Weather Report!

[curiouswombat]

Well, we've survived the weather OK. About 5 a.m. this morning the wind speeds were measured at 108 mph near my Mother's, and 110 on the mountain road between here and there. It must have been pretty bad, as there are loads of trees down, and when I woke about 5 a.m. it did sound very fierce.

Our neighbour across the road lost enough slates from his roof to leave a sizeable hole, then one of the flying slates went through the screen of another neighbour's car. My friend from church who lives about half a mile down the hill to the leeward from us,(and so in theory much more sheltered) had both her front and back main windows blown in (front), and out (rear), as the wind went through her flat instead of around it.

I wonder if it will be the worst storm this winter? Possible, but not all that likely!

Comments

[desdemonaspace]

Those are some fierce winds! Glad you're OK. Do you have mountains on the Isle of Man? I'm trying to picture it and just coming up with a smallish Scotland, in my mind's eye. Not at all a picture of what it's really like, I imagine.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Actually a very, very, small version of Scotland isn't all that far off. The centre of the island is a mountain range - on a small scale.

[desdemonaspace]

Must be beautiful! I loved Scotland so much when I was there, especially the coastal areas.

How big is the island? (We--our state, that is--Minnesota--is about the size of England and Scotland.) I tired out my New Zealand visitor by driving her up and down the state. She kept saying, "Are we there yet?"

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

30 miles long, between 8 and 15 miles wide. Population approximately 80,000.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Being deadly honest, there is technically only one mountain - Snaefell (Norse -snow mountain). There are quite a few big hills gathered around it, and the road is actually called the mountain road because it goes along the edge of Snaefell about 500feet from the top. Very scenic, but also the shortest route between my house and my mother's.

As the husband says, we are like a small Scotland in many ways - no Loch Ness Monster equivalent though!

[desdemonaspace]

Stay safe, please. Those Force 11 winds (whatever they are) sound dangerous. Hope DD enjoys her storm day.

Here, we're inured to snow, and so have very few snow days.