Storm - the damage so far?

[Genghis the Engineer]

My strip in Hampshire has 3 trailers with Shadows in turned over, a PA-38 has flown unaided about 150m over 3 hedges and a road (and looks unlikely to fly again), one T-hangar has disassembled itself, although thankfully the aeroplane inside seems to have been fine.

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[New Bloke]

Seems quite bad your way Ghengis, was anyone hurt?

[Genghis the Engineer]

No, all the damage seems to have happened last night. Some painful wallets for a while however.

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[rightstuffer]

A microlight flyer close to me had a lucky escape - he got his machine out of a home-built hangar which then collapsed and blew away. Last I saw, the machine (a Thruster I think) was well tied down in the middle of an open field about 2 hours before the slates started coming off my roof. Gulp! Hope his pickets were sturdy...

[Beagler]

Well I've just returned into cyberspace after a 30 hour power cut.
Power still cutting out intermittently.

Thanks to the "2 pilots" thread I did not go out on Sunday morning.
You might not recall but I stated that until that thread cropped up I was considering a trip on Sunday if another pilot was up for it but not on my own.

Another guy was thinking the same and phoned me on Sunday at 8am to arrange a departure time. Aware of our discussions I expressed my doubts.
He replied that although the wind was 25Kts it was "down the slot" at our home base and we could sort things out between us.
I reminded him that there was a "mega depression" trucking over and the wind would pdobably increase and veer but he was quite welcome to go for it himself and that was the way we should both look at it.

Neither of us flew.

[meslag]

never understand the people that tie their wonderful craft to a small lump of stone or a container full of water...... there are hard ways to learn...

Gengis... which strip is that then. chilbolten?

[Beagler]

Yeah, but I left £22,000 of kit parked in a dodgy side street this afternoon.
Insurance is a good and bad thing