Yikes I went outside last night and checked the garden was all fine in the wind and there were no problem. I went out just now and a massive gust of wind out of nowhere shifted the whole greenhouse six inches to the side. It's too heavy for me to move back but I've added additional tie downs for now until the weather improves. I think the wind must have got underneath and lifted it like a hovercraft to move like that.
The male sparrowhawk was just sat on the bird feeder frame hanging on for dear life too. I'm surprised anything can fly in gusts like this.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
So am I! I nearly flew when going into town to have a haircut. Came home early as weather too awful to want to wander aimlessly round the shops. We've got a problem in that one of the fence posts down our long sloping drive has rotted at the base It's being pushed by the neighbours tough pyracantha hedge I think which hasn't helped, although I have tied it to the hedge temporarily to keep it upright. Not going to be an easy job to replace, it's set into concrete through the tarmacked drive, but if we leave it, the wind will most likely bring the lot down. A job for our friendly fencing expert methinks.
The last lot of strong winds here snapped several poles carrying phone lines and maybe electricity to some rural houses here. They have not been repaired but they have been tied to the nearest sturdy looking bit of hedge or tree to reduce flapping. That was in mid December.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I knocked my only measuring jug onto the floor and it smashed to smithereens. I thought I would share a curmudgeonly tip with anyone else with glass/gravity problems. Note . This only works in the dark for reasons which will be obvious. Turn off the lights. Lay a torch on the ground so that the light shines on the floor. The shards of glass will glow like cats' eyes.💡
Another chunk of the neighbours' shed roof landed in the garden in the wind. Narrowly missed the greenhouse again but it's only a matter of time before some hits it. Not their fault as they've inherited the poor decisions of the previous owner.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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We've got a problem in that one of the fence posts down our long sloping drive has rotted at the base It's being pushed by the neighbours tough pyracantha hedge I think which hasn't helped, although I have tied it to the hedge temporarily to keep it upright. Not going to be an easy job to replace, it's set into concrete through the tarmacked drive, but if we leave it, the wind will most likely bring the lot down. A job for our friendly fencing expert methinks.
I thought I would share a curmudgeonly tip with anyone else with glass/gravity problems.
Note . This only works in the dark for reasons which will be obvious.
Turn off the lights. Lay a torch on the ground so that the light shines on the floor. The shards of glass will glow like cats' eyes.💡