Northern Powergrid is taking a hammering. We're currently on generator but it will be going off to conserve fuel as the three nearest garages have no power and I suspect it will be sometime before power is restored.
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Storm Éowyn
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SamQ aka Ah! Q!
Old Oak
You can add another icon to your map, Roger, Endmoor, just south of Kendal, is out.
EDIT: The Power Grid map is highly inaccurate, as a quick Cook's Tour of family and friends has just shown. I suspect the situation is a LOT worse, time will tell.
www.northernpowergrid.com
Go north of Sheffield, then zoom in. It is possible to ask the software to 'go behind the numbers' and identify individual outages. By doing so, you can see some of the widespread damage, but both RogerS and Lons, both now without mains, do not appear!
EDIT: The Power Grid map is highly inaccurate, as a quick Cook's Tour of family and friends has just shown. I suspect the situation is a LOT worse, time will tell.
Power Cut Map | Northern Powergrid
Go north of Sheffield, then zoom in. It is possible to ask the software to 'go behind the numbers' and identify individual outages. By doing so, you can see some of the widespread damage, but both RogerS and Lons, both now without mains, do not appear!
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I do Sam . Well we are treated as the postcode. Not the individual house.You can add another icon to your map, Roger, Endmoor, just south of Kendal, is out.
EDIT: The Power Grid map is highly inaccurate, as a quick Cook's Tour of family and friends has just shown. I suspect the situation is a LOT worse, time will tell.
Power Cut Map | Northern Powergrid
Go north of Sheffield, then zoom in. It is possible to ask the software to 'go behind the numbers' and identify individual outages. By doing so, you can see some of the widespread damage, but both RogerS and Lons, both now without mains, do not appear!
Generator is currently off to save fuel.
I did learn that the two YUASA 12 v batteries in my main UPS are FUBAR
It's hit massively. My company has had 0ver 24k off in the last 12 hours, NPG and SPEN struggling with numbers too as the winds a LOT higher speed the further north you go. In Warrington we had just over 60mph but Cumbria had closer to 80.
Could be worse though, our guys reckon it was expected to be 30% worse than it has been but Norn took a lot of the sting out of it for us...
Could be worse though, our guys reckon it was expected to be 30% worse than it has been but Norn took a lot of the sting out of it for us...
Just had a text from NorthernPowergrid telling me that power is restored, bless 'em. It is but still only 130v.
And in other news I need a bigger chain saw as we're marooned by a couple of trees blocking the drive.
And in other news I need a bigger chain saw as we're marooned by a couple of trees blocking the drive.
Lons
Old Oak
The info says we were knocked out but only half the village was affected and we got lucky as only had a few minutes loss so far. The srongest wind gust I can remember for a very long time and the rain showers have left everything covered in dirty marks so it must have picked up loads of dust on the way across.
I recon we've got half your garden on our windows Roger.
I recon we've got half your garden on our windows Roger.
Bah. Eowyn is just a breeze , 1987, I spent the night of the hurricane on a sailing boat on Norfolk Broads.
AJB Temple
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I was at our farm in the 87 Hurricane. It was absolute carnage. We lost a lot of trees, buildings, fences, some livestock and a horse. Not good. I hope everyone is OK.
Woodbloke
Sequoia
Absolutely no sign of any wind here, let alone a storm. Had a bit of wet last night though - Rob
SamQ aka Ah! Q!
Old Oak
Phew! Just as well that blew into the road.
SamQ aka Ah! Q!
Old Oak
Yes, just look at the heart rot. This one could have gone either way. The irony? The son of the house is a tree surgeon....
duke
Old Oak
Who is responsible for the removal of the fallen tree from the road ?
In 2003 we had quite a storm, fallen trees blocking the back roads, I headed out with the chain saw and met three others and we cleared 20 trees off the road over 10 km of road. Wasn't our responsibility but people needed to get to town.
Hope everyone is safe!
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That’s the can do, get on with it attitude that exists more in the countryside than in towns and Cities nowadays. Farmers are brilliant at helping out when things get sticky where I come from.
SamQ aka Ah! Q!
Old Oak
The householders' son stepped in with his chainsaw and the immediate neighbours 'gofered' for him. Two hours later, the tree was diced up and the road was clear. The timber disposal will take a few more days, but it is resting in a garden. To do more would have been difficult-to-impossible for most of Saturday's daylight.
Mike G
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I once got marooned up on the top of the moors in the Peak District. We were there for a week loonger than planned. It wasn't the council who cleared the snow from the road. It was local farmers. In fact, before they got the roads open they were running their tractors across their land down to the next (lower) village and back to bring in supplies for people.
Windows
Old Oak
Our power came back on about 7.30 PM (after they’d told us it might not be restored until Saturday evening). In time to watch the Traitors final, so happy with that. Our friendly neighborhood United Utilities (water company) guy was out here clearing the fallen trees off the road with his chainsaw.
There’s no shortage of chainsaws up in this part of the country, that’s for sure.
Lons
Old Oak
Well maybe a couple less than there used to be assuming the powers that be confiscated them from the Sycamore gap criminals.
I was in the student towers, university of Essex - built in the 60s, they were then the tallest brick-built residential buildings in the UK. Apparently they would sway up to 6' in the strongest winds, don't know how true that is. I woke in the morning, looked out the window and so many of the beautiful trees were lying down. Slept through the whole thing!
duke
Old Oak
If I remember correctly that storm made the headline news over here. Lots of videos of the farmers and whoever had a machine were clearing the roads.
Mate of mine came up from the village to sort the trees out.
The village is also fed by two different DNOs. On either side of the burn. The pub had no electricity and so lit the place with many candles. The landlord’s son lived over the other side of the burn and had power. And so five long 13amp extension later there was enough to power up the coolers and the cash register!
The village is also fed by two different DNOs. On either side of the burn. The pub had no electricity and so lit the place with many candles. The landlord’s son lived over the other side of the burn and had power. And so five long 13amp extension later there was enough to power up the coolers and the cash register!
Mike G
Petrified Pine
I doubt it Duke. It didn't even make the news here. It's standard stuff for the Peak District. We were caught out because it hadn't been forecast.
duke
Old Oak
I do recall watching coverage of a winter storm in the UK. I wonder what year that was?
Windows
Old Oak
The Beast from the East in Feb 2018 perhaps?
Mike G
Petrified Pine
6", Chris, not 6'. I remember hearing that the Empire State building was designed to sway up to 2'........but I'm a little sceptical even of that.
duke
Old Oak
Maybe , can't remember, or the big snow from 2000 ?
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Sway on the Empire State Building I think Mike is 1.5" which is the arc so that gives sway of up to 0.75" in any direction though I think in real life conditions it is only about half an inch. There is a plaque somewhere that details it. Supposedly you can't feel it. When I went up there it wasn't very windy. I don't like heights though.
Less impressive tho! I did hear it from a fellow student...
Mike G
Petrified Pine
That sounds much more realistc. To be fair, the amount of sway it is designed to cope with, and the maximum sway ever recorded, should hopefully be two very different figures.
NickM
Old Oak
My office was on the 30th (top) floor in a building at Canary Wharf. When it was windy, the chains for the roller blinds started tapping against the metal window frames. I assume that was caused by a bit of sway, but I couldn't really feel it.
Day 3.
4pm Saturday told it was a fuse at a neighbouring farm.
Went to bed at 11pm with power restored. No need for a torch. Generator turned off. Woke up at 3am with an overwhelming need to get to the bog. No power. No torch. Fumbling in the dark. Just about made it into the bathroom but that’s as far as I got. Probably too much information. Washed feet in the dark then outside to fire up the generator so I could go back and view the carnage. Not a happy bunny.
Now told it will be 1pm for power. Well at least we don’t have missiles raining down on us unlike the Ukrainians.
4pm Saturday told it was a fuse at a neighbouring farm.
Went to bed at 11pm with power restored. No need for a torch. Generator turned off. Woke up at 3am with an overwhelming need to get to the bog. No power. No torch. Fumbling in the dark. Just about made it into the bathroom but that’s as far as I got. Probably too much information. Washed feet in the dark then outside to fire up the generator so I could go back and view the carnage. Not a happy bunny.
Now told it will be 1pm for power. Well at least we don’t have missiles raining down on us unlike the Ukrainians.
Lons
Old Oak
YUK Not what you want to read over breakfast Roger, put me right off my cornflakes. 