Britain Battered by Gale force winds and Rain

Baldy · January 10, 2008

Appalling conditions are expected to hit the UK today.

Thursday 10 January WEATHER WARNING Heavy and persistent rain is expected across much of northern England and southwest Scotland. Severe gales, with 70mph gusts, will also affect western parts of Wales. Road conditions are likely to be dangerous at times. Valid until 1200GMT.

Thursday 10 January FLOOD WARNING There are 13 flood warnings in force across the United Kingdom. Northeast (8) Northwest (1) Wales (4).

So basically this thread is to post pictures of the result of the storm.

I'll start off by posting picture's of flooding in my local village.

hesonly5 · January 10, 2008

We're suffering from global warming so it rains more. Logical. :rolleyes:

Anyhows, didn't you look a bit weird taking photos of cars going through a flood? :p

The Queen · January 10, 2008

Oh my! :eek:. That looks really bad. Is it just from today or before? As here it's only really been raining today. Hope you keep the RS4 and other cars away from that :D

Out of interest were those pictures taken with your iPhone?

Baldy · January 10, 2008

We're suffering from global warming so it rains more. Logical. :rolleyes:

Anyhows, didn't you look a bit weird taking photos of cars going through a flood? :p

I may have looked weird but there again i was with the council workers in my high vis jacket so i more than likely looked like i was from the council

Oh my! :eek:. That looks really bad. Is it just from today or before? As here it's only really been raining today. Hope you keep the RS4 and other cars away from that :D

Nope i've taken my car through it already.

Edit: It's from overnight and this morning and it's still raining.

Edit 2: No they were taken with my k850i

Mb · January 10, 2008

Nope i've taken my car through it already.

Flat out i hope? With a HUGE wave that might be seen as a Tsunami?:excited:

Baldy · January 10, 2008

Not flat out as i got stuck behind traffic, but it wasn't slow.

hesonly5 · January 10, 2008

Just don't go too fast and get water in your engine x(

Eudemon · January 10, 2008

Up here I had some severe wind (damn vindaloo!) but it died down after about 12 hours the next day, we had tons of rain also but no flooding, you guys down south seem to get hit a lot though but then again we learnt from the massive flooding we had in the early 90's, are local councils improving flood defences and all that or they do they just do a cleanup and that's it !

Marc_CRX · January 10, 2008

We got all this yesterday, and Just carried on as normal, our Drainage system must be better than yours in England :p

Baldy · January 10, 2008

there doing a lot of work on drainage over the next few years, but flood defences are poor due to development on all of the old flood plains, but there are plans for a large hydro power station which would control the water flow, whether this will make things better or worse i don't know but i'm sure there will be investigations into it.

Baldy · January 10, 2008

http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpoolnews/Storms-hit-Blackpool-Your-pictures.3661164.jp

Wow i made the local paper.

S71NG3R · January 10, 2008

Nice I hope you charged them for the pics. :D

Eudemon · January 10, 2008

Nice man, but now everyone knows your name ! :eek: :eek_blue: :oook: :twisted: ;)

Baldy · January 10, 2008

They can know my name theres not much they can do with it. And if they do i know where to look.

MCW · January 10, 2008

I've had two windows blown out and my car alarms being set off at least 6 times an hour. Bad times!

Nodz86 · January 10, 2008

Just don't go too fast and get water in your engine x(

unless it has a splash gaurd underneath or a diesel.

That looks well bad, we have had alot of rain today and the wind is starting to get quite bad now so I expect something of the same in the morning as the weather front moves down here.

Pherelas · January 10, 2008

Nothing really here, wind was going at it earlier during my Chemsity AS module which was quite annoying but from what i've seen no damage near here, power was a bit dodgy yesterday though. I'm right down south so probably only getting very edge.

CarboyZR1 · January 10, 2008

Hope everyone is safe.

Baltoman · January 10, 2008

im safe, lol 100000000000000 miles from there

Iced_Bullet · January 10, 2008

I'm safe and I'm in the UK! lol

The only bit me Speed and Sensei have suffered is a bit of a cold nose ;)

Us nnuuooorfolkens ant bin it yet by the stoooorrms a comin.

Nige · January 10, 2008

Hey what bad weather lol ??????????

Its just been chilly with the average rainfall and average winds the last couple of days here in Birmingham lol.

Although it was snowing here the other night but it didn't stick :( lol.

hesonly5 · January 10, 2008

unless it has a splash gaurd underneath or a diesel.

I don't think you get diesel RS4s :p

Anyhows, we haven't had to bad down south in Devon... In fact, looking outside now, it's not at all windy, and the grounds pretty much dry.

Baldy · January 10, 2008

Hey what bad weather lol ??????????

Its just been chilly with the average rainfall and average winds the last couple of days here in Birmingham lol.

Although it was snowing here the other night but it didn't stick :( lol.

I don't know if you noticed nige but our rainfall was higher than average. :rolleyes:

Who · January 11, 2008

the weather has been a tad cack here, but nothing extrodonarily bad.

the heaviest of the rain was last night, up until about 11am today. naturally the car decided to throw a hissy when we tried to start it this morning so i had to ride into college on my pushbike. i got VERY wet

bad times :(

Car Freak · January 11, 2008

Looks like some of you have it worse than others. Hope you guys stay safe with all the strong winds. At least you're not as bad off as a Pakistani guy I know from another forum...

And I've had worse floods here before, some even up to the top of the wheelarches, stalling the engine naturally