Storm Eunice

[serf]

Bit nervy here in the South East, looking around our mobile home thinking 'hope it's still here in the same place this time tomorrow'.

Baracade it in with quadrants

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

If they call this one wrong they going to look a bit daft !

Michael Fish has retired I think

 

[VIP]

If they call this one wrong they going to look a bit daft !

Call it wrong this way and a few people needlessly wear a hat! The other way is a lot worse.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

We had wind over 100mph not long ago and there was hardly a thing in the news. South England and its defcon 5

Aye a my mates electric was off 4 days up there at Ellon, nowt said

 

[kfpben]

I was talking to a farmer on a windy part of the Isle of Wight earlier who said they had put old tractor tyres on the roofs of the cattle sheds to stop them blowing off! Regular pre-storm procedure for them apparently.

Is this normal practice or bat$hit crazy!? I’ve never heard it done before.

 

[Still Farming]

7am to 1pm critical!

 

[Steevo]

I was talking to a farmer on a windy part of the Isle of Wight earlier who said they had put old tractor tyres on the roofs of the cattle sheds to stop them blowing off! Regular pre-storm procedure for them apparently.

Is this normal practice or bat$hit crazy!? I’ve never heard it done before.

I had a roof like that once.....

 

[Steevo]

Bit nervy here in the South East, looking around our mobile home thinking 'hope it's still here in the same place this time tomorrow'.

Well they don't call it a "mobile home" for nothing.....

Might be a bit more mobile than you think!

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

 

[Muddyroads]

Reminded me of this

 

[redsloe]

Going to be fun trying to entice the cows into a pen tomorrow morning for their TB test reading. In South Wales.

Me too!

Not really looking forward to it (never do though)

 

[redsloe]

Bit nervy here in the South East, looking around our mobile home thinking 'hope it's still here in the same place this time tomorrow'.

You might be on the Ukraine border tomorrow. Watch out for Putin!

 

[exmoor dave]

You battening down @exmoor dave ?

Haven't turned any lambs out for a few days now, so pretty chocablock with ewes and lambs in the sheds

 

[nails]

We had wind over 100mph not long ago and there was hardly a thing in the news. South England and its defcon 5

Um , well , something to do with a lot more people living in the south perhaps? .

 

[Jonp]

Me too!

Not really looking forward to it (never do though)

Yes it is always a worry time. Don't look at cows before vet comes now...find it easier. Couple of years ago all the cows had big lumps and I really started panicking...was a strong reaction to the avian jab not the TB one. So don't look now.

 

[Still Farming]

https://www.facebook.com/21226447182/posts/10158986660372183

 

[steveR]

Aye a my mates electric was off 4 days up there at Ellon, nowt said

I would have said that there was actually a lot of coverage on the damge caused by the two storms, and the problems with power outages. I knew engineers who were being sent North...

 

[Werzle]

I was talking to a farmer on a windy part of the Isle of Wight earlier who said they had put old tractor tyres on the roofs of the cattle sheds to stop them blowing off! Regular pre-storm procedure for them apparently.

Is this normal practice or bat$hit crazy!? I’ve never heard it done before.

I have put some bags of spoilt hard set concrete on an old ripe lean roof this afternoon and a neighbour has ratchet strapped a flat roofed shed too

 

[steveR]

Me too!

Not really looking forward to it (never do though)

Supposed to Heptavac the ewes tomorrow, but decided today looks better, and move them into a sheltered field for a few days. Got wet but at least my hat stayed put....

 

[Jrp221]

Schools are all shut tomorrow, unfortunately Uni students are still able to be taught so no day at home for me Just started raining but no real wind yet. Not looking forward to tomorrow! Luckily ewes and lambs are in.