Bad weather

[heliona]

So, as you all know (and if you don't, then where have you been!), there has been some terrible storms lashing Europe and the UK.

Germany was the worst hit, and England has had it really bad too. For the first time, ever, I think, Scotland didn't have bad weather, we just had our first snow fall, which did cause some planes and trains cancelled, but not here! We just had a couple of hours of snow that then melted away. I think this is first time when wherever I've been has had the best weather!

Anyway, huge hugs to eretria who survived the night (and so did her tree), and also murron, who both live in storm-struck Germany.

All of you that live down south (ie England) hugs to you all as well, since I know that pretty much most of England was badly effected by strong winds.

On the plus side, the forecast for next week is sunny (but cold) and not a lot of wind, I don't think. (Although Saturday is meant to be quite windy for Scotland and the West Coast of England.)

Here are some photos from around the UK. Quite a few are from where I used to live, or visit a lot, which is a little scary. It's a little weird seeing them all, because we just haven't experienced any bad weather here - it's almost unreal, seeing the photos. (All photos are from the BBC website.




Blackpool Town - about 15 minutes drive from where I used to live.




Borehamwood, Hertforshire




Castletown, Isle of Man - never actually sailed into here, but visited by land several times.




Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight




Highgate, North London - I think my uncle lives near here.




Peel Castle, Isle of Man - we used to visit here all the time in the boat. The harbour is to the right of the photograph, but the entrance you can't see because of the spray. What it's breaking over is a very wide road.




Sandside, South Cumbria - again, not to terribly far away from where we used to keep the boat.

ETA: Just seen the news. Apparently, Britain was the worst hit out of the European countries. 140,000 homes are without power and are facing a second night of no power, and at least 11 people have died. It was the worst storm to hit the UK in 17 years. And the forecast for this weekend is cold, and quite a bit of snow for up here in Scotland. Although, in perspective, the temperatures here haven't dipped below freezing yet this winter, whereas my friends in Martha's Vineyard are coping with temperatures of -12 to -14 degrees Celcius!

Comments

[windzswept.livejournal.com]

I slept through the storm - having done an hour and a half of prep work before school and then almost toppled over in my classroom and went home sick.

On the other hand we were entirely unaffected, even in the late afternoon it was really quite calm (I sat in the garden for about an hour).

Apparently the storm decided to miss our hill (our house is on the top of one). ;o)

[lejlkwiet.livejournal.com]

OMG. O.o Ouch.

Here it is slightly cold and a bit windy but otherwise we've been having clear sunny days O.o Sometimes it's hard to believe we're also in Europe.

[heliona.livejournal.com]

Lol! That was lucky!

[heliona.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose being an island in the middle of the Mediterranean will definitely affect how the weather is on Malta.

[lejlkwiet.livejournal.com]

But still, in Italy it's rather bad and we're really close by.

[heliona.livejournal.com]

That's true. Although perhaps it swirls around Malta. I suppose also that fact that the island isn't very high helps as well.

[loriel-eris.livejournal.com]

I completely missed this. Didn't see what had happened until now, about a week later as this is me only just catching up on LJ.

[heliona.livejournal.com]

Wait, you totally missed all the bad weather? How could you miss that? Didn't anyone talk about it at work? Did you never see the headlines in the Metro (I'm assuming there were headlines in the Metro - I first heard about the storms thanks to eretria. Which reminds me, have you emailed her back yet?