Photo-a-Day  (Thursday, 19th January, 2023)

A tremendous gale came from nowhere that night . Luckily the tree fell away from the houses . The cost of clearing up is staggering .
Reverend Long's previous photo of the fallen tree in the churchyard cost £21000 to clear and make good the damage it caused .

the lord will provide

I suppose WE pay in the end but it has to be done. I hate to see a tree come down, whether due to the wind or on purpose due to disease. I remember the terrible storm of 1987 when there were trees down all over the place, some causing damage to cars. I love the wind but can understand people's fear of it.

A tough one that in these cash strapped times! But the tree is blocking a road so maybe the Highways and Council are responsible. Near where I live a tree was cut back and the people were fined who did it and it was dangerously hanging over a main road. But who knows?!

Went past the day after it came down when it was being cut up. Plenty people about stocking up for their wood burners

If the fallen could talk it might say I can remember you Mick starting school at St Maries as a 4 year old.
I don't like the wind after working offshore, I remember back in 1968 flying out to my first job in the north sea as a 21 year old on a very windy day.

Your right Mick about the wind off the North Sea, we live on the edge of it & when it blows...it blows icy cold. They say here if the wind blows from the North East it will hang around for weeks & it does . Thats when the padded coats come out of the cupboard.

Helen we used to fly out of mostly Caister heliport and on the odd occasion Beccles and Norwich.

The railways keep mourning about leaves on the lines and stopping trains. well if they'd cut the trees down or reduce them, problem solved. And is much better for the passengers the see the country side.
Never happened when steam trains were around because they used to set the trees and edgings on fire.

Steam trains have sand boxes to drop/blow sand onto the rails to help traction. do modern trains have these sand boxes?

People keep moaning on about the amount of wagons on this country’s roads an’ all Arthur , and advocating getting everything back onto the railways , but in my forty odd years of driving wagons , I don’t recall ever once being held up by leaves on the road .

( Just attempting to introduce a modicum of controversy into the proceedings here you understand . )

'I love the wind but can understand people's fear of it.'

Doctor: "Do you have trouble with wind?"

Ticsmon: "No, I quite enjoy it."

The difference Ozy is rubber tyres on the road and steel wheels on steel rails.

Big difference with metal and rubber tyres I might add, it's all about grip or traction.

To put this in prospective iron and rubber wheel are a bit different.
I would have thought that was logical, especially were traction is concerned. Yes PeterP, modern trains do have sand blown onto the track next to the steel wheels.

Mick, they still fly out from Caister Heliport, Norwich Airport as well. They come over Sheringham & you can tell the time of day it is when they fly overhead.

Yes Helen they do, I still have a friend who I visit in Potterheigham.
When we flew out of Norwich it was on a Air Anglia Douglas DC-3 we used them to cross over to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam then a KLM chopper, and we used the same aircraft to fly out to Esbjerg in Denmark then another chopper ride.