Keedle Posted December 25, 2011 Report Share Posted December 25, 2011 Power been off here since 2pm back now hope eveyone is safe and have had a great xmas . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orkneypaul Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 Yeah indeed, but unfortunatly there are some poor buggers that will get to see them, the guys on standby boats and the like.And as for the Hydro guys if I was wearing a hat I would be taking it off to them right now for their sterling work today getting our power back on in such horrible weather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaydee67 Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 Yeah indeed, but unfortunatly there are some poor buggers that will get to see them, the guys on standby boats and the like.And as for the Hydro guys if I was wearing a hat I would be taking it off to them right now for their sterling work today getting our power back on in such horrible weather Hear! Hear! We had 2 cuts today, one of about an hour and one of about 5 1/2 hours - lots of board games by candlelight! We could see the boys working in a field above the house so presume either the line or a pole was down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyboy Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 West of Shetland we had over 110Knot winds and 25m max wave height. God knows how the galley staff managed but we still got a cracking Xmas dinner.One of the other rigs broke an anchor chain and has stability issues! which I guess put a damper on their Christmas day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biglad Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 Yeah indeed, but unfortunatly there are some poor buggers that will get to see them, the guys on standby boats and the like.And as for the Hydro guys if I was wearing a hat I would be taking it off to them right now for their sterling work today getting our power back on in such horrible weatherWest of Shetland we had over 110Knot winds and 25m max wave height. God knows how the galley staff managed but we still got a cracking Xmas dinner.One of the other rigs broke an anchor chain and has stability issues! which I guess put a damper on their Christmas day. Always someone worse of than ourselves on Christmas Day be thankfull you have a house, presents, family and food....some have none of the above! To the guyz offshore, stay safe and have a good knees up when you're back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogling Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 Yes, my full sympathies & blissins for aabody at Sea or Offshore. my first xmas Offshore was the time we had the BBC Watchnight Service broadcast live from the Fulmar. It was a Force 14, and the FSU pulled up the SALM & drifted away in the early hours without anybody realising for a while!We stood at the back door at 5.30am greeting, as we watched it being blown broadside, power & steeringless towards the Clyde. They were all in the boats ready to go... Luckily, she squeaked past. It's not particularly fun {or safe} in the galley {or drill floor, or anywhere} on a semi-sub or ship in big sea, so hats off folks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Para Handy Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 It would seem that the council emergency phone line got a call this morning.“ The roof of my outside toilet was missing this morning.I think it was the bad wind I had last night that did it†Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stilldellin Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 ^^ yea, yun russell proots haes a lok tae answer fur ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 Our power went off yesterday at around noon and stayed off til around 2.30 today. Our christmas meal consisted of sausage sandwiches (no booze as we wanted to keep our heads clear in case the roof came off, as it was we had damage to the garage again plus garden gates, a window smashed and stone chips from the driveway were clattering off the windows all day & night. Christmas dinner is now cooking as I type this. I hope you were all safe from harm. Mal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hakon J Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 It's a lovely day today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 It's the calm before another storm tomorrow! (just to cheer everyone up) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groilick Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 It's the calm before another storm tomorrow! (just to cheer everyone up)Staand by fur anidder blast fae da nor-wast trow da early oors o Fursday Selkie oil an wiiks aa ready fur da Koli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piggywiggie Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 It's the calm before another storm tomorrow! (just to cheer everyone up) this the sprouts coming back on everyone??? It was pretty windy but I think my area in Lerwick must have been reasonably sheltered! Only bad thing that happened to us was our gate came off a peerie bit! And really I was to blame for that because I left it open (woopsie) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ of Hildisvik Posted December 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 The centre of the low pressure will pass near us, but the strongest winds will be over mainland Scotland this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 The centre of the low pressure will pass near us, but the strongest winds will be over mainland Scotland this time.Forecast of NW storm force 10 winds across Shetland Wednesday night/Thursday morninghttp://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii294/Geotours/0100thursday.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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