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coldfingers

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  1. Be careful please as the strongest winds are forecast to be later this morning for you i think!
  2. It is certainly worse than I have seen in Bognor apart from '87 but then I am really close to the sea, Drayton is quite a bit inland although you must catch the wind as it is on a bit of a hill if I remember correctly.
  3. Dawn just breaking on Bognor webcam, I can't help wondering how many beach huts left standing in Felpham and West Bognor. Shouldn't laugh but that was funny. our neighbour had their greenhouse blown over but a full house? Keep safe and don't go out until the wind has dropped please.
  4. The wind is the strongest I have known apart from '87 and goodness knows what gusts we had then. The garden gate we carefully repaired and made safe is now blown ope but no way will I go out to check the damage yet. neighbours greenhouse has blown across their garden and I am totally amazed that having had gusts up to 70knots/80.55mph that my cherry tree and apple tree are still standing and taking the punishment, the cherry is bending almost double and of course apples are everywhere. A force 12 gust on land here was something I just didn't bargain for. A really good call from the METO and I am so very thankfully i listened to the warnings and not to the sceptical northerners who were on here yesterday night!!!!!!! Can't wait for daylight to inspect the damage but no way will I go out until the wind is down to a Force 7 http://www.chimet.co.uk/%28S%28ffeguunc4muitj55bpvttj45%29%29/wind.aspx Thankfully looking at CHIMET is seems it was that massive gust that woke me and no things are starting to calm a little.
  5. It is the strongest I have known apart from '87 and goodness knows what gusts we had then. The garden gate we carefully repaired and made safe is now blown open but no way will I go out to check the damage yet. neighbours greenhouse has blown across their garden and I am totally amazed that having had gusts up to 70knots/80.55mph that my cherry tree and apple tree are still standing and taking the punishment, the cherry is bending almost double and of course apples are everywhere. A force 12 gust on land was something I just didn't bargain for. A really good call from the METO!!!!!!
  6. Winds here now Force 10 and gusting Force 12. Mean speed of just under 57mph and gusts of 74mph http://www.chimet.co...))/Default.aspx Just heard something metallic go rattling down the road. Perhaps someone's aerial? Webcam looking good at almost high tide. http://www.bognorregisbeach.co.uk/live Lights ocassionally flashing but we still have power thankfully.
  7. Winds here now Force 10 and gusting Force 12. Mean speed of just under 57mph and gusts of 74mph http://www.chimet.co.uk/%28S%28b3mq3oeg13nmi4rap042bo55%29%29/Default.aspx Just heard something metallic go rattling down the road. Webcam looking good at almost high tide. http://www.bognorregisbeach.co.uk/live Lights ocassionally flashing but we still have power thankfully.
  8. Don't reckon I will sleep even though I am trying as the wind is blowing directly at my bedroom window as if it hates me! Thank goodness for double glazing but even that can't keep the noise out. I promise never to complain about the neighbours noisy garden parties again! Still at least it hasn't got any worse in the past hour. Going to try ear plugs now.
  9. Still awake here. far too noisy to sleep. A lot of reports of trees down blocking roads. Wish it would all calm down and let me sleep! Pressure now down to 985 on the coast here and winds still really gusty, just when I think it is calming down a massive gust jerks me awake.
  10. Thanks for the answer, I have had enough of it now and badly need some sleep but too noisy.
  11. Is the worst still to come for the coast in Sussex or is the worst over. I hope the later.
  12. Gusts had been easing a touch here and I was hoping the worst was over but going back up again now.
  13. I remember driving along the front in Southsea in an Austin Maxi car, (That dates me!) It was a force 10 gale and the front of the car kept lifting off the ground despite the heavy engine, it was a front wheel drive so no fun with no traction!
  14. I will be thinking of you as this gets worse. Daughter is closer to the seafront than me and now has no electricity as water has penetrated the roof of flat above and is running into their electric supply and also the flat below. Not fun but i think they will be in a better position than the people above them.
  15. Hi Rusty, keep safe and I hope you don't get the 90 gusts, not hopeful you wont though.
  16. I expect you will be soon too. i am not far off it and I am used to Gales here. I now also have a headache, probably the noise and clanging from outside!
  17. I am starting to get nervous now, i seriously wish anyone wishing for severe winds was here to experience it in person. maybe they wouldn't be quite so enthusiastic. Damage already occurring round here and after experiencing the '87 storm I am getting very nervous now. It isn't the fun some people think! Sustained winds already of 49mph and pressure dropping with every update, so strange it keeps getting warmer too. 15.4C now.
  18. Wait a while, it is coming your way, already getting worrying here. I can already hear the roof tiles lifting and clattering in the gusts.
  19. 52knot/60mph gusts here now, this is worrying as we are not due to get the worst winds until 3:00am onwards! I hope this is just that it is moving through earlier than predicted! Pressure still dropping to 987 and temperature still rising to 15'3C. looks like being a long night for me.
  20. Air temp and winds now rising, pressure dropping. http://www.chimet.co...))/Default.aspx Since I posted the above all hell is letting loose outside already gusting to 50Knots and extremely heavy rain. Daughter who lives a quarter mile away has just rung to say they have tiles off of the roof allowing water into the flat above and running down into their flat, right onto their electrical supply!!! now had to turn their electricity off because of the danger of fire. They are one street away from the beach so really catch the wind!
  21. Air temp and winds now rising, pressure dropping. http://www.chimet.co.uk/%28S%28xysgfv45h0m4pyuvndns3345%29%29/Default.aspx since I posted the above it is now already gusting to 50Knots. Daughter who lived a quarter mile away has tiles of roof allowing water into the flat above and running down into their flat, right onto their electrical supply!!! now had to turn their electricity off because of the danger of fire.
  22. That is weird! Where does the wind all go too? Down a big hole in the middle?
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