[Penninehillbilly]

Hope everyone is OK with this Storm, bits I've heard as it hit Ireland sound bad.
Hasn't been too bad here, just wind and bands of rain passing through.

[CarolineJ]

Very windy here last night, think we hit about 70mph, but the roof is still on the house and the field shelters are still intact, so touch wood, all fine.

[Bionic]

Very wet and windy here too last night but other than being very soggy we are ok. I'm fed up with the rain though 

[Fleecewife]

We lost our farm sign and a windbreak (ironic  ) but we'd already felled the tree we thought most likely to go.  Otherwise ok, even the tunnel cover is still on.  There has been a huge amount of rain, but the fact we take the downside of our high-elevation site most of the year is repaid by not flooding badly. It's just the dregs of Frank passing through now.
I hope no one has had real damage and trouble  .  Some of the News pics are scary.

[Backinwellies]

water pouring down off hill and through our yard this morning ... and road blocked by several fir trees .. roll on tomorrow!

[Louise Gaunt]

We lost a huge limb off a conifer in the garden overnight and there was so much water coming off the hill behind us the drain under our drive was overwhelmed, so I was out in the torrential rain lifting gratings to let the water drain away, to avoid the neighbours houses getting flooded. Everything is just so wet. The water table has remained high since 2012, it takes very little rain to make everything very wet again, and we are quite high up!

[Hellybee]

We are on clay, so saturated, but up high.  I feel that Barney was worse for us. 


Wishing all of you well xx

[Lesley Silvester]

It wasn't too bad here. We just had a plastic shed head off down the garden, leaving all my tools behind. Twice. The second time it just landed across the steps so I couldn't get out of the house until OH moved it.
The rotary clothes line is down - snapped at the bottom. Frank probably did us a favour here as it was clearly rusted under ground so is likely to have snapped at any time, probably when full of wet clothes.


The garage is already down so that's ok.

[Hellybee]

Yesterday was supposed to be heavy rain all day.  It's stopped at noon and then I went and helped friend move her ewes.  The rest of the day quite nice.  Today however is looking far worse, we ve had a few rumbles of thunder and the electric got knocked out for a bit and probably going to be the order of the day.  Gusting then dying down, at the mo blowing back up with even more rain. 


Be careful guys and stay indoors as much as you can, hard hat may also be useful when on yard and be careful of them gates x

[Marches Farmer]

I saw the weather forecast and earmarked the day for farm accounts but ... we discovered on Xmas Day that the half tonne of bagged pig feed left in the shed was mouldy.  I left a message with my ag. merchant, thinking that it wouldn't be sorted until next week.  We got a call from the delivery driver yesterday morning and had to move the old feed from the feed shed onto a pallet and cover it with a tarpaulin, unload a tonne of new feed, load the old feed onto the lorry then move the new feed back into the feed shed, all in torrential rain and not helped by the feed being in paper sacks.  For once I would've preferred doing the farm accounts.

[Carse Goodlifers]

Here in the Carse we appear to have escaped a lot of the damage.
A fair bit of rain and flooding over in Strathmore and Perth was on tenterhooks last night at high tide.
The temperature has taken a dive overnight though with near frost conditions this morning.  Then some rain started which then changed to sleet.  Stove is on and its a quiet day inside.

I had an email from our cycling club secretary this morning....the clubs bothy (near Glen Isla) has a 2ft tide mark inside it, the toilet shed has been moved some 50-100m down stream along with a heavy picnic bench (both only being caught by an old steel fence), footbridge to the bothy has gone completely.
Tidy up work party is heading up this weekend.