BMWhere?

Got back to my apartment in Germany after a weekend back in the UK and decided to watch the WRC I recorded on Sunday afternoon only to get an hour of blank screen.

Flicked over to the satellite channel to get the same blank screen. Power off and back on and I get the "No Satellite Signal Is Being Received" message

Looked over to the window where there should have been a large satellite dish looming in the darkness but can't see anything!

Went onto the balcony where I was expecting this view....


And was rather surprised with this view instead


And yes, thats a concrete slab weighing it down!

After spending half an hour trying to re-align the dish to no avail, I checked the cabling as saw this...


Apparently there were winds upto 150KMH on Saturday night, there are trees down everywhere. At a local beer-fest on the shore of lake Constance many of the smaller tents were blown away, people were blown off the promenade into the lake and one woman was killed while holding a metal tent pole as the tent was struck by lightening

Chris L

Not good. Did they have a 'Michael Fish' type - "don't worry there is no hurricane coming" type warning too

BMWhere?

LOL!

Funny enough thunder storms were forcast, but they wern't expecting anything quite so bad!

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Ooerr..I've got a mate who flew in to Germany on Saturday to see his g/f. Should have been an "interesting" landing

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

Blimey Al, that must've been one mother of a storm, hope it's not like that for the rally

BMWhere?

The weathers been cr@p over here so far this summer, so I wouldn't be surprised if its bad on the rally too Fingers crossed though, I don't fancy braving a storm like that in my tent!

carl

So are the chair and table bolted to the floor or what?

BMWhere?

No! The chair had moved slightly, but both are sheltered by the balcony wall! The dish is above the wall, so got the full force of the wind. You'll also notice a mountain bike wheel on the left which also stayed put!