 According to CH4 News, the whole of Inverness is without power.
now if they built a HUGE windfarm
If the power lines have blown down, i don't fancy the turbines chances. 
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 Wind farm wouldn't work!!! The turbines have to be turned off when winds get above 30mph or so. Would wreck them if turning. Even when stopped can 'lose' bits if wind too strong!!!!! So what's the f**king point of them? Apart from making money for BIG companys and HMG avoiding 'fines' for not beening "green", they only supply a small amount to the energy needs and we still need back up power stations to supply power when wind power is not available.
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 Went for a wander round our local coast. It was well wild
Ardrossan North Shore
Ardrossan South Shore
Ardrossan South Shore
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Saltcoats Beach
Saltcoats Harbour
Stevenston Beach
Steve at Irvine Bar
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Steve at Irvine Bar
Holy feck, has the bar been completely blown away by the wind then?
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Certainly fairly strange behaviour.......most people pay to leave Dundee.
Dundee is paradise compared with Inverkeithing !
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 Bit windy in Norn Iron too. Gusts of 85mph, trees down, power lines down, roofs ripped off, bridges closed, ferries cancelled. A falling tree hit a train!! which was nearly stopped as reaching a station. No one hurt, just shocked!!! Glad train wasn't going at speed or could have been deaths or serious injurys. As a bonus the ash cloud from Icelandic volcano is "hours away from reaching NI". Oh joy!! 
Apparently the Real IRA claim that they planted it....
I'll get me coat.
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 Round here it looks like Autumn, but green... Neighbours lost big boughs off a big tree (and a window and bits of roofline where they hit the house) and the lane we stay on has enough branches down that we walked the bikes up to the top this morning, and chose a less leafy route to school than usual to avoid debris. Picking up our lad from a birthday tea I had to find an alternative route with trees down blocking Plan A. It's just breezy this morning, but was pretty mad yesterday. Somehow resisted the temptation to give the Hubba HP a "proper wind test" in the garden... Pete.
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 I'm glad it was windy somewhere else the other week. I was in Iceland, faced with a night camping in tent-demolishing gales, when by sheer chance a bus driver I'd met last year gave me the phone number of someone who was happy to provide me with a mountain hut. I stayed there for three nights. The first night it got hammered with the wind, then it snowed a bit. I know full well that my tent would have been shredded, as I could barely stand upright while walking in the mountains. The water supply to the hut had frozen before I got there, but on my last night a couple of guys came to fix it, connecting the hut to a lake over 1km away! Here's to Icelandic folk... very tough... very helpful!
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I was on my ML training in the cairngorms all last week. In parts it was...emotional.
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 Huskyman:
"The turbines have to be turned off when winds get above 30mph or so. Would wreck them if turning. Even when stopped can 'lose' bits if wind too strong!!!!!"
Unless the UK turbines are special or low quality 50-56 mph is the shut off speed in most of the world's turbines not 30mph.
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Woozle, You could be right, I don't know exactly what speed they have to shut down. IIRC, I heard/read that the larger ones are 'shut down' at around that speed as high gusts canbe more than they can safely operate at. By large I mean above 70m high. In the UK some can be 120m+ high.
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It was well wild in the Lakes that day too. We were staying above High Lorton and I was blown over en route to the local shop. Was wearing full waterproofs and was completely druckett by the time I got back. Saw someone heading up Hopegill Head- rather suspect he ended up in the Irish Sea somewhere!
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 I'm so glad we cancelled our trip to the highlands and got a last minute deal to Spain.
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