Garden Railway Forum

Dennis dropped by overnight and left his mark. We managed to get through Storm Ciara with nothing more than a few branches down, however, Dennis had more to offer and dropped huge amounts of water causing our stream to swell, also the wind was more powerful and persistent and has brought down one of my favourite conifers..... Branches have been broken.... and two more trees have been blown loose resulting in them having to be taken down when the weather improves.... And we are told to expect more storms!
Nowhere near as serious as the devastation caused in the North and I feel for them having to go through the clean-up yet again. One of our near neighbours has had running water through her kitchen though.

Very stormy Peter! Over here it's full-on drought - 40 days no rain

Shame about the trees Peter they seem to be the first casualty in high winds. Do you have any big trees near the house?
We all seem to be experiencing weather extremes no matter what part of the world we are in.
Grant.

Grant, there are still a number of trees near to the house but not close enough to be a problem. However, despite my reluctance to cut trees down, we had to take down several where the roots had been exposed by drainage channels and soil erosion.
They do make good firewood though, nothing wasted here!

Hi Peter,

It's quite sad when part of the environment you really appreciate is damaged, even when it's the elements that do it. At least you're safe and sound - and will be warm when that firewood has dried out!

All the best,

Andrew

Sorry to hear about your trees Peter. We have our own problems with storms. We get shrubs so shaken about by the winds that the roots get loosened. Even small plants need staking. Plus the fence between us and the neighbours needs fixing.He hhas tiles off and we have to re-fix the edpm along the edge of the pitched roof where it lifted.
Don

Nasty that Peter and very upsetting to lose one of your'e favourite trees. Trees are always the first to go in storms, yet without them it would be a very different world. Unfortunately we don't have any in our garden now, but I have brought our small apple tree from our old address.

We haven't had much here fortunately, but the winds have been very strong. It's all this blooming rain we are having here. It's stopped the son-in-law laying the flags in the garden, so consequently we also can't get out to do anything with the start of our new line...The lawn is like a bog at the moment. Can't wait to get the sun shinning again, when ever that will be...

Hello Peter
Sorry to see those trees down. We also have some high winds last week and full storm in the mountains with roads and railways closed due to extreme snowconditions.
Our garden have 15 big pine trees - all of them about 75 ft tall. Im always a bit worried in the morning when inspecting my garden railway to see if some big branches have caused some damage to the railway.