Stormy weather

Down to Portobello this afternoon with my mate and his dog to let him have a run around off the leash on the beach (the dog, not my friend), only to find what was a cold wind in the city centre of Edinburgh was a howling gale coming right off the North Sea at Porty, whipping the waves up into big foaming gray peaks and slamming right into the sea wall so hard they splashed right up the side, across the Esplanade and hit the wall of the structure on the other side. That was when we decided to walk around the block at the worst bit :-) Pictures are a bit fuzzy, the wind was so high my camera lens, glasses and my face were all getting whipped by flying sand granules and salt spray, had to clean them repeatedly but within minutes they just got covered with a film of it again.

Gale force

Some pics not actually by me but by my mate and colleague (and Kevin Smith impersonator) Crowbar (thanks, man) who looked out of his window at the Hanley FPI today to see the emergency services sealing off the road as the high winds were ripping lumps out of the building across from them. Yikes!





Wow, looks at the debris - hard hats for shopping trips methinks.