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[richardmorris]

Who’d have thought a £160,000 Maserati was no good in water?

[M'coli]

^^^^

A couple of brave* lads make it through flood water in North Yorkshire in a Peugeot 106:

*"turbo-nutter", "reckless",  and "mental" are all suitable synonyms, butthey do it with panache, so "gallus" is the best one!

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2716191095167070&id=306728236113380

[Jamie]

Local to me 

[Fumbler]

Now that the storms have passed its now the turn of the rain. I have never seen everything so drenched outside! Had to unblock every drain, the road is pouring into the culvert outside. The garden is now a river and even the greenhouse at the top of the garden is flooding!

[SiC]

Neighbours fence blew down, thankfully falling their side into their conservatory! I much prefer that than blowing and falling onto my Dolomite. 

Driving along the M5 when the worst hit at 2pm. Quite an interesting experience driving over the Avonmouth M5 bridge with such strong winds...

The Michelin CrossClimates paid themselves off though. Driving along with a lot of surface water without too much issue. Only sketchy bit was hitting big puddles at 50mph. Still carried along, just a bit of a steering wheel battle to keep it straight. 

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

Didn't know you had an Escort @Zelandeth do tell of its specifications

[Zelandeth]

29 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

Didn't know you had an Escort @Zelandeth do tell of its specifications

Original to the house.  Nothing exciting really just a bog standard 2x8W switch-start.  Used to be one over the garage too though it was replaced between 1983 and 1986 with the Wedge that's still there that five and a half years on I still haven't made a replacement bowl for...

Last weather related annoyance for the day (hopefully!)...Despite me bungeeing it to the (concrete) fence post, the wind had managed to knock over our garden waste bin.  Which was full to bursting of grass clippings...which are now distributing themselves over the entire neighborhood.  I'll be popular in the morning.  I sadly the wind was stronger than the bungees.

[Angrydicky]

3 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Gotta love a C15.  They're such charming (and bloody useful) things.

Just found a bit of further damage.  The flashing on the return above the front door has been peeled like a can of ham.

The rot in the ends of the beam (the weight is thankfully fully supported a couple of feet further up and the rot is relatively localised - and mainly because the previous owners never bloody maintained anything).  Will need to get up there once the wind drops to bash it back into shape.

Oh...and clear the drain again judging from the greenery.  I emptied that damned drain just before Halloween!

Edit: Oh...and the RCD just tripped.  Yay!

That’s a very unusual and interesting looking house you’ve got there. Looks more like a church from that angle!

[Broadsword]

I saw a Defender on the side of the M18 yesterday broken down with a trailer. It looked very much like the Landie had snapped in half. Saw it 2 hours later from the other side of the motorway still stuck there with the nose very much pointing in the air. I knew chassis rot was a massive thing on them, but can they literally break their back like that?

[Lord Sterling]

5 hours ago, trigger said:

My brown wheelie bin has gone over, it's a disaster!

#WEWILLREBUILD

[New POD]

Some of this water is on the inside. 

[Skizzer]

4 hours ago, egg said:

Always tells me my cars (or prospective cars) are too old...!

Dayinsure does old cars, I often use it for collections etc.

[Zelandeth]

24 minutes ago, New POD said:

Some of this water is on the inside. 

Snap.

[wuvvum]

Touch wood, damage here appears to be limited to my wheelie bins falling over - although there are quite a few downed branches littering the back roads of Norfolk.  I made the mistake of going to Wroxham earlier, to pick up some bits from Roys thereof, and got caught in what is probably the worst rain I've ever experienced whilst driving, with a bit of hail mixed in for good measure.  Even with both front and rear wipers on flat out I couldn't see a bloody thing.  Got to Roys, managed to find a parking space about 20 feet from the door.  I must have been out of the car for, what, all of 8 seconds, and in that time I was soaked to the skin.

Hopefully it'll've calmed down a bit by the time I have to cycle to work tomorrow...

[brownnova]

4 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Have you found it?

Sadly not... could be anywhere!! We’re it sure if it blew off whilst at home or on the move... 

[Zelandeth]

2 hours ago, Angrydicky said:

That’s a very unusual and interesting looking house you’ve got there. Looks more like a church from that angle!

It is...unique.  Essentially it's two "starter" homes butted together in an L shape with a double height atrium filling in the L.

It was commissioned by the BBC for a study for the Money Programme looking into what technologies etc we should expect to see from eco homes in the future.

The thermal insulation levels etc are well above what's normal even today 40 years on from when it was built.

It's a lovely unique building and is generally well made...It's a gigantic pain in the ass from a maintenance perspective however.

A lot of it's more "commercial building" than house...so a lot of normal tradesmen won't touch it.  However because we're not commercial customers the commercial contractors won't touch us.

I've just given up trying to get someone in to properly service the heating after five years and done it myself.

 

[17-Coffees]

So back during the last storm we had last month, I though I secured the wheelie bins outside...Turns out I hadn't, and the LS400 gained a dent in a passenger rear door due to...A plastic wheelie bin. (Yup, not as indestructible as we though...) 
Actually believing the weather warnings this weekend, I made space in the garage and put the bins in there! Problem averted, no cars of mine can get hurt! 

 

Or so I thought...the Golf, which is at my parents, ended up getting one of there wheelie bins twatted off it! ?

[captain_70s]

I seem to have bought the last NOS Triumph Acclaim O/S/F wing from Rimmer Bros...

[paulplom]

13 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Who’d have thought a £160,000 Maserati was no good in water?

Is that an escaped lion?!

[MarvinsMom]

in rat news, the dirty rat is dead!

the chocolate on the trap cot too much too ignore it seems.

GOOD! 

where there is one dirty rat there will be another one so trap reset and baited.

now we wait......

[beko1987]

Low milage

schrodingers milage 

High milage

Average of 3,000 miles a year by my calculations! (or a quiet life until I got hold of it and made it do 250 miles a week minimum! 

[junkyarddog]

Shite in the snow.

I dislike snow.

Makes my shite look half decent though!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

We have a Keter 'Keep-it-Out' binstore with two wheelie bins in it.  Neither bin is empty.  Today I went out there to find the bin store had been blown two feet forward.  Also, the middle fence panel was rocking in the wind.  Looks like it's loosened up around the base and will need more poscrete.  I've shoved some wooden wedges down there in the meantime.  I live on top of the Downs and it gets channeled down my road by all the houses so it makes a right racket.

We didn't lose any roof tiles though.  The last major storm we had, we lost a couple because the builders hadn't put the edging on properly.  One of them hit my other half's car - which did about £0.02 of damage in the shape of a tiny dent and scratch in the roof and some trim.  Which was lucky.

[paulplom]

2 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Low milage

 

schrodingers milage 

 

High milage

Average of 3,000 miles a year by my calculations! (or a quiet life until I got hold of it and made it do 250 miles a week minimum! 

It's idling a bit low mate.

[Bren]

Going to look at a possible replacement for the filthy passat later.

And it's not a vectra.

[Skizzer]

I am puppyishly excited (yes that’s a word) at the prospect of driving the Aerodeck to London tonight.

The only slight downer is that it needs a radio code as I had disconnected the battery for a while.  Codes can be got online (assuming it’s not in the paperwork) but I’ll have to get the radio out to read the serial number, which won’t happen before the trip.

I shall just have to sing to myself for three hours instead.

Edited February 10, 2020 by Skizzer
Change of plan: going tomorrow now.

[Zelandeth]

Given I can't let them run around the garden unattended at the moment because 30% of the fence is missing, took the dogs elsewhere for a run around today.

It was predictably a complete mud pit...however they enjoyed themselves immensely.

They are now filthy and stink of wet dog.

Was about to go and see if I could salvage a couple of the fence panels from yesterday...then had to retreat from marble sized hail coming at me sideways 30 seconds after going out the door.  Sod that nonsense...

[egg]

Assume the C5 didn't get a run out today then, Zel?

[egg]

Right, no bloody luck on that Mazda 323 in Redhill (no answer today) - but have just arranged to see another sub £400 90's car on Thursday night. Buy to Roffle, but no details until I've seen the thing...

[plasticvandan]

7 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Shite in the snow.

I dislike snow.

Makes my shite look half decent though!

Ahh that dusty blue 205 is gorgeous!