To ask if you've made any plans ahead of the Storm tonight?

Yes, they’re generally the ones who are petrified that electric cars are a ploy to keep us controlled and things like that.

It really is idiotic isn't it? Wasn't as bad for us as predicted - we got about 10cm of snow and the lanes were a bit tricky for a few hours. Half a degree colder and it would have been very different.

We did lose a mature holly tree from our woodland which came down across the road and were without power in the night.

Some neighbours in a hamlet up the road were without power for about 36 hours though so we were lucky!

Kids got a snow day and we didn't have to do a big shop at the weekend and won't have to get any coal or wood in for a few more weeks, but it is re-assuring to know that we would have been OK if it had been worse.

I don't know why people think that it is uncool to be prepared and that mocking people who are is edgy - it just makes them look like they are a few braincells short.

Especially when those same people often tend to be the ones who are in a permanent state of anger over whatever the tabloids want them to be angry about that day!

Exactly.

Sone strange posters equate listening to warnings and acting as 'permanently scared'.....🙄

It’s also really weird, because I’m certainly not ‘permanently scared out of my wits’, and no one on this thread has come across as being so. I live my life in a fairly calm state (with the usual work/kids stresses!), and when there’s a severe weather warning I equally as calmly decide whether to take a simple step like picking up my shopping a day earlier so I don’t have to go out in it if I don’t want to.

😂

People that use Tic Toc and X terms like "conditioned" to be permanently scared or "sheeple" just come over as a bit thick but think they are really clever. Taking precautions is sensible.

I was planning on doing a big shop in Tesco on the Friday just because i hadn'tgot back into the routine after Christmas (usually internet shop but Christmas buggered all the slots) but just did a shop to get all the dinner stuff on Thursday when I was near a supermarket picking the kids up through till tomorrow when the weathers better. We live pretty rurally and the storm did in fact hit us pretty bad (parent had a medical appointment up the road that I had to take them to Friday and the car got stuck about 3 times).

It wasn't panic shopping it was just practical to make sure I had all the food I needed in the house to save unnecessary journeys when it's not really safe to drive. I didn't buy fuck loads (or any because I already had some) of toilet roll or anything mad like that. Just food that took me through until I would be able to drive to a supermarket safely again.

Yes the loft hatch rattled all night here too, I barely slept as even after the red weather warning ended it was still really windy. I have a friend down in the far south-west still without power now, and it's looking there are still a lot without any power down there. So thankful to have some again today and able to recharge everything just in case it goes again.

It truly was. Our loft hatch was lifting up and down with the pressure. The pressure in my ears was awful. We were prepared for the electric to go off again but luckily it's still on.

That's a great description of the noise, like a jet engine, it was something else wasn't it, constant and never waned, a terrifying sound. My double-glazed windows were physically bowing inwards under the pressure. Have never witnessed anything like it. We lost power again last night at 5pm until around midnight, obviously lots of repairs still being sorted with the national grid working round the clock.

A second Christmas- this time with snow! No gifts, no fuss, just the three of us. Facetime with DSIS and BF. Basically finishing off the Baileys and the Snowballs and eating all the leftover biscuits. Snowy walks in the woods. Bliss!

So deaths unless nationwide are insignificant?

There was a lot of damage and disruption.

"Nearly 100 trees have been torn down on Cornwall's iconic landmark St Michael's Mount, while roofs have been ripped off buildings across the county as Storm Goretti battered the UK with devastating hurricane-force winds.
The rocky tidal island off the British coast with only 31 residents suffered a loss of 80 per cent of its trees, while everyone was evacuated as it bore the brunt of the storm.
Severe conditions caused school closures and travel disruption today with flights grounded at airports, roads blocked and large swathes of the rail network shut.
Now, the Met Office has issued fresh yellow warnings for snow and ice for tomorrow and Sunday as partially thawed snow refreezes before more blizzards arrive.
A combination of melting snow and rain will also increase the flood risk over the next few days, with the Environment Agency issuing 107 alerts and 14 warnings in England.
One new Met Office snow and ice warning covering most of Scotland and northern England runs from midday today until 3pm tomorrow with up to 15cm (6ft) set to fall.
A second yellow warning for ice will cover large parts of western England and Wales from midday today until midday tomorrow; while a third across Northern Ireland for snow and ice will come into force from 5pm tonight and run until 11am tomorrow.
A separate snow and ice warning on Sunday will be active for much of Scotland and the North of England from 2am until 3pm with another 30cm (1ft) accumulating.
Meanwhile the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has extended its amber cold weather health alerts for all of England until Monday, warning of a 'rise in deaths'.
The wild weather brought 99mph winds overnight while a rare red warning was issued by the Met Office for 'dangerous' winds in South West England yesterday.
National Grid said 64,000 properties across England and Wales were without power this morning, including 48,000 in the South West and 15,000 in the West Midlands.
Birmingham and East Midlands airports both had to suspend operations due to the heavy snow, while all trains in Cornwall and many others in the North were axed.
The sky turned pink in areas of Birmingham this morning following the 'weather bomb', after the central pressure in the area of low pressure fell rapidly yesterday.
Roads were also closed due to fallen trees following a week of severe conditions that has seen villages in Scotland cut off and temperatures falling to nearly -15C.
People in Cornwall were urged to work from home this morning, with the council advising residents to avoid travelling due to the large number of closed roads".

Really what?

Really!🙄

The blast from last week didn't last as long in our area so went ahead and met up with friends on the night.

Thank you . It was truly terrifying. The roof rattled for hours and the wind howled. It sounded like a jet engine outside.
Our internet connection and the electricity has just been restored.
I am truly thankful that's over. And grateful we came through it. At least 10 of my neighbours roofs are badly damaged. And we only lost half a fence and our gate. I could walk through 6 gardens over all the fallen fences.
Cornwall was lucky. 123mph wind speed was recorded near Padstow. I've not been able to listen to much news but I believe there wasn't any loss of life? Maybe because most people listened to the RED weather warning and didn't think it was a conspiracy or worried they were overreacting.

Hope everyone who lost power gets it back soon. And well done to all the emergency services and electric crews etc who have no choice but to be out working in it all.

Some of the comments here have been ridiculous. It makes some people look so ignorant.

Power was restored around 9am, ten minutes after receiving a text from the national grid saying it would take until Sunday. It has been a long and rough night, the red wind warning ended at 11pm, but the amber warning was still in place so it continued to be really windy making the tiles shift and move all night and the pressure build up indoors was causing everything to move so constant noises preventing me from sleeping.
Further south roads are closed with multiple trees down. I'm lucky to have electric back, family further south are without and were also informed by the national grid that it might take until Sunday morning to restore the power. Many schools down that way are closed, whilst several in this area are just opening later.
It was horrific here, but it was a lot worse further down in the South West, Lands End, St Ives, Hayle and Penzance areas.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/live-storm-goretti-updates-danger-10744079.amp

Everyone OK this morning?
No damage here thankfully by midnight it was just a 'normal' level of windy

We are in an area without any storm/weather warnings, it's all going north and west of us. I am still very conscious that that's not the case for most of the country. My mum is in the west of the country, I have friends in Devon and Cornwall, so am thinking of all of them.

Just because it doesn't affect you directly, don't pretend you don't know about it. I've never been to Venezuela or to Minneapolis but I'm still concerned about what's happening there.

This

My husband's uncle lived up a steep hillside he'd sledge down to the main road where he'd left his car during snowy winters. If the roads were bad he'd walk back home pulling the sledge.

So I'd stick to sledge tomorrow, school might be shut anyway.

I think on here sometimes people try so hard to look like the ‘cool kid’ that they end up looking absolutely ridiculous 😳.
Lots of snow here overnight. Just had a message from the bus company for my elder 2 to say that their bus to school isn’t running. Not sure I fancy driving them in.

East coast of england- torrential rain through the night and 30mph gusts of wind. Will make for an interesting bike ride to work in just over an hour!