This is where living on the 3rd floor in an exposed area gets a bit scary! The sounds in the bathroom air vent aren't funny when there's a gust on!
Anyone else dealing with similar?
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I'm thinking of our cottage in the Hebrides, Stellata, where in January '05 it blew 143 mph on top of a big spring tide. Thank God I wasn't there - it would have been a bit frightening wondering exactly when the roof was going to come off and what the hell to do then ...
I once talked to an Army doctor who'd been out on St Kilda during a particularly severe gale. He said that lying flat on the ground and digging in with his fingers and toes he still felt in imminent danger of being swept away. A breeze in London is kid's stuff! But no putdown intended.
when i was walking back from tesco, i actually got brain freeze because i was walking against the wind and it was sooooooo cold!
the area i live in is especially windy, lots of fields
I'm fine! Totally fine. I don't know why it's coming out all loud and squeaky, 'cause really, I'm fine!
This is totally more than a breeze, Tony! I admit it's not like the '87 Big Wind, or the tornado that was in Kensal Rise when I lived around the corner from there! [It was so weird, just one road, and everywhere else was just a few twigs around and about!]
I think wind is worse the higher up you are! This is some serious gusting. I feel like the building is shaking, but it probably isn't because it's pretty big and solid! I look over an open park and a very unbuilt up area. The path to my block is a total wind tunnel. It's like being on a boat in a storm.
I virtually got blown home from the tube station! It doesn't help that I'm not a heavily built bod! Or that I have anxiety! I know it'll calm down, just it is a bit... urgh!
I used to live in a strange student house and my bedroom/window was kind of at the end of an "alley" caused by the rest of the house. That is a terrible description but I have no idea how to describe it. Point is, the wind used to whip around the house and sounded terrifying from my bedroom.
I actually find the sound of a gale raging outside rather inspiring - providing the roof doesn't actually come off. "Mare's tails streaking the night sky, and looks like rain. With the wireless going you can't hear the creeper rat-tatting on the pane ..." And so on, a piece of poetry I love.
I've been out on St Kilda in the winter with a westerly gale blowing. On the west side of Village Bay (you can Google it) there is a spine of rock, just separated from the main island, the highest point of which is 720 feet, though the average height is more like 250 feet. The waves, which have built up all the way from Nova Scotia, have hit the far side and the spray has been coming clear over the top - seriously awe-inspiring.
And in South Uist I've seen the greylag geese which can fly comfortably at 50 mph in still air, unable to make headway into a gale, but if they turn downwind they're doing way over 100 mph. One wild evening years ago dear old Angus Matheson, who was an Elder of the Kirk and an inveterate poacher to boot(!) went down to the loch after the geese and failed to return home. His sons went down and found him stretched out lifeless by the side of the loch. They went back and rang the local Doctor who knew that Angus had a heart condition. "Bring down a door" said the Doctor. And they duly carried Angus back home, laid out on the door with his gun on one side and a couple of greylags on the other. True story - I got it from the Doctor - and what a way to go!
