MONKMAN Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Dumfries is caked in snow. Social media awash with “oh my god, I can’t believe it’s snowing”. These idiots seem surprised it’s snowing in a country, where it literally snows every year from around this time onwards. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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velo army Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 2 hours ago, MONKMAN said: Dumfries is caked in snow. Social media awash with “oh my god, I can’t believe it’s snowing”. These idiots seem surprised it’s snowing in a country, where it literally snows every year from around this time onwards. Pttgoyn for this, but I recall a radio Scotland breakfast presenter saying "we're going to have professor someone or other from the met office to tell us why it's been so wintry of late". It was January. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 2 hours ago, MONKMAN said: Dumfries is caked in snow. Social media awash with “oh my god, I can’t believe it’s snowing”. These idiots seem surprised it’s snowing in a country, where it literally snows every year from around this time onwards. I suppose it’s been a fairly mild winter so far and this adverse weather has come out of the blue. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Waldo Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 24 minutes ago, oaksoft said: Pttgoyn? 'Petty things that get on your nerves' thread. Like people using accronyms expecting everyone to understand ! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 18 minutes ago, Mr Waldo said: 'Petty things that get on your nerves' thread. Like people using acronyms expecting everyone to understand ! It's an initialism ffs!!!!! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarapoa Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Over 48hrs without power at home now - spent Sunday in the office as it was a better alternative to sitting burning logs all day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meldrew Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 8 hours ago, throbber said: I suppose it’s been a fairly mild winter so far and this adverse weather has come out of the blue. 13 degree swing between 9pm tonight and 9pm tomorrow in my area 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest Saints Fan Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 3 hours ago, tarapoa said: Over 48hrs without power at home now - spent Sunday in the office as it was a better alternative to sitting burning logs all day. Was at ma grans bit Friday to Sunday. Power went off 2 hours after I arrived and when I left at 11 this morning it was still off. Thank f**k they had a gas fire and hob. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTG Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 3 hours ago, tarapoa said: Over 48hrs without power at home now - spent Sunday in the office as it was a better alternative to sitting burning logs all day. Ffs - I read that as "dogs". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 On 26/11/2021 at 17:59, HibeeJibee said: Is this a true rare superstorm or has last 18 month reset everybody's "intervention threshold"? Well must say damage to trees in eastern Berwickshire is startling - entire plantations flattened (in some parts all torn off halfway up leaving a forest of jagged spikes), lines of old trees planted in Napoleonic times or earlier down like dominoes, stretches of main road still single-file where they've cut passes through mountains of lumber. Certainly worst for decades. Sad. Near me: Somebody lost their head: @heedthebaa's hoose: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 10 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: Well must say damage to trees in eastern Berwickshire is startling - entire plantations flattened (in some parts all torn off halfway up leaving a forest of jagged spikes), lines of old trees planted in Napoleonic times or earlier down like dominoes, stretches of main road still single-file where they've cut passes through mountains of lumber. Certainly worst for decades. Sad. I'm guessing that's because the ancient trees are left standing on their own under some protection order instead of surrounded by thousands of others to share out the battering from the wind, like many years ago? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heedthebaa Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 12 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: Well must say damage to trees in eastern Berwickshire is startling - entire plantations flattened (in some parts all torn off halfway up leaving a forest of jagged spikes), lines of old trees planted in Napoleonic times or earlier down like dominoes, stretches of main road still single-file where they've cut passes through mountains of lumber. Certainly worst for decades. Sad. Near me: Somebody lost their head: @heedthebaa's hoose: Never witnessed wind like it, but think I got off light. One summerhouse into next doors garden, another with no roof and 8 tiles off. EUFC got it bad anaw 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 Shame to see the big hoose (Gunsgreen?) in Eyemouth with the tiles aff. Hopefully it'll get repaired before too long. Eyemouth suffered 140 years ago when a windstorm on "Black Friday" in October 1881 wiped out their fishing fleet. There was a plan to expand the harbour but the money went to the North East instead otherwise Eyemouth United might have played in the Scottish League rather than Berwick or Peterhead. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 (edited) 12 minutes ago, welshbairn said: I'm guessing that's because the ancient trees are left standing on their own under some protection order instead of surrounded by thousands of others to share out the battering from the wind, like many years ago? I'm no naturalist so wouldn't know. What makes it so stark is it's not localised, it's over the whole landscape - 'skittled trees' wherever you look. Not just old deciduous monsters either. Even passed 2 areas of modern evergreen timber woods - near Grantshouse and on Greenlaw moor (part of which my grandfather planted decades ago) - huge lengths of which look like scenes from an atom bomb test or the Tunguska event. EDIT: it must have been exceptionally strong for a while up on the moor as there was a stretch where several roadsigns were all bent the same way from the force of the wind. Edited November 29, 2021 by HibeeJibee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 1 minute ago, HibeeJibee said: I'm no naturalist so wouldn't know. What makes it so stark is it's not localised, it's over the whole landscape. Not just old deciduous monsters either: passed 2 areas of modern evergreen timber woods - near Grantshouse and on Greenlaw moor (part of which my grandfather planted decades ago) - huge lengths of which look like scenes from an atom bomb test or the Tunguska event. I'm not either, just thinking that a big mix of young and old trees, some more supple and others with deeper roots, would give more protection than pine factories and isolated copses of old trees. Sounds horrendous though, think the worst that happened in Inverness was the odd bin blowing over. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heedthebaa Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 8 minutes ago, tamthebam said: Shame to see the big hoose (Gunsgreen?) in Eyemouth with the tiles aff. Hopefully it'll get repaired before too long. Eyemouth suffered 140 years ago when a windstorm on "Black Friday" in October 1881 wiped out their fishing fleet. There was a plan to expand the harbour but the money went to the North East instead otherwise Eyemouth United might have played in the Scottish League rather than Berwick or Peterhead. Aye there’s been tears over the Big hoose ffs, I’m more devastated over the Taverns roof blawn aff, there was a EUFC race night on Saturday night cancelled 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, welshbairn said: I'm not either, just thinking that a big mix of young and old trees, some more supple and others with deeper roots, would give more protection than pine factories and isolated copses of old trees. Sounds horrendous though, think the worst that happened in Inverness was the odd bin blowing over. In terms of damage it's certainly worse here than January 1987 ("the Michael Fish storm"). Local opinion seems to think it may be the worst since January 1968 ("the Glasgow storm"), but for example my father insists there are far more trees down this time. If so you'd potentially have to return to October 1881 in these parts, which was in a league-of-its-own and would certainly eclipse it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 Just now, heedthebaa said: Aye there’s been tears over the Big hoose ffs, I’m more devastated over the Taverns roof blawn aff, there was a EUFC race night on Saturday night cancelled How can you be devastated Heed mate, you avoided getting a round in... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 10 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: January 1968 ("the Glasgow storm"), It wasn't just Glasgow, I lived in Kinghorn and was made homeless due to that b*****d. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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