Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
some horrific winds turning up according to this forcast.
http://www.sky.com/#!new-storm-to-bring-100mph-windsBrian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
looking at the channel gadget the ferrys are stacking up waiting to enter the harbour,this would have knock on effect with the lorries stacking up along the a 20.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
they closed deal pier earlier for safety reasons.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Waiting at Calais for the 16.05, (P&O) new etd 18.45.
DFDS 13.30 sailing just started loading.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
- Posts: 1,031
Looking at Channel Traffic AIS there's more ships waiting off St Margaret's than in the harbour!
And looks like the wind has got to the M20 cameras.
"The carriageway nearest the camera is eastbound"!
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
- Posts: 7,819
Jeeez Peter you picked a rough oul day to go to Calais
you must be a good sailor
...is this yer ship??
Steady as she goes...hrmmm
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Just boarded Pride of Kent. DFDS gping nowhere having moved berth.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
- Posts: 2,868
1847 Damage by the late Storm:
On Sunday sen'night the several parishes of Northbourne, Bettshanger, Tilmanstone and Mongeham, were visited by a severe storm, accompanied by such a tremendous fall of rain that not even the oldest inhabitant can remember anything equal to it. Damage sustained by many farmers was very great; the rain having deeply penetrated many corn stacks that were built but not thatched; but the greatest mischief has happened to the newly moved lands such as turnip fallows and spuddled fields, upon the hillsides. In such situations the topsoil in many places completely washed into the valleys leaving the chalk quite bare; and at Tilmanstone turnpike road, which lies at places some 2 or 3 feet below the fields, was entirely blocked up and rendered impassable for vehicles. In the valley by Studdle, Messrs Inge and Rainer have experienced a similar disaster, a great deal of the surface earth of the hills being carried to the bottom. Mr Inge lost 13 pigs and Mr Rainer's corn was floated heterogeneously with rabbits and partidges from one field into another. Mr Jennings of Bettshanger was compelled to move the produce of 60 acres of barley from one part of a barn to another, damaging at least from 30 to 40 quarters.
During the thunderstorm on Sunday sen'night a fine horse belonging to Mr Wootton of Fordwich was struck by lightning while grazing in a field. The animal was found in a ditch in a deplorable condition, life being not quite extinct. Several sheep also belonging to the same gentleman near Rushborne, were similarly struck.
(Kentish Gazette) Aug 24 1847 p.3 col.3, 3" down:
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Guest 1103- Registered: 3 Nov 2013
- Posts: 759
If anyone is interested in marine traffic as a hobby there is the website to start it all of.
http://www.coaa.co.uk/shipplotter.htm
You do need to invest a little bit, not major and its worth it. We use it for years now and you can see everything such as info on all kind of ships, speed, destination etc.
Worth to have it :) We certainly love it :)
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Maya Angelou ☺🌈🌄🌌🌏🌍🌎
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Not a bad crossing, back in Dover harbour now.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 1103- Registered: 3 Nov 2013
- Posts: 759
Bet you glad to leave the seamans legs onboard ;)
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Maya Angelou ☺🌈🌄🌌🌏🌍🌎
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Rough sea is a good excuse for staggering around in the bar.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
good to hear you are back safe and sound peter, despite losing my bet that you would have fallen overboard.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
Sick of the BBC and channel 4 still pushing the man-made climate change meme. So last century.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,496
Lovely and sunny in the town, but thick fog down the seafront.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,000
Nice and clear at 06.00 this a.m. by the Lifeboat Station at Walmer.
Foggy from 09.00. Unable to see end of pier.
Increase your WordPower - HAAR.
In meteorology, haar or sea fret is a cold sea fog. It occurs most often on the east coast of Great Britain between April and September, when warm air passes over the cold North Sea. The term is also known as harr, hare, harl, har and hoar.
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The Gov- Registered: 24 May 2020
- Posts: 151
Always know when summer is on it,s way the sound of the fog horn
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,496
The Gov wrote:Always know when summer is on it,s way the sound of the fog horn
But the modern fog horn just isn't the same as it used to be.
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Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
- Posts: 637
Thank goodness, so loud in the old days.
