Stormageddon Mk 6 The Fury of February

[brrapp]

I live at just over 900ft in the Scottish Borders, local forecast is for 200mm of snow by 10am. It's now 9:59 and just seeing some flakes of snow in amongst the rain. I doubt whether it'll happen.
The local council has already (yesterday) cancelled all school transport in the region based on the forecast. I suspect there are a lot of angry parents and embarrassed council officials around.

[mybrainhurts]

A report has just flooded in that a wheelie bin fell over into a puddle in Sheffield.

There may be another one later. This is getting serious now.

[K12beano]

The sun's out - Barrow-in-Furness. The rays, THE RAYS. Aaaarrrggghhhh.

Edited by K12beano on Thursday 23 February 10:15

[Camoradi]

Sting and Bono are monitoring the situation

[K12beano]

Camoradi said:

Sting and Bono are monitoring the situation

You too?

[anonymous-user]

***** Important Announcement *****


I have just been in contact with my brother lives near Blackpool
They are experiencing some heavy wind and high rain
He reports he will not be doing any gardening today.

[rscott]

94mph winds recorded in North West Wales
.

M80 closed

[hondafanatic]

To put it mildly...blimey.

[anonymous-user]

rscott said:

94mph winds recorded in North West Wales
.

M80 closed

That is sobering.

[MarshPhantom]

[rscott]

And twitter full of angry motorists claiming the M80 hadn't been gritted at all...

[King Herald]

rscott said:

94mph winds recorded in North West Wales
.

M80 closed

Probably the only place sun was forecast.....

I'm near Wolverhampton and we have a bit of wind, nothing more, not even cold. Mind you, our bird table thing blew over, but it did that last week, and the week before.

[MarshPhantom]

Wouldn't surprise me at all. You see "Gritting" signs everywhere but never any gritters. Thank you Tories.

[anonymous-user]

Remember this is the official stormageddon thread any similar threads are to be treated with caution.
Stay safe out there and stay safe on line

[Digga]

King Herald said:

rscott said:

94mph winds recorded in North West Wales
.

M80 closed

Probably the only place sun was forecast.....

I'm near Wolverhampton and we have a bit of wind, nothing more, not even cold. Mind you, our bird table thing blew over, but it did that last week, and the week before.

I live not far from you. I was out walking on the hillside before breakfast this morning and a 3 foot long branch flew past me at about 15 miles per hour.

My dog was carrying it.

[KTF]

rscott said:

94mph winds recorded in North West Wales
.

M80 closed

Looks like a great day for going for a drive. I can see why they all did it rather than decide to stay at home and do something else instead

[Digga]

KTF said:

rscott said:

94mph winds recorded in North West Wales
.

M80 closed

Looks like a great day for going for a drive. I can see why they all did it rather than decide to stay at home and do something else instead

The M80 is near Glasgow. I can see why the might have decided not to.

[MartG]

My son was supposedly travelling from Lancaster to London for an interview - got as far as Warrington before the train ground to a halt. Apparently there is damage to powerlines between Warrington and Crewe which has brought the whole line to a halt, and even where it is running there is a 50mph restriction

Now he's just trying to get home and do the interview via Skype

Edited by MartG on Thursday 23 February 12:17

[don'tbesilly]

MarshPhantom said:

Wouldn't surprise me at all. You see "Gritting" signs everywhere but never any gritters. Thank you Tories.

Usual Tory bashing from MP.
I guess all the councils responsible for gritting are Tory controlled!

It should be MuppetPhantom, not MarshPhantom.

[A.J.M]

KTF. You do realise that even up here, we have work to go to. Getting there can involve using cars, you also expect that since the news stations have been powerwking themselves into a coma about this storm and the snow etc.

That, maybe, just maybe, one of the main motorways in Central Scotland would have been gritted and had plows ready to deal with it. Given the same area came to a halt during the last proper snow event in 2010.

M8 was a car park for a while, but it's now moving again.
The snow has turned to drizzle, so i expect it to bugger off soon.