After a couple of not bad days on Tuesday and Wednesday the forecasted storm has arrived on Thursday morning. By 10:00am we’ve not had much rain but the wind has been gale force. At 06:30 my weather station recorded a new highest wind gust speed of 37mph breaking the previous record of 36mph set on 04 February 2011. I’ve noticed gusts of 80mph recorded in the Pennine areas of Yorkshire.
The strongest winds were forecast from mid morning to mid afternoon but at the moment the strength has eased a little through the morning.
So far we've escaped any damage although we awoke to everyone else’s rubbish in our front garden.
The Council’s refuse collection system isn't up to much on a windy day. Today was collection day for paper, glass and plastic so crates were placed out last night ready for this morning’s collection. As a result paper and plastic is littered all over the street - this is supposed to be to improve the environment? I don’t think so. The Council know that this happens and do nothing at all about it.
I've now collected all the rubbish and bagged it ready for collection in two week’s time. This is the easy bit, the black plastic bag that has wrapped itself around our Magnolia tree will be a little bit more difficult to sort out.
This looks like it’s full of rubbish. The bags tend to rip apart as they’re disentangled from the branches so I'm assuming I’ll have all on to stop the contents falling out all over the garden.
It’s so annoying when a suitable refuse collection system should avoid all this - especially if the idea is to save the planet!
Update:
No sooner had I hit the publish button when a new record wind gust speed of 42mph was recorded. Perhaps the worst isn't over just yet.
Update:
No sooner had I hit the publish button when a new record wind gust speed of 42mph was recorded. Perhaps the worst isn't over just yet.
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It seems to be getting worse here. Archie's sat crossing his legs, he won't go out in it. My greenhouse is in bits and half the roof is missing, I suppose that's in a neighbour's garden. We've also got a broken fence panel. I hope that's it for damage now.
ReplyDeleteI thought it might be easing a little but I've changed my mind. I think our home greenhouse is okay at the moment. Main danger at the moment is from Wheelie bins flying down the street.
DeleteHope you don't get any more damage and that Archie doesn't have to keep his legs crossed for too much longer
Aye, it was a real shed tipper today in Edinburgh!
ReplyDeleteChecking out any plot damage today.
DeleteWind howling outside here at the moment. I know what you mean about the rubbish, we get the same thing here if it's windy on recycling day. I hope you're able to get that bag out of the tree without too much trouble.
ReplyDeleteGot most of the bag out okay it's just left a few black remnants attached to the tree that I can't reach. Most things have survived okay at home. Wonder what's happened on the allotment????
Deletehow wonderful our world without rubbish. So clean so nice. I use to reuse and recycle so many waste to reduce accumulation of my home waste. Sometime rubbish be a big problem for our environment .
ReplyDeleteI think all our plastic waste is the worst. At least paper will break down and rot away unlike all the plastic cartons and bottles that just get used once in their lifetime.
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