[Beeducked]

Well I suspect that we will be flooded in again but that's not anything new.


Watching Twister on the telly to get in the mood!

[Lesley Silvester]

My biggest worry is the sycamore tree that is just the other side of our garden fence. In the hurricanes of 88, my brother had his chimney blow off and through his roof. They had to move out for six months while the repairs were under way. My SIL said she was never, ever going to nag him again. She had been on at him for ages to decorate a bedroom for their eldest - then aged three - to move into. The chimney went clean through that room and ended up in the kitchen. If my niece had moved into that room, she would have died.


The never, ever nagging again lasted at least three months. 

[in the hills]

Thanks Marches. 


First tree down ...... squashed my rotary washing line flat.


Sun shining though.

[happygolucky]

We had trees cut down, with permission, after some high winds just blew a branch and just missed my neighbours shed, so, we took them down and after the next high wind I went out to feed the chickens and saw our 2 chimney pots on the wobble!!! it was a bank holiday so we called the fire brigade out, thankfully they did not fall onto the roof etc like a house down the road had, that appeared to take ages to get fixed again. Chimney pots often come loose due to the pull of a fire etc, they shrink the cement from heat then cold and 2 pots one hot one cold (I am talking rubbish but hope you understand) so now that's done, never got our Ariel put back so we use indoor aerials, also the neighbours fence fell on our car, I never claimed for that one, they had a lot of ridge tiles off too.....I think they were 80mph winds....

[tizaala]

All the animals are fed , watered , hayed and strawed up, all buildings shut and secured , car moved to a safe place , all loose stuff put away off the yard , dogs and cats are locked in , torches at the ready. Not a lot else to do except hope it's all OK in the morning...

[john and helen]

its a bit of a weird build up, one minute the tree is all over the place, wind howling through, the next, everything is still ......

[darkbrowneggs]

Assuming its gone over now - how was it for you?

[john and helen]

neighbours green house and the fence took a battering, so not to bad in the scale of things,
nature can be very impressive sometimes,

[plumseverywhere]

4 disappointed children that wanted to experience a real hurricane (!)  we had some rain here in Worcs and our kitchen floor was partially flooded but we have missed it here really. Hope everyone on the south coast and Heathrow etc areas are all ok 

[Bionic]

I let the dog out at 2am and although it was raining it was very still.  I thought it was the quiet before the storm but it never hit us.
I hope everyone is as lucky as we were.

[EcoGypsy]

Not too bad here (CB7), altrough it was blowing well, especially about hour ago. Hopefully that will be all? 

Read on the news that wind is almost 100mph in some places...  Starts to rain again here...

[Tamsaddle]

Here on the south coast, close to Portsmouth, we had gusts of 75 mph, and boy was it noisy all night.   At 2.20 I woke up to hear an enormous tree going over, and in daylight found a colossal old macracarpa down, one which was well past it and we'd been thinking of felling anyway.   Very annoyingly it has taken with it a beautiful mature sweet chestnut and one of my favourite big apple trees, still with lots of unripe apples.   Well at least for once we'll be able to pick them from the very top branches rather than waiting for them all to fall down as windfalls!   The pigs will be happy today.   I'm amazed we didn't lose more trees;  a neighbour has lost a large ash though which has fallen into our property.   And we had 45 mm of rain !!    So definitely very stormy down here, but now the sun is out and the wind easing off.   Not a patch on our 1987 damage thank heavens.

[devonlad]

hope its another example of the over the top predictions of doom we get regularly about life - but not looking forward to it- my terrier HATES strong wind and howls all night.

round these parts was exactly as this- Saturday night was much windier. Got a Buddleia to replant but other wise nothing of any note at all

[Bramblecot]

Hi Tamsaddle,  Much the same here on the coast near Bridport.  The only damage here is an old massive willow which has come down but luckily into a hedge which broke the fall.  The chickens in the house underneath couldn't wait to get out this morning .  Nothing like the 1987 damage ( no roof and no power for 3 weeks).  Hope everyone else is as lucky as we have been.

[henchard]

Nothing like the 1987 damage ( no roof and no power for 3 weeks).  Hope everyone else is as lucky as we have been.

Without wishing to diminish those personal tragedies that will happen with any natural event there really does seem to be an ever increasing hyperbole from the media over events like this. 'The worst storm since 87 etc.' The map I posted yesterday morning clearly showed the track of the storm but they were still threatening damnation here in Wales where it didn't even rattle the slates. Despite that clear map from the Met Office BBC Wales still had a reporter down in Cardiff trying to 'bull up' a non event into a crisis!
 
 Even the Met Office TV forecasts were quite restrained last night but the TV News and Newspapers (no doubt - I don't read them) were trying to make a drama out of what is a fairly normal event. I turned on Breakfast TV to see some reporter twit down in Dover stood in a bit of nice morning sun with cars going up and down the prom trying to make out how bad it was.
 
 Again apologies to those that have suffered but the build was hysterical nonsense of the media's making.