We are here for four weeks .
I must be getting off light … it was breezier yesterday …in fact the sun is coming out now and then.
Guess it depends where you are in the country. It’s pretty rough in the SW (easing a bit here now though)
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I saw this on BBC News channel this morning and thought what a lucky escape they’d had:
Been out for a walk, trees down around the walk out of town, but in the town (should have took a picture) there is a fair size trampoline blown across from one side to the other, thing is the wind is opposite to the position of the resting place of said trampoline, the wind must have got under it and cast it over.
A friend who lives near the open sea here in Lowie reports she has a brick wall down and fences, in her back garden. No longer secure for her dogs. Too dangerous even to go out and clear up the debris, she said.
How are things now people in the thick of it?
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It is affecting London, so the media is going mad.
Two good views on it.
A text from my brother who lives on the Moors above Rochdale.
Really rough up here, had to put a long sleeved T Shirt on.
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Storm whipped through fairly quickly here in Bristol. It’s very quiet here now. Think we escaped the worse of it 
STILL blowing here, with a wet and windy weekend forecast too. 
80 mph winds swept across London apparently, and 200,000 people across the country left without power.
It seems the S.W. and Cornwall copped it bad, too.
It was a 120mph wind that took the roof of the O2 and there were 125mph winds in the Isle of Wight.
Seems each news bulletin tells us all something different, Wendeey.
I’m going by the tea time news here this evening.
Either way, I’ll be glad when it calms down ey. 
Mups definitely, but I’ve just read that in some parts of the country they’re in for another storm, can’t remember where it was though. And heard on LBC earlier that the Isle of Wight had the strongest winds ever in the UK at 125mph.
This is what the Express says for London:
Good grief. That must have been very frightening.
I can never understand these people who flock the sea front either. So dangerous.
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Still blowing well here.
Just seen it’s not expected to start calming down till around 1 am. 
The MSM are suggesting that records of wind speeds have been broken and that these are down to climate change…
Well actually wind speeds have been stronger in the past: Here’s what wiki says…
Wind speed[edit]
Ground Level Wind Speed Location Date
In mph
Low level 142 Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire 13 February 1989
High level 173 Cairn Gorm, Scottish Highlands 20 March 1986
And when you consider that records have only existed for 100 years, and its debatable just how accurate most of those records were.
I’m not belittling the ferociousness of the latest storms however, I do think that because the infrastructure of the UK becomes more complex and fragile, its not necessarily that the weather is getting more severe, but our comfortable lives are becoming easier to upset.
There was a very severe storm in the fifties (I think it was) when fierce north winds coincided with high spring tides in the north sea and funneled it down the east coast where many lives were lost and property destroyed.
Strong gale force winds in the fifties when I were a lad, caused very little effect because there were no telephones, and even though electricity supplies were interrupted most people had coal fires for heat and cooking, candles for light, and the only electric apparatus was a valve radio on the shelf. Perhaps we didn’t know how bad it was because we didn’t have 24 hours rolling news channels, so we just got on with it.
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we’ve got 50/60mph winds forecast all the way through up to and including Monday
Sitting on the sofa a couple of hours ago, eating my supper, and I suddenly heard this awful noise. Sounding like a ton of bricks falling! I’ve gone out the garden, checked upstairs, out the front, spoke to neighbours. They said they also went out to investigate but being it’s so dark we can’t see. I have no tiles on the ground, so am left wondering what the heck it was. I might ask someone to stick their head through my loft hatch, though, to make sure.
Oh crumbs Jazzi how worrying, hope it turns out to be nothing.
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