JohnnyD
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Post by JohnnyD on Oct 31, 2023 9:45:41 GMT 1
Looks quite bad on BFM TV this morning with worse to come today and tomorrow, anyone here encountered it yet?
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Post by rabbit on Oct 31, 2023 10:44:22 GMT 1
It is currently not forecast to arrive until the early hours of Thursday am
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Nifty
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Post by Nifty on Oct 31, 2023 12:23:17 GMT 1
We were due to catch the Plymouth Santander ferry. Apparently it has been cancelled so we have had to reschedule plans.
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JohnnyD
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Post by JohnnyD on Oct 31, 2023 13:34:16 GMT 1
Oh dear, that and the Roscoff one seems the only ones affected on Brittany Ferries….,
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Post by annabellespapa on Nov 1, 2023 12:15:29 GMT 1
Friends are currently travelling up to Caen, they will hit Portsmouth about 7pm tonight they have re-booked from Thursday, we travel from Caen 4.30pm on Friday I hope the Mont St Michel ferry will be there to greet us.
p.s it is currently sunny and calm here in Brittany but a red storm warning has been issued for later, all garden furniture and lightweight plant pots moved.
We were in Normandy when the Grand Tempet hit in 1998 (I think), we had arrived to stay with friends for the New Year, we were very naïve and travelled from Caen to Falaise in a world of missing roofs, power lines down and trees chainsawed by the side of the roads. Our friends cider apple orchard basically disappeared overnight but by April the commune had replaced every single tree free of charge, the Mayor saying you cannot disrupt the production of Eau De Vie.
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Post by woolybanana on Nov 1, 2023 12:48:58 GMT 1
That is a maire with the right priorities!
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suein56
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Post by suein56 on Nov 1, 2023 13:01:04 GMT 1
It is currently not forecast to arrive until the early hours of Thursday am We've just had a message from our Insurers to say that Ciaran is going to hit 119kph here around 10pm ish .. so batten down the hatches.* * Of course they said it in French but that was the gist ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) and it tallies with what I have seen on the weather for our area.
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Post by gigi on Nov 1, 2023 14:38:08 GMT 1
Wishing all who lie in the path of Storm Ciaran the best of good luck, hoping that all will be well.
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Aardvark
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Post by Aardvark on Nov 1, 2023 19:52:48 GMT 1
I've locked the door shut on the hen house and put a couple of breeze blocks on the roof, just in case. The last time there was a real blow here I lost one of my steel sheds. Just a few months old, completely turned into scrap.
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Post by specsavers2 on Nov 1, 2023 21:40:19 GMT 1
Hope all have a safe couple of days and batten down the hatches.☔️☔️🌬🌬🌬
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Post by woolybanana on Nov 1, 2023 21:55:01 GMT 1
Good excuse to get on with my latest Airfix kit, a 1/24 Mosquito. A real *ugger!
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mysty
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Post by mysty on Nov 2, 2023 6:27:01 GMT 1
I've locked the door shut on the hen house and put a couple of breeze blocks on the roof, just in case. The last time there was a real blow here I lost one of my steel sheds. Just a few months old, completely turned into scrap. Hopefully the chickens survived and did not perish due to blunt force trama. Due to incoming breeze blocks 😃
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mysty
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Post by mysty on Nov 2, 2023 6:28:58 GMT 1
Sounds like a bad night up north hope everyone is okay a bit of wind in this part of the Cher but not that bad.
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Post by annabellespapa on Nov 2, 2023 7:18:40 GMT 1
A horrendous night here, 25km south of St Malo in Brittany, log burner reversed on itself so the room filled with smoke, so had to put it out, we haven't lost power yet but flickered a lot, I haven't dared to venture outside, dog is booked at the vets for 8.30 am for his pre-check for our journey back on Friday, not sure the ferry will be in the right place as it was cancelled from leaving Portsmouth last night. Very impressed with the communication from the French authorities, getting constant updates on our phones, the one at 7 am was not that well appreciated as it was like a claxon sound and came to all 3 of our mobiles, telling us not to venture out before midday.
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JohnnyD
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Post by JohnnyD on Nov 2, 2023 9:23:13 GMT 1
The power went off in the house at about 0608 according to the UPS logs and is still off, on the camera just before that, it looked pretty wild.......I can't tell until power is restored if there is any damage.
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Just had a text from sosh also saying they are aware of a problem in the area, and our internet will not be back until tomorrow afternoon, if that’s because of power, that might be our freezer contents gone.
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