Cumbrian Towns evacuated by high winds

Woop woop! :five:

It was pretty bad. The floods damaged a lot of properties - traffic lights offline along with cash machines and all the power. Complete blackout. Pretty apocalypse-like and scary! We were all evacuated though and uni's closed early!

I'm okay, thanks! I managed to get home safely. It was hectic though with a dead phone and laptop! Couldn't contact my family or anything! A lot of students are staying over at university overnight with duvets/pillows - it's like Harry Potter, haha!

How are you? Did you get affected? :zomg:

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Original post by Mochassassin

Woop woop! :five:

It was pretty bad. The floods damaged a lot of properties - traffic lights offline along with cash machines and all the power. Complete blackout. Pretty apocalypse-like and scary! We were all evacuated though and uni's closed early!

I'm okay, thanks! I managed to get home safely. It was hectic though with a dead phone and laptop! Couldn't contact my family or anything! A lot of students are staying over at university overnight with duvets/pillows - it's like Harry Potter, haha!

How are you? Did you get affected? :zomg:

Holy hell :/ that's some pretty scary stuff right there; would have been kinda cool to sleepover at uni overnight though

Nope, my city didn't get affected; thankfully

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Yeah, for sure! Most of my friends made it home so staying over would've been pointless especially with no electricity or food!

Oh, thank goodness! It's so surreal seeing it all over the news, doesn't it? :zomg:

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william walker

Well I tree did get blown down right outside my window a couple weeks ago. And the wind has been really bad for a couple days. But I am safe. :smile:

I am slightly overcome by your concern about me. I didn't know you cared like that. :loveduck:

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Original post by Mochassassin

Yeah, for sure! Most of my friends made it home so staying over would've been pointless especially with no electricity or food!

Oh, thank goodness! It's so surreal seeing it all over the news, doesn't it? :zomg:

I'm glad to hear, that's crazy how it happened so close to home

It's so strange considering how Lancaster is only 22 miles away from me and we didn't get any major disruption on the scale of that.

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Original post by william walker

Well I tree did get blown down right outside my window a couple weeks ago. And the wind has been really bad for a couple days. But I am safe. :smile:

I am slightly overcome by your concern about me. I didn't know you cared like that. :loveduck:

I'm glad you're okay :smile:

*hugs*

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Only 22 miles?! Damn, that's so close! Count yourself lucky and don't overthink it! :biggrin:

Reply 28

PandaWho

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Lancaster (and Morecambe) are black outs because a local substation was flooded, main roads going in and out were closed aswell

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Original post by PandaWho

Lancaster (and Morecambe) are black outs because a local substation was flooded, main roads going in and out were closed aswell

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Thank you, I didn't know that

I hope everything comes back on as normal soon anyway .

Stay safe y'all

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PandaWho

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The electric people are putting generators around, but saying tuesday evening for real power!

Though cumbrias worse flooding wise, bridges and roads have collapsed. Im not aware of any collapsed roads in lancashire.

Luckily where i currently am we have power just no mobile signal as masts are down. Though cant contact my brother or my sister and her 2 year old!!!

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Manitude

Original post by Mochassassin

Lancaster Uni student here.
Was evacuated from my accomodation in town! It was absolute chaos. Broken bridges, flooded streets, no traffic lights, no cash machines, no shops open, no trains running and thousands of students trying to get to Preston/Manchester!
Ending up nabbing a taxi with someone and made it home after a crazy 5 hours! I live right on the canal too so we're lucky we didn't get flooded directly!
Some students are staying over at campus tonight until things blow over.
Classes/exams/deadlines have been postponed until further notice! :yep:

Stay safe everyone and have a wonderful Christmas! :smile:

Pretty similar story for me, except I'm still in Lancaster.

I was in town checking out the floods when the power went off and I quickly left town when it felt as though people were about to start breaking into shops. There were some attempts at looting houses in Moorgate last night, apparently.

Most of Lancaster has power now (temporary generators) and the floods have subsided. The emergency services and electricity NW have done a great job putting things back to normal.

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*pitseleh*

Original post by Drewski

Maybe thread title should read 'due to high winds' rather than 'by'?

I mean, they're strong winds, but not quite that strong.

PRSOM. But that was my exact first thought, too. :biggrin:

(edited 8 years ago)

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Original post by Manitude

Pretty similar story for me, except I'm still in Lancaster.

I was in town checking out the floods when the power went off and I quickly left town when it felt as though people were about to start breaking into shops. There were some attempts at looting houses in Moorgate last night, apparently.

Most of Lancaster has power now (temporary generators) and the floods have subsided. The emergency services and electricity NW have done a great job putting things back to normal.

Damn, glad you're okay! And kudos to the emergency services - I would not know how to deal with such a big emergency in such a short time!
My flatmate just told me power's gone out again - is this true? :zomg:

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MrsSheldonCooper

Original post by Mochassassin

Damn, glad you're okay! And kudos to the emergency services - I would not know how to deal with such a big emergency in such a short time!
My flatmate just told me power's gone out again - is this true? :zomg:

Heard on the news there isn't going to be any power in Lancaster for a few days

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TrojanH

I live in Carlisle. My Sixth Form looks like a swimming pool. Happy days!

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Original post by MrsSheldonCooper

Heard on the news there isn't going to be any power in Lancaster for a few days

The news is still a bit behind, haha. I'm following the student union pages and the local twitter feeds!
I'm hoping the power is still up - it's freezing there!

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MrsSheldonCooper

Original post by Mochassassin

The news is still a bit behind, haha. I'm following the student union pages and the local twitter feeds!
I'm hoping the power is still up - it's freezing there!

Hope the floods haven't affected you!

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