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- 2027: ? NL+DE+FR
- 2026: FR+DE
- 2025: 17/77
'24: 10/49; '23: 9/47;'22: 8/46; '21: 9/34
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* Treat life events like a dog: if you can't eat it, play with it or hump it, p1$$ on it and walk away!
Seems to be bad in Cumbria - pleased we've missed it all, sitting in the sun by the Loire (though to be strictly honest, there are also plenty of clouds around, and even a spot of drizzle).
Son and family crossed from Poole to Cherbourg on Thursday morning and had a dreadful crossing - apparently the majority of passengers (including them) were being sick because it was so rough.
Whether that was Ernesto or Lilian, I don't know.
Incidentally, we crossed overnight on Wednesday from Portsmouth to Cherbourg and couldn't even tell we were at sea!
Returned home from the Lake District last Tuesday, I'd enjoyed my stay so much I considered extending it a few more days, but the impending storms put me off and decided heading for home was wise! It wasn't being on site in the storms that concerned me so much, even though a woodland site with trees all around caravan, it was the long journey home that motivated me ..... well, the actual journey home CONVINCED me it was a good choice!
Without doubt, before the real storms had even hit, the most persistent windiest conditions I've towed in, a good 200 miles of near 300 mile journey were rather rough! A lot of my journey was on exposed sections of road where not a lot stops the wind! My outfit is very stable and never given serious cause for concern over many thousands of miles towing, but fact is, it's a large caravan with a large 'sail' area and strong winds do affect it. I could feel the cross winds buffeting, and erred on the side of caution and kept speed down, and not much above 50mph. I was watching the high sided HGVs being buffeted and 'leaning' in the gusts, and a few took 'meandering' paths, so convincing evidence I wasn't imagining anything! It was an uneventful journey in the end, and thanks to some 'sensible' speed choices, relatively relaxed, but I suspect had I cruised at my more normal 60mph, it'd have been a tad less relaxed and more nerve rackingly lively!
Rather glad I didn't have to do it in the more severe storm conditions, was coming down the A1 not too far from the Leeds Festival!
We are a few miles from Bramham where Leeds Fest is held, carnage yesterday and even today two stages have been closed due to storm damage.
There was an 89mph gust at Emley Moor, which we can see from our back garden and we think it was that which blew down a neighbours wall at about 7.30am. Thankfully the driveways it divides were empty, half an hour earlier and a car and van would have sustained significant damage.
Quote: Originally posted by bofs on 24/8/2024
Son and family crossed from Poole to Cherbourg on Thursday morning and had a dreadful crossing - apparently the majority of passengers (including them) were being sick because it was so rough.
Whether that was Ernesto or Lilian, I don't know.
Incidentally, we crossed overnight on Wednesday from Portsmouth to Cherbourg and couldn't even tell we were at sea!
It was like that the last time I had a sea crossing - people were sick all around me.
DK
------------- Apple The Campervan - A Van For Work, Rest & Play!
- 2027: ? NL+DE+FR
- 2026: FR+DE
- 2025: 17/77
'24: 10/49; '23: 9/47;'22: 8/46; '21: 9/34
* Ex-tenter
* Treat life events like a dog: if you can't eat it, play with it or hump it, p1$$ on it and walk away!
We had a rough crossing from Belfast to Liverpool on Wednesday but I am so glad we weren’t booked for Thursday instead as it must have been atrocious! Back in Liverpool we seem to have missed the worst of the wind and rain as our weather hasn’t been too bad.
My daughter and family went up to Muncaster Castle on Thursday for the Krankenhaus festival. They and their friends (three tents in all) survived the night unscathed, unlike some of the other tents on the field - not a lot of sleep was had! They're coming home tomorrow night, ahead of the next dollop of rain, hoping to take the tent down dry(ish). Fortunately they have enough garden to put it up in to air, though with the weather as it is, when it would actually dry is anybody's guess!
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Topic: Storm Lilian
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