I had another unpleasant experience in a hurricane a few years ago, at a club bike trackway at Anglesey Circuit. Got parked up next to the big marquee (for the band beer n bash at the end of the weekend) but got moved away for some reason I can't remember. Ended up in a more exposed position where we put the tents up and got ready for the next day. And finished the evening in the marquee with a few beers. And then a hurricane hit - I knew about it when the top of the tent was battering my head. Rain was torrential. Tried to get some shelter in the van but it was being thrown about in the storm (big box van). Crawled back into the tent which by now was completely flattened. The scene next morning was much calmer, but total devastation. And the marquee was flattened. But the weekend was salvaged and went ahead with just a couple of hours delay.
 
Amazingly I was again in France when the big fire at BDH in Poole went up.
W was working there at the time, as was another of our friends. Barrels of chemicals shooting into the air like mortars shells.
Mad!

I didn't know her at the time as again I was still with the ex. Just.

3500 people evacuated. Biggest evacuation since WW2.
 
Barrels of chemicals shooting into the air like mortars shells.
Reminds me of the time I was working in the County Hall in London - building the London Aquarium. My site office was at ground level overlooking the Thames, and Big Ben was my site clock! One day I heard a loud bang and saw an object with a smoke trail flying through the air on the far side of the river. Followed by lots of sirens and blue light activity. It turned out to have been a gas bottle being used by some roofers on the top of Charing Cross Station, it had caught fire and launched itself. Amazingly there were no casualties.
 
Reminds me of the time I was working in the County Hall in London - building the London Aquarium. My site office was at ground level overlooking the Thames, and Big Ben was my site clock! One day I heard a loud bang and saw an object with a smoke trail flying through the air on the far side of the river. Followed by lots of sirens and blue light activity. It turned out to have been a gas bottle being used by some roofers on the top of Charing Cross Station, it had caught fire and launched itself. Amazingly there were no casualties.
I read up on the drill firefighters have to go through when acetylene bottles are involved in a fire some time ago, what a flipping palaver!
 
I remember "The Hurricane", was living in Kent at the time it happened. My house was in a valley area, I had slept through he hurricane and knew nothing about it until I set off for work as usual the next morning. Copper stopped me at the bottom of the road and asked where was I going? London ses I, Oh no you're not he said - all roads are blocked with trees down. He was right, couldn't get out of the village for a week. I've got some photos somewhere of the tree line at the top of the valley taken from a bedroom window before the storm, and took the same shot just after - with half the trees gone and houses with missing roofs.
I remember it very well had a big job on with lots of scaffolding at 6 in the morning I was surfing on scaffold boards trying to secure them and prevent them moving to the adjacent county lucky I'm still with you 😠
 
Two squirrels feeding smornin. One scared the other so it went on me garage roof. Round the back, got down and came across me patio to scare the other one up me fence. One ont floor see's somefink. Shoots up me fence and over me garage. T'other one now hanging oft me castles pebble dash. Now making a distress noise like when cats are about so eye goes ferra look. It makes the noise at me. Climbs higher. Now just under me guttering. Tis not coming down. Bin out again. No cats.
 

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