First, Psycho Chicken, posting from Glasgow:
The wind’s so strong the building is moving – and when you consider that my building is a 100 year old sandstone tennement block, that’s quite something – and I can’t see the other side of the street for the horizontal rain.
There are actual waves in the school playground.
Then this morning the West Coast Main Line gets seriously disrupted, not by fallen trees or damaged overhead wires, but by an intermodal train shedding containers at Shap at 3 in the morning..
At least one of them was a forty-footer as well. I’ve never heard of anything like that happening before. TV reports show one of them took out a signal and reduced it to a mangled wreck. Yet it didn’t derail the train, which continued into Scotland before the driver realised anything was amiss.
And it wasn’t a single incident either; a second train lost containers south of Milton Keynes.
