[00:01] <davef> I had an eventful day
[00:01] <davef> had to evacuate my apartment complex as the building was on fire
[00:02] <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. 
[00:03] <davef> my apartment still smells like smoke, but there's no damage, structural or otherwise.
[00:09] <penguin42> eek!
[00:10] <penguin42> davef: Was this one other apartment on fire?
[00:12] <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
[00:13] <davef> my apartment complex is weird, the corridors are exposed to the elements 
[00:19] <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 
[00:20] <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?
[00:21] <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
[00:22] <daftykins> twice in a row, too :S
[00:22] <penguin42> ...and it now needs redecorating...
[00:23] <daftykins> yeah lots of water came in apparently
[00:38] <davef> this was the start of it .. https://imgur.com/a/KcCRX33
[00:43] <daftykins> yeah that's pretty ominous
[00:44] <davef> https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzSCjkIp0tf
[01:01] <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
[01:02] <penguin42> nod
[01:02] <davef> this building is mostly concrete. there's no asbestos, nothing that could really do damage 
[07:05] <zxmpi> glad your stuff wasn't damaged and you still have a roof over your head :-/
[16:32] <daftykins> zxmpi: do you not?
[16:35] <zxmpi> ?
[16:35] <daftykins> have a roof over your head following the storm :o
[16:37] <zxmpi> nah, storm missed ireland barring a tonne of rain. just glad that penguin42 still has a roof is all
[16:38] <daftykins> ah, well davef had the (nearby) fire! 
[16:38] <penguin42> zxmpi: It's wet here, but not too windy
[16:39] <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
[16:40] <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
[16:42] <penguin42> unusually I haven't been out today, not been able to spot a gap in the announced rain
[16:46] <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
[16:47] <zxmpi> call it marvin so
[16:49] <penguin42> I was watching the Metoffices predictions and rain radar and predictions on that and hmm there was a promising window that disappeared