A storm is a'coming

[Ken L]

If anyone missed it, there's every possibility of a repeat next weekend:

 

Although the worst of it should be over tonight, forecasters say a deep Atlantic low is building up to unleash another storm as early as the weekend. Jonathan Powell, of Vantage Weather Services, said: “We could see a similar picture, if not worse.”

Edited October 28, 2013 by Ken L

[barry luxton]

high tide for next week end, could be interesting.

 

One thing today, Dungeness shut down it's reactors and their own diesel generators took over. As it's on the beach, at sea level, what happens if it's generators get flooded? Wouldn't want to see a nuc accident. Yes I know they like lots of cooling water, but why ohh why do they build them at sea level?

Edited October 28, 2013 by barry luxton

[chesters1]

That must be some village shopS co-op !

It was hell here ,a leaf blew past and i thought i heard a rustle in the back garden, i think the cover over the barbi moved an inch!

Edited October 28, 2013 by chesters1

[Ken L]

high tide for next week end, could be interesting.

 

One thing today, Dungeness shut down it's reactors and their own diesel generators took over. As it's on the beach, at sea level, what happens if it's generators get flooded? Wouldn't want to see a nuc accident. Yes I know they like lots of cooling water, but why ohh why do they build them at sea level?

 

 

Meteotsunamis are not exactly uncommon and probably why they shut it down..

 

A repeat of the Dover Straits earthquake of 1580 and it's associated tsunami would also be most unfortunate.

 

There have also been real monsters in the disatant past. The east coast of Scotland was struck by a 70 feet (21 m) high tsunami around 6100 BC

[garylee]

That must be some village shopS co-op !

It was hell here ,a leaf blew past and i thought i heard a rustle in the back garden, i think the cover over the barbi moved an inch!

It must have been very frightening chesters my bbq was safely stored in my gararge and yes do we have a CO-OP Edited October 28, 2013 by garylee

[Phone]

ken

 

6100 BC relevance?

 

barry,

 

why ohh why do you think I live 1300 miles inland

 

Phone

[Ken L]

ken

 

6100 BC relevance?

 

barry,

 

why ohh why do you think I live 1300 miles inland

 

Phone

 

That tsunami originated off the coast of Norway, but 8,000 years ago the Eath was still comming out of the last ice age and sea levels were much lower than present.

At that time Doggerland had only recently been inundated and the waters of the North Sea were shallow - which isn't good for tsunami propogation.

If such an event were to happen now with higher sea levels (upto 30m higher), the impact at Dungeness would be catestrophic.

 

 

[RUDD]

That tsunami originated off the coast of Norway, but 8,000 years ago the Eath was still comming out of the last ice age and sea levels were much lower than present.

At that time Doggerland had only recently been inundated and the waters of the North Sea were shallow - which isn't good for tsunami propogation.

If such an event were to happen now with higher sea levels (upto 30m higher), the impact at Dungeness would be catestrophic.

 

 

 

The impact at Sizewell and every other Nuclear powerstation would be as bad - are they not all built on coasts?

[RUDD]

A complete dud up here. We had more wind yesterday morning than we did over night.

Hope everyone else faired well with no property damage.

 

The Suffolk coast and up to 30 miles in land took a pounding, we were hit very hard for about two hours.

At around 0830 during the worst of it I went to check on the Skip as I didnt fancy the load flying around and having to pay for damages caused, it was fine but.........

As I trotted back to the house the biggest gust of the day (around 80-85 mph I belive) came down the Stour across the Orwell and hit the Trimley / Felixstowe hard.

I heard it as it hit some nearby trees and struggled to stay on my feet as it hit me, I held on to the front door and could not belive the noise, watched next doors fence get ripped up, was pounded by leaves, small twigs and small particles of cement. Another neighbors garden ornaments flew past me plus a few polystrene things out of the skip, when I say flew - they flew at head height!The gust lasted around 40-50 seconds and as it subsided I managed to get in the front door where I found the wife and kids in semi shock.

The gust had ripped of two ridge tiles and a normal tile off the roof - fortunatly only tennis ball sized bits hit the top of the conservatory (where the kids were peering through the door - PARP!!!) as bits of broken tile and cement rained down, (one ridge tile stayed up there) both a ridge and a roof tile hit the decking with such force that I found bits embedded in the Guinea pigs cage (they were in their winter cage in the conservatory, hence kids peering through checking they were ok (despite me telling them NO)) and up to 10 meters away down the garden.

Two neighbors lost fences and I could see at least six houses with roof damage, once storm passed we heard that a car 100m up the road had taken a hit from something that left a big gash in the bonnet and took out the front window and could see plenty of houses with roof damage - strange thing was no trees down - up the other end of the village several trees had come down yet very little roof damage - storm damage lottery!

In hindsight if them tiles had come down the other side of the roof or I had used the back door instead of front - I could well of become a casualty or worse.

At 0930 ironically the skip was collected!

A final footnote - I am a ton out of pocket but the roof has been fixed, had two ridge tiles and three roof tiles either put on or replaced - just in time as today it has peed down a couple of times!

[Leon Roskilly]

And here comes another one.

 

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/150558.aspx