Storm Darragh aftermath in west Wales. Plus beachcombing!

[@frankmcgorman962]

Just goes to show. In spite of our "advanced technology", we can still find ourselves at the mercy of Mother Nature. Good to see that you weathered to storm safely.

[@MultiVogon]

I've only just got my internet back today (Tuesday following the storm). Luckily I have a small generator, so was able to run the fridge, lights etc when the power was out over the weekend. Spent a nervous Friday fixing loose slates on my roof - can't quite believe they all stayed in place!

[@Beechams1042]

Appreciate you may know this already and that prepayment may work for you guys for electricity, but direct debit is usually cheaper. Don’t understand why, but it is. You could ask for a smart meter too - as that may help. But glad Elly didn’t blow away!

[@Levenstone132]

Well done on plastic clear up. We were woken this morning at 04.00 when my the neighbours loft extension roof did a back flip down here in Kent. 200 sq.ft of osb and fibre glass causes a bit of damage!

[@hubnotes]

Eesh.

[@tonys1636]

Living in a valley one either misses the worst as it blows over the top or the full force if blowing along, this one blew over so a bit of eddying, a large chunk of neighbours shed roofing felt did blow into my garden but the other side dodgy wall still standing. Must put more water in the unused old wheely bin, as it cost £40 (Irish Punt) from the council when they did the collections it gets used as a barrow, 10 gallons not enough weight. The 4 in use ones chained together and to a wall, not the dodgy one.

[@arieplomp8906]

Thankfully the HubNuts are alright! And a nice treasure hunt on the beach is always nice ! 👍🏻👍🏻🆙🫶

[@martinphillips9686]

Glad to hear that you are ok Ian thats the most important thing

[@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain]

I fear every year the storms seem to get worse, I cannot remember when I was growing up storms like this with the exception of the 87 Storm (which I don't remember as I was 4). I remember last year's storm in October , we were on holiday in a caravan and you could hear the sea roaring all night long, the year previous to that at said caravan park there was a lot of destruction. Glad to see you have weathered the Storm safely.

[@rogerbrennan4170]

Good to hear from alive and well Wales, I really appreciate living on the sheltered coast of Ireland, where we get the tail end of the big ones, we also tend to get a fraction of the good summer weather as well, but as a pay off, that's more than acceptable! One has to realise when one is well off?

[@pageant1fd]

Living just the road from where you film Ian, I was glad to of bought a generator a few yrs ago . I run it up a few weeks ago and checked the oil…….but didn’t check the fuel tank so it had to be used sparingly 🙄. Mighty Oaks were brought down in our village so access was by one lane only from Llyncelyn. Thanks for sharing. .

[@craig1010cc]

Glad to hear you all survived ok, which beach where you at? We only got power back at 3AM this morning in Penrhiwllan , was an interesting experience essentially camping in our house (thank goodness for the log burner)

[@dlittlester]

Seems these events are happening more frequently all around the world. I'm in western Canada, and we've had some doozies lately.

[@jetblack6953]

Ian interesting video thank you. Glad to hear all the HubNut family are ok and your internet is back as I write this. Darragh was a result of a VERY intense Jetstream around 250 m.p.h. so Darragh started off as a normal Depression but as it CROSSED over to the North of this STRONG Jestream it DEEPENED RAPIDLY and to make things worse a HIGH PRESSURE system built behind Darragh helping to SQUEEZE the Isobarrs and intensify wind speeds even further. you live in more remote area than me but winds were still gusting to nearly 60 m.p.h. here at nearly 600ft above sea-level on the Chilterns.

[@Mat3lotz]

Thanks for another year of great vlogs. Have a beer on me 🍻

[@hubnotes]

Thank you!

[@twocvbloke]

It blew a hoolie up here in the NE of England too, thankfully no damages here (and amazingly, the bins even stayed upright for once!), but much outdoor furniture was redistributed regardless, still, the increasing power of storms blowing across the UK is getting quite alarming, a sign of things to come...

[@robingray1302]

Glad you are all well, hope the roof on the unit has survived !!!

[@ianm41]

I sympathise with your fence damage. We had a wind ‘event’ here in Wellington NZ yesterday, if anyone was watching the cricket, blackcaps v England at the basin reserve you would have seen how windy it was..it got worse! Anyway upshot of that is we lost a fence panel as well.

[@michaelcoffey7362]

Oh My !! Glad y all are ok

[@steveosshenanigans]

Glad to hear you’re all ok in Wild Wales ……Ian Perhaps you should invest in a Generator ….for such times

[@CauliflowerMcPugg]

I'm glad you made it through. 👍😁

[@meirionevans5137]

My late father-in - law, ever the optimist, would refer to the weather as "very fresh" We had nothing for 4 days, which does begin to grate..... Keep safe, everyone, the sun will shine again.

[@KylieBeattie]

We are in Scotland and we had an Amber warning stay safe

[@skyll4141]

glad your all ok. could have been much worse.. take care and best Wishes to you all.

[@andrewmoorhouse687]

Good to know you’re all OK. It’s been rough here in Yorkshire, with strong winds, particularly Saturday night and I know some places have suffered flooding. I think the west has really caught the brunt of it thought. Sad to see the historic Llandudno Pier has been badly damaged by the storm. We were only there a couple of month’s ago and it looked like a lot of money had been spent restoring it. Must be heartbreaking, as indeed it is for all those impacted by the storm.

[@KylieBeattie]

I love a storm I like watching the waves crashing I go out picture taking as a hobby

[@philk9227]

It's been a bit rough here in West Wales. Glad you guys are okay.

[@retrogeezer]

ah, we miss our walks along the beach there...this year we made it as far to the right (looking out to sea) as you can go I think. We thought we could get to a waterfall further along but no joy.

[@alansmith1770]

Glad you are all ok

[@caw25sha]

I live in eastern England so your fence is probably somewhere around here. If I find it I'll let you know 😅

[@mikes747]

Our broadband went down a couple of weeks ago and we felt totally lost! All our banking is done online and we had no tv or landline!

[@simontay4851]

No TV? You've got an aerial or satellite dish, haven't you?

[@hubnotes]

Eesh! All our viewing is via broadband.

[@AutoAtlantica]

That’s the same system which dumped six feet of snow in parts of Lake Erie and Ontario.

[@hubnotes]

Blimey!

[@AutoAtlantica]

@ hope you stayed safe. Storms like that mean business!

[@SirNecro]

That looks like it was a good one. Stay safe !

[@stefencooke]

There was a power cut not far from me in Sheffield also have you seen w Whitelands video about damage to there unit

[@hubnotes]

Yup. Thankful no further car damage than one BMW bonnet

[@Boating_David]

Kept thinking of you all in that red zone - was bad enough in Cheshire, got to be the worst wind I've experienced. Especially not pleasant on a boat! 😂 🌊

[@MattBrownbill]

Do a "will it start" video on the boat. 😊

[@gazzertrn]

At least you are O.K. that's the main thing . Been pretty wild for Wales .

[@NeilBarratt]

23,000 properties in Cornwall without power this morning. I wasn't one of them luckily. It's still quite windy (10pm) but we've had very little rain.

[@Sid3300]

I got lucky, East Anglia didn't get hit that hard. Only a few of our fence panels got knocked down! Glad you stayed safe.

[@terryatkinson899]

Beach combing 🤗👍🇮🇪

[@2tone209]

AY UP MR HUBNUT

[@Invisibleman7]

Wind was mighty strong last night, we lost power around midnight, and was back on by breakfast. That’s in Easington, County Durham

[@Klutch58Customs]

I'm on the north east coast of England and it's blown the sh*t through my yard. Dread to think what the business end was like. P.S. if anyone in Scandinavia found my garage roof, I'd be greatfull for it's return.

[@hubnotes]

Yikes! This storm seems to have caused so much damage.

[@Sugar.Cube195]

I’ve got pre paid and I’ll get it before the storm because of that happening hopefully you got it know

[@tomoreilly9932]

I suppose every now and then we need reminding who's in charge of this globe we're spinning on, and our gadgets etc are no match for old mother nature

[@MartinIbert]

Pre-paid electricity is such a strange concept to me. We have a meter that records usage, and we are billled for that. Can't run out.

[@neilpye6089]

You had it bad then where i am it only blew down a few fences and branches from trees

[@eddiejones.redvees]

The storm was almost has bad has hurricane berly which we experienced when on holiday this year in Jamaica but apart from emergency service no one was allowed out when I was driving on Saturday in the storm my car was almost blown across the road in a 30mph zone i am glad I am retired and not driving my openreach van enylonger because that would of probably be blown over

[@andyt2510]

6:15 the curse of Bullseye strikes again!

[@Hereford1642]

Good grief. The devastation. A small branch broken off. Whatever next. Seaweed, cuttlefish. Best stay at home. If someone had been lying underneath that branch when it fell who knows what might have happened.

[@hubnotes]

We were not going to drive around finding examples of further damage as that seemed rather reckless. Hundreds, if not thousands of trees came down across our county.

[@Hereford1642]

@@hubnotes Yeah, I saw photos of two of them in the papers.

[@david1976aful]

I’m thinking about getting starkink, obviously, no good if you’re without power, but will do away with the having to rely on BT.

[@hubnotes]

Our new landlord has it. Apparently the only issue was the wind kept blowing the dish out of alignment...

[@JohnMintyTech]

Prepaid electric? Omg that is the worst payment method because it is extortion. Can you get them to change the meter? Up to you but I would look into it.

[@hubnotes]

It is, but you are at least in total control of expenditure. Contract stuff seems a nightmare.

[@X94Caz]

Pre paid is a big rip off. An event like this is just an example of the pit falls using this system. Plus the extra charges. I use £100 of power I pay £100. Pre pay uses £100 and they pay £125.

[@taztaz6539]

@@X94Caz I'm on pre pay and I get what I pay for with British gas

[@bordersw1239]

Units rates are now the same for prepay as the price cap

[@scottyg7284]

@@hubnotesNonsense.

[@LeeAllen-lq7ml]

93mph winds recorded on North Wales coast

[@hubnotes]

Yup. A bit further north.

[@2tone209]

YOU NEED TO BY A BUDGIE NOW FOR THAT CUTULL FISH

[@adrianmclean9195]

Your near last comment, about the storm taking down power lines and phone lines, is an interesting one - I say this because with increasing wilder weather, because of climate change, which drives storms from heat - originating from somewhere along the line, even if it is your winter - the damage being created, which was already occurring enough - is obviously looked upon as cheaper to CONTINUOUSLY repair, rather than putting underground. This is a relatively big debate in Australia. New builds get underground electricity and I think? all landlines are underground ? But the potential for bushfires with downed power lines is enormous and has been the initiater in the past. With our grid, currently being unable to cope with rooftop solar and the advance of renewables - the fast building of a competent network is still focusing on towers. The excuse is cost: to me this makes no sense. Clearing land for bushfires barrier, servicing, labor costs - particularly at night and holidays when events occur, accidents, land surface restrictions, maintenance, flying objects, moisture and replacing towers when they go down and the damage done when they cause a fire and this going on for life - it just doesn't add up. The long-term cost saving, would be to PUT THEM INTO THE GROUND !!! but alas, I think corporations, employ their actuaries, and work out that part of your charges and insurance and litigation will be covered. Just ridiculous.

[@daz-o5w]

Powys got it bad still no power in some areas

[@hubnotes]

Some areas near us are still without power. Scary stuff.

[@stevie2nw]

Is that Cei Bach? Have spent many a happy hour there!

[@hubnotes]

Close. Bit closer to New Quay.

[@OneDullMan]

We love ourselves a good blow here on the western side of the Atlantic. 2024 has been not so blowy as previous years

[@69Phuket]

Whatever the weather...Weather happens! My lecky meter has melt down. Not recording... Free Lecky! ;)

[@imminentdisaster]

Wiper weather when Elly is airborne through the hurricane. Boxer motor fights back.. i' ll be back

[@ianelwell8000]

Glad you’re all safe, did that laser dinghy have any club stickers on?- one was lost from tresith a few weeks ago

[@hubnotes]

It had numbers.

[@thesmallerhalf1968]

Should we coin a new phrase for a modern age condition , the outernet?

[@Dhira108]

Glad your all safe and well, that's the most important thing

[@wrathofbod]

Electric pre pay, we do but we use e an app on the phone, so easy.

[@simontay4851]

I didn't loose power here as the power lines are all underground where i live.

[@harryjones5260]

more beachcombing would have been nice. i thought that was the whole point of going down there after a storm

[@hubnotes]

It was bitterly cold, which rather curtailed activities.

[@sarahfrith1984]

Never seen anything like it before in West Wales, hope not to see it again anytime soon!

[@ycymrobach9012]

We do get waves like that on most storm’s.

[@Luke-PlanesTrainsDogsnCars]

Storm Darragh..could only have been named by Dara Ó Briain 🗣

[@hubnotes]

Well it was quite large... Not as funny though.

[@johnvoloudakis5761]

Power went off at 02.00 on Saturday 7th and it is still off at time of this posting,15.22 Tues 10th. Electricity provider says power may be back on Wednesday 11th around 19.00 but no promises. Internet will be many days or even weeks longer as fibre optic cables are down across large areas of rural Ceredigion. Lost everything in the freezers already. Fortunately we have two woodburners for heat and cooking. Battery radios are the way to go for the news and we are so glad that we have a few Powerbanks and head torches. Traeth Gwyn looks like it took a hard battering. Fortunately we have only three trees down in our field and garden. 4G phone signal intermittent and no 5G yet in the area. Beulah area of South Ceredigion. How reliant society has become on Internet access and mobile data, truly pretty stuffed without it for so many things. Fingers crossed for Electricity to return on Wednesday night 🤞

[@hubnotes]

Hope electricity returns soon! Whiteland Restorations are also still cut off.

[@Joolz777]

😎😎😎😎👍👍

[@MonaroTravels]

We lost power in the early hours of Saturday morning and they say it won’t be restored until 10pm on Tuesday :(

[@hubnotes]

Good grief. A village near us is still in the dark.

[@darrengray2309]

Bloody hell i can't believe they still have pay as you go electricity over there. That is something you see in TV shows from the 60's and 70's

[@bordersw1239]

It’s an option - you can choose PAYG or if you have a large debt or your credit is bad then they’ll make you go PAYG. Around 4 million out of 24 million use PAYG .

[@johnvoloudakis5761]

PAYG meters are still very common in rental housing and if you are poor (like me) it is a good way of not falling into debt with the electricity supplier.

[@Composites.Cymru34]

99 in Emlyn mate

[@hubnotes]

Blimey.

[@robertwatts1664]

A man was tragically killed by a falling tree, just down the road from me in , Erdington, Birmingham.

[@hubnotes]

🙁

[@COLLSWORK]

😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt]

Why does the UK name storms? Sure Cyclones, Hurricanes and Typhoons get names but not simple big storms. Looks like I'm missing something here.

[@delukxy]

In the future you will remember Storm Darragh, not the the one that was on the 7th December 2024, if indeed you remember the date.

[@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt]

@@delukxy Why would one need to recall what was nothing more than a brief big wind in the future? If your letterbox fell over during the apparently biblical event that was Storm Darragh your insurance company will remember the date. If that's people's idea of interesting conversation I hope I never get stuck next to that type at the pub.

[@fhwolthuis]

What? Still got that coin operated electricity in Wales? 😅

[@StevensPaul]

I went Beachcombing once..... found an empty Bottle of Hairspray 🧴👀............. you thought I was going to say 'Comb', didn't you.....🤪? Glad you folks are OK 👍.

[@TheMoaningYorkshireman]

Hope you've been able to top up your electricity now. 🤞

[@hubnotes]

I have. Had to travel a bit for it! Local shop still shut.

[@2760ade]

@@hubnotes When we had that top up electricity system, there was a reserve on the meter of a couple of pounds you could use if needed, and pay back later. Do they not do that now?

[@davidhughes211]

And they want us to have evs and electric heating in homes. We have no power until 11am Monday morning from 5am Saturday. 3 trees down in our driveway No mobile, no lights. portable gas fire,camping gas for tea etc and ice vehicles thank god.

[@hubnotes]

You can't pump petrol in a power outage either...

[@davidhughes211]

@hubnotes I agree, but at least you have a reserve supply of fuel and gas to keep you going for a few days.

[@scottyg7284]

Stupid direct debit charges? What are you on about ?

[@Hereford1642]

Seriously though, your dependence on the internet is both sad and dangerous. There is a short story 'the machine stops' by E.M. Forster from 1910 or thereabouts. It is free online as a pdf. Have a read chap.

[@hubnotes]

Um, he said, writing a comment on the internet having watched a video on the internet...

[@Hereford1642]

@@hubnotes But if it fails it makes no difference to my life except for entertainment.

[@damonrobus-clarke533]

@@Hereford1642well good for you. Doesn’t matter to you, so why comment?

[@Hereford1642]

@@damonrobus-clarke533 Because youtube chose to recommend it to me and it ate up my time while being boring and trivial.

[@StevensPaul]

"Hub-FLOATS?" 🙃😒💦🌊🚤🛶