The window I heard it through points towards the docky bit of Leith but it sounded more like thunder than a skip being dropped from a great height by a crane or a boat crashing.
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I don't care what the weatherman says
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Just had to abort the run down to the station in Falkirk as it was too dangerous in a full blizzard and inch of snow on the main road :-/ going to have to take the cage and be late now (albeit drier!) :-(
Take care out there Ladies and Gents, I imagine it will pass Edinburgh soon if it hasn't run out of white stuff :-/Posted 14 years ago # -
There's some spotty damp snow falling now. Not going to stick to any roads but might easily glag onto air-chilled components...
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on_lothianbuses: Bad weather update - Service 37/47 back to normal routes in Penicuik, but poor road conditions mean that there are delays in this area.
"Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/on_lothianbuses/status/33073240050106368
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Well that was miserable. The worst of it was if my baby had slept in this morning as he has the last few days i'd have missed the snow, Its glorious now.
Side note carradice bags very water proof until the wheel start projecting water under the flap!
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So am I the only one who thought a bomb had just been dropped on Edinburgh just there? [about 11pm-12am]
I heard something like that about 11.30pm last night, too. It actually woke me up. It was a second or two of a loud whistling/rustling sound followed by a really loud roar. I thought for a moment the roof of the house had come off.
Pretty hard work riding into the wind this morning and having the freezing wind penetrating my ankles and toes.
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Timed that absolutely perfectly to get the full brunt of the snow right in my face. Just glad I had put roubaixtights, booties, hat and buff on. Wish I had worn better gloves though.
Needed my porridge when I got to work. Fortunately it's curry day in the canteen, the day can only get better.
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Curried porridge? - now there's an idea...
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@kaputnik - O.o it's curry day here too...
We were out in the car after cinema, went up the Wisp after seeing the flash and hearing the thunder in Niddry. Wisp weather was mental, had to get out of car at Gilmerton and the horizontal sleet/hail was painful
Hope the guy we saw passing Kings Buildings less than half an hour on his bike carrying a cello(!) reached home before that wind and hail hit...@chdot - Curried porridge? - now there's an idea... You know that might actually get me eating porridge... Throw in a few raisins or similar, a little drizzle of mango chugney (chugney just sounds better)
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So am I the only one who thought a bomb had just been dropped on Edinburgh just there? [about 11pm-12am]
I heard two rumbles. first shorter one I thought sounded like scaffolding falling...but there's no scaffolding on the building! Second one was prolonged and serious.
Roof came off a building on Harden Place in wind last week - for some bizarre reason it appears to have a copper roof. which just peeled back. Quite scary to see.
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There's whitecaps on the canal - that's pretty windy.
On the towpath, noted bloke heading away from town in shorts, big waterproofed rucksack, looked pretty rugged but working _very_ hard to make any headway.
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for some bizarre reason it appears to have a copper roof. which just peeled back.
Did you see where it landed? Good price for copper at Daltons..... ;-)
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Yeah, actually when I first saw it was gone, I half wondered if it someone had (somehow) pinched it, then I thought about the wind. But when they took off what remained, they just left it by the road. Bizarre - given world prices and all the stories about cables being stolen. I'm just curious to see what they replace it with.
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I'm giving very serious consideration to getting the bus home....
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It wasn't nice out there earlier. And it's worse now out here. There seems to be a strong Sou'wester which cuts nastily across the lateral way a lot of folk commute.
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Update
"I'm giving very serious consideration to getting the bus home...."
I think a few people will be leaving their bikes at work today. (Just had a call from someone who has checked http://www.mybustracker.co.uk - which is currently a bit slow - planning to leave work before the rush).
I'm sitting at a south facing window - pretty blustery.
UPDATE
"Bus Tracker is down. Sorry For the inconvenience."
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You have no idea how happy I am that I'm working from home today....
Took the bike for a spin first thing (simulated commuting I guess) and came home in the sunshine - it's is vicious out there just now.
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I can see the lamp posts in the car park swaying in the wind... I'll be biking, hopefully wind-assisted.
Either way I'm prepared I'll get a soaking.
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Arrrr... you see those pirate lessons I took made my wind direction spotting spot on. (And the fact I was nearly blown off my bike in an unusually diagonal direction as I was coming down from broxburn)
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I would be cycling. Had I not put my bike in the stationary (sic) cupboard to have a good think about what it had done.
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Walking down to Dalry for a swim and getting the bus from there, the bike can rest securely in the office this evening.
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Another one glad not to be cycling home this evening, due to working not-at-the-office. Will walk or bus it from Geo IV Bridge shortly ...
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"Walking down to Dalry for a swim "
You could save time and just have a swim on the way there.
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I'm giving very serious consideration to getting the bus home.
I, on the other hand, gave absolutely no consideration to getting the bus, a taxi, a lift or anything.
Riding into the wind, in bottom gear at 7mph on flat ground, was just ridiculous. But riding at 28mph with a tailwind and almost no effort at all almost made up for it. Almost, because my mesh cycling shoes let all the rain in and my socks went soggy.
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Interesting and very fast wind-assisted ride home. Couldn't really see the speedo but it was easily 26+ most of the time with minimal effort. Never went into the big ring all the way home. Thoroughly soaked through my "waterproof" gloves and "showerproof" jacket.
Was interesting as I pulled out of the carpark at work, didn't pedal and felt myself surging forward with the wind on my back into the stationary traffic and had to pull both brakes on.
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Walking down Morrison street was mental, every brolly put up broke one lady was nearly swept off here feet at the junction with gardeners crescent.
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My ride home from Corstorphine was mostly OK, and reasonably wind assisted. I think I was early enough to miss the worst of the rain.
But Ashley Terrace, up and over the canal was insane, in fact I was blown off course into a side road, and had to wait my turn to pull out into the traffic again.Posted 14 years ago # -
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I came over the Slateford aqueduct at about 1730, and passed two cyclists on it (making three the grand total of cyclists I met between Gogar and Meggetland).
Anyway, for some reason none of us on the aqueduct had decided to cycle across it. We were all carefully obeying the 'please dismount' sign.
In my case this was because I started to cycle across it, but so nearly got blown into the canal that I rapidly dismounted and walked. I suspect the same might be true for the others...
As SRD says, there were whitecaps and quite big waves. There were also those flat bits you get where a gust of wind is pushing the water flat.
Under the bridges it felt like a giant hand was giving me a shove in the small of the back.
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