Britain - The Official Thread

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How will you vote in the 2024 UK General Election?

  • Conservative Party

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Labour Party

    Votes: 14 48.3%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Other (Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland)

    Votes: 1 3.4%

  • Other Independents

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other Parties

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Spoiled Ballot

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Will Not/Cannot Vote

    Votes: 8 27.6%
  • Total voters
    29
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It starts in a couple of hours. We get the full force tomorrow towards noon. So you Brits on the South west end should be bracing for impact soon. Or go kite surfing.
 
The rain started here a few minutes ago, but there's not even the slightest hint of a breeze yet. Calm before the storm: Check :P

Local flooding further south and a few felled trees is all I can expect from this, peaking in a couple of hours and gone by morning rush hour. Hopefully it won't result in as much damage as many have been told it will cause. Some of my friends and family seem worried about going out at all tomorrow.
 
I slept soundly through that storm...but then again, I had drank about 6 pints that night.
 
I woke up this morning to a tree banging against my bedroom window.

Even worse, is that when I sleep, I stare at my bedroom window - with a giant tree outside.
I was staring at something that could have had killed me.

Other than that, I slept pretty well - apart from the high-speed winds.
 
I'm currently at home as I'm waiting on a tradesman - so I'm able to watch a bit of the rolling news coverage of the storm... although there have been a few tragic incidents, they are clearly struggling for stories, and at times it is descending into farce. One of their latest stories tells of how an old man's train set has been affected by the storm, with several carriages being derailed as a result of a tree failing against his house and landing in the back garden. The horror.
 
Heh, British public transport rocks.

I set off from Weybridge at 7am this morning, and drove the 240 miles to Harrogate in 3.5hrs. Just spoke to a colleague who lives in Clapham, and he hasn't been able to travel the 15 odd miles out of London to our office in Weybridge as the trains aren't running.
 
I think I lost four fence panels over night. Two have fallen down and two have completely snapped in half. To be fair they needed replacing anyway but I've been putting off replacing them since last year. I was more worried about the roof (I have an original Welsh slate roof from about (1920) but it seems to have held up ok.
 
Every time the wind picks up I can hear tiles falling, this could get expensive. I found a few that had fallen this morning, thankfully they had hit the lawn and survived.
 
Mark T
I think I lost four fence panels over night. Two have fallen down and two have completely snapped in half. To be fair they needed replacing anyway but I've been putting off replacing them since last year. I was more worried about the roof (I have an original Welsh slate roof from about (1920) but it seems to have held up ok.
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My parents kept losing fence panels due to a funneling affect between us and the neighbours. They replaced them with trellis and climbing plants and they've never had a problem since.
 
Every harrowing incident mentioned in the previous 4 posts was covered by our regional news in horrifying detail. Though I can count at least 5 weather events in the past 6 months that left a bigger impression here than Storm St Jude did. And we were even in the "Amber Zone".

On a serious note, it's a shame to hear falling trees claimed a few lives down south. At least there wasn't much flooding as predicted.
 
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Every harrowing incident mentioned in the previous 4 posts was covered by our regional news in horrifying detail. Though I can count at least 5 weather events in the past 6 months that left a bigger impression here than Storm St Jude did. And we were even in the "Amber Zone".
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Can you still call Kenny Loggins now? ;)
 
The M25, that is all.

Haven't driven on the Southern stretch between junctions 8 and 5 for over five years, and I swear it's the same roadworks that were there before.
 
Every time I've driven to Weston-Super-Mare to visit my grandparents for the past three or four years I've encountered the same roadworks at the M5/M4 junction at Bristol.
 
PeterJB
Every time I've driven to Weston-Super-Mare to visit my grandparents for the past three or four years I've encountered the same roadworks at the M5/M4 junction at Bristol.
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Is that why it's called Super-Mare?
 
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Terrifying.

Seriously though - taking cans of beer off people, pouring the beer into the gutter, and threatening to stab them... if they don't make the grade as jihadists, they could always get jobs as police officers in Glasgow.
 
We have a couple of those converts here in Hilversum too. Including that ridiculous red beard.
 

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