To really, like seriously hate the wind?

Just long for Summer.

The Mistral, strong winds that blow across Provence, were said to drive people mad. Old story that if a man ( doesn't say woman afaik) could prove the Mistral drove them to murder they couldn’t be found guilty.

Think I’ve got off lightly from Darragh, no damage so far. 🤞

Me too. Used to live in a very windy part of New Zealand.

Then I left.

Turns out, in the tropics, wind is not a problem. Lived in Panama over 2 years, all over, and no wind like I experienced in temperate zones.

So there are parts of the world were wind is not a problem. Bugs, yes. Wind no.

I hate it too, always have done. We are in the red zone but tucked in a valley so are slightly protected. We had lot of work done on our house last year so at least everything is pretty sound.

My DF lives in the next village and they have a power cut. It's a bit worrying as he's 91, but he's quite safe and I can't do anything about it. We offered to go and get him and bring him here but he does want that either!

Well my back door has just come off its hinges. I literally opened it to let the dog out because I live on top of a hill very exposed. I’ve got countryside near my back garden. It literally has took the door from my hand smashed it broken the hinges because it’s gone against a handle that I have on the wall for me to hold onto because I’m disabled.
so anyway, I have now had to have a friend try to push it shut until Monday and the council can try and fix the hinges. You couldn’t do it in this weather anyway it’s that windy it’s terrible.

It is the worst kind. I do like listening to it when I'm cosy inside with a rain storm but not when it keeps me up.

I was actually having the conversation with DH earlier as I was never woken by the wind ever until I lived in a terraced street and assumed it was the wind being pushed through the houses/street and the age of them but then I've lived in culs-de-sac ever since and still it wakes me up. Prior to that I lived opposite a wood and on a 70s very wide street but I don't know if it's the house positioning or climate change in the last 15 years.

I think I’m weird, I love the sound it make cc and find it quite calming (when I’m safely inside) but obviously not liking the destruction. I find flooding worse (our area gets bad flooding and water just gets everywhere and the damage takes ages to fix/dry out. Much easier to fix a roof or a fence panel.

As long as you’re safe and have home insurance it’s not worth getting stressed about.

I put earplugs in (cheapo superdrug ones) and managed to sleep a bit more…until jolted awake by a distressed DS who was freaking out because I hadn’t heard him calling me 😖

Oh I might go and find my noise cancelling headphones and watch something on iPlayer until I fall back asleep again!
Thanks to whoever said about putting tissues in their ears, it prompted me to think about what I could do.

We are in a red zone on the Welsh coast.

It's actually terrifying. Things keep hitting my bedroom window.

Kids have managed to sleep through but the dogs are really unsettled.

I think it has just peaked here, about 4 30 when my house was literally shaking.

I find it terrifying. For good reason. A tree came down and hit the side of my house in 2020. Luckily no one was hurt but a lot of damage. The wind is scary.

Am in the loft and can hear the roof tiles rattling every time there’s another gust. Am pretty certain some will have fallen off by tomorrow

I don't think this storm is hitting us as bad as some areas, which makes a nice change for us! But yes, stay safe folks.

I’m wide awake, hearing that gale rampaging outside, howling
and beating against the windows, as though wanting to be let in.
I’m seriously considering making herbal tea

Keep safe peeps
Hopefully it will pass with minimal disruption

Completely agree - I love the outdoors and totally happy to get soaked or shovel snow etc but the wind is just so destructive. It feels so negative from whining and moaning to angry rage - I literally hate it!

My friend works on train networks and said after windy weather there are many lines down due to trampolines on the line! Also if anything metal crosses lines, it can cause the fuses to blow, which then take a long time to change as they can even be buried under roads! (Don't ask!). The power of wind!

It's woken me up. Fingers crossed everyone in the red alert area is okay.

Sick of these storms now and being stuck inside for endless rough weekends and the kids with cabin fever.

I was so stressed when I went to bed, I stuffed tissues in my ears - but I can STILL hear it. Terrified of it damaging the house.

Yea. Only 10 min walk but colleague giving me a lift thankfully. Many places closed here but work in the co-op, so not us lol. I'm just outside the red warning in Wales(got the alarm yesterday).

I live in a part of the UK which definitely gets more wind than average - I'm not keen on full on gales, especially if I have to get on a boat, but I don't mind a good breeze. It keeps the place feeling cleaner and fresher.