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Saturday 1st March – I Cast You Out!

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Posted by: knightrider45 Saturday 1st March 2008, 12:57pm

Well, with all the weather we're having lately, giving me severe wind problems on my nightshifts, there's no need for horror films is there?

Mother Nature at her most powerful, most supreme and certainly most dangerous. Welcome to my nightshift!

The wind, at it's peak at just before 3.30 this morning, was (constantly) gusting at 78mph, according to my wind measurement station at work. The rain had stopped at 2.15am and that's the time I decided to get some of my checks done, so I could at least keep dry!

The power of the wind was devastating and had earlier blown a plastic bin top against the office window with some force, and I was surrounded by the winds evidence as soon as I left the office. Rubbish and polythene everywhere, including being wrapped around the top of lamp posts.

Whilst doing my checks, the wind mysteriously stopped blowing for about 20 minutes. The silence was eeerily disturbing - totally unreal, especially as it was so sudden as well. The sudden silence lasted for about 20 minutes I guess and came back with brute force as I was walking alongside the River Ouse - about half way through my checks.

Then the poltergeist effects started. All of a sudden I was surrounded by a funnel of dead leaves from the ground up, street lights were flickering on and off, and with the howling wind, two or three slamming doors and windows which, because someone couldn't be a*sed to lock them properly, were all opening and slamming shut themselves in the wind. The swell on the river was spectacular, helped along by the wind,so in addition to everything else sounding off around me, I had the sound of the waves slamming into the bank as well. And all the time walking into a 78 mph head wind.

Totally unreal. And, if I'm honest, unnerving occasionally as well, because I was concentrating on not being hit by roof tiles, industrial chimneys and general rubbish at the same time.The darkness of some areas down by the river doesn't help either really.

And then, all of a sudden, the wind stopped again, dropping everything it was carrying straightaway.

Leaves, plastic things and polythene quickly landed where they were dropped. Again, sudden silence. This silence only lasted for two or three minutes though this time, and I had the howling gale for company all the way back to the office.

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