Windy damage story ......part 1

[Father Ted]

(wind speed 55 knots).....I've just walked in to work and a Boeing 757 has been blown around 90 degrees onto a set of boarding steps......4 holes in the fuselage and new modification to the underbelly air conditioning bay ......namely said boarding steps inserted into it!......oh yeah and a great whack in the engine intake.

any more damage your way today?

[BliarOut]

You're gonna need a jumbo tub of body filler to fix that.

[mxdi]

The nuts blew out of my birdtable
but thats the only damage I can see

[docevi1]

Our street so far:

* One house is loosing it's roof tiles
* another is losing it's coping stones
* a chimmley is falling down
* not many have their guttering left
* Dad, my next door neighbour and I have been helping to take fences down as they are blowing all over the place.
* One greenhouse is destroyed
* An old woman got blown away (literally) and had to be rescued
* A tree has fallen down...

and we are still getting battered by the wind.

>> Edited by docevi1 on Saturday 8th January 10:44

[anonymous-user]

I've got 2 trees down in the garden, some guttering down and part of the roof on my conservatory has blown off.

I have personally never heard winds like those we had a 5am this morning.

[alextgreen]

None thankfully - I left the Golf in the workshop yesterday! Glad I did now.

[Father Ted]

update on the 757.....1 x puncture hole in leading edge slat also......BIG job for some poor bugger.......suprisingly there was not much debris on the way into work........last time there were trees ,fence panels, etc etc....

[hedders]

My high quality plastic garden table has been blown over! And A neighbours potted plant is on its side

Apart from that I can't see any damage here in MK, even the pile of building rubbish outside another neighbours house looks undisturbed...luckily!

[shirley temple]

Father Ted said:

(wind speed 55 knots).....I've just walked in to work and a Boeing 757 has been blown around 90 degrees onto a set of boarding steps......4 holes in the fuselage and new modification to the underbelly air conditioning bay ......namely said boarding steps inserted into it!......oh yeah and a great whack in the engine intake.

why the hell wasn't it tied down/ turned into the wind? There was plenty of warnings from the Met office, severe gales gusting to 90+mph across the middle of the country, and that was on the 6 oclock news,I have prepped my garden garden lastnight, no damage so far!!
Mark

[Father Ted]

hedders said:

<snip>....... Apart from that I can't see any damage here in MK.....

Snigger......

regards the 757.......as a rule , passenger jets aren't required to be tied down,thier sheer mass usually precludes tie-downs.......maybe turned into wind ,yes to minimise damage by excess 'rocking'.....this particular aircraft however had been parked on a 'remote' stand (..that is particularily exposed to the blasting winds) for two weeks ......i guess a combination of empty fuel tanks and low brake accumulator pressure and the fact that it would have took the brunt of the winds sealed its fate........jeez.....i've never seen a 757 shifted by the wind before.......amazing.......also there were 3 BAe 146/RJ jets that had been shifted off the centreline of thier stands.....

p.s. Boeing Maintenance manual states
1) 'When in correct configuration it will be resistant to 135 knot winds' ..... yikes...wouldn't like to test that one out
2)'on a dry surface the aircraft will be resistant to 100 knot SIDE winds'.........
3)'on a wet surface aircraft will be resistant to 90 knots'

also
'Tie-down straps (18,000 lbs rated)required for aircraft nose gear when winds in excess of 60 knots'
'Tie-down straps (18,000 ils rated)required for aircraft main gear when wind speeds in excess of 70 knots'


yes ,thats all very well and good Mr Boeing so long as you have airfields with dedicated tie-down points or tie-down concrete blocks....and if the wind is strong enuff to move said aircraft ,how heavy would tie-down blocks have to be??


>> Edited by Father Ted on Saturday 8th January 11:04

[anonymous-user]

Not quite as impressive as a pranged 757 but my Supra had a near miss.

That's a roof tile from above the porch

[glocko]

My Butt was halfway down the garden!!! (err water butt that is phnar phnar) Also Composting bin (empty) went AWOL.
Some guttering and downpipe away from roof, luckily I can put a ladder on the kitchen extension and resecure it myself.
House over the close has lost it's aerial which is dangling by their upstairs window.

Then again small potatoes compared to what some people in the world are coping with....small mercies.
Glocko

[Mrs Fish]

I think the winds here in Derby sounded louder thean they were strong as we have a load of trees around the house and none have blown over or had branches fall off. The electricity has gone off 6 times so far this morning though

[mrmaggit]

One of our crane lorries had to crane a tree off the A453 for the police this morning. Even got a phone call to thank the driver, which was nice.

[selmer]

Our village hall's roof has ended up the river.
There were some awful noises this morning.
I can't remember it being this bad since travelling up Swaledale in 1987 and seeing the caravans floating downstream from Reeth. About 20 minutes later a group of us were literally blown sideways off our bikes going over the firing range at Grinton.

[groucho]

docevi1 said:

Our street so far: One house is loosing it's roof tiles

Sounds like a job for me.

Grouch.

[mrmaggit]

groucho said:

docevi1 said: Our street so far: One house is loosing it's roof tiles Sounds like a job for me. Grouch.

Our Hips and Valley tiles need removing and re-bedding!

[Father Ted]

glocko said:

Then again small potatoes compared to what some people in the world are coping with....small mercies. Glocko

....and that ,my friend was, exactly what i was thinking last night......

[beano500]

So, do you now expect bids from "Go" and "Ryanair" for a slightly used 757 going cheap, Father Ted?

[groucho]

mrmaggit said:

Our Hips and Valley tiles need removing and re-bedding!

Easy enough job, a little far for me though. If you get a price I could tell you whether it's a goodun or not though. All I would need to know is how many valleys and hips need doing and how long they are and what's on the roof.
Have you got lead in the valleys?

Grouch.