Storm on

Before the internet was the internet, it was DARPANet, a joint venture between NATO countries, mostly the USA, to ensure that there's always be a resilient communications channel in order to retaliate against the soviets in the event of all out war.

Fast forward a few decades and that infrastructure is now privatised for the benefit of you and me, and now it ensures there is a resilient communication channel in the event that you want to watch the olympics

Is what you need on here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-olympics/25213838

 

Got the torch ready, candles stuck into the candle holder, solar lights are charged and batteries standing by for the radio

House is getting a right battering and it looks like its not gonna slow down till dawn

Taking some medicinal fruit juice to help me sleep

 

The house rocking should put you to sleep like a baby

 

It really has picked up now 70+mph, one fence panel has gone (but I reckon it was at least 20 years old) and the other to may have gone by morning at this intensity!

 

I'm letting the fire go out, been drawing like nothing else, never heard it whistling before

Don't want a full on fire going if the power goes out and I can't pump the heat round.

 

Getting a bit drastic here now, hoping the roof tiles stay put, I'm missing a ridge tile from the Christmas storm.
My Acacia tree on the allotment looks like a gonner, the roots have moved in the liquid slurry we call soil these days.

I'm on beer just now, but if it gets any worse I've got a bottle of Bacardi to fall back on.

 

My ridge tiles are flapping about like a Badger in a Semaphore lesson.

 

I didn't think you had any badgers left down there.
Around here we cull them most nights.
Seen lots dead by the sides of the road

Had a Power outage, (modern speak for a power cut) for a while the other night.
It was calm and no rain, so I guess it just blew a fuse somewhere.

 

Are the Koala Bears ok Woo?

 

Get this storm out the way, and its not sunshine all the way, but it looks like things might get back to normality for a while.
I'm hoping so, I'm fed up with this.

 

It's making me get jittery so I'm closing down and retreating upstairs - away rfrom the south side. I wish you all well tonight,
Jenny

 

Just heard on the news that Dawlish is being evacuated ...the huge containers filled with ballast on the sea wall have been breached.....