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Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 10:48 pm
by ClaretLoup
Brighton is going to get battered tomorrow by Storm Eunice with winds up to 70 mph and again on Saturday when the winds are forecast to reach up to 50 mph during the match.
Expect massive disruption to rail travel especially, and maybe roads as well as there will be trees down all over the place.
I can see a possible postponement in the offing especially as this ground is very reliant on public transport for access.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 10:56 pm
by tarkys_ears
They won't care about the fans. The games need to go ahead now. If it's playable, it will be.
Good luck to all travelling fans though!
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 11:14 pm
by Paul Waine
ClaretLoup wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 10:48 pm
Brighton is going to get battered tomorrow by Storm Eunice with winds up to 70 mph and again on Saturday when the winds are forecast to reach up to 50 mph during the match.
Expect massive disruption to rail travel especially, and maybe roads as well as there will be trees down all over the place.
I can see a possible postponement in the offing especially as this ground is very reliant on public transport for access.
Rail travel won't be disrupted by Eunice. Rail from London to Brighton is being shut down, starting Saturday for a week of engineering works. Rail replacement buses to operate from Three Bridges all the way to Brighton, similarly, Lewes.
I'm driving. Looking forward to a windy game.
UTC
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:34 am
by HB Claret
Last time there were heavy storms in the south when we were playing I think we won at Southampton with Vyds scoring a stunner …. maybe it’s an omen ?
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:04 am
by IanMcL
HB Claret wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:34 am
Last time there were heavy storms in the south when we were playing I think we won at Southampton with Vyds scoring a stunner …. maybe it’s an omen ?
I think it is still classified as a storm.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 7:14 am
by bfcjg
If it is postponed for the weather Burnley will still get blamed for it. Dirty northerners bringing their crap weather down.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 8:21 am
by Spijed
Does anyone know the last time we had a game postponed due to high winds?
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 8:31 am
by duncandisorderly
I remember being blown off the longside before a Wimbledon game once.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 8:34 am
by Bosscat
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 8:35 am
by karatekid
duncandisorderly wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 8:31 am
I remember being blown off the longside before a Wimbledon game once.
What was his name?
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:12 am
by gawthorpe_view
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:20 am
by Hipper
Paul Waine wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 11:14 pm
Rail travel won't be disrupted by Eunice. Rail from London to Brighton is being shut down, starting Saturday for a week of engineering works. Rail
replacement buses to operate from Three Bridges all the way to Brighton, similarly, Lewes.
I'm driving. Looking forward to a windy game.
UTC
Double decker buses?
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:25 am
by dermotdermot
In Bournemouth, it’s a little breezy and the sun is out. The papers were saying that the Bristol Channel would be ‘destroyed’ and that this will be the worst storm for thirty years. Okay, so there’s still forty minutes until the peak but I hardly think that this warrants all the schools being closed and people being told not to leave their homes.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:38 am
by JohnMac
Spijed wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 8:21 am
Does anyone know the last time we had a game postponed due to high winds?
Wolves at Turf Moor in the Championship springs to mind. Crowd safety issue.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:54 am
by Beagleheart
The storm has definitely arrived just outside Salisbury. We're heading towards Brighton later today. Hopefully it'll calm down this afternoon.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:19 am
by AlargeClaret
The Met office site Brighton has winds of approx 30 mph tomorrow with “ chance of gusts to 40-42” . Quite where 70mph has come from is anyones guess . Let’s hope it’s more or less blown out by KO .
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:20 am
by AlargeClaret
I also feel it’s obligatory to shoehorn a “ blown off in Brighton “ type gag into a post on the thread
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:29 am
by dsr
Does the team fly down when it's a south coast match?
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:30 am
by duncandisorderly
AlargeClaret wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:20 am
I also feel it’s obligatory to shoehorn a “ blown off in Brighton “ type
gag into a post on the thread
Almost like it's a reflex?
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:31 am
by AlargeClaret
very good !
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:59 am
by Paul Waine
AlargeClaret wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:19 am
The Met office site Brighton has winds of approx 30 mph tomorrow with “ chance of gusts to 40-42” . Quite where 70mph has come from is anyones guess . Let’s hope it’s more or less blown out by KO .
I think it 70+ mph, red warning, between 10:00 and 15:00 today (Friday) in the South East.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:04 am
by Goody1975
AlargeClaret wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:19 am
The Met office site Brighton has winds of approx 30 mph tomorrow with “ chance of gusts to 40-42” . Quite where 70mph has come from is anyones guess . Let’s hope it’s more or less blown out by KO .
As has been said above, the worst of it is this afternoon and it calms down a lot overnight. Tomorrow it picks up again after lunch with gusts approaching 50mph at kick off.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:06 am
by Mattster
dsr wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:29 am
Does the team fly down when it's a south coast match?
Yeah, the team's flight from Manchester this afternoon has been cancelled due to the storm so the club is having to make alternative arrangements.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:08 am
by Foshiznik
I’m in Bristol and still have a roof. I’m a survivor
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:26 am
by SkiptonClaret
I live a couple of miles from the AMEX. It's a strong wind ! Forecast is that it will lessen by tonight / overnight. No issues forecasted tomorrow that I'm aware of.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:31 am
by Dark Cloud
JohnMac wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:38 am
Wolves at Turf Moor in the Championship springs to mind. Crowd safety issue.
Wimbledon at home circa 2003? Without checking I'm sure wind caused a late postponement.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:36 am
by dermotdermot
It has been quite gusty in Bournemouth over the last hour or so, I must admit, but it’s dying down now. I still think that that the closure of schools, etc. was ridiculous.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:44 am
by ecc
Hi Dark Cloud,
It was Wimbledon but I think it might have been 2004. We ended up winning the rearranged match 2-0. It was when I first started using CM (18 years ago, oh dear).
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:46 am
by ecc
110 mph off the Needles.
My sister was due to travel by train from Southampton to Stafford this afternoon but they've cancelled it.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:51 am
by BleedingClaret
It’s getting serious this… I’m seriously considering a coat for tomorrows trip… to the English Riviera!
Feel a bit sorry for those that are making a weekend of it
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:52 am
by FCBurnley
Owt over 20 mph int South and the whole world grinds to a halt
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:53 am
by BleedingClaret
FCBurnley wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:52 am
Owt over 20 mph int South and the whole world grinds to a halt
Boris will be planning a Storm Eunice party lock in
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:59 am
by wilks_bfc
Mattster wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:06 am
Yeah, the team's flight from Manchester this afternoon has been cancelled due to the storm so the club is having to make alternative arrangements.
I’d assume the usual team coach isn’t an option as when the team are flying/catching the train the team coach travels down with all the kit and to collect them on their arrival to take to the team hotel so that would have already set off
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:06 pm
by wilks_bfc
Seven comments from BHA fans that we should have travelled down yesterday and this could be a ploy by us to get the game postponed
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:09 pm
by BleedingClaret
Snowing in Nelson
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:25 pm
by Hipper
Potters Bar Town FC Terracing:
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Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:26 pm
by GodIsADeeJay81
https://youtu.be/vPQh1FrbOc0
This is live feed and commentary from Heathrow and it's oddly fascinating watching the planes landing, or trying to land.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:38 pm
by dsr
The day Burnley had a match postponed for wind (a steward was almost blown off the Longside Upper onto the Longside lower) was the day Colne played Sudbury in the FA Vase semi final. The game at Holt House was interesting, to say the least, especially with the wind blowing down the hill. One keeper caught his own goal kick (he was allowed to take it again).
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:42 pm
by Sutton-Claret
Those umbrellas are doing well to stay up....
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:50 pm
by appleton
In Newhaven now and the waves are towering over the lighthouse on the harbour bar. I'd post a picture but Mrs Appleton says I'll have my phone whipped out of my hands.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:58 pm
by Beagle
Anyone know if the stands at the Amex make any attempt to protect fans from the rain? Or were they built in the same style as the Jimmy Mac and new Longside?
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:09 pm
by The Enclosure
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Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:11 pm
by IanMcL
Hipper wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:20 am
Double decker buses?
It is the coast- open top!
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:19 pm
by ClaretTony
wilks_bfc wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:59 am
I’d assume the usual team coach isn’t an option as when the team are flying/catching the train the team coach travels down with all the kit and to collect them on their arrival to take to the team hotel so that would have already set off
It is an option and that’s how they’ve travelled
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:20 pm
by ClaretTony
dsr wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:38 pm
The day Burnley had a match postponed for wind (a steward was almost blown off the Longside Upper onto the Longside lower) was the day Colne played Sudbury in the FA Vase semi final. The game at Holt House was interesting, to say the least, especially with the wind blowing down the hill. One keeper caught his own goal kick (he was allowed to take it again).
Never heard a story of a steward on the Longside Upper but I had to walk down the touchline at around 2 pm that afternoon and you could hardly stand up.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:24 pm
by randomclaret2
wilks_bfc wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:06 pm
Seven comments from BHA fans that we should have travelled down yesterday and this could be a ploy by us to get the game postponed
Best not to argue with them...
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:29 pm
by ClaretLoup
Things are revving up down in Brighton and the BBC have sent the very well spoken Lucinda Adam down there to tell us how windy it is.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:49 pm
by thelaughingclaret
Bournemouth’s game tonight is still on at the moment. If that goes ahead but ours gets called off when things aren't meant to be as bad tomorrow then that would be very annoying.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:27 pm
by Spijed
Exeter v Barrow off in league two.
Re: Storm Eunice re Brighton match
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:32 pm
by Bosscat
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