sidewinder Posted January 18, 2007 Report Posted January 18, 2007 (edited) Wow - Germany seems to have got it bad, although the reports I've read are that the UK got the worst of it as usual. That's very unusual for the mainland to see Atlantic storms of that ferocity (major damage even in Bavaria, I believe). 12 killed in Europe total so far today, 7 in the UK. A friend of mine in the North of England smashed from falling roof tiles. The wind was howling here in the SW from about 4am but although strong, the winds haven't done any major damage. About 50mph average. Major chaos on roads, trains and planes.. Edited January 18, 2007 by sidewinder Quote
sidewinder Posted January 18, 2007 Report Posted January 18, 2007 lost again power for 1h and 1/4 of the roof of my barn....ups Cheers, Oliver Hang in there ! Quote
Scott Dolan Posted January 18, 2007 Report Posted January 18, 2007 lost again power for 1h and 1/4 of the roof of my barn....ups Do you mean "oops"? Or do you mean the roof flew ups in the air? Either way, hang in their my European Brothers. I lived in Hurricane Alley almost my entire life. They're definitely no fun at all. Looks like you had a Cat 2 strength storm. Was it mostly wind? If so, consider yourselves fairly lucky. Hope everyone there is doing well. Quote
sidewinder Posted January 18, 2007 Report Posted January 18, 2007 Reports I'm hearing are that an unusually strong Atlantic jetstream are causing something of a 'funnelling' effect. Can't believe the TV footage I've just seen of a woman completely blown off her feet in Central London. Quote
RDK Posted January 18, 2007 Report Posted January 18, 2007 As some of you may have already heard, it snowed in Malibu yesterday. Not a big deal to this upstate New York kid, but it was quite the news story last night. Quote
tjobbe Posted January 18, 2007 Report Posted January 18, 2007 (edited) lost again power for 1h and 1/4 of the roof of my barn....ups Do you mean "oops"? Or do you mean the roof flew ups in the air? .... both Scott, the german ups=oops and the ups=up as 10qm is gone with the wind...do not where it landed at least not on my property. Hope that the worst is over now, but I fear it might start raining before I can close the holes. Have about 100 (missed a "0" there...should be 1000) bales of hey and straw in the barn. Cheers, Oliver Edited January 18, 2007 by tjobbe Quote
Scott Dolan Posted January 18, 2007 Report Posted January 18, 2007 Damn. My best thoughts are with you, my friend. My hometown was destroyed by Hurricane Charley two years ago. I was just down there in December, it's still a mess. Quote
Aggie87 Posted January 18, 2007 Report Posted January 18, 2007 Have about 100 bales of hey and straw in the barn. As long as your Mosaic sets aren't stored in there, Oliver.... Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted January 18, 2007 Report Posted January 18, 2007 Well, it's been very unpleasant here today, but nowhere near as bad as you folks. I feel for you. MG Quote
chris olivarez Posted January 18, 2007 Report Posted January 18, 2007 The sun came out and it warmed up a tad. Currently 32 degrees. Quote
Scott Dolan Posted January 18, 2007 Report Posted January 18, 2007 HA!! We made it up to 33 today. In your face, sucker!! Quote
Scott Dolan Posted January 19, 2007 Report Posted January 19, 2007 (edited) Hey, whatever it takes to get rid of all this damn ice!!! We've got more snow coming on Sunday, but I'll take it. I love snow. It's the ice that really grinds my ass! One of the ladies where I work lost her father last weekend. The poor guy was out trying to clear ice from their sidewalk, slipped, busted his head wide open, and blam. Dead. That is seriously fucked up, in my book. *edit* We've got a basement garage, and when I came home last Friday, I damn near rammed into the corner of our house. Stopped three feet shy............ Edited January 19, 2007 by Scott Dolan Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted January 19, 2007 Report Posted January 19, 2007 It's looking a bit better this morning here. How are our continental European friends doing? MG Quote
tjobbe Posted January 19, 2007 Report Posted January 19, 2007 (edited) sunny now , the storm was rushing through quicker than expected and left over some rain the night only, so as my Mosiac'S are all save its only the straw that gets a bit wet... Btw, Mosaic's... the famous Dionysos mosaic in the cologne Museum of roman art is potentially damaged by a wooden pannel protecting a fountain 100m nearby crushing the window and falling on to it Cheers, Oliver Edited January 19, 2007 by tjobbe Quote
mikeweil Posted January 19, 2007 Report Posted January 19, 2007 lost again power for 1h and 1/4 of the roof of my barn....ups Do you mean "oops"? Or do you mean the roof flew ups in the air? .... both Scott, the german ups=oops and the ups=up as 10qm is gone with the wind...do not where it landed at least not on my property. Hope that the worst is over now, but I fear it might start raining before I can close the holes. Have about 100 (missed a "0" there...should be 1000) bales of hey and straw in the barn. Cheers, Oliver Oliver, I was thinking about you last night ..... Hope you could fix it before the rain came. We were more lucky here, the wind was blowing stronger than I have ever experienced before, but everything was still in place this morning. The high trees close to the house had to be chopped off several years ago, otherwise they would have come down on the house this time. It was strange - for almost two hours it was pretty quiet here, like we were in the eye of a hurricane. Then it started for another round. Contrary to you, we are rather low between two hillranges - but your house up there, open to the west side .... geez. Hope you all get through this safely! Quote
tjobbe Posted January 19, 2007 Report Posted January 19, 2007 Thanks Mike, my direct neighbors suffered more heavy with a destroyed car and the other with lot's of scratches in the roof of his house we couldn't fix during the night so the rain go in there poring into the bathroom where the tried to catch and stop it somehow. In other cases only some damage to trees. The leak I have in the barn's roof is at clear sight not that bad as it is only at an area where few bales where stapled so the majority has not suffered from the rain at all and kept dry. Due to the height of the roof, there was not much chances to fix anything myself. I'm waiting for the guy to fix it at least temporarily but he's late due to all the damage Cheers, Oliver Quote
Man with the Golden Arm Posted January 19, 2007 Report Posted January 19, 2007 now this is cool! deer rescue video Quote
chris olivarez Posted January 19, 2007 Report Posted January 19, 2007 The forecast calls for snow this weekend but right now it's clear and we got up to 43 degrees. Quote
Scott Dolan Posted January 19, 2007 Report Posted January 19, 2007 Hmmm.... It didn't get that warm here today. About 38 or 39. But the sun was out and we got a lot of ice around here melted. Just in time for the snow this weekend. Quote
Adam Posted January 20, 2007 Report Posted January 20, 2007 It's in the high 60s or maybe 70 Fahrenheit here today and sunny and beautiful. It seems like the Arctic cold front has now moved on. Quote
Swinger Posted January 20, 2007 Report Posted January 20, 2007 Aaaah..it's getting colder here in Finland at last. We are expecting temperatures between 5 to - 15 fahrenheits during this weekend. It was unusually warm around here during December."Thanks" to global warming . Temperatures were between 46 to 35 fahrenheits around here during December. There was practically no snow on the ground except in the northern part of Finland and it was mostly raining water every day. *sigh* Quote
neveronfriday Posted January 20, 2007 Report Posted January 20, 2007 (edited) It's looking a bit better this morning here. How are our continental European friends doing? MG Storm blew over a few hours after my last post here. Things did not turn out as drastic as everyone had predicted for our area, but the fire department was out in force, my neighbor ruined his own car this time around (with his own tiles falling off his roof ... what an utter and complete idiot), and I had a wonderful view of the mayhem across our small town here. The funniest thing were two teenagers trying to fire off a left-over New Year's rocket (one of those massive jobs with sequences of fireworks that last quite a while) and they managed ... to send it straight down the road only to explode in front of the Thai take-away, scaring the crap out of the people inside. The next day there was tons of water everywhere (I'm very close to the "Rheinauen" which is an extensive swampy area right next to the river) that had risen up through the ground. In short, nothing we aren't used to here. Edited January 20, 2007 by neveronfriday Quote
(BB) Posted January 20, 2007 Report Posted January 20, 2007 A predicted 1"-2" of snow just turned into 5"+ time to start shoveling. Quote
Tim McG Posted January 21, 2007 Report Posted January 21, 2007 (edited) Finally, it warmed up a bit in the San Joaquin Valley. 20's and teens were decimating the citrus orchards hereabouts Edited January 21, 2007 by GoodSpeak Quote
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