| davef | I had an eventful day | 00:01 |
|---|---|---|
| davef | had to evacuate my apartment complex as the building was on fire | 00:01 |
| davef | for most of the afternoon I was wondering if I were going to have a home tonight. Thankfully the fire service responded quickly and got it under control. | 00:02 |
| davef | my apartment still smells like smoke, but there's no damage, structural or otherwise. | 00:03 |
| penguin42 | eek! | 00:09 |
| penguin42 | davef: Was this one other apartment on fire? | 00:10 |
| davef | It started on the 1st floor, I'm on the 8th. | 00:12 |
| davef | but it was an apartment that lines up with mine | 00:12 |
| davef | so all the smoke was coming up into my apartment. so when I left I got a face full of smoke | 00:12 |
| davef | my apartment complex is weird, the corridors are exposed to the elements | 00:13 |
| penguin42 | many of the other apartments damaged? | 00:19 |
| davef | at least 2, maybe 3. | 00:19 |
| daftykins | :S holy moly, glad they sorted it | 00:19 |
| davef | I didn't go rubbernecking | 00:19 |
| penguin42 | yeh, well, glad you didn't get roasted | 00:20 |
| daftykins | is it taking much effort to clear the smoke smell out of yours then? | 00:20 |
| davef | It's not so bad now. I had the foresight to close all doors and windows before I vacated. | 00:21 |
| daftykins | ah har | 00:21 |
| daftykins | a client of mine was just telling me that a painter he had in had left all his windows wide open ahead of the storm that passed over here | 00:21 |
| daftykins | twice in a row, too :S | 00:22 |
| penguin42 | ...and it now needs redecorating... | 00:22 |
| daftykins | yeah lots of water came in apparently | 00:23 |
| davef | this was the start of it .. https://imgur.com/a/KcCRX33 | 00:38 |
| daftykins | yeah that's pretty ominous | 00:43 |
| davef | https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzSCjkIp0tf | 00:44 |
| penguin42 | looks like it's made out of good solid concrete exterior | 01:01 |
| davef | It is | 01:01 |
| davef | But stuff can still get hot and start fires in other apartments | 01:01 |
| daftykins | lucky none o' that famous cladding was in use | 01:01 |
| penguin42 | nod | 01:02 |
| davef | this building is mostly concrete. there's no asbestos, nothing that could really do damage | 01:02 |
| zxmpi | glad your stuff wasn't damaged and you still have a roof over your head :-/ | 07:05 |
| daftykins | zxmpi: do you not? | 16:32 |
| zxmpi | ? | 16:35 |
| daftykins | have a roof over your head following the storm :o | 16:35 |
| zxmpi | nah, storm missed ireland barring a tonne of rain. just glad that penguin42 still has a roof is all | 16:37 |
| daftykins | ah, well davef had the (nearby) fire! | 16:38 |
| penguin42 | zxmpi: It's wet here, but not too windy | 16:38 |
| zxmpi | mind if the rain had of kept going as it was we'd be looking for estimates from noah | 16:39 |
| davef | Nearby? It was downstairs | 16:39 |
| daftykins | yeah that's near | 16:39 |
| daftykins | at least in my definition of the word o0 | 16:39 |
| penguin42 | zxmpi: the garden is a bit like a moat; but the rivers seem to be coping OK https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/station/5095 | 16:40 |
| penguin42 | unusually I haven't been out today, not been able to spot a gap in the announced rain | 16:42 |
| zxmpi | you don't have a home made rasp pi rain radar in the window? :-P | 16:46 |
| penguin42 | it would get pretty depressed in Manchester | 16:46 |
| zxmpi | call it marvin so | 16:47 |
| penguin42 | I was watching the Metoffices predictions and rain radar and predictions on that and hmm there was a promising window that disappeared | 16:49 |
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