Scary weather

Spent most of today repairing damaged fences and a pergola arch which is now held together with cable ties!! Only lost one pane of glass in the small greenhouse but the large one is another story

Wonderful to have a good night's sleep followed by a day of calm.

Yes, lovely day here too. However we have discovered that thanks to the recent high winds we will have to replace 2 fence panels, their posts have snapped off and they have great holes in [they didn't have before!]it's our responsibility, so will have to cough up.

Such a lovely. day today!

I spent the last week in Dundee where we only saw the reports of the horrendous weather 'Down South'. We had some rain, quite high wind, but also sunshine - in other words, normal February weather for which, I imagine, family and friends in the South would be enormously grateful.

Living in a 'mobile' home, I'm terrified that it will either blow away or float away!
But today is sunshine and calm.

Dgd and 21 of her school friends plus teachers are spending a night at Heathrow when they should have been in Italy on a ski-ing trip. Should be flying out tomorrow morning.The upside is they are in the Hilton and seem to be enjoying the experience.

Incredible sky over Bristol Channel. Even the water looked red!

Much calmer now and a red sky this evening!

DD2 OK in Gosport. They went to HMS Nelson's Valentines' Ball so she reckons she was suffering from alcoholic amnesia this morning as she doesn't remember much about the storm!!

We had a very wild night. Not much sleep and we were relieved to find very little damage this morning. The chickens were wandering around the garden looking a bit dazed as the back door to their coop had blown outwards.

Passenger killed on the Marco Polo

Solent

Text a friend this morning to make sure she was ok in Gosport after hurricane force winds in the silent last night............I discovered she and DH are currently sunning themselves in Egypt !

My mum used to tell the tale of the floods of 1953 when she opened the bedroom curtains to see a swan swimming down the street. She walked to the bathroom then it registered what she had seen and she had to go back for a second look

A thousand trees uprooted at Killhope, not 500.

A dreadful night.

I understand there were 11 mile tailbacks to cross the Second Severn crossing yesterday afternoon as the old Severn bridge was closed (lorry blew over I think).

A power cut overnight so when we woke up clock said 3.20 but it was actually 7.30 am
The sun is trying to shine now for a couple of minutes amidst the heavy showers.
Stay safe everyone

Until the weather settles we are staying homes, village flooded for three days last week, with all roads closed, although fortunately only a handful of houses were flooded. Two gales and worries about our chimney stack this week. When disaster strikes. I want to be here when it happens.

In the last half hour had a hail downpour and now blue sky and the wind is less. Roll on Monday when we escape to the sun of the Canary Islands for ten days.

We must have been posting at the same time Brendawymms glad you are OK.

The new fence panels, that replaced the ones down in the last storm, are now in my neighbour's garden, but the power stayed on and no trees came down,

Good morning, although it doesn't feel like it. I am shattered.

On Wednesday we were at our house in Normandy when the storm struck, some hours earlier than in the UK. It was coming from the south, an unusual direction and as it ramped up it was lifting the tiles and driving rain into the house and for about 2 hours, as the storm got stronger and stronger we were in real fear of the tiles being ripped off and the damage to roof and house that would ensue.

Last night back in England we had another frightening night. Our electricity supply is attached to our chimney, with a 45 metre cable back to the electricity pole. The gyrations of this long cable in this winter's winds is damaging the chimney. We have spoken to the electricity board, about the alternative way of getting the cable to the house - underground. We have a builder ready to dig the necessary trench, but the electricity company has pressing work elsewhere. Meanwhile the damp patch on the bedroom ceiling gets bigger as the damage to the chimney gets worse and last night we just sat there wondering whether the next gust would bring the chimney and electricity cable down on our heads.

As I said I feel absolutely shattered and wrung out this morning.

Makes me proud to be British Granny23. Hope Brendawymms survived the night.

A very scary night. The wind was just horrendous. At about midnight the sky was clear with a bright moon but it's back to chucking it down. Hope there is not to much damage done to property overnight.

Coming home through sleet and hail at 17.00 we were stopped on the bridge over the Devon by an Ambulance, with all lights flashing, which was stopped in the middle of the road. Very quickly a long string of cars built up in both directions and we feared the worst - that someone must be lying on the road badly injured, perhaps a cyclist who had hit the huge puddle which inevitably forms at that spot in heavy rain.

After a while the Ambulance moved to one side to let the on-coming traffic pass and that is when we saw the reason for the hold up . A large snow white swan was swimming slowly round in circles in the 'puddle' looking slightly bemused by all the headlights. Ambulance crept forward, inch by inch, until they corralled the swan on the footpath between the road and a wire fence around the field. Frightened swan then waddled up the footpath towards the bridge where I hope it managed to get down to the river again. We had to continue in the stream of cars and, having been chased by an angry swan before there was no way I was getting out of the car. Hope she made it to safety.

Swans swimming in the middle of the road! Whatever next with this extraordinary weather

It was on the local news tonight that 500 trees had been uprooted in the Killhope Forest. That's an afternoon outing for us, going to Killhope and Allendale, and I did not even know there was thick snow on the ground.
Hope the red squirrels are okay.

A bit on the breezy side. Definitely not sailing weather!
Blown my garden arch with honeysuckle climbing over it. It's been there for 8 years. Now is like an n on its side!
Wondering to replace or not! Might just leave the garden open from top to bottom.

Very windy here in North Bucks. Howling around the corner of the house.

It's worse here now. The gusts are making the dogs jump. We are close to a railway bank which tends to shoot the air flow over the top of us and we have a large privet hedge and four Scots pines at the front of the house. They are doing a sterling job of keeping us safe.....we hope.