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Post by scorp on Jan 26, 2014 12:22:27 GMT
I just read about the 'mini tornado' that swept across parts of France yesterday - well I think it passed through here on its way...
Sitting here tapping away, the weather outside was suddenly violent wind and rain. Then a very loud bang! - and everything went off. Not quite everything, as we didn't lose power, but I had no router, no telephones (they are wi-fi, and the base is knackered), no SKY satellite TV box, no external disk drive and no printer. My neighbour's TV has given up the ghost as well as the SKY box - mine works, but attempts to turn on the SKY box from the remote just turn the TV off! I'm worried that some USB ports are not working...
After a couple of hours I did some cable changing and got the router back on line. The printer seems to work - but the PC can't contact it.
I've ordered a new set of phones... oh, and strangely the light on the stairs was blown - I put a new one in this morning and that works - just a coincidence I suppose!
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Post by hedwig on Jan 26, 2014 15:28:34 GMT
Oo-er. Hope you've got it sorted. We got a sudden little squall but nothing more. I suppose we were on the edge of something.
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Post by ARENA on Jan 26, 2014 16:25:58 GMT
I don't know much about the weather yesterday, I was rushed into hospital. I came over funny just before twelve and with my stroke history they take no chances. I spent the entire day enjoying drip feeds, scanners and all the other unpleasant tortures they could think of. They eventually d :)ecided to muck about with my medications and sent me home just before midnight. Thanks to my 100% cover (this means you have a life threatening ailment) I was driven both ways in a taxi...............  |
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Post by hedwig on Jan 27, 2014 1:14:40 GMT
Cripes. Hope all is well after all that.
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Post by scorp on Jan 27, 2014 7:40:32 GMT
And so say all of us...
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Post by ARENA on Jan 27, 2014 9:43:15 GMT
Thank you. Still breathing.. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2014 10:00:36 GMT
We are all absolutely fed up with incessant rain gales and everything besides. And I doubt we will feel any better until, like the sheep, we get a bit of sun on our backs. And we won't talk about Somerset, which is on my doorstep.
I made a temporary small log store/shelter directly outside the back door to save the treck to the proper log shed. And am I glad I did so over the last few days. Not pretty, but serves a purpose. All I need now is a marquee so I can cut more wood in the dry!
Sorry about your ailments Arena. But as long as we are still warm and still vertical that I reckon is all we can expect as we get older.
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Post by jimshoo on Jan 27, 2014 10:35:02 GMT
Good health, A!
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Post by goldelox on Jan 27, 2014 12:05:54 GMT
 Look after yourself Arena
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Post by Prue on Jan 28, 2014 8:00:01 GMT
Pleased to hear it worked out OK, Arena. Bit scary, I imagine. The weather here is once again poxy hot - today's predicted high was 39, but it got to 41 - bit cooler briefly tomorrow, then another week of high 30s - low 40s.  |
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Post by scorp on Jan 28, 2014 8:19:08 GMT
My other neighbour actually saw the lightning strike, from across the road - a horizontal flash at about head height. She got home to find telephones, TV, hot water, central heating all knocked out!
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Post by ARENA on Jan 28, 2014 9:48:07 GMT
Tornados are naughty little things. We had one years ago in the Perigord.
I happened to be on the roof building our en suite bathroom, when I saw this plume of darkness in the distance. I called No2 son who was helping fetch for me and we watched it coming ever closer. At the last moment it veered off and missed us.
We later discovered it had left a trail of devestation; a trail that was about 10ft wide......everything inside that corridor was destroyed.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2014 11:11:49 GMT
'Freak' weather is all too common. Last Saturday I was shopping and we had about 10 mins of rain I can't describe. Roads just running rivers and people dashing for cover.
One which was funny but could have been tragic was one afternoon in Wales. I was stood behind a low wall above a small beach just sussing out a fishing spot. The sea was calm and the sun was out. There were a lot of people on the beach just sitting in deckchairs and generally lazing around.
Out of nowhere came an enormous wave. I swear it was 3M high. Everyone who was upright rushed up the beach, then as it receded rushed back down rescuing grannies who had been left on their chairs and all the other detritus from picnics and so on. Luckily no one was drowned.
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Post by ARENA on Jan 28, 2014 11:35:35 GMT
'Freak' weather is all too common. Last Saturday I was shopping and we had about 10 mins of rain I can't describe. Roads just running rivers and people dashing for cover. One which was funny but could have been tragic was one afternoon in Wales. I was stood behind a low wall above a small beach just sussing out a fishing spot. The sea was calm and the sun was out. There were a lot of people on the beach just sitting in deckchairs and generally lazing around. Out of nowhere came an enormous wave. I swear it was 3M high. Everyone who was upright rushed up the beach, then as it receded rushed back down rescuing grannies who had been left on their chairs and all the other detritus from picnics and so on. Luckily no one was drowned. Another incident I was in my workshop. It has doors either side to the garden one side and the courtyard the other. My son came in from the garden dripping wet from rain. I came in from the courtyard bone dry. The rainstorm's edge was directly over our house! |
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Post by scorp on Jan 28, 2014 13:13:24 GMT
Sometimes it's wet on one side of the Thames and bone dry on the other in this part of the world.
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Look after yourself Arena
