Buzzer

Whilst watchin the United v Arsenal match a huge gust of wind came from no where splashing horizontal rain, leaves, twigs and all sorts of sh1te against our window. When i looked out the clouds were going one way and the rain the other

Then everything started rumbling and my ears popped. This was followed by all sorts of noises, scrapes and crashes. Then just when we thought it was all coming to an end, horizontal rain appeared coming from the opposite direction from before

Everyone rushed outside and it seems it mainly hit our next doors gable end and ripped about 25% of the roof tiles off including all the ridge tiles.

The tiles and ridges ended up in their garden with the tv arial and some of them are wedged into the garden itself

Gimme a minute and i'll try and take a few pics of next doors garden. It's a bit dark so they may not turn out so good

Buzzer

Sorry but it is a bit too dark to get piccies but here goes:-

Buzzer

Bollox they turned out poo. All the glass has gone from his shed and allround the back door is broken tiles and the bikes have been slammed into the corner of his garden

On the last pic you can see on the left a 900mm ridge tile wedged into the ground and the bent washing line pole

mad_dr

Blimey - your gaff's a dump. You want to smarten it up a bit. Have some pride man, FFS!

John WRX

Sure it wasnt a tumbleweed trying to get down the cimney ??? on a more serious note mate, hope no one is hurt and no tiles have t the car.

Call to mr house insurance man in the morning i suspect.......

Buzzer : "Hello sir i need to make a claim, my house was hit by a tornado last night and has half the roof missing"

Insurance : "Have you been drinking"

Buzzer : "No this is a genuine claim sir i have pictures to validate it"

Insurance : "Your having a laugh stop wasting my time"

Phone goes dead.............

Insurance to rest of his colleagues : "Another muppet on the phone about a tornado striking last night, do they think we are stupid"

Good luck mate hope it all goes well.

Buzzer

John WRX

You know what i mean

Buzzer

LOL i was refering to mad dr's comment John, although we do have two ridge tiles missing and a couple of broken ones on the extension where next doors tiles have hit the roof.

Next door neighbours have just got home and he said he doesn't know where the milk crate comes from and its NOT his aerial coz his is indoors

John WRX

Must be your ariel then

As for the milkcrate can i have it back please

andypugh2000

Thats mad ****, walked the dogs tonight and got stuck in the pub by a freak storm, well its a hard life, had to have another couple of beers whilst i waited for it to subside

IWatkins

Buzzer,

Where in the world are you and what time did it happen? I'll try and capture the doppler imagery for your location. If it was a tornado, I know some people who would be interested in a more formal report.

Cheers

Ian

*Sonic*

Thats the last time I go to a party at your house Buzzer

f00kin neighbours are mental, chucking tiles off their roof !!!!

whats wrong with you listening to Abba at full volume

*Sonic*

Just noticed the time of your post

I had just about left the house in the torrential rain, got soaked just going from the front door to the car, and couldnt see whilst I was driving

Ive been on a Billy Meet with Donna & Ray

Buzzer

Ian

YHPM

*Sonic*

They were listening to the Gumbay Dance Band (always gets them riotous when played at full volume)


It was really weired because there was absolutley no wind before or after it although the clouds were at a high rate of knots very high up. Incidentally Liverpool Airport isn't far up the road and we noticed a plane doing a few circuits before it landed (but that may of been due to a huge thunderstorm which was to the East of us where fork lightening was streaking across the sky)

Leslie

We had one just like that a couple of years ago. They can be extremely intense over a very small area. It sounded like an express train as it arrived. I have got three radio ham aerials in a triangle about 37 feet across and it took one out and left the other two undamaged.

Les

D.K.1

Blimmin' eck Buzzer

Bit freaky weather that ! I wouldn't like clearing up after that, must have been scary !

It's been bad up our way too, floods mainly !


Yeah, I heard the rain pelting you, it sounded like hail on the other end of the phone, no wonder you got soaked LOL

LOL, Billy meet, yeah, 3 ickle Billies together, but where was Daddy Billy ? Stuck in his house by a tornado

IWatkins

Buzzer,

YHPM.

Cheers

Ian

Buzzer

Ian

Got the pics and animation OMG

It had to be around 4.30pm - 4.45pm. I take it the red bit is the bad bit

The wife has just spoken to the next door neighbour and she said she is leaving the debris for me to take piccies for her

My missus has told me that she found a piece of roof tile stuck in the fence (half way through) The fence is around 10mm timber

I'll get some more pics if i can get off work early enough

Pete


PS Thanks again Ian, cant wait to show the neighbours lol

IWatkins

Pete,

You are welcome mate.

Nice one about the tile through a fence panel = classic storm damage.

Red bits are bad, white bit are worse. You will see the end of the storm looking a little like a tail, this is a prime tornado breeding ground. Looks like it passed directly over your area.

Cheers

Ian

*Sonic*

Pete

send em to me too, it was bad when I left around that time, and your only about 3-4 miles away !!

Buzzer

Ian

It was definately 1710 Hrs (our time). You can see that at 1700 hrs its just south west of me and then again at 1715 hrs its *just* North of me.

Like i said, our time not GMT

superb mate many thanks

Am i allowed to send the files to *Sonic*


Pete

IWatkins

Yep, send to *Sonic* but stricly only to show. No publish, no posting on BBS etc. because of copyright.

Cheers

Ian

Buzzer

Thanx mate



Steve, YHM

John WRX

Can i have a look mate please.

Ta

*Sonic*

Thanks Ian

I got home late last night, and havent had chance to check for any debris, but after seeing the pics, im gonna check tonight when I get in

TURBORAY

perhaps you should of got up a bit earlier then you would of had time to check for damage ,

*Sonic*

PMSL

f00king 11am I woke up, cant belive I overslept by that much

Buzzer

AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!

TURBORAY

that's what happens when you go to these billy meets , they tire you out to much

*Sonic*

I *think* it was deciding to stay up and watch the last GP of the year that did it

went to bed at 3am !!!