[Backinwellies]

Glad to hear you all OK Rusty and sirens weren't for you.

Hope all other TAS members also OK

[Kitchen Cottage]

That sounds seriously scary and not what anyone needs.... hopefully not too much damage

We have been spoilt this winter in Essex ... and long may that continue!

[waddy]

Finally died away down here (South Somerset) although we have seemingly permanent buckets out to catch the drips at the end of the house where we have a bay that gets hammered. All our windows also leak (including stone mullions where it soaks through the seams and around the frames). Always a bit tense when it is this bad. If we don't regularly inspect and clear our drainage ditches and pipes (often midnight trips with a torch and if necessary drain rods) our neighbours who are downhill from us can flood. We also have to be on the ball with sandbags or the stones from our drive slide down the hill leaving us with a muddy slope and the corner of our barn can flood. The problem is with all the runoff from the fields higher than us. We end up with a number of waterfalls coming over the hedgebank and springs popping up everywhere. Quite a few local roads also flood making driving sometimes a bit hairy (I nearly drowned my car just before Christmas trying to escape being trapped between two floods. OH DID drown his car last February on a trip down here to view this house; blowing the engine). However we count ourselves lucky. The damage is fixable. My heart goes out to those living in the flood zones elsewhere.
 
Helen

[cloddopper]

Not too bad here ..we live on the lee side of a hill from the prevailing storms, our weather can be 1005 different from that of the other side of the hills around us.

Lots of run off still coming off the hills over the roads as I drove to Cross hands and back on the A48 this morning at 9.00hrs. .

Those sheep in the submerged fields are no longer there Yipeee!
They seem to be much higher up the hill in a much better  field that also has a bit of shelter from a hedge& tree line. This time with feed troughs in place.

 We have quite a few lumps of one inch thick branch/bits of wood off the oaks at the bottom of the garden but so far the root systems still seem strongly set in the bank work where the gardens were made level .

In the early hours of this morning after one particularly big  blow ( It sounded like a London under ground train coming into the station at high speed but for a much longer period ) I had visions of finding one or more of the big oak  trees heeled over and pushing the pond & office log cabin up in the air.  So far so good it ,was all still OK at 08.30 hrs.this morning.

[Bramblecot]

OH reckons early this morning was worse than the 1987 storm .  It's blowing straight off the sea in great blasts although the rain has eased .  Can barely stand up outside but I have to go to buy more animal feed (guess who accepted 18 rescue chickens yeterday ).  Stay safe TASers

[Mrs Pea]

Terrible here in SA32 too, was very worried that my hen and duck houses wouldn't survive last night but they did fingers crossed for tonight as well because if we have been having 40mph wind so far, I really don't want to think about the 70mph we're supposed to be getting later

Also have an array of buckets and saucepans collecting water in my dining room

Hope you all stay safe.

Lisa

[cloddopper]

Terrible here in SA32 too, was very worried that my hen and duck houses wouldn't survive last night but they did fingers crossed for tonight as well because if we have been having 40mph wind so far, I really don't want to think about the 70mph we're supposed to be getting later

Also have an array of buckets and saucepans collecting water in my dining room

Hope you all stay safe.

 Any hay stack type netting and loads of bricks that you can weigh down on the roof's and stake to the ground ??  Think Gulliver when he was tied down tight with hundreds of strands of thick thread.

[Backinwellies]

Thanks for that Mrs Pea .... hadn't realised the worst was yet to come!!!!

So glad I at last gave in yesterday and brought half sheep in(3 weeks earlier than planned)   and brought rest up to field near house.... no trying to get food out to them today through the water coming down and on the ground!!

[tizaala]

After an horrendous night  we have lost tiles off the roof and our upstairs landing has water being collected  in bowls, rendering blown off the side of the house, and a river running through the bottom sheep shed, good job there was nothing in it. our normally placid brook is a raging torrent now and more to come .

[mojocafa]

It's just horrendous, everything is much more effort in weather. Surely it will stop  soon

[in the hills]

  and more of it.

Undecided whether to build a boat or a mud horse. 

[benandjerry]

Big hugs to you all   

[RUSTYME]

Well , another windy day here .
Torrential rain this afternoon with very strong wind , i got soaked to the skin .
Walked the 3 miles to the land and when i got there , the land was gone !
Well ok , not really . The track is just unbelievable , mud and running water , no trees down in the woods though ! None of the big ash , beech or maple down on the land either .
Did the usual , arse over tit  in the mud and crap bit .  Washed jeans and coat in one of the new waterfalls  along the track . I was already soaked anyway , so made no difference .
Wind is picking up again atm , 6pm , but from the west this time . Think it was from SE last night , so the caravan isn't wobbling as much .
Don't like the sound of the 'monster storm' , i keep hearing people mention , that is ment to be on the way !

[Lesley Silvester]

We so don't need any more.

[Lesley Silvester]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=623412181028188 This is a stretch of trunk road about 20 miles long in Shropshire. One town is completely cut off.