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NewcastleFalcon wrote: 13 Feb 2021, 13:07
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Slight dusting, not really of sufficient proportions to wake up Gibbo's thread from its spring/summer hibernation so I've shoved the artwork here

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Almost time to wake Gibbo's thread up, first flakes today in flurries, but too damp to settle just yet, and too ethereal to get a decent photo on the camera.

April 11th 2021 saw the last writeable snow on the bonnet 230 days ago (inc today)
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We've had plenty of 'ale' here!
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Blue sky and sunshine in Hertford today. Our only 'ale' is in the kitchen!! :-D
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Sunny most of the day here but some slush at the bottom of the windscreen this evening.

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The white stuff is on its way, but quite a wind and rainstorm overnight and still ongoing. Lots of trees down and hopefully a near miss for the Leaf. A sizeable heavy bough of a tree broke off but all that caught the car was the lighter tail end strewn across the bonnet. I think the bug eye, probably expensive, headlight just survived.

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That doesn't sound good Neil, hopefully the paint has survived ? :(
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Force 10 from Navarone here. Been recovering garden things and chasing the bins. The greenhouse has gone twice, power cut all night and so battening down the hatches. I doo hope the car has remained relatively unscathed Neil.
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Same here Marc, the weather rarely worries me but I had visions of my roof and solar panels ending up in the next street in the night, all's good though, a bit of sleet in the air this morning but sunny now.
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Gibbo2286 wrote: 27 Nov 2021, 10:32 Same here Marc, the weather rarely worries me but I had visions of my roof and solar panels ending up in the next street in the night, all's good though, a bit of sleet in the air this morning but sunny now.
And here. No snow and like you I was expecting no roof and no solar panels. At least they are insured for £2,000,000! Been out picking up bits of roof tiles but no real damage.
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We have no power, got the generator running.

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Sorry to read that Peter. Out of interest is your generator permanently connected to the system and therefore starts when it detects a loss of supply, or is it a manual start and plug the essentials into it? :)
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mickthemaverick wrote: 27 Nov 2021, 09:34 That doesn't sound good Neil, hopefully the paint has survived ? :(
GiveMeABreak wrote: 27 Nov 2021, 09:45 I doo hope the car has remained relatively unscathed Neil.
Thanks Mick/Marc nothing that I'm bothered about one small mark. Good job it was the thin end of the branch. The thick end weighs a ton.

Here's the thick end of the branch, too heavy to lift and came down from about 20 ft up the tree.
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12 hours without electricity today, no water either due to the treatment works having no electricity. No mobile coverage on any network, felt like a trip back to the 1800's, hopefully its sorted now. :-D

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