The Great British Weather

Although that said, starting work before 10am produces much the same effect for me

Gets to leave at 4

waves at playstation

It's fine out there...

It does actually look fine now, but it's too late. Have started working from home, don't want to disrupt the flow.

A bit of a let down
Not a tree knocked down nor hardly a leaf fallen.
Htfuuu

Anyone who was asleep at 6am is banned from saying htfu. Things were Very Different. And there are plenty of trees down.

^^ Finsbury Park Road, this morning...

Was fine riding in though, apart from a brief 'oh shit' moment while stood waiting at a red light in Russell Square when a sudden gust nearly knocked me over.

^ shit.

Is that yours? And is there some sort of feed to see where trees are down?

It's my photo. Thankfully it's not my street, tree or car.

Rooftile on the pavement. Lots of dead wood.

Once out of the highlands of Forest Hill it was pretty normal.

A bit of a let down
Not a tree knocked down nor hardly a leaf fallen.
Htfuuu

Anyone who was asleep at 6am is banned from saying htfu. Things were Very Different. And there are plenty of trees down.

Fair cop

(#Goestohtfu)

Anyone who was asleep at 6am is banned from saying htfu. Things were Very Different. And there are plenty of trees down.

This.

A couple of trees down near Chiswick, a fair few branches blocking roads or sitting on top of parked vehicles.

But largely, with a tailwind, it was a lovely ride.

A hell of a lot of storm debris though. Some trashcans emptied across streets, and tons of leaves, twigs and small branches everywhere.

Just seen my neighbour's car being towed up the road. The front's all smashed in :/

Yep. Got in unscathed. A hairy moment coming down Park Lane when a bus overtook me at a cross road and I had to really hold onto the bike other than that no major problems.
Plenty of trees down in Hampstead & Regents park. The Mall and Constitution Hill/Green Park are closed to cars and it is lovely. Anyone get the opportunity to ride that way this morning should take it as cycling is allowed

Oh, and places like Hyde Park are closed. If a park can be closed it has been. I assume this is because of the risk of trees and branches and nature stuff.

The authorities seem to be on top of this one. I only enncoutered one downed tree in the road on the way in, and at 0730 there was already a bunch of lads with chainsaws and a wood chipper dealing with it.

Lewisham council actually have a fallen tree map. I'm quite impressed.

http://www.lovelewisham.org/Reports/LiveMap

Well, that was a long and pointless walk. It's mildly blowy but no more so than yesterday afternoon. Quite a few trees down in East Dulwich and I definitely would not have wanted to be out at 6am - it woke me up and I sleep like the dead.

That map is amazing! There's an old telly on the pavement just round the corner from our house.

i remember the storm of 1987.. three hours to get in, power cut and no heating.. three hours to get home..

only one tree down by euston / gordon st, pretty uneventful morning, really.. except seeing a kid being dropped off at northbridge school by BMW X5 mum, only to realise its half term.. made me giggle inside..

I found it weird that they'd closed the park as forcing people who usually ride through it to ride Park Lane is asking for trouble.

Letting people under freshly storm damaged trees is also asking for trouble and councils/public bodies have been sued by the families of people who have been killed by falling trees/branches before. It's one thing if it's random, if there's just been a big storm it would look pretty negligent.

Just a bit windy really. A tree down across the road near Homerton station:

And a tree down on top of a car a bit later on. Lots of tree debris in the roads around Victoria Park.

Disappointed by the bike racks at work, they were virtually empty. HTFU colleagues.

Looks quite bright, you would have missed the worst of it.