Storm Ali

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Anybody live in an area that's meant to be hit badly tomorrow? I'm in NI hoping it's not going to be as bad as people are saying... winds picking up already though.

Hello @Sisgal and @MsHomeSlice

Is it just me or has there been snow mixed in with all this rain. We have eurobins where we are that have moved and bumped into the rear of our car, luckily no damage though

North Yorkshire here. Just got home from work to carnage in the garden - recycling strewn everywhere, and plant pots smashed and scattered. Ds's plastic greenhouse is upended at the bottom of the garden, tomato plants have gone - probably in the neighbour's garden! Power went off in the school i work in just after lunch, but no talk of any closures.

Very high winds in Lincs. No fences down yet...

School pick up was a bit of a pain. They had fortunately cleared a fallen tree on the route to DD's school quite quickly, it fell around midday but had been moved by the time I went that way at 1.45pm. I had to go the long way around to get to DS's school though.

North East Scotland. The trees out the back of our house have lost a lot of large branches. The poor crows are near homeless

Friend ended up with someone's tent in their back garden (it's since moved on!)

Brazen.... Hope the tent had no occupants.

N Ireland here. We have no electricity. We have less roof than we had this morning, as do many of our neighbours. There are bins blowing about all over the place. Most of the roads around where I live are blocked by fallen trees.

This is the worst storm I have witnessed since I was a child.

Blowing a hoolie here just outside of Glasgow. A few smallish trees are down and a neighbour's wheelie bins have escaped down the road.

On an offshore vessel coming into Peterhead or Invergordon. We're getting battered.

Dublin here. DDs school cancelled a after school sports but it’s calmed hugely in the past 2 hours or so. Still a breeze and some gusts but nowhere near as strong/violent even as earlier. Hopefully that bodes well across the sea for most of you.

I’m in NE England and this is my street today. Fortunately I live on a quiet road so no one was about. Hopefully it’s getting removed tomorrow but there are a lot of trees down in the area so it will be a busy few days for tree surgeons.

Sun shining here near Belfast and just a bit windy, apart from a few plant pots going awol it's all calm

No trains so I may have to go into Edinburgh later to rescue DH

No sign of DC's school bus either. DS messaged me about 20 minutes ago to say there is a tree down at the Kirknewton crossing so God knows when they will turn up.

Otherwise not too bad!

Lots of trees and damaged buildings in the North East Tattie!

i was just updating earlier and we lost power!!
Dh had messaged to see if everything was okay and I had said it was just averagely windy, we are very exposed here and often there's a right hoo hah about the wind and it's just normal for us!

Within ten minutes every window in the house juddered! Luckily ds2 was here, so we bolted about the garden getting in the whirly, the umbrella that was rocking ominously even though it's weighed down with four flagstones. Had to get the cover off the car as that was billowing! The ivy that grows over the back wall has been flipped back into the garden!

Was just coming on here to update and we lost power! But it's back now...just before seven, and SSE had thought it might not be until ten! I was looking out all the candles!

over 100mph gusts at the Tay Bridge apparently, and folks being blown off their feet at the V&A :o

I've not seen any rain since before I went out, it's been a lovely looking day apart from the outrageous winds!

North East Scotland here, hasn't been too bad, bin is still up right, washing stayed on the line

Tccat absolutely love how you had a washing oot!!

DH’s flight from Dublin airport was delayed by 6 hours due to safety concerns.

I still haven't taken it in

my washing blew off the line the moment that serious gusting started

it was well pegged too!

Are you sure it is all still there tccat? My empty whirly was in danger of taking off earlier!
It seems to have been very random this wind!

oh put "washing" in italics as it was a manky bath mat and two lightweight car mats from the car, not real stuff!

Coffee my DH gave up and came home Fromm Dub airport after his 6.30flight was cancelled and there was still no sign of the rebooked 13:30 getting towards boarding after 17:00 - he did say it was chaos in the airport though!

Was a bit windy in the north east. My husband retrieved his shirt from the top of next doors shed...that’ll teach him.
Sunshine was nice though and we drove to the beach to watch the white caps on the sea. And did a bit of gardening when I got back home
Sorry to hear about those that have really suffered, especially the two people who died.

We had no power all afternoon. Trees down, wheelie bins everywhere, streets littered with branches and bits of folk's fences. Kids were sent home from college. It took DH four hours to get home from work because all the trains and half the buses were cancelled. Luckily things here in North Ayrshire are back to normality. It could have been so much worse.

Biddy, DH said it was horrendous. His flight finally boarded at 1845. Apparently they bussed everyone to the gate at 1130, one of those arse end of nowhere gates not actually attached to the terminal, no refreshment services, not even a vending machine. Thankfully there were loos. They just left everyone there with no communication at all as to what was happening.

Apparently there were people there who were waiting for a flight to Tenerife and had been at the gate since 0800. They were finally told at 1800 that their flight had been cancelled and they were being put up in airport hotels whilst an alternative was being sorted. What a start to a holiday