Good day today to get your surf board out, I should think Hosta . Big waves, no wind - "classic surf" (said in a very poor imitation of an Aussie accent) and the sea is probably as warm as the air after all that tropicality
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Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
There doesn’t seem to be any footage from Cornwall, just this bit at Bude, seen it worst though as I’m sure Hosta has.
my OH should have gone up to Widemouth but changed his mind, the cliffs have eroded so much over the past few years that the road is now only about 10’ or so from the edge of the cliffs.
I hope no one here has suffered from the storms. We had one here in December 1999, really scary, oak tree fell on the spare bedroom roof, without water and electricity for about 10 days, no phone either for a bit.
Oil man didn't listen to my instructions about finding the house. I told him the Sat Nav is wrong but he followed it anyway and went down a country lane that is closed for re-surfacing. I went out to look for him and the road workmen aren't pleased - oil lorry has left huge tyre marks in their new tarmac. They've locked him in a bridleway with a lorry in front of him until they've finished. I clearly told him on the phone not to take that road and there is a big sign saying road closed.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I would love to have seen that, Hosta. Can't beat a rough sea (seen from the safety of land, of course!).
It was a bit breezy here but nothing you would particularly notice, just the earlier weird light / sun.
Somehow I managed to sleep through the '87 storm - woke up to devastation all around, it took a while to work out what on earth was going on. I was reading earlier - my London borough lost 12000 street trees plus thousands of woodland trees, every school in the borough was damaged, 1100 council homes damaged (doubt there are even that many council houses altogether now ), all in the space of 5 hours.
The news from yesterday's storm seems less extreme on the whole, thank goodness, though it's sad to hear that people have died. I do hope Liri and family are OK in Ireland.
Another day of garden pottering / housework / college revision here. Looking forward to it!
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Link doesn’t work for me, it’s just a picture. I’ll have a look for it.
Good day today to get your surf board out, I should think Hosta
. Big waves, no wind - "classic surf" (said in a very poor imitation of an Aussie accent) and the sea is probably as warm as the air after all that tropicality
Last edited: 17 October 2017 08:57:29
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
There doesn’t seem to be any footage from Cornwall, just this bit at Bude, seen it worst though as I’m sure Hosta has.
my OH should have gone up to Widemouth but changed his mind, the cliffs have eroded so much over the past few years that the road is now only about 10’ or so from the edge of the cliffs.
https://www.newsflare.com/video/159129/weather-nature/gigantic-waves-in-bude-cornwall-as-hurricane-ophelia-strikes
Morning all.
I hope no one here has suffered from the storms. We had one here in December 1999, really scary, oak tree fell on the spare bedroom roof, without water and electricity for about 10 days, no phone either for a bit.
Oil man didn't listen to my instructions about finding the house. I told him the Sat Nav is wrong but he followed it anyway and went down a country lane that is closed for re-surfacing. I went out to look for him and the road workmen aren't pleased - oil lorry has left huge tyre marks in their new tarmac. They've locked him in a bridleway with a lorry in front of him until they've finished. I clearly told him on the phone not to take that road and there is a big sign saying road closed.
I'm glad you slept well, Pat. Hugs.
The best waves - or the best pictures of them - are usually at Porthleven. The council building on the harbour gives the waves a scale i suppose. Silly place to put a southwest facing harbour but it always looks spectacular. http://www.itv.com/news/2017-10-15/uk-and-ireland-prepares-to-be-battered-by-hurricane-ophelia/
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I would love to have seen that, Hosta. Can't beat a rough sea (seen from the safety of land, of course!).
It was a bit breezy here but nothing you would particularly notice, just the earlier weird light / sun.
Somehow I managed to sleep through the '87 storm - woke up to devastation all around, it took a while to work out what on earth was going on. I was reading earlier - my London borough lost 12000 street trees plus thousands of woodland trees, every school in the borough was damaged, 1100 council homes damaged (doubt there are even that many council houses altogether now
), all in the space of 5 hours.
The news from yesterday's storm seems less extreme on the whole, thank goodness, though it's sad to hear that people have died. I do hope Liri and family are OK in Ireland.
Another day of garden pottering / housework / college revision here. Looking forward to it!
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Lyn, the photo was just to show the cliff. One has to imagine the waves I'm afraid.
Morning all
we have just been out and checked everything. Gates and sheep survived and all trees look intact apart from a big branch in the yard.
still pretty breezy but we have had worse
hooe everyone else is ok
A A Milne