Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimberrrrr................shit.

[ruffgeezer]

Well it has been windy, and to be honest, that tree really ought to have been chopped down a bit long before now, unfortunately it is too late:

 

If a tree falls on some shite, but no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

 

Probably! This was once a ZX 1.9 estate complete with Flintstone's floor, now it's a low riding fastback...

I think the passenger's door is ok though...

 

Looks like the Ax 1.5d has escaped lightly?

Oh, no that's fucked it then...

 

The green and grotty ZX 1.4 lost it's rear screen.

 

A sad day for french shite:

 

Synergie squashed:

 

Peekaboo with the deadX...

 

And more by luck than judgement, my Xantia escapes unscathed...

 

In this case, all the shite was probably frag feed in future anyway, but I hope all your shites are safe in this weather!

[tonedepear]

Oh shit!

[messerschmitt owner]

have you got a woodburner - if not, now's the time!

[CreepingJesus]

Was your Xantia just lucky, or did you deliberately park it sensibly beyond the reach of a falling tree? Looks like the tree had been trimmed too, so it's just deeply unlucky on those old scrappers.

 

No damage chez nous, but I did see this, at the Citroen dealers in Kirkcaldy...

...Panda 1 - Sign 0. Luckily it was just a lightweight plastic sign, but amusingly it was still lit, and waving about. It was like the opening credits of 'Bottom' where Richie twats Eddie with the newspaper, over and over.

[cort16]

Ah bollocks. That ZX is well squished.

[messerschmitt owner]

at least Xantias and Zxs are still two a penny round here!

[Pete-M]

I suppose you could just start the Xantia and jack the tree back up?

[HillmanImp]

Bad luck. TBH, I don't think that the tree has lowered the chances of any of them being driven again has it?

 

Hopefully the huge tree next to my house will stay up. The garage roof has come off next door.

[eddyramrod]

We had gales in about 1988, IIRC. My 1972 Fiat 500 was parked in next-door's back yard overnight, during which a slate came off the roof (hers, I think, not ours) and bounced off the Fiat. If it had been facing the other way the slate would have slashed the cloth sunroof; as it was it just left a dent in the left rear steel roof. Lucky!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

You think having your cars crushed by a tree is bad? My neighbours have wind chimes. You ever wonder what that bit from Matt Bianco's Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed would sound like played on wind chimes? NOT GOOD.

[cobblers]

Christ! That's proper carnage!

 

I copped for a ridge tile through my back window last night. I sleep probably about 6 feet from the back of the van and slept right through it. Roof is still falling off the house bit by bit though.

 

[autofive]

maybe you could hammer a smaller tree over the top to remove

 

 

 

now, wheres that counter?

[trigger]

What a mess!, It's blowing really strong here at the moment, I wouldn't be surprised if more trees are down in the morning.

[ruffgeezer]

Was your Xantia just lucky, or did you deliberately park it sensibly beyond the reach of a falling tree? Looks like the tree had been trimmed too, so it's just deeply unlucky on those old scrappers.

 

The chopped bits of tree where where the smaller branches were just resting on the bx16v that can be seen in the background of some of the pics, naturally, that hand to be rescued pronto (it's the boss's car).

 

To be fair, all of the cars would still go under their own power, the synergie was just in shit condition, the zx and ax had bad tinworm, but both useful for spares, pity really, but at least it wasn't something more valuable.

 

It'll be a few weeks before the tree is removed, I'll get pics of the remains after this little lot.

[Captain Mainwaring]

What a mess!, It's blowing really strong here at the moment, I wouldn't be surprised if more trees are down in the morning.

 

Must be a bit shite being a crane driver in weather such as this...

[ProgRocker]

Oh no! Poor old Citroens.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

What a disaster.

 

I had a close one yesterday afternoon. After having made it through 3 supermarket carparks (I found a super offer on my favourite mineral water so bought out all of the stock in two of them!), juggling heavily laden trolleys without a brake and moving them around tightly parked cars, I returned home, parking as usual on the right-hand side of a two-way alley, secured the door in the halfway open position and got my coat and various bits of rubbish when the wind decided to momentarily become much stronger. Cue a nasty BANG when the door smashed into the cute little bollard planted on the pavement. After shouting a suitable number of expletives and thinking about the money I'd need to spend fixing the mess, I got up to find that the bollard had only encountered the plastic parts of the door (protective strip and door handle), which managed to escape without any cracks or even scratches!

[catsinthewelder]

Bad luck on the Citroen's Ruffgeezer, at least it missed the BX and Xantia.

 

and win on the Scorpio

 

I have lost a small area of shed roof felt and a BX rear exhaust section, I can probably blame the wind for the felt

[myglaren]

You think having your cars crushed by a tree is bad? My neighbours have wind chimes. You ever wonder what that bit from Matt Bianco's Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed would sound like played on wind chimes? NOT GOOD.

 

We had a neighbour with wind chimes that drove us nuts so I liberated some ally tubing from work, six foot lengths, and made "Tubulaaar Bells".

Fortunately they were inoperative during the recent high winds

[autofive]

link doesnt work

[myglaren]

link doesnt work

 

Mmmmm. Something odd happened there with Yahoo search, brought the right thing up then had to view it with media player.

 

[PaykanHunter]

[ifc63]

Brings back memories of last year when the wind got up a bit

 

 

Luckily no major damage done but the convertible hood got a hole put in it.

 

 

Fingers crossed, all seems OK this year

[cms206]

Brand new, unregistered Vauxhall Movano at my local Vauxhall dealer...

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/historicalpaisley/6630316223/sizes/l/in/photostream/

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

hahaha the ESP didn't help then.

[Gompo]

Were they at Griswold's Garage, Ruffgeezer?

[ruffgeezer]

That's right Gompo,

 

could you do me a favour though and edit the name out, I fear being rumbled if the name gets spread about,

 

thanks matey

[AeroNautiCal]

Re, that Movano...

[trigger]

Must be a bit shite being a crane driver in weather such as this...

 

Not at all, I spend 10 hours on Thursday playing cards in the messroom!