Double whammy

Double nightmare. The weather forecast for the coming few days is pretty awful, if not horrendous. We’ve had cutting north-westerly winds all day with continuous gusts of between 30 – 40 mph together with regular squalls of driving rain. And it appears that we can expect more of the same non-stop for the next 4 or 5 days. Yes, pretty much non-stop.

I went to check on the Savannah today and found that the cover I’d put over the nose and engine cowling had blown up but was able to pull it back down again and secure it with another bungee. The same had happened with the cover that I’d put over the rear of the fuselage but although I was able to pull that down too and secure it with another bungee, it was impossible to cover up the rear of the fuselage behind the passenger door which is now pretty much exposed.

The wind is driving into the temporary covers that I put over the Savannah from its right rear quarter and not only is there no shelter at all from that direction but there’s nothing I can do about it except wait and hope that everything holds until the winds begin to abate. That will probably not be until Sunday, although the rain will persist even after they’ve dropped.

If I’d known that the weather was going to be quite this bad, would I have left the Savannah up north in its hangar for another couple of weeks? Yes, I think I probably would have. Ironically, the covers that I made for 56NE, which are fitted, have hardly budged an inch in the wind and rain 😐