Weather

[snowbunny]

I think with the weather conditions that everyone is experiencing throughout the world, it brings home that you need to have a plan of action in case of these eventualities. We don't have flood contingencies because if we flood in either of our homes, then the apocalypse has come, but we do have plans for fire in Spain. We have several routes out of the campo, and we have an emergency pack in the safe, with all our important documents. It really is a case of grabbing that, sticking the dogs in the car and leaving by the safest route to get to the main road then, depending on the severity, either hanging around locally, or driving up to Andorra (or both - one of us would come back here with the dogs while the other stays in case there's anything that needs doing down there). We're lucky to have that option.

My sister's single-story home is right on the edge of a flood-prone area; she's recently had a few cases of water under her house, and slightly damaging her flooring from underneath, but nothing too bad. She is also lucky in that she lives only a mile or so from our parents, so when the potential for flooding becomes bad, she bundles up her dog and takes him there.

For people with nowhere obvious to go, it must be a real worry, but also even more important to have a plan.

 

[M.F.]

If you have decided to fly instead of use the ferry, you might have second thoughts.
Plane lands sideways on at Heathrow in fierce crosswinds

If I’m flying, I want that pilot landing my plane. Wow!

 

[Cupcase]

We don't have to worry about the river bursting its banks as we're too high up but I never thought I would live in a time, when anyone had to make a contingency plan because of the weather, in the UK.

 

[Selina27]

Oh it's grim here, really it is now. Still the rain lashes down with such force, still the wind is hammering the house. The roads are all strewn with debris, not just gravel and sticks but big stones and bricks, even a concrete fence post my daughter said, was in the middle of the main road, just outside Hay on Wye.

 

[kateincornwall]

Oh it's grim here, really it is now. Still the rain lashes down with such force, still the wind is hammering the house. The roads are all strewn with debris, not just gravel and sticks but big stones and bricks, even a concrete fence post my daughter said, was in the middle of the main road, just outside Hay on Wye.

Such shocking photos filtering through , so sad for people . We are having torrential rain and the wind is getting up but at least our home is dry , thankful for that xx

 

[FayRose]

Its just awful @Selina27 very frightening in its relentlessness. I'm so sorry for those poor souls whose homes have been destroyed, lives shattered. You and Cassie continue to stay safe, be very cautious when you go out, stuff flying about, it's dangerous x

 

[Lab_adore]

That sounds terrifying @Selina27 - take care

 

[Stacia]

Floods very bad round here, not that they affect me unless I wanted to go to Worcester or the nearest small town, both flooded. I took Rourke for a walk this afternoon in the pouring rain and could look out over the Severn plain, I have never seen the extent of the water spreading that far before.

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

Very little rain during what supposed to be Dennis' landing this weekend, but today and right now it's a deluge. And lightening. I think Carbon and I are going to go hide in bed.

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

Oh it's grim here, really it is now. Still the rain lashes down with such force, still the wind is hammering the house. The roads are all strewn with debris, not just gravel and sticks but big stones and bricks, even a concrete fence post my daughter said, was in the middle of the main road, just outside Hay on Wye.

That's bad news. I was hoping it being worse down here today meant it had come south and was drier for everyone northwards.

 

[Selina27]

I was hoping it being worse down here today meant it had come south and was drier for everyone northwards

No, not a bit of it, the opposite in fact

 

[kateincornwall]

Right now we are having the Mother of all thunder storms , mega bangs and flickering power , best make that flask ! x

 

[JES72]

Thinking of you all in the storm.

 

[Granca]

Stay safe, everyone. The wind is howling again here now and although it’s been dry today - and even sunny for a while - the rain has started again. We haven’t has flooding locally, although apparently the basement of my grandson’s nursery flooded yesterday, but the roads are once again pitted with potholes which aren’t very visible in torrential rain!

 

[Lisa]

Yeesh you guys, hope you all “weather” the storm ok!

On another note, here’s a pic from yesterday I took as we were driving from our small town to the city to see our kids (it was a holiday called Family Day). Temp was -20, windchill -28. Now you know why I always exclaim over your lovely green all winter...sometimes over here I feel like I’m living in a black and white photograph.

 

[Atemas]

I could cry looking a photos of the flooding especially around Worcestershire/Herefordshire. Poor poor people. I am so fed up with this weather - I know I shouldn’t grumble but there is no let up in it

 

[kateincornwall]

I know how you feel Alison , I loathe it too , we had a massive thunder storm last night with lightening and hail chucked in for good measure , then we felt guilty for moaning about it . I cant imagine anything more horrible than being flooded out x

 

[Cupcase]

Yeesh you guys, hope you all “weather” the storm ok!

On another note, here’s a pic from yesterday I took as we were driving from our small town to the city to see our kids (it was a holiday called Family Day). Temp was -20, windchill -28. Now you know why I always exclaim over your lovely green all winter...sometimes over here I feel like I’m living in a black and white photograph.
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How long does that last for? What is the weather for each season? When I remember the winters growing up in Scotland, I know they were nowhere near that temperature. I do remember we had one source of heat, a coal fire in the sitting room and the bedroom windows had the most beautiful patterns on the INSIDE made of frost. Now our winters are wet.

 

[Joy]

Really sorry for everyone living in flooded areas. It looks grim on the news.

 

[Stacia]

@Cupcase I can also remember frost patterns being on the INSIDE of the window and it being so cold with one little fire in sitting room which we all huddled around. No central heating in those days!