Had brunch in Coast in Sidcup high street today. The electric sign was ripped off the wall by the wind hit the window, thankfully not breaking it and skidded down the road. Clean snapped the cable. The high street was like a wind tunnel. Got back to my car to this view.
Girlfriend flew out of Manchester to Portugal today. She described the takeoff as 'horrendous' - fuck knows what the landing would have been like if she'd been coming home instead
I'll let her know what it's like @Leroy Ambrose I'm flying in to Manchester tomorrow from Portugal. Really not looking forward to the landing
Shit. I'd be seriously surprised if its not cancelled, tbh
@Leroy Ambrose That approach has to be the scariest 20 minutes of my life and once we neared the ground I couldn’t see past instant death. I honestly don’t know how the pilot landed that plane and I was still shaking at passport control
Had brunch in Coast in Sidcup high street today. The electric sign was ripped off the wall by the wind hit the window, thankfully not breaking it and skidded down the road. Clean snapped the cable. The high street was like a wind tunnel. Got back to my car to this view.
I'm in an industry that sees me rub my hands together a bit with weather like this. Unfortunately I can't claim call out for going round family members Houses doing fence repairs in the rain, or to neighbours houses to fix their fence.
Following a particularly spectacular gust of wind earlier an item of garden furniture played skittles with EVERYTHING on my decking too so tomorrow, rather than lining my greedy pockets working for my employers I'm fixing disproportionately expensive plant pots, more fences and doing some tree surgery, all will be greeted with a low growl as I resentful think of how much I could be earning to pay someone to come and do all this shit for me
My girlfriend has just gotten a train to Gatwick and is now idly waiting to board a plane. Convinced she's in a parallel universe
Maybe not a parallel universe after all. She is still idly waiting
Gripped as I'm sure you all are - things have taken a turn for the farcical - finally given a gate number and a departure time (21:15) for a flight meant to leave at 5pm, only for it to be announced as 'cancelled' with no further information just now. Never fucking fly Easyjet
Girlfriend flew out of Manchester to Portugal today. She described the takeoff as 'horrendous' - fuck knows what the landing would have been like if she'd been coming home instead
I'll let her know what it's like @Leroy Ambrose I'm flying in to Manchester tomorrow from Portugal. Really not looking forward to the landing
Shit. I'd be seriously surprised if its not cancelled, tbh
@Leroy Ambrose That approach has to be the scariest 20 minutes of my life and once we neared the ground I couldn’t see past instant death. I honestly don’t know how the pilot landed that plane and I was still shaking at passport control
Glad you made it back in one piece. Spoke to my Mum and Dad earlier, and they said they'd spotted a lorry on its side on their way back from shopping this lunchtime (Lee/Kidbrooke area I think).
Had brunch in Coast in Sidcup high street today. The electric sign was ripped off the wall by the wind hit the window, thankfully not breaking it and skidded down the road. Clean snapped the cable. The high street was like a wind tunnel. Got back to my car to this view.
Hope everyone over there is OK. Only the tail end of it made it this far across Europe. Glad I didn't choose this weekend to fly over though.
As usual I found it fascinating to read what the professional pilots had to say about it. Quite a lot, actually. Some pretty serious diversions took place when planes couldn't land after two attempts. The Wizz Air one was the most ridiculous...that's the thing I hadn't previously thought of; if you are a passenger in such weather, these guys will get you down safely if a bit shaken up. But where they get you down may actually be further from your UK destination than where you took off from 😡
I work in the Walkie Talkie and outside of there is a wind tunnel any day of the week. I popped out for a sandwich and it was crazy. I was trying to run towards the doors on the way back in and it was like running in glue… the security guards all laughing at us as we tried to reach the door. Not experienced anything like that before.
DLR had no problems taking everyone in and out of town. Always reliable come what may.
Windy again here in Southampton. Had my trip up to London cancelled due to tree on the line near Winchester. Was cheered up by seeing a Palace fan looking miserable at the station though!
Hope everyone over there is OK. Only the tail end of it made it this far across Europe. Glad I didn't choose this weekend to fly over though.
As usual I found it fascinating to read what the professional pilots had to say about it. Quite a lot, actually. Some pretty serious diversions took place when planes couldn't land after two attempts. The Wizz Air one was the most ridiculous...that's the thing I hadn't previously thought of; if you are a passenger in such weather, these guys will get you down safely if a bit shaken up. But where they get you down may actually be further from your UK destination than where you took off from 😡
I was on a flight from Newcastle to London many years ago. The weather was bad so we were diverted to Cardiff.
We hung around at Cardiff airport for several hours ... after which we were able to fly back to Newcastle.
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Following a particularly spectacular gust of wind earlier an item of garden furniture played skittles with EVERYTHING on my decking too so tomorrow, rather than lining my greedy pockets working for my employers I'm fixing disproportionately expensive plant pots, more fences and doing some tree surgery, all will be greeted with a low growl as I resentful think of how much I could be earning to pay someone to come and do all this shit for me
https://twitter.com/talkradio/status/1494661922574286854?s=21
As usual I found it fascinating to read what the professional pilots had to say about it. Quite a lot, actually. Some pretty serious diversions took place when planes couldn't land after two attempts. The Wizz Air one was the most ridiculous...that's the thing I hadn't previously thought of; if you are a passenger in such weather, these guys will get you down safely if a bit shaken up. But where they get you down may actually be further from your UK destination than where you took off from 😡
We hung around at Cardiff airport for several hours ... after which we were able to fly back to Newcastle.
Now that's a full working day, Lad.
There's no need to go on news sites - all the best footage is collected here. I'm sharing this page with people who have barely heard of Charlton.
Hope everyone on here at least is OK, and haven't suffered too much damage to property.