Thursday, January 18th, 2007 04:51 pm
It looks like there's a lot of weather about in London this evening - the tubes are, predictably, all messed up (the TFL real-time disruption map, where disrupted lines are coloured and others are grey, looks mostly like a normal tube map). London Bridge station, according to the reputable [livejournal.com profile] ciphergoth, is falling apart, and therefore may be closed. And the surface trains are all delayed too.

In the rest of the country, there's heavy snow in Scotland, and so far, according to the BBC, the storms have claimed seven lives, mostly from falling trees, falling walls and high-sided vehicles.

If you're driving, please drive carefully. If you're not, and you live in London, good luck getting home ...

EDIT: Apparently the trams in Croydon are thoroughly snarfed by fallen trees, too.
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 05:02 pm (UTC)
The wind has stopped howling here now. I can't see if it's raining, but I don't think it is. Neighbour's fence still intact. Bum.
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 05:03 pm (UTC)
The howling has reduced here since earlier, but there are still whistling gusts.
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 05:04 pm (UTC)
Oh god help me I read that as whistling gussets. Aieeee!
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 05:09 pm (UTC)
[giggle]
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 05:05 pm (UTC)
We've basically had no rain at all: about ten minutes', this morning. It's been quite sunny at times.

Still howling winds, though.

I'm told KX and Euston are also closed.
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 05:06 pm (UTC)
I am very happy that I'm at home. :)
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 05:12 pm (UTC)
Ideal plan - get to Stratfodr, get train home.
Fallback plan - Get to Stratford, trains too broken. Start walking. It's only 10-odd miles, shouldn't take more than a couple of hours.
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 05:14 pm (UTC)
The guy who sits next to me has just decided to start walking back to Watford and try and hitch a lift on the way with the delivery van that is meant to be delivering something to his house for about 8pm. The worrying thing was that I think he was only half joking...
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 05:25 pm (UTC)
You going to be OK getting home? [snuggle]
I slept through the whole storm, woke up at four and screamed "WHAT THE FUCKING HELL HAS HAPPENED TO MY GARDEN???!!!???" [grin]

[livejournal.com profile] flickgc had to fill me in on Y!M...
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 05:28 pm (UTC)
You going to be OK getting home? [snuggle]
It may be a somewhat lengthy peregrination.

Ahem. Until four? [cough]
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 06:04 pm (UTC)
It may be a somewhat lengthy peregrination.
Poor love-hope you get back ok in the end. If it proves impossible, do you have anywhere you could get to that you could crash? There is room here, but it's not the most convenient of places and it's not very nice, either... [grin]

Ahem. Until four? [cough]
Oh, don't even get me started on my sleep cycle at the moment. It's really, really, really fucking bothering me.
Friday, January 19th, 2007 10:28 am (UTC)
Took me a while, but I got back in the end.

It's really, really, really fucking bothering me.
[hugs]
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 06:58 pm (UTC)
It may be a somewhat lengthy peregrination.

This be the post for misreading - I thought that said 'I may be in for a somewhat lengthy penetration'...
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 08:26 pm (UTC)
Well at least it goes with 'gussets' I suppose. *grin*
Friday, January 19th, 2007 10:26 am (UTC)
Oooh, madam!
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 05:37 pm (UTC)
Good luck indeed getting home...
I have taken advice and not stepped out all day.. athough bit wary when the trees outside my wind are creaking loudly!
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 05:44 pm (UTC)
fuckity fuck :C
Just leaving work now :C
Friday, January 19th, 2007 10:16 am (UTC)
Usefully, by the time I actually got back to Croydon, they were running again. So much for TfL. Hope that you got home safely ...
Friday, January 19th, 2007 10:26 am (UTC)
i got home okay
I was gaming in croydon so not going straight home.
Trams were fobarred but apparetny the firebridgade turned up with chainsaws ans dispatched tree at lloyd park v quickly :)
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 06:24 pm (UTC)
I know the wind was crazy when I went out, but really, I remain amazed at the British inability to cope with weather...

I'm not directing this at individual people, I'm thinking about the transport services here btw!
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 06:30 pm (UTC)
I am SO GLAD I didn't pick today to go to London! Hope you get home OK.
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 07:00 pm (UTC)
We drove past a truck having a sleep at the side of the A19 this evening (bits of it sticking out into the road still). But most importantly, we seem to still have a roof on the conservatory and house, and electricity (at the moment - the video clock tells us that it has been off, and it was off in the village of Escrick as we passed through).

Other than that, lots of fallen branches which people are just driving around. River's flooded in York predictably too..
Friday, January 19th, 2007 10:32 am (UTC)
But most importantly, we seem to still have a roof on the conservatory and house
That's good.

River's flooded in York predictably too..
What, the Ouse flooded in Spring? But ... but ... that never happens! [grin]
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 07:35 pm (UTC)
I fully sympathise, I too had a nightmare journey home. Got to London Bridge tube only to find the mainline was closed on my way up the escalators. Had to double back to Southwark and then to Charing Cross so I could get a train to Elmers End, from there I got a tram!

It could've been a lot worse though.

I believe the trams aren't running from Merton to Wimbledon - I don't know about the Addington route.
Friday, January 19th, 2007 10:32 am (UTC)
Glad that I decided to avoid London Bridge - although I had to walk from St James' Park to Victoria as they'd closed the underground station due to overcrowding. Once there, all trains showed as delayed, but I jumped a Horsham one eventually, and even got a seat! The trams were running again by the time that I got to Croydon, though ...
Friday, January 19th, 2007 09:24 am (UTC)
I drove very carefully - the M40 was moving at 15miles an hour last night from Oxford to home - I only have to go 1 junction and it took me about an hour. A lorry turned over earlier - the second one that day on the same stretch of road. The M40 is not a nice road. :-(
Friday, January 19th, 2007 09:47 am (UTC)
the M40 was moving at 15miles an hour last night

So at least that bit was quicker than normal, eh?


J