Storm Doris

martin_p · Post by **martin_p** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:55 am

We're being proper battered here on the Wirral, what's it like Burnley way?

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:56 am

Hammering it down in Ramsbottom

dingle_bally · Post by **dingle_bally** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:56 am

It's horrendous isn't it, I work in Birkenhead and the roof has blown off our factory and hit a load of cars in the car park and even some passing on the main road!

fatboy47 · Post by **fatboy47** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:03 am

Nowt much here.

Breezy and sunny is all.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:06 am

It's wild here but the rain has almost stopped - more to come though apparently. Is Doris just getting the floods sorted for the Hull trip?

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:07 am

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ClaretKent · Post by **ClaretKent** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:09 am

Travelling back down to Kent later could be an eventful day

Guich · Post by **Guich** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:09 am

We've just had a power cut here in Derbyshire and the cat's just been blown back in through his catflap.

Tribesmen · Post by **Tribesmen** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:16 am

We got it in Galway last night , hey bright sunshine now and not a puff of wind .

bfccrazy · Post by **bfccrazy** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:19 am

I woke up being blown this morning.

Nothing to do with a storm, just wanted to brag.

Lord Beamish · Post by **Lord Beamish** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:21 am

It was so windy here above Todmorden last night that I expected to wake up to find the Beamish Towers in Oz.

LawsCanalJump · Post by **LawsCanalJump** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:23 am

Weather warning of rain on Saturday

Claretpants · Post by **Claretpants** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:25 am

getting a good battering of winds in North Wales

chekhov · Post by **chekhov** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:26 am

ClaretAndJew wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=365dLFysoPs

Awful scenes there. Hope you manage to pull through. It's sunny where I am by the way.

Caballo · Post by **Caballo** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:30 am

It's windy and raining in feb, who knew!

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:48 am

I've farted stronger.

They always overegg these things.

Nowt out o'th ordinary. (So far.)

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 12:06 pm

Not that bad here, though based on what happened last year everyone is a bit on edge.

Lord Beamish · Post by **Lord Beamish** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 12:14 pm

ElectroClaret wrote:I've farted stronger.

They always overegg these things.

Pun intended?

Firthy · Post by **Firthy** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 12:38 pm

It's just another DAY here

tjgh25 · Post by **tjgh25** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 12:55 pm

Alright here in Shipley, West Yorks. Was a bit windy going to work in Skipton and rain pretty hard for a while. Not that bad though. Not witnessed the "chaos" predicted in some of the papers.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 1:10 pm

I'm so glad that it's been given a name, because otherwise we'd just be wandering about saying isn't this rather windy and rainy episode horrible.

Let's hope for Mild Agnes at the weekend, she's a far more classier lady who doesn't try and move my patio furniture about without asking.

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 1:18 pm

sunny in nelson

Sutton-Claret · Post by **Sutton-Claret** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 1:27 pm

tjgh25 wrote:Alright here in Shipley, West Yorks. Was a bit windy going to work in Skipton and rain pretty hard for a while. Not that bad though. Not witnessed the "chaos" predicted in some of the papers.

I'm in Shipley too - bit breezy but at least its dry. Hit a strange pocket of dry calmness around Harrogate on my commute from York this morning.

Quickenthetempo · Post by **Quickenthetempo** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 1:45 pm

It's certainly worse in the Liverpool area as my uncles brick shed as blown over.

Let's hope it passes quickly.

Cirrus_Minor · Post by **Cirrus_Minor** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 1:47 pm

Must be bad, some strange dogs running about and they are barking in French.

Quickenthetempo · Post by **Quickenthetempo** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 1:50 pm

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Trampoline getting blown down the road in Liverpool.

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 1:53 pm

It's not to bad down here in Oxfordshire, but you know what these southerners are like.

My cycle into work was uneventful, possilby a bit easier with the wind going in my direction.
Should be fine going home.

There was a clip on the ITV news site showing the middle of London looking a bit wet and messier then normal.

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 1:55 pm

Intermittent here in Brierfield

Been watching a few people taking a risk riding bikes along the canal path

Rick_Muller · Post by **Rick_Muller** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 2:01 pm

I'll say something I never thought I would ever say...

"Doris is making me very wet and blowing me all over the place..."

lakesclaret · Post by **lakesclaret** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 2:24 pm

If you'd heard radio 5 live earlier you'd have thought the 4 horseman of the apocalypse were upon us. Though they have studios in Salford it was very southern slanted with the usual " everyone on edge/batten down the hatches" and assorted middle class mums texting the show to say " it's wet and windy and leaves are blowing in the road in Richmond" ffs

ToryClaret · Post by **ToryClaret** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 2:31 pm

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FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 2:41 pm

It seems to have calmed down here in Leeds, so I went out into the garden to witness the aftermath...

Pearcey · Post by **Pearcey** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 3:22 pm

Getting battered in Norfolk.

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 3:27 pm

To anyone from the North this is just the weather, no need to give it a name.

Its funny listening to all the Midlanders complaining about the wind and rain like its something new

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 3:51 pm

Sidney1st wrote:
My cycle into work was uneventful, possilby a bit easier with the wind going in my direction.
Should be fine going home.

Looking at the angle of the trees in the wind, my cycle home will also be a bit easier with the wind now going in that direction instead.

spadesclaret · Post by **spadesclaret** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 3:57 pm

Pearcey wrote:Getting battered in Norfolk.

You're right, Pearcey. My bird feeders have been blown off their hooks.

HatfieldClaret · Post by **HatfieldClaret** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:25 pm

Humanitarian disaster down south here.

Power cut for last 2 hours
Tree down in the next road
No trains out of moorgate or kings cross

Where's the salvation army when you need them !!

Ashingtonclaret46 · Post by **Ashingtonclaret46** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:12 pm

Been a bit inclement up here --I had to put my coat on but the lasses are still out in their pelmets.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:26 pm

ToryClaret wrote:

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Its funny that. Its absolute carnage here in London.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:26 pm

In countries where they get proper weather they will be ******* themselves at us.

nil_desperandum · Post by **nil_desperandum** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:55 pm

Whilst the storm doesn't appear to have been as bad as predicted in this region, at least one person has been killed, (in Wolverhampton), so on that basis alone the advance warning was obviously justified.

KLClaret · Post by **KLClaret** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:03 pm

Indeed battered on the Norfolk/Cambs border. Have seen a double-decker bus and an artic blown over today. 11 people injured on the bus. Driving has been right dodgy this afternoon.

kentonclaret · Post by **kentonclaret** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:09 pm

"Storm Doris halts the filming of Coronation Street" reports the BBC website.

So much for hardy northerners.

Paul Waine · Post by **Paul Waine** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:12 pm

ToryClaret wrote:
Storm Doris.GIF

I like that.

I moved down to work in London nov/dec 87 - a few weeks after the "no hurricane" big storm. My thoughts before I moved was just another "southern softies" exaggeration. But, when I got down here I saw how bad it had been: very extensive storm damage, roof of houses in many areas, many forested areas losing more than half their trees (think the dry summer had weakened roots).

But, generally, the weather is a lot milder in south east.

Today, yes, it's been "windy." A tree was blown over outside my front door - but it was 4 foot high and in a pot (on wheels). And, the rubbish bin lid was blown off and blown 30 yards across the road.

The roads have got a lot of "small branches" and the like blown across them. From the local TV news, a large tree has blown down in Chiswick - picture of the car it landed on shown on http://www.bbb.com/news" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; . And, Kew Gardens was closed this morning for safety reasons. A few years back a branch snapped off a tree at Kew and killed a woman who was walking underneath. I can understand Kew being careful.

Brooky · Post by **Brooky** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:15 pm

Doris was moist and windy in North Wales.

Paul Waine · Post by **Paul Waine** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:16 pm

lakesclaret wrote:If you'd heard radio 5 live earlier you'd have thought the 4 horseman of the apocalypse were upon us. Though they have studios in Salford it was very southern slanted with the usual " everyone on edge/batten down the hatches" and assorted middle class mums texting the show to say " it's wet and windy and leaves are blowing in the road in Richmond" ffs

Yes, where I live is near to "Richmond."

Holtyclaret · Post by **Holtyclaret** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:17 pm

As the kiwis and northerners would say, bit of a breeze! Weird here down south, folk have fear in their eyes and supermarket shelves will be empty!

lakesclaret · Post by **lakesclaret** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:26 pm

Has a state of emergency been declared in the smoke yet?
Evidently hordes of wild eyed panic stricken commuters were seen charging across Westminster Bridge resembling a herd of buffalo, when Costa announced they were running low on Frappaccino.

kentonclaret · Post by **kentonclaret** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:38 pm

Long queues at Boots due to people suffering from wind.

elwaclaret · Post by **elwaclaret** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:41 pm

Accrington has been badly hit initial estimates are over £200,000 worth of improvements.