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Midlothian Council (@midgov)
1/3/12 9:47 AM
High winds make bin collections too dangerous: collections suspended.
Gusts of over 90 miles an hour have forced... http://fb.me/KDeViSXi"
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I removed one bin from the Gilmore Place/Leven street intersection, where it was blocking traffic.
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SuperSRD to the rescue.
Maybe we need a cartoon.
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Transport Scotland (@transcotland)
1/3/12 10:19 AM
Rail - all services at Glasgow Central, Queen Street & Edinburgh Waverley currently suspended.
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A friend's twitter says a whole bike shed full of bikes has landed in his driveway. I don't know if he's serious or not.
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Where does he stay, we can go help him clean up....
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I am very glad to be home in bed with the shutters battened down and feeling sorry for myself with seasonal cough / cold / mucousfest that was christmas present from my colleague
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Get better soon Kaputnik.
No LRT buses running out to Dalkeith now.
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"A friend's twitter says a whole bike shed full of bikes has landed in his driveway. I don't know if he's serious or not."
He's just put the photo on facebook. He was serious!
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Jeez - if it wasn't the school holidays we'd all be sent home again.
I am off to Balloch and was going to take the counter-intuitive route across the cllyde twice which is apparently the only way to go. Now it will be straight up the old Great Western Road.
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I'm on the bus.
(Don't say that very often!)
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Forgot to mention tree which had fallen just short of the revamped flats in Quartermile. Must have been scary.
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Just learned not to use the Railtrack journey planner's disruption alerts; Dad gave me a run down to Dundee station only to be told there's a train been stuck on the line for an hour, and all services are cancelled till further notice, so we come back to Forfar and log on to it and it says trains are running 8 minutes late.
So I'm back in rural Tayside until Scotrail's website, which is a bit more clued up, says otherwise.
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Walked round by Ramsay Lane. Christmas tree still up but two heavy benches blown over. A few tourists anxious to get into castle (closed).
Using lower bike to head over Meadows - looking for trees of course. Wearing headgear of course (sorry!)Posted 12 years ago # -
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I recall going out in the last really windy day we had, 28th December I think it was. Quite a few cyclists around, but it was very heavy going. Lots of big tenement style wheelie bins (recently emptied) scattered around in the middle of McDonald Road, had to weave around them. Caught a gust on Easter Road which made me have to pull over to the kerb and stop, it was so strong I had to use all my strength just to stay upright.
Of course I'll be venturing out shortly on the bike to test today's gales. Have to check the garage, make sure the roof's not coming away...
Then again maybe I'll wait a couple of hours and see if it dies down a bit. Already not as fierce as it was at 8 o'clock this morning, if our windows are anything to judge by.Posted 12 years ago # -
Wind dropped quite a bit but so has the temperature. 3 degs just now.
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But warmer on our home thermometer 4.6 deg
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Peter's Yard damage by LaidBackBikes, on Flickr
Tree down MMW by LaidBackBikes, on Flickr
Bohemia damage by LaidBackBikes, on FlickrBohemia shop on corner of Marchmont Crescent and Roseneath got three of its four windows blown out.
Lots of glass over road - quite a mess and a bad start of the year for owner.
CEC had sorted trees across MMW - good work. Peter's Yard is open on back entrance. The similar signs for Starbucks and Sainsburys were unaffected. Must be force of wind at corner.
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"a bad start of the year for owner"
Is that the place that used to have cashmere babygros in the window?
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don't blame them with reference to the bins
we got our collection this morning
however full and empty bins were falling all over the shopPosted 12 years ago # -
Well done Jayne Wright for capturing all these gale related incidents for the Scotsman!
I'm glad I stayed in now!
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ScotRail web site still showing the following:
* All services to and from Edinburgh Waverley are currently suspended.
* All services between Dundee and Edinburgh / Glasgow Queen Street are currently suspended.
* All services between Perth and Edinburgh Waverley / Glasgow Queen Street are currently suspended.I hope they'll be back on tomorrow!
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All services to and from Edinburgh Waverley are currently suspended
So Haymarket is ok then? ;-)
Or do they mean no services at all in Central belt?
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I'm just off the bus. We popped into the train station since Scotrail's alledgedly real-time update thing said they were back on, but no joy. The trouble is no longer the wind, it's clearing the line, methinkles.
Local damage: a wall on my street. Poor guys who own it are trying to sell.
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Went down to the lock-up earlier this evening to see if the roof was still on. Thankfully, it was. Our block of garages was undamaged. As I was leaving, I noticed in the gloom that the block opposite had not been so lucky. Roofing felt lifted off like a table cloth and draped over the end of the block: at least 2 or 3 garage roofs, I'd say. Tried to take a snap but it was too dark for my phone camera.
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I'd probably agree that this was worse than bawbag, and for the same reasons as wingpig elucidated - mainly that there was a constant stronger wind in between the gusts.
Went for a wander down the Figgy in the morning, and in between me walking in, and coming back out, a tree had fallen across the path I used. I had purposely avoided walking in the tree-lined sections around the pond (all the wildlife was sheltering at the end I was at anyway so I was happy).
Bins strewn all over the place (ours was only half full, so I took it back in figuring I'd rather go a week without collection than send our refuse about the street), I picked up our elderly neighbour's twice. They got collected about 4ish. Big garden wall blown down a couple of streets from us as well. We've been lucky - one block off the top of a wall off; and one pane of greenhouse glass blown in, but only into two easily-repairable pieces. Chicken run is still in one piece, and tiles I replaced in the roof last week are still there.
Will be on the bike tomorrow, and with winds still reasonably strong I might shelter on the Innocent to go in and see what devastation there is.
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