Doomstorm Eunice seems to have cleared off with nothing much to report from this little corner of Derbyshire. She was certainly very windy when she finally turned up, but our patio chairs usually blow over in high winds and Eunice couldn't manage that trick.
Not that our patio chairs are a measure of wind speed of course, but add in a few twigs on the road during the school run and that was about it for us. Quite noisy, especially in the chimneys, plus the occasional whine round the corner of the house, but we've heard all that before. We've seen worse in the past, but we are so saturated with alarming narratives it isn't easy to compare with past experience.
An incessant determination to spread alarm and an equally incessant determination to extract every bit of drama doesn't help. Maybe we should grow up and make a better job of these things.
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Bit windy in Kent. My neighbors have lost fencing and conservatory roofing. Many trees down too. Power outages here and there, some for many hours.
Part of it is fear. They ramp up the drama and the risk because they don't want to be like Michael Fish and be parodied for ever, nor do they want to be sued for leaving people unprepared. What's worse is the issue of power. Like fibbing children, they realise they can get people to dance to their tune if they exaggerate and misrepresent things. No news is no job.
Apparently, Michael Fish turned into a grumpy dislikeable old chap in his later years, because everyone remembers his mistake back then!
I notched up over 10,000 steps on my tiresome fitbit yesterday, walking new Big-Little dog, and there were several branches down around the playing fields and churchyard...
So I may just pop out with the wheelbarrow, collect said limbs and maybe reduce them to reasonable lengths for our climate-change-busting open fire!
Nothing exciting here in North Derbys. Oh, thinks - there was one thing: on two occasions the electricity supply went off and back on instantaneously. We thought nothing of it until we noticed, at 0140, that the heating was still running. I checked the controller and found it on manual extra time and no buttons working when pressed: the power spike had apparently confused it. I had to reset it to get it to clear: luckily I had the special tool necessary: I keep a specially carved matchstick on top of it just to do that job!
One of our wheelie bins blew over. But a wall collapsed In Town:
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/gallery/storm-eunice-top-floor-wall-23151120
Meantime, off the Azores:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/18/was-the-felicity-ace-fire-caused-by-electric-vehicle-batteries/
Anyone already in a heightened state of anxiety, that's most of us these days, will be cowering in fear. The ghostly moaning of wind seeking entrance, the insistent tapping on windows of the sudden squalls of rain. Oh boy, how close to mass nervous breakdowns can they push us?
I will be taking a walk tomorrow if the weather is fine to do as Mr. Scrobs and pick up some sticks. Which reminds me, must pop out to the wood shed for some logs. Do I call it a wood shed because it contains wood, or that it's made from wood? That's going to plague me until my mind wanders on to something else.
Ed - we haven't seen anything round here, not even fences down although I'm sure there were one or two of those somewhere.
Sam - that's it, I'm sure there is a margin of caution in the predictions, so what we see is caution plus likelihood, not likelihood.
Scrobs - yet Fish was just trying to reassure people based on what was expected. He was unlucky, but probably changed the weather prediction game forever.
Jannie - I wonder what would have happened if you tried to use Alexa to run it?
dearieme - we haven't even seen a dislodged ridge tile, but in the past I remember seeing quite a few while walking the dog after a spell of high winds.
EV batteries are acquiring a reputation. I'm not sure I'd want an EV parked near the house now.
Andy - we heard that the teachers in a local school were having a mass meltdown about the storm before it arrived.
I see a car ferry has been burning in the Med. Another victim of EVs? Or, rather, a feared 11 victims.
I forecast that ferries will soon prohibit EVs. I certainly won't want to use the Chunnel again, sharing with those ruddy things.
dearieme - I won't want to use the Chunnel either, not if EVs are allowed to use it. Insurance could become an issue too.
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