The Storms & Severe Weather Thread

[HibeeJibee]

23 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:

Well must say damage to trees in eastern Berwickshire is startling

Local historical society saying county's tallest tree is among the casulaties.

Planted by Gladstone in 1876.

Before:



After:

[peasy23]

Was wondering whether a lot of damaged was caused by the storm blowing in an unusual direction. On the west coast we had gales but it was a bitterly cold wind, I had to go to Largs during a high tide and was expecting coast road being closed or getting hammered by breaking waves but the swell was blowing down the river. The Western ferries also went off for a while too even though they hammer through rougher weather all the time.

Think this was part of it for sure. We have no damage, but the giveaway about the wind direction for us is where all the fallen leaves had gathered. Normally we end up with a pile at the end of our driveway as the wind generally blows through the gap between our house and next door. We ended up with a pile of leaves under our living room window which has never happened in the 11 years we've been in this house.

[Hedgecutter]

Went out for a walk yesterday and never quite appreciated just how many trees have been annihilated up this way.

This is the current state of the tarmac track that I regularly use (looking along the 'track').  Everything along one side of the forest has been flattened as if there was a nuclear blast:

 

[BillyAnchor]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/03/weather/weather-hawaii-snow-warm-contiguous-us/index.html

[HibeeJibee]

8 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

Went out for a walk yesterday and never quite appreciated just how many trees have been annihilated up this way.

This is the current state of the tarmac track that I regularly use (looking along the 'track').  Everything along one side of the forest has been flattened as if there was a nuclear blast:

Aye it's like that all over eastern Berwickshire:









Side roads still being reopened and power reconnected today. Must be 10s of thousands of trees down. It'll take years to clear, if they ever are.

[heedthebaa]

Another Shitty northerly gale tonight, with torrential rain causing flooding here. Westerly gales for Tuesday, another big one apparently, the west taking the brunt of it

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

6 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:

Aye it's like that all over eastern Berwickshire:









Side roads still being reopened and power reconnected today. Must be 10s of thousands of trees down. It'll take years to clear, if they ever are.

Can you deliver to Fife.

[Lurkst]

7 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:

Aye it's like that all over eastern Berwickshire:









Side roads still being reopened and power reconnected today. Must be 10s of thousands of trees down. It'll take years to clear, if they ever are.

That is some devastation!

We stayed on a farm near Berwick on holiday in the summer. There was an ancient wood at the top of the hill nearby, I daren't imagine what's become of it

 

[HibeeJibee]

On 05/12/2021 at 02:15, Lurkst said:

That is some devastation!

We stayed on a farm near Berwick on holiday in the summer. There was an ancient wood at the top of the hill nearby, I daren't imagine what's become of it

I was up at Cranshaws in the Lammermuir hills yesterday. There was a chap whose family owned the Abbey St Bathans estate and he still has old records going way back. He think it's the worst damage to the forestry in a century and it'll take 10yrs to clear-up.

Reporting Scotland was at Haddo House in Aberdeenshire just now. They estimate 100,000 trees down on their (admittedly large) estate; it'll take 5-10yrs to clear-up; and a lifetime to recover.

Damage up there:

[Sergeant Wilson]

3 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said:

I was up at Cranshaws in the Lammermuir hills yesterday. There was a chap whose family owned the Abbey St Bathans estate and he still has old records going way back. He think it's the worst damage to the forestry in a century and it'll take 10yrs to clear-up.

Reporting Scotland was at Haddo House in Aberdeenshire just now. They estimate 100,000 trees down on their (admittedly large) estate; it'll take 5-10yrs to clear-up; and a lifetime to recover.

Damage up there:

I wouldn't want lumbered with that.

[ICTJohnboy]

57 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

I wouldn't want lumbered with that.

 

We should be okay for firewood for a while.

[Willie adie]

My missus from Benbecula said that wind there is known as a day for a extra pegs for the washing

[hk blues]

18 minutes ago, Willie adie said:

My missus from Benbecula said that wind there is known as a day for a extra pegs for the washing

At least there is plenty of wood around to make them!

[Melanius Mullarkey]

12 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:

Just the trees in the middle bit gone? Doesn’t look right. Somebody should call in special branch to investigate.

[Mark Connolly]

1 hour ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

Just the trees in the middle bit gone? Doesn’t look right. Somebody should call in special branch to investigate.

Hearing the insurance adjuster came up to log the damage

[hk blues]

1 minute ago, Mark Connolly said:

Hearing the insurance adjuster came up to log the damage

What Fir?

[Hedgecutter]

2 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

Just the trees in the middle bit gone? Doesn’t look right. Somebody should call in special branch to investigate.

I'm sure they'll eventually twig how it happened.

[Scott Steiner]

Black ice everywhere here today.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

52 minutes ago, Scott Steiner said:

Black ice everywhere here today.

Bit racist. 

[velo army]

10 hours ago, Scott Steiner said:

Black ice everywhere here today.

Where are you? 

Stormy as f**k in the silver city this evening. Buzzing for my cycle to work tonight (oan the night shift).

I actually came on to the thread to share the BBC article on Haddo House. Absolutely grim that. The North East forests have been pretty well decimated by that last storm.

Edited December 7, 2021 by velo army