Do you find windy weather scary?

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I do. Not sure what I'm frightened of exactly.. damage to property I think.

Its just so uncontrollable.

The only time I've been really scared was during the storm in October 87.

I love windy weather as it reminds me of my dear Dad and makes me smile.
When we had the hurricane in 1987 I remember watching my Dad at 3 am up a ladder trying to secure the roof of the porch because it was blowing away! He nearly got blown away himself!

I find it frightening. I live on the north east coast so it's always windy, even in summer?! I was walking home along the cliffs tonight when the wind really picked up so had to cut across fields I was so frightened. My house is old and draughty and winds like this have everything creaking and groaning and doors slamming shut. Hate it!

No I love a good storm. Nothing beats the power of weather for me. If the weather forecast predicts a storm during the night , I go to bed early so I can listen to it.
We like to go on cruises and sailing the Bay of Biscay during the night with gale force winds is amazing. I also prefer holidays with wild windswept Atlantic beaches to calm Mediterranean ones.

I used to love a good storm, but as pp said, since I've bought a house I just worry about the roof etc. The wind makes our gutters rattle, it's so noisy.

I was woken by banging at about 2, as the drive gates had somehow blown open, so I went and shut them and now I can't get back to sleep, it's so loud.

I'm awake at this ungodly hour because our window just blew open! I used to be really scared as a child. Now it's a mild tummy tingle.

Love being cosy inside and letting it do its thing so long as everyone is home and safe.

I love it. Dh worries his way through it thinking about what could be damaged.

Funnily it makes my dsis angry!

I don't like it but thunder and lightning is the absolute worst. I've hidden under the desk at work before as I've been so scared. An irrational fear from childhood of the windows breaking I think. (They didn't but I always thought they would).

I love it too. Can hear it whistling down the corridors.

It'a bad here at the moment. We've got smallish concrete tiles on the upstairs of the house at the front and they are clattering away with every gust.

I've given up and come downstairs. Mrs PC is fast asleep. If it's stopped by 6am, she will know nothing about it.

I've barely slept this evening because of it. Really bad in here in S Wales.

Not me that much, but DH is v wary.
He used to get called out to dangerous buildings - mostly in the pitch black, blowing a gale with horizontal rain - and mostly due to chimneys being blown off and once a gable wall being sucked out by negative pressure.

Also in South Wales. It’s horrendous out there.

I hate it and find it scary. I don't mind the constant drone of wind noise at lower levels, but hate the buffeting wind that repeatedly hits the house on nights like this. You can feel the vibrations through the floorboards sometimes upstairs and it's that that I find very unnerving I think! In a more solidly built house I don't know if I'd dislike it so much - I had no issue with it when we were in the middle of a street of terraced houses, (we live at the edge of a village now).

Just heard a roof tile slide off. Windows rattling. Times like this I think longingly of a new build with double glazing.

I love it when it's very windy, and swishing some tall poplar trees about at the end of my garden, and if by the sea, when waves are crashing on the rocks in a bit of a gale. . It's quite fun to rush out in very windy weather, to get your washing off the line, before your sheets break free, and end up in the neighbours garden, or in your shrubs.. Would not be fond of hurricane winds though, like they have in some countries.

I just know the rotting silver birch tree will throw down more rotten sticks onto the lawn for me to spend an hour gathering up !

Haven't slept yet.... the wind keeps really hitting the house hard. I have to sleep with my bedroom door open when it's windy else it creaks all the time & I hate sleeping with my door open.
I used not to mind extremes of weather outside overnight, used to enjoy being warm & snug inside, but now I live alone it's not so fun 😕
Might go downstairs & curl up on the sofa with the cat as it's the opposite corner of the house!

In Gloucestershire it’s not like normal gusts of wind it’s just like a freight train going past my house. Constant roaring. I’m absolutely terrified of the wind I saw it lift the roof off my summer house few years ago. One minute the wind was driving towards the house and the next second it changed direction and ripped the roof off. This wasn’t a flimsy shop bought one but a proper German built engineered one think the roof weighed 2-3 ton at least. Probably more.
Tonight I’m just hoping that my conservatory makes it.
Hope everyone stays safe and well

I usually quite like feeling cosy and warm in bed with it! However next door have scaffolding up and the noise it made last night was so loud I kept thinking please don’t blow through my window I think it was just the signs flapping on it making the loud metal noise!

Not in the UK but I live in a transportable house (think of a large liveable shed that is plonked ready made on a piece of land) on a cliff, on a peninsular, surrounded by the sea, very very large palm trees and in the path of the prevailing wind.

When the gusts get above 100km (frequently) the patio doors bow in, the palm trees go sideways and the house discernibly lifts and I imagine we will soon be in a version of The Wizard of Oz when the house spirals up.

So yeah. Wind makes me literally fear for my life!! Imagine that when you are scared in your brick houses!!

I love it too, and listening to rain or ceasing waves.

think of a large liveable shed that is plonked ready made on a piece of land) on a cliff, on a peninsular, surrounded by the sea, very very large palm trees

Oh I am (sigh!!). Sat outside with a very large glass of something chilled and plenty more in the fridge.

Have you got room for four more people? 😀

Yes. Hate it.
I've been up almost all night with the wind howling around the house.
I worry about the fence and roof tiles.

It gets so loud in our attic bedroom. Is it super loud in a high rise flat?

I hate it, it scares me.