 and a half shift, still can't feel my toes and fingers due to the biting winds, ah well, now got 6 days off to recover! :yahoo:
 
Wind has got much worst here and the guinea pigs run has blown across the garden as has my plant pots etc :(

I'm off to work now, 15 mile journey driving down the motorway ready to battle the hurricane :(

See you all on the other side. Stay safe!
 
I'm curled up in bed listening to the wind outside, I can have a lie in tomorrow morning. :yahoo:
 
I have never known anything like this, i am so scared to go to bed tonight. I nipped to Sainsburys after work and there was an ambulance outside, apparently the manager had been outside to move a panel that had blown out of the surrounding fence and another one blew off and hit her and knocked her out! omg. shes ok i think just shook up. Claire be careful on that motorway hon. It was horrible driving along the coastal road tonight and that was before high tide. I just keep thinking of the homeless and birds and cattle and stuff like that, how scary for them
 
20 minutes after I knocked off, 2 articulated heavy goods vehicles collided on my beat blocking the motorway completely! Heavy snow and high winds have closed the A66 through Cumbria. Ourselves and the police had to rescue trapped motorists in the snow last night!
 
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