Author Topic: A random thread for weatherish things that don't warrant a thread of their own. (Read 287949 times)

Asterix, the former Gaul. · « **Reply #3125 on:** 21 October, 2023, 08:00:45 am »

Our weather warning got cancelled, although we should not try to reach other parts of the country.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3126 on:** 21 October, 2023, 01:34:29 pm »

Reasonably dry and calm in teh Wets of England (not to be confused with teh Wets Country).

Kim · « **Reply #3127 on:** 21 October, 2023, 01:35:28 pm »

Mildly damp in the Wet Midlands.

rafletcher · « **Reply #3128 on:** 21 October, 2023, 01:41:16 pm »

Rating again in Bucks, somewhat desultorily. Managed to get the washing out for 4 hour# though, and it felt pleasantly warm even though it barely reached 15C.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3129 on:** 21 October, 2023, 01:46:03 pm »

Need to go out in a bit. Jacket or no jacket - that is the question.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #3130 on:** 21 October, 2023, 02:36:30 pm »

It actually stopped raining at exactly the time I realised I had no lemons for my cake, so I escaped for an energy lemon purchase.
Good job I didn't need anything else as the fruit & veg aisle was mostly empty.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3131 on:** 21 October, 2023, 10:09:44 pm »

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/21/storm-babet-forest-floor-video-mugdock-stirlingshire-scotland

Video of the ground lifting and falling like waves. The dog seems strangely unconcerned.

ElyDave · « **Reply #3132 on:** 21 October, 2023, 10:19:55 pm »

Descent into Madrid on Thursday was hairy, return on Friday was just tediously late.

Just seen footage of Derby, I used to live in Castle Donington, that's a big river with a lot of flood plain before Central Derby gets that bad.

ElyDave · « **Reply #3133 on:** 21 October, 2023, 10:36:28 pm »

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67183850

Drill rig downmanned, all safe though, thank <DEITY> or substitute

Pingu · « **Reply #3134 on:** 21 October, 2023, 11:23:06 pm »

Weather seems to be calming down now. That was enough for a while...

rogerzilla · « **Reply #3135 on:** 22 October, 2023, 07:05:32 am »

Quote from: ElyDave on 21 October, 2023, 10:36:28 pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67183850

Drill rig downmanned, all safe though, thank <DEITY> or substitute

It wuz that Greta Thunberg wot did it.

rafletcher · « **Reply #3136 on:** 22 October, 2023, 11:17:47 am »

After yesterdays balmy 14C, overnight (well early morning)it was down to 2.5C. Vary calm day too, not great for clothes drying but “they’ll smell nice” says my wife. Which is true.

ravenbait · « **Reply #3137 on:** 22 October, 2023, 12:30:32 pm »

I figured it would be a hot minute before armchair experts (NOTP but elsewhere) starting blaming the lack of dredging.

That has been a very stressful few days here in Babet Central, and I have never been so glad to see the sun.

Sam

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #3138 on:** 22 October, 2023, 04:42:48 pm »

I think I'll postpone the Sainsbo's delivery from Tuesday to Wednesday to give them a bit of a chance for the groceries to actually get up here with the dual cabbage way being closed.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #3139 on:** 23 October, 2023, 10:45:19 am »

Much to the distress of the animals, I've not turned the heating up past 16C (which means my office is about 18 at warmest in afternoon). Most of the time it is set to 15C.

Last night, exterior temps dropped to 2C, coldest so far this autumn. Heating fired in the morning.

It is really warm in the sunshine now, so much so that I've ditched my thick woolly jumper in the office. 16C downstairs.

Jaded · « **Reply #3140 on:** 23 October, 2023, 02:44:44 pm »

Ditto, except no heating, just log burner. Just looked at the forecast, not a lot of sun later in the week, but plenty of cold. c50 miles from mrc

Asterix, the former Gaul. · « **Reply #3141 on:** 23 October, 2023, 07:40:08 pm »

No weather here today.

T42 · « **Reply #3142 on:** 24 October, 2023, 08:00:33 am »

Rain, dawn to dusk.

Jurek · « **Reply #3143 on:** 24 October, 2023, 08:03:31 am »

Glad of my waxed cotton coat this morning.

Pingu · « **Reply #3144 on:** 26 October, 2023, 04:53:33 pm »

Days of rain for regions hit by Storm Babet floods

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3145 on:** 26 October, 2023, 06:31:52 pm »

No jumper required when I went out to Democracy at lunchtime.

T42 · « **Reply #3146 on:** 27 October, 2023, 08:03:45 am »

Wet & windy. A wee bit of a let-up due tomorrow, but forecast only 40% reliable. Most of next week to be the same.

Paul · « **Reply #3147 on:** 27 October, 2023, 11:00:16 am »

I've pulled out of a house purchase. It had a lot going for it, but I just couldn't overlook the eruption of sewage on the driveway.

It's like this: we were approaching the point of agreeing exchange/completion dates when the heavy rain landed last weekend. The property has been empty for a while (sons selling on behalf of owner's estate). It's at the bottom of several hills in Belper. On Saturday I thought I'd just see if it had been affected by the rain.

There was no flooding, but the driveway was covered in what I first thought was litter but which, as I got closer, was clearly toilet paper and poo. I mentioned it to my conveyancer who raised it with the sellers, whose solicitor replied:

From previous attendances to the property by ST in addition to the nature of the issue that had been presenting over the past approx. 2 days is diagnosed as Hydraulic overload. Hydraulic overload is when heavy rainfall occurs at a capacity which exceeds the capacity of the surface water drainage sewerage line, this then causes the excess water to flood out of the nearest point of access e.g drains and manholes etc. Hydraulic overload is caused primarily by environmental factors being heavy rainfall and is not directly correlated with their being an issue with the property's sewerage network, the mains sewerage line or the properties connection to that network. Another contributing factor to this issue would population density in proportion to the sewerage network capacity.

When looking at the contact history associated with this property in question only 2 attendances from SevernTrent are recorded in which the attending engineer(s) state that the issue of flooding out from the drain located within the front of the property was diagnosed to be down to hydraulic overload and no issues originating from the property itself. In addition to this when having previously attended for hydraulic overload investigations a cctv survey was carried which had yielded that there were/are no sewerage defects associated with the property or with the mains sewerage line.

Only 2 previous attendances?

Only 2 (recorded) previous incidents of other people's poo all over the driveway?

Oh well, why didn't you say? That's just fine, that is. Just the 2. Lovely.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3148 on:** 27 October, 2023, 12:30:04 pm »

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From previous attendances to the property by ST in addition to the nature of the issue that had been presenting over the past approx. 2 days is diagnosed as Hydraulic overload. Hydraulic overload is when heavy rainfall occurs at a capacity which exceeds the capacity of the surface water drainage sewerage line, this then causes the excess water to flood out of the nearest point of access e.g drains and manholes etc. Hydraulic overload is caused primarily by environmental factors being heavy rainfall and is not directly correlated with their being an issue with the property's sewerage network, the mains sewerage line or the properties connection to that network. Another contributing factor to this issue would population density in proportion to the sewerage network capacity.

When looking at the contact history associated with this property in question only 2 attendances from SevernTrent are recorded in which the attending engineer(s) state that the issue of flooding out from the drain located within the front of the property was diagnosed to be down to hydraulic overload and no issues originating from the property itself. In addition to this when having previously attended for hydraulic overload investigations a cctv survey was carried which had yielded that there were/are no sewerage defects associated with the property or with the mains sewerage line.

That's a horribly badly written statement. "Their being an issue" is only the most blatant example (and not the most important).

Anyway, lucky you discovered this before exchanging.

T42 · « **Reply #3149 on:** 27 October, 2023, 12:30:53 pm »

Quote from: Paul on 27 October, 2023, 11:00:16 am

I've pulled out of a house purchase. It had a lot going for it, but I just couldn't overlook the eruption of sewage on the driveway.

It's like this: we were approaching the point of agreeing exchange/completion dates when the heavy rain landed last weekend. The property has been empty for a while (sons selling on behalf of owner's estate). It's at the bottom of several hills in Belper. On Saturday I thought I'd just see if it had been affected by the rain.

There was no flooding, but the driveway was covered in what I first thought was litter but which, as I got closer, was clearly toilet paper and poo. I mentioned it to my conveyancer who raised it with the sellers, whose solicitor replied:

From previous attendances to the property by ST in addition to the nature of the issue that had been presenting over the past approx. 2 days is diagnosed as Hydraulic overload. Hydraulic overload is when heavy rainfall occurs at a capacity which exceeds the capacity of the surface water drainage sewerage line, this then causes the excess water to flood out of the nearest point of access e.g drains and manholes etc. Hydraulic overload is caused primarily by environmental factors being heavy rainfall and is not directly correlated with their being an issue with the property's sewerage network, the mains sewerage line or the properties connection to that network. Another contributing factor to this issue would population density in proportion to the sewerage network capacity.

When looking at the contact history associated with this property in question only 2 attendances from SevernTrent are recorded in which the attending engineer(s) state that the issue of flooding out from the drain located within the front of the property was diagnosed to be down to hydraulic overload and no issues originating from the property itself. In addition to this when having previously attended for hydraulic overload investigations a cctv survey was carried which had yielded that there were/are no sewerage defects associated with the property or with the mains sewerage line.

Only 2 previous attendances?

Only 2 (recorded) previous incidents of other people's poo all over the driveway?

Oh well, why didn't you say? That's just fine, that is. Just the 2. Lovely.

Yeah, Number 1 and Number 2. The manhole in our street does this very occasionally but it takes very heavy rain to do it and so far no solids have emerged. Last time was 4 years ago. Non-trivial fix, I'd expect.