Storm Doris- has everyone survived?
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valeriebutterley
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Coops, chickens and runs seem OK, but garden littered with branches, plant pots, buckets and twigs!!
ColinB
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Yep... all present and accounted for. A general garden tidy-up is needed, and a neighbour's tree is over and supported by our phone line so that needs sorting.
Chickens were invisible most of yesterday, spent the day in their coop, despite having a run area which is sheltered from normal winds. The last few strong gusts at teatime blew the retaining battens off the tarpaulins on the windward side, so I was out with hammer and nails trying to stop it flapping.
On the morning dog walk, we passed a low garden wall that had blown down, luckily before our little dog was trotting along next to it, she would have been killed.
On the morning dog walk, we passed a low garden wall that had blown down, luckily before our little dog was trotting along next to it, she would have been killed.
rick
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Very puzzling to find a small branch off the cherry tree behind in the middle of the run. There are no gaps in the wire big enough for it to fit through.
Blew all the mats I had drying on the roof onto the floor but that was about it.
Blew all the mats I had drying on the roof onto the floor but that was about it.
chrismahon
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It even got a mention on the news here because of the very bad winds on the Northeast coast- 3 Departments (Counties) on 'orange' alert, which is as bad as it gets being defined as 'the most extreme scale of seasonal weather'. There is a 'red' alert, which I have never seen on a weather map, defined as 'at a scale never before experienced or experienced once in the last 100 years.' Big fuss here over the flooding in Nice last year as 'orange' should have been 'red'.
rick
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I must say, going to work and back on Thursday it didn’t seem particularly out of the ordinary apart from the trains limited to 50mph which threw the timetables completely out. But today has been crazy with notices of trees falling and smashed up canopies. It was a very unusually devastating 24 hours!
A couple of months ago we had horizontal rain and very little to report and last year what felt like much more of a storm resulted in some but not an unusual amount of failures. I think it must have been heavy turbulent gusts that made the difference.
A couple of months ago we had horizontal rain and very little to report and last year what felt like much more of a storm resulted in some but not an unusual amount of failures. I think it must have been heavy turbulent gusts that made the difference.
valeriebutterley
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The wind blew out the "double glazing" of the end of the bantams hut, and also took and scattered all their newly installed Aubiose on the floor of the hut. They seemed to be completely discombobulated with a bare wooden floor. Pekins hate the wind!
Poor pekins :?
I was happy to get home & find everything in one piece & the electricity restored, after seeing a roof tile whizz past a window in Tonbridge earlier in the day & smash on the pavement...
It sounds as though everyone's coops survived?
I was happy to get home & find everything in one piece & the electricity restored, after seeing a roof tile whizz past a window in Tonbridge earlier in the day & smash on the pavement...
It sounds as though everyone's coops survived?
Yes, luckily mine was weighed down by all 5 girls inside.