Storm Doris
Has she hit your area yet 🤔 We had a phone call to get to the van , took awning down before any damage was down consider ourselves very lucky , some were blown over the other side of there vans 😮
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Think we are at or near its peak. Huge roaring like a train or wave on the way before the gust hits. Trees blown and whipped like matchsticks and we live in the town. Conservatory creaking like crazy. Driving back from hairdressers along town dual carriageway large gust whipped up and swirled a lot of leaves before it "stood' them upright close to the road surface and marched them at great speed across the carriageway. Quite amazing! Plenty of large twigs lying around but denifinitely worse now. We've had a fence panel pop out.
Stay safe folks.
Good news on your awning rubytuesday. Are you away or is it on a pitch?
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Bit wet and wild here, but nothing major as yet - although high sided vehicles still using the Humber Bridge despite the warnings! Not that long ago since a wagon was almost blown off the bridge in similar conditions.
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The A14, A12 Orwell Bridge is closed for the rest of the day. Ipswich will be in gridlock.
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We are at home but we have placed our caravan on a seasonal pitch for this year near Burnham on sea,it's only an hour away thank heavens
Hubby said when driving through it was not nice to see so many vans unetended and those that are on site having a very hard time of it, and as brue has said lots of stuff flying around,
we class ourselfs very fortunate we were able to get there quickly only bought and put awning up just over a week ago
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QE2 bridge closed.
It amazes me that professional drivers don't heed warnings. 😯 seems like thought of hurting/killing themselves or other unheeded let alone chaos it causes. I expect police to busy but I do hope they can be identified and fined. I think the lorry driver who closed the Forth Road Bridge got or is being prosecuted one assumes future employers won't touch them for driving again.
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Just been out to the shed as I went to come out door whipped from my hand and forced back violently. Wrenched one screw out of hinge completely and bent two of the three hinges. Good job hubby on hand. Once he'd grabbed hammer I held whilst he walked hinges back and door could be closed. He's risking it again to return paint and cleanse brush 😉
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Storm Doris has done it's bit here too. We've got a fence panel down in our back garden and we have a tree down at church Polesworth Abbey (see below.
It seems to be a little calmer now though, so I'm hoping Doris is moving away now..
David
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See "What you up to " !! !! 
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Just got back from the NEC. Started out at 09:00 and the weather was awful, raining and very gusty winds. On M6 at around J13, a tree had fallen onto the north bound side, but other than that, not too bad a drive. Coming back though was a nightmare (left about 15:00). Not bad until we hit J10 and that's where the queues started. This was the same queue for the tree that had fallen across the lanes. What really got my goat was that the tree had been cleared, the cones were still out (they had shut down 2 lanes), and the blokes were standing about on their phones. (It was like this until we heard the last message before turning off the radio at 18:00 when we had got home). We left the M6 at J17 as it was hard going from J18 to J19 apparently, and the motorway was closed at Thelwall to stop traffic going over the bridge. So we went via Holmes Chapel and Knutsford, and there was plenty of trees that had come down, but thankfully, didn't affect the traffic.
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On the news tonight I saw one of the trees that had fallen onto a car, Bugs. It appeared to have sheared off at ground level not taken any root out at all.
It would appear an energetic Jack Russell having a wee could have taken it down -- just another rotten tree waiting to drop
Certainly it seems that it is a good thing that the trees etc are not in full leaf or this Doris would have caused even more Mayhem Blooming Wimmin
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Further reports seem to suggest that a woman lost her life when she was struck by a chair coming off a roof garden, near Costa and M&S in the midlands somewhere.
If you have adequate warning of such events as Doris, do you not secure all outside tables and chairs?
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Many on our site actually stay the full 11mths inside there awnings they look like large living rooms , also many don't live near and obviously could'nt get there ,
when putting there awnings up they prepare as best they can with the right heavy metal pegs ect , which more than hold in heavy storm winds , but Doris was an exception
the wardens on site also go above and beyond to help out ,those on site touring obviously took them down or didn't put them up
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We have had a lovely bright sunny day today, what a difference chilly and no wind thank heavens
Doris has decided yo go home werever that is, so many still without electric up north wales Talk about a women scorned !
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We were there in our van on Thursday. Bit windy but did not see any real damage. THe site was fairly sheltered. Yes windy (94mph)and very wet. Can recall worst conditions above Loch Tollie by Gairloch two years ago. Just been fishing and wilding on the exposed tops. That was scary.
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We now have been warned that storm Ewen ! Is on his way , glad we didn't put awning back up
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See 'what have you done !!
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Your still a night owl then David , hope Ewen doesn't give you any problems and you enjoy your visit in Cornwall
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