Musketeer Gripweed Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 See these stay at home warnings that we seem to get on a regular basis these days, does the Met Office think all our employers are soft in the head, or do they think everyone works for a local council? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 9 minutes ago, Musketeer Gripweed said: See these stay at home warnings that we seem to get on a regular basis these days, does the Met Office think all our employers are soft in the head, or do they think everyone works for a local council? Talking to the window cleaner a couple of days ago. He was due to do someone's house last Saturday when the rain was torrential. He didn't go, and when he contacted the woman to let her know she apparently gave him a mouthful of abuse. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Wife and bairn away to Paisley today to the teuchter festival. Fools. I need to come in until lunchtime then definitely "working from home". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian1 Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Thats the heavy rain starting now......66mph winds predicted for this afternoon - although noticed earlier that the wind speeds are around 70mph all afternoon around Peterhead. Was speaking to a guy through work and he was saying that even Aberdeen Bay was expected to experience significant wave heihts of 8-10m.....he had never seen double digits before.....that would be quite frightening Sending this now as fully expect to lose power later today (storm Arwen was a 5 day fix) and earlier this year I was without power for a whole weekend. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Saw the BBC weather this morning. The red zone seems to be from Arbroath to Stonehaven. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabGaz Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Met office with an interesting looking graphic. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Looks about right 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 1 hour ago, Musketeer Gripweed said: See these stay at home warnings that we seem to get on a regular basis these days, does the Met Office think all our employers are soft in the head, or do they think everyone works for a local council? Hardly that regular, you might get 1 red warning a year. Police advice is not to drive through the red warning so is the employer fulfilling their duty of care by asking you to ignore police advice? I would argue they aren't, probably not worth getting an employment lawyer on the phone before you stay in bed though. And of course the greatest example of this (NSFW - sweary) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10menwent2mow Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Time for the great Scottish public to show how stupid they are again as they interpret 'stay indoors and do not travel unless absolutely necessary' as 'pop down to Tesco for a packet of fags and a pint of milk' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 12 minutes ago, ArabGaz said: Met office with an interesting looking graphic. It's a love length. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Tell you what, it’s reasonably blustery in Inverness, and the canal looks slightly choppy. #ThoughtsAndPrayers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musketeer Gripweed Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 1 minute ago, Savage Henry said: Tell you what, it’s reasonably blustery in Inverness, and the canal looks slightly choppy. #ThoughtsAndPrayers Be careful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 12 minutes ago, 10menwent2mow said: Time for the great Scottish public to show how stupid they are again as they interpret 'stay indoors and do not travel unless absolutely necessary' as 'pop down to Tesco for a packet of fags and stockpile milk' FTFY 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 I deliberately made one of my state visits to the office today, solely to be seen to make the effort in difficult conditions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CityDave94 Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Looks like there will be a large number of the population who's 'faces will stay like that' with this sudden change in wind direction. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDon Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Power cuts in Aberdeenshire and lots of trees down blocking roads 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Aberdeen quayside mostly shut, cranes lifting and moving and having men on quayside deemed dangerous. I normally work in office near harbour, when not WFH. To help today I am using the office at our warehouse at Altens, and shortly after getting here told that for safety to head home and WFH at lunchtime. My company is Dutch owned and they send out so many safety messages and any weather and health issues are totally covered. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian1 Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 3 hours ago, Musketeer Gripweed said: See these stay at home warnings that we seem to get on a regular basis these days, does the Met Office think all our employers are soft in the head, or do they think everyone works for a local council? Nonsense. There have been two red weather warnings local to me in past couple of years. The first, Storm Arwen, there was someone killed by a falling tree about 8 miles away and then last November during the horrendous floods there was a lady swept away (still not found) from less than two miles away. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 4 minutes ago, Caledonian1 said: there was someone killed by a falling tree about 8 miles away How old was the tree? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Caledonian1 said: Nonsense. There have been two red weather warnings local to me in past couple of years. The first, Storm Arwen, there was someone killed by a falling tree about 8 miles away and then last November during the horrendous floods there was a lady swept away (still not found) from less than two miles away. According to the BBC this is the first red warning in Scotland since December 2015. They really don't do their research Actually I misread it, no red warning for rain since 2015. Sorry to the Beeb! Edited October 19, 2023 by Rugster 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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