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campanula UK Cambridge (
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Sat, Oct 26, 13 at 15:15
Or 5000 years, according to those most given to hyperbole......but nonetheless, we are waiting for an enormous storm to pound poor old Blighty on Sunday night/Monday morning.....and of course, we are super-anxious about our horsebox, surrounded by 300 aged poplars (Sheesh, that sounds bad). To say I am cacking my pants is a massive understatement. Hiding out in Cambridge at the moment till the worst has blown over when we can scoot up to Norfolk to assess the damage. If the damage is extensive we could camp at daughter's - but would have to endure horrible vegan dinner - not sure which would be worse - squashed horsebox or having to eat lentil gack.
Might not need the chainsaw after all. |
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| Best of luck! Stay safe! Josh |
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| It is always alarming watching the storm tracks and forecasts for storms that haven't arrived yet - here's hoping that this one misses you, or at least has been over-hyped. Hopefully the forest will protect your horse box. Jackie |
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- Posted by catspa NoCA Z9 Sunset 14 (My Page) on
Sat, Oct 26, 13 at 17:43
| Not much can be done but wait and hope. My best hopes that if any rearrangements of the landscape happen, they miss your horsebox and improve your garden prospects. |
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- Posted by titian1 Sydney, Australiae (My Page) on
Sat, Oct 26, 13 at 17:46
| My daughter (also vegan) is in Cambridge, so I looked up the forecast, but it just said blustery, with heavy showers. What am I missing? |
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Sunday night, Monday morning - we are all on 'severe weather warnings' with 80-90mph gusts. A reprisal of 1987 when 15 million trees died and the south coast was trashed.
Oh Jacqueline, I rather think it is 'the forest' (if you can call tatty old poplars such) which is going to do for the horsebox by falling all over it. |
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| Oh - I thought they were planted as wind breaks. Perhaps that is a different kind of poplar? Will be thinking of you tomorrow and Monday - please let us know what happens, and for heavens sake stay indoors during the storm! Jackie |
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| < note to self, do not make lentils for Camp hehe > Hope the wind only knocks over the trees you don't want |
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- Posted by fogrose zone 10/sunset 17 (My Page) on
Sat, Oct 26, 13 at 20:10
| Making beef stew (grass fed) tonight. You're welcome to come over for dinner. Seriously, hope all goes well and you and your horsebox stay safe. Diane |
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| Smuggle in crackers and cheese, buttery biscuits, milk chocolate...At least you can swear and moan openly over the horsebox. Being polite over lentil gack is real hardship. |
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| I'm with catsrose. Crackers, good cheeses, DEFINITELY milk chocolate. I love good vegetables, but ... lentils? I think not. I shall bend my thoughts to your storm being a huge disappointment. Jeri |
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| Oh, Camp, my heart is with you. We've suffered through many hurricanes, one year three in a row. During one of them, I sat in my recliner and watched the shingles blow off the roof. No problems with our "horsebox", though. It stood firm. We lost many huge old oaks, however, and one entire fence line. We had cows and horses everywhere. I know it's not funny, and I know I shouldn't laugh, but your unique phrasing just cracks me up. I had to read this post to DH as I was laughing so hard he wanted to know what I was cackling over. I hope everything is all right, and you don't have to eat gack. |
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| Lately I have become addicted to madeleines, a rich sort of cakey cookie thing. It is mentioned in Proust's Recherche du Temps Perdue. I am giving the French title because the English title I learned, Rememberance of Things Past is no longer the favored translation (I still like it better - I am, as in most things, unreformed). Anyway, try them. It is what little solace I can offer - along with a few prayers. Cath |
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| I'm thinking of you and your precious land. Once it has gone by, maybe it will not be back for many many years. We are always being told that it is soon time for a big earthquake. I am as ready as I can be and do not fear the small ones. There is no warning so all we can do is hope we are in a safe place if it comes. |
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| Am hoping, Suzy, that you and yours will stay safe and that your horsebox will be unscathed. It has to be frightening and extremely unsettling to wait for something horrible you have no control over. My thoughts and good wishes are with you. Ingrid |
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- Posted by titian1 Sydney, Australiae (My Page) on
Sun, Oct 27, 13 at 2:22
| Thanks camp, have warned my daughter. |
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| Will be thinking of you the next few days. Maybe some free firewood? Years ago on Long Island got smacked with hurricane Gloria. Had free firewood for many years. Once the lights were restored the cozy fires seemed to make it all better. |
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| I've lurked here for some time, but want to add my hopes and good wishes to you that the storm isn't as bad as predicted. I love your sense of humor even while facing this storm. Sally |
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| Did what seemed like a months laundry, both to take my mind off imminent catastrophe and also to get the whole lot on the drying lines while there is a fresh wind without the promised rain .....so yeah, we may well be looking into the mouth of disaster....but we will be wearing clean knickers while doing so. Am seriously stocking up on biscuits (cookies). |
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- Posted by alameda 8 - East Texas (My Page) on
Sun, Oct 27, 13 at 15:29
| Hopefully the storm will not be as bad as predicted. I am 3 hours from Galveston - never experienced any really severe weather. Then hurricanes Rita and Ike hit. It was an experience to be sure.....lost some trees, I had to get out in it on a ladder to secure a corner of my hay barn with baling wire to keep the roof from blowing off......main thing is that people and animals are safe, best of luck to you weathering the storm. I am known as the Casserole Queen. I was trying to eat healthy once years ago.....fixed a lentil casserole. It was horrible - my husband would eat anything, but drew the line at that. I added cheese, sour cream, everything but the kitchen sink - nothing worked. It was so vile even the dogs wouldn't eat it. If that's on the menu, bring your own stash or take everyone out to dinner! Stay safe and hope the storm does no damage.
Judith |
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- Posted by hoovb z9 Southern CA (My Page) on
Sun, Oct 27, 13 at 17:33
| So, what's a horsebox? Okay, got it. google can be so helpful. No self-respecting rosarian needs a storm to stock up on cookies (biscuits). A sunny day is just as good. Hope no damage, except to the biscuit supply. My dogs would eat lentil casserole. They will eat anything. It doesn't have to be food. 
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| I hope all goes well. I'll be thinking of you. |
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| Oh, Suzy, hope you still have internet. I'm praying for you and yours and England. Hold on tight and enjoy the cookies (biscuits). Now I know what really comes in those tins and jars that my mother collected. Didn't know biscuits are cookies. In 2004 we had Frances and Jeanne. Our house was nestled on an acre of tall oaks and pines. We were hearing the booms from trees falling all night, unable to see what was happening. Thirteen came down AROUND us but not on us. The night was bad but the clean-up was worse. Hoping you are spared all around. Sherry |
Here is a link that might be useful: If only sweat were irrigation...
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Good luck, Suzy. I hope your horsebox makes it through the storm unscathed.
My daughter and I LOVE lentils. Lentil soup, a tad bland but so friendly and good, especially when you've been eating poorly. Serve it with brown rice. Dal in its many varieties, sour lentil soup, simple lentils and rice. Indian cooking is great for vegetables and legumes. Italian cooking too lends itself happily to a meatless diet.
Our weather this fall has been very warm, and it's been unusually humid since late summer. In fact, it feels more like subtropical Florida at this time of year than like Mediterranean Italy. Very odd. I don't know if your monster storm is part of a shared weather pattern. We have rain forecast for the middle of the week but nothing striking for the weekend. But I didn't look after that.
Threats to one's home are frightening. Our hill is slowly sinking and our house with it. Three story masonry houses do not sink gracefully. Again, good luck! I hope you get through the storm without serious damage.
Melissa |
This post was edited by melissa_thefarm on Mon, Oct 28, 13 at 2:07
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- Posted by titian1 Sydney, Australiae (My Page) on
Mon, Oct 28, 13 at 2:37
Oh Melissa, I know the worry. My 3 storey house on a hill sunk just before last Xmas, well a corner of it anyway. And since the other day I've had trouble closing my bedroom door. So it's still moving.
Suzy, I do hope you , your loved ones and your place are ok, and only the trees you want to fall, do so.
Trish. |
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| Pictures and news about the storm Thinking of you and Mr. Camps |
Here is a link that might be useful: The storm
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| Thinking of you! Keep us posted please? Susan |
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| OK Suzy - WHAT HAPPENED? We are all waiting to hear from you. It is Monday morning here, so it must be Monday evening there - is the storm over? Did it live up to the hype? Jackie |
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| So many homes are without power, it might be a bit before she can |
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| I found it on NBC News. A great deal of damage was done -- much of it by falling trees (as Camp feared). Nuclear powerplants shut down. 99 mph winds set records. Disruption of all sorts of things. Jeri |
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| Hit hard in the Netherlands as well. My Danish friends are posting that it is raging there as well |
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| Oh, no...I was silently hoping that everyone would be wrong in their predictions, but it looks like everything was actually worse! Camp, I hope you were spared the worst of this storm, and are able to let us know before long how you, your family, and your property are faring. Diane |
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2 trees down.....but not on the horsebox. More horribly though, son-in-laws live-in vehicle was stolen because my daughter had insisted he (Steph) stayed at hers because of the storm. He went to check on it in the morning to find the child-seat flung out on the pavement and his truck vanished.....although it was spotted at 2.30am, right in the middle of the storm, on CCTV cameras. Seems like thieves love a ggod storm.....or flood or fire, according to the police......who have been fantastic, tracking down a load of his dumped belongings including his treasured photos of his mum (who died when he was a teenager). We think they (the thieves) were after tools and then just trashed the inside of the vehicle and probably had it broken up for scrap. How truly low is that?
Still, the kids are resilient and even though they no longer live together, the pair of them support each other and are totally invested in bringing up their daughter. This is not the worst that can happen - Steph can start again (and we will help).
So yeah, a night of ups and downs but most importantly, everyone is safe and well.
Thank you for your kind and thoughtful replies - the chainsaw will be in action over the next few weeks. |
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So glad you are safe and sound, was thinking of you and watching the news. And also the horsebox, after all of the work you have put into it.
ogrose |
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| Whew! So glad everyone is OK and also your horsebox. That is so bad about your SIL's truck - what awful people must sit around thinking of how to take advantage of a crisis - I hope they catch them. Jackie |
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| camp, I'm so glad that your property was not damaged but feel really disgusted about the vehicle theft. Just another good reason to prefer animals over people. I really hope they catch these low-lifes and throw the book at them. But the main thing is you and yours are safe. Ingrid |
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| Ingrid is right. The main thing is that you are yours are safe. |
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| It will be a good start on your woodpile. Actually, I was hoping some trees that you didn't want might fall by "accident". Glad the horsebox was spared and all of you are well. |
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| Yes, firewood (that you didn't have to fell) and an intact home! Congratulations on surviving the storm! But I'm sorry that your SOL's truck fell victim to human hyenas. |
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Golly Camp..alls well and you've added to the wood pile..So glad.
Jeannie |
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| Glad to hear you're okay, but it's rotten what happened to your son-in-law. Sally |
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| So good to hear the horsebox made it through in good shape and everyone is safe and well. Sadly, the criminals are not deterred by horrendous weather. Sherry |
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| So glad there was no serious damage and so sorry about the truck. The human race can be disgusting sometimes. |
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