Storm Dudley, Eunice & Franklin - How are you doing?

[Guest Guest]

Internet went off :-(

 

None of the servers went off Yay! \O/

[Steve21]

Internet went off :-(

 

None of the servers went off Yay! \O/

 

Yeah had lots of UPS alerts about 6:10~ curious if that’s the same spike across the country?

 

Steve

[Guest Guest]

Yeah had lots of UPS alerts about 6:10~ curious if that’s the same spike across the country?

 

Steve

 

I think it is too,

 

Internet went down about in the early hours of the morning, luckily I upgraded to password hash so could still log in to O365.

 

Everything else was still on though.

[MatthewL]

We've had a battering here on the coast but come off quite lightly compared to some areas. I went up to York area yesterday and en route only saw a few trees down.

 

Had snow up there yesterday dinner but it was so wet so didn't settle, today has been a bit calmer till the rain come and there has been some localised flooding so its been quite cold and damp out there.

[Norphy]

This area was really battered by Arwen, power outages, fallen trees, the works. This time around, it’s perhaps been a bit breezier than usual but otherwise it’s fine. Actually has been quite nice and sunny today.

 

Should have kept my mouth shut. It was so wet and windy last night, I didn't get to sleep until about 2am. I'm pretty tired this morning.

[LeMarchand]

Shed now totally roofless . At least the second 1/2 saved us the job of pulling the first from off the adjacent greenhouse.

 

Potential good news. One of the neighbours (AKA The Town Crier) thinks all the blown down fences aren't "ours" - which might explain why the one I spoke to offered to pay for rope to try to lash his(?) bit. I've noticed one of the other panels has been fixed back, so she could be right. Found our paperwork, but there's no easy "you have to take care of these bits" diagram.

Edited February 21, 2022 by LeMarchand

[6Foot2]

Link: Cambridge University Botanic Garden's 'Newton's apple tree' falls in storm - BBC News

 

 

Cambridge University Botanic Garden has lost its "Newton's apple tree" to Storm Eunice.

 

Garden curator Dr Samuel Brockington said the tree was planted in 1954 and had stood at the Brookside entrance of the botanic garden for 68 years.

 

He said the tree was cloned from the one that led Sir Isaac Newton to discover the laws of gravity.

 

The botanic garden said it had a clone of the tree that would be planted elsewhere in the garden soon.

 

The original tree from which an apple fell, leading Newton to devise his theory of gravity, is at Woolsthorpe Manor in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

 

Even though it was blown over in a gale in the 19th Century, the tree survived and over the years has been propagated by grafting, which involves binding one of the shoots on to another sapling...

[StevieM]

Franklin was definitely worse than Eunice, here. I barely slept last night with the various clunking and grinding sounds coming from the roof.

[Guest Guest]

Franklin knocked over my garden plant pot which has smashed in the night :-(

[Andrew_C]

Rained so hard this morning at 6, it set a car alarm off!

[elsiegee40]

Rained so hard this morning at 6, it set a car alarm off!

 

I think that rain reached us a couple of hours later. Deluge doesn’t start to describe it! I decided putting the bin out could wait.

[Koldov]

Shed now totally roofless . At least the second 1/2 saved us the job of pulling the first from off the adjacent greenhouse.

 

Potential good news. One of the neighbours (AKA The Town Crier) thinks all the blown down fences aren't "ours" - which might explain why the one I spoke to offered to pay for rope to try to lash his(?) bit. I've noticed one of the other panels has been fixed back, so she could be right. Found our paperwork, but there's no easy "you have to take care of these bits" diagram.

 

Nothing on your house deeds?

 

Ours has these, but they are really very small and hard to see on some parts...

 

[Andrew_C]

T marks on the inside of the boundary, or red edging to the line, again on the inside.

[6Foot2]

Link 1:

[York Castl Mu Picture Tweet]

 

#StormEunice forced a rebrand on us this week

 

We will now be officially known as 'York Castle Mus'

 

 

Link 2:

[York Castl Mu Picture Tweet]

 

So Eunice wasn't fully happy with the rebrand so she's tried again.

 

Welcome everyone to York Castl Mu...

 

[mikeprice]

Mrs mikeprice was having a massage at home today

 

so I decided I would be best out of the way - and as I haven;t been for a bike ride for over a week I decided that was the way forward

 

 

 

it were a bit windy!!!!

 

sometime unexpectedly from the side - so I had to ride further out from the kerb that usual - plus the gutter having random sticks in it

 

luckily the motor assist gave a hand but it was still hard work - and the snow/hail didn;t help at all

 

 

still - amazing watching some little aeroplanes taking off - they got down the runway and took off - then must have hit a stronger wind at about 100 feet and pretty much rose vertically for a while until they got the nose back down.

 

the normal Easyjet and Ryan Air jets had no problems

[Ditto]

I think that rain reached us a couple of hours later. Deluge doesn’t start to describe it! I decided putting the bin out could wait.

Similar in the Surrey Hills - 6:30 to 7:00 - very lively! I think the rear windows on the house have not be cleaner since installation after the jet washing they got!

[Ditto]

Nothing on your house deeds?

 

Ours has these, but they are really very small and hard to see on some parts...

 

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My neighbour thought one boundary was ours after reviewing his details - I thought otherwise. His 'T's suggest mine, mine suggested his. Unfortunately for the neighbour, he had been provided with the bungalow boundaries of the property that was demolished and with a number of large back gardens reducing in size to allow the cul-de-sac development . Fortunately we are on good terms and no issues as a result. However, following recent storms, his fence is lying on my vegetable plot for the third time in less than a decade! Our kids and the neighbours kids did enjoy a larger football pitch though

[Koldov]

My neighbour thought one boundary was ours after reviewing his details - I thought otherwise. His 'T's suggest mine, mine suggested his. Unfortunately for the neighbour, he had been provided with the bungalow boundaries of the property that was demolished and with a number of large back gardens reducing in size to allow the cul-de-sac development . Fortunately we are on good terms and no issues as a result. However, following recent storms, his fence is lying on my vegetable plot for the third time in less than a decade! Our kids and the neighbours kids did enjoy a larger football pitch though

 

Could be a 'party' wall/boundary?

 

 

Boundaries can sometimes be very complicated (and the maintenance and 'ownership' is often disputed), seems a bit confusing even from Gov.UK...

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/land-registry-plans-boundaries/land-registry-plans-boundaries-practice-guide-40-supplement-3#:~:text=8.%20Ownership%20and/or%20maintenance%20of%20boundaries

 

We (luckily) have a fence notated on the deeds to be ours that is only 3 panels long (as we have a garage that sits in-between us). The neighbours on either side have probably about 15!

 

Mine is house 2.

 

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Unluckily (for them) the end house on the corner has both the whole of the corner around his house AND the panels between him and his neighbour on the other side (I guess there is a downside to having a large corner plot).

 

Also, unluckily for our neighbour we noticed the wall at the end of their garden was down the other day.... I was going to ask if the wind had blown it down, however a quick scan of our CCTV shows the lady of the house reversing their car into it (covering it in bricks and taking out the rear screen in the process)!

 

I wonder if she claimed on their insurance that the storm did it...

[LeMarchand]

Got the magnifying glass out on our deeds, and all the downed fences appear to be not our responsibility. Got enough to be getting on with, so will wait to see what happens.

[Guest Guest]

Yeah had lots of UPS alerts about 6:10~ curious if that’s the same spike across the country?

 

Steve

 

Looking back on the internet logs, it was around 5:14 AM when the internet went off for me.

[6Foot2]

Link 1:

[York Castl Mu Picture Tweet]

 

#StormEunice forced a rebrand on us this week

 

We will now be officially known as 'York Castle Mus'

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]64741[/ATTACH]

 

Link 2:

[York Castl Mu Picture Tweet]

 

So Eunice wasn't fully happy with the rebrand so she's tried again.

 

Welcome everyone to York Castl Mu...

 

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Link:

[York Castle Museum Picture Tweet]

 

THE LETTERS ARE BACK!

 

We are finally York Castle Museum once more🥳

 

 

Phew! Blown away by the news!

 

[6Foot2]

Link: Storm Eunice: Ashburnham villagers 'frustrated' at four-week internet outage - BBC News

 

 

Residents of a small village who have been without an internet connection for four weeks since Storm Eunice have spoken of their "extreme frustration".

 

Ashburnham parish council clerk Dr Brian Holdstock said 12 properties were affected after trees damaged an overhead cable.

 

He said attempts to get Openreach to fix the cable had failed and it was giving out "daily false hopes".

 

Openreach apologised and said it hoped to complete the repair work this week.

 

About 200,000 homes were left without power when the high winds of Storm Eunice battered the UK on 18 February.

 

Dr Holdstock said an overhead fibre optic cable was damaged in a couple of places when trees were blown on to it in an Ashburnham country lane.

 

Four weeks on, he said: "You can still see it lying in the hedge."

 

He said: "It's extremely frustrating as you just can't operate as normal and our landlines are down too."

 

Local dairy farmer and chair of the National Farmers Union for Battle and Rye, Gillian Van de Meer, has also been affected by the outage.

 

She told the BBC: "It's extremely frustrating. In this day and age you need to be able to file specific documents online and we just can't do it.

 

"There are so many different types of businesses here, there are people working from home, families with children, and it's just gone on and on.

 

"It seems to be, if you are rural you are likely to be forgotten".

 

Openreach described the damage to its network during Storm Eunice as "unprecedented".

 

A spokesperson said: "We hope to have the repair work in Ashburnham completed by the end of this week.

 

"We know how frustrating and isolating it can be to lose connectivity, so we're grateful for the patience shown by every community affected and apologise to the 12 homes and businesses affected in this part of East Sussex."