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Who am I kidding? It's lashing it down and blowing like a train here. 3 small power cuts so far, and supposedly the worst winds we'll get are coming in now.

Sounds nasty out there on the news too. Hope all can get to where you want to be tomorrow safely

In reply to balmybaldwin:

Just got in to work, no power at home, and floods to come through but thankfully no real damage

In reply to balmybaldwin:

one our neighbour's gable end fell down in the wind and the road is closed...
Had enough of the rain now!

In reply to balmybaldwin:

Power cut at work yesterday, so came home.

Cat spent an unusually long time curled up in her basket yesterday and last night - she really doesn't like the wind. Hope she ventured out at some point to ablute, at least!

Started a bit brighter this morning, but back to wind and rain now.

In reply to balmybaldwin:

I appreciate some have it much worse but "a bit damp with a slight breeze" sums up Manchester's weather over the last 24 hours. We never get extreme weather!

In reply to ByEek:

Isn't that just a normal summer's day in Manchester?

Still no power at home - thankfully my Ma's got power for the turkey tomorrow!

In reply to balmybaldwin:

Somebody posted this link a few days ago. Shows the winds across the world.

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-15...

It's great but the sad fact is that the UK seems to get a pummeling in comparison to nearly everywhere else.
I suppose its location,location, precipitation.

In reply to ByEek:


And looking outside around Salford Quays, it actually looks quite nice. Which is handy, as I'm cycling home later.

In reply to balmybaldwin:

Wohoo! Power just came back on!

In reply to balmybaldwin:

In todmorden we're all pretty happy as long as the flooding is below knee height <shrug>
I remember folks complaining about drizzle when I lived in Manchester just dow n the road.
In fact when we had our last (newsworthy) floods I was out running in the hills as it was 'fun' and I couldn't resist.
We have a larger than average number of nut cases here <waves>