The dangerous wind this week. Self-help

balletshoes

i think the strong winds have followed me down to Nottingham - 2 fence panels and a post down this morning, and one fence panel trying to separate itself from its post at the moment.

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It`s been hellish today, windy all night but terrible gusts from around 3am, very frightening. Still very windy now with bad gusts but not nearly as bad as this morning. Wind was straight off the severn estuary. I am glad that we only have stock fencing around us, no panels to blow down. I wonder if the power is back on in great parts of scotland

Broomstick

I'm on the look out for two more smallish paving slabs to put on top of the recycling bins. We have one which is working well at keeping the lid on but if each bin has a slab (we have three in all) it would have to be cyclone proportions to move them, I think. Our empty wheelie bin went walkabout last night though. I have also bought some little bungees in the sales to keep the lid on the wormery when we eventually set it up. If we don't need the bungees this winter, I'm sure we will by next autumn's gales.:D

It's not so bad in Cotswold country at the moment, am thinking of all of you who have been battered over the last week.

mardatha

I got so sick of it we went out to the shops. Loads of trees down and roads blocked off and council gangs out with chainsaws further up, but no damage here.

Beccatje

well, the storm seems to have moved over to us in Holland...
It was havoc last night.. Very VERY strong winds.. and since most of holland is well below sea levels, there was big alerts all over the place to guard the dikes. Rivers are flooding, and people are being evacuated in one area up north because the sea is coming over the dike and it will probably break through.

We woke up to an almighty noise and a huge gust of wind blowing in a big splatter of rain. I've never been rained on in my bed before! Our window is always open to a crack. (one of those tilted windows) We like fresh air in the bedroom, but getting rained on was the limit. :-)

Candy53

I'm in Lincolnshire and I've never known winds so bad as they were last night and night before, accompanied by slashing rain. Still windy but not as bad.

Only a few metres from the side of our house is our larch tree, a big thing, but weak branches, and they've been flying off. I was terrified because when the trunk starts swaying abit, I'm always worried incase it goes, and crashes into the house. We've a big window right infront of it, and my daughter's bedroom also, so for the past two nights I've hardly slept.

My husband's a long distance lorry driver and he rang me about an hour ago to tell me he's going to Scotland. I checked the weather and fortunately there's no warnings for the UK today. Phew!

Candy

System

On Tuesday whilst i was putting the shopping in the car i had a peice of someones roof narrowly miss my face by inches. Not sure which roof it came off as there was several shops around me. Shook me up a bit i can tell you! Luckily it missed the car too.

SpikyHedgehog

I had to go out in the garden last night to secure it - the mini greenhouse had gone over, the bbq was half way across the garden... The bins were blowing round but I'd left them bungy'd together so not too badly. Got the cover off the greenhouse & into the shed, brought some of the plants in that were in the greenhouse & put the others in the shed, brought DS2's pet snail inside in his tank, threw the watering can & bbq into the shed, wind caught the bbq & banged me on the head though not badly. Bungy-corded the brown bin to a concrete fence post. The street lights were swaying about out the front and kept cutting out, but the black bin stayed upright all right so the bin men could empty it this morning. The wind's not usually this bad in Suffolk!

Next door neighbour came to his back door & watched but didn't offer assistance. Or do anything about his gazebo cover which flapped about most of the night trying to keep DS1 awake but had blown off by 6 o'clock when I got up. Except the bit that he'd stapled to the fence between our gardens which is still flapping about...

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Beccatje, live updates from Saskia Steinhorst on
http://www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=412&c=5

comments are down the page. Very serious situation in nederlands