What does one do if tree hits house or roof blows off?

[Tigersonvaseline]

Just wondering?
Long narrow Victorian terrace.
Where would be the safest place to shelter? Under the stairs?
Do you call insurance straight away?

Get out

Leave the house. Would a neighbour take you in while you call insurance company and emergency services?

Possibly but not Ideal.

Would it be fire engine?

I have thought the same. Do you just evacuate? Call someone immediately or wait until storm is over?

Evacuation means being outdoors with possible house object flying everywhere.

Not sure!! Terryfying I wouldn't feel so worried if it wasn't for the bastard's tree

I was thinking about this. I think you'd need to call for the fire service as you'd need checks done to make sure gas, electric and water were off and that structurally none of the connected houses needed to evacuate too.

Ideally I would want to be able to grab a load of stuff from the house - clothes, work laptop, phone, iPad, chargers, handbag. Things to keep us going a few days. As then it would be a matter of finding somewhere else to stay while you contact insurance and work out the mid and long term plan.

Fire service because of electrics etc. Then go elsewhere(family/friend/hotel?) and deal with insurance etc from there.

Grab bag is a good Idea.
Insurance documents, lap tops tech, chargers , passport , clothes and general stuff...toorhhrush who would secured the House agaisht robber's!!
We are busy inner town house.

Just downstairs with your important stuff - ID, cards, medication, cat carrier, phones, chargers, laptop - in a bag.

I'd stay inside a bathroom if it gets that bad- ideally with a mattress on top whilst I sit in the bath (if it go to a tornedo type stage)

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If the roof came off and I wasnt safe inside, I'd get to a neighbours house. Failing that, a stadium, local hotel or other structure solidly built?

@Tigersonvaseline are you my neighbour ??? . Inner Victorian terrace here with a very large tree at the back of the garden which I am worried would take out the back of the house ! We have huge original sash windows in the front, told my teenage son he’s to sleep in another bedroom tonight in case they blow in !! I am sort of panicking how bad the storm is going to be !!

I’d only be evacuating if I had some where else to go. Probably more dangerous out in the storm. But then I’ve live through hurricanes

You can't escape from a bathroom. If the room became unsafe or damage caused a fire you don't want to be trapped in the one room that doesn't have a window large enough to escape through.

We have trees in the pavement outside and it does concern me in this weather.
I think I'd get kids to a neighbours and get fire brigade.
Its a tree crashing through my roof/front upstairs windows im most worried about, or neighbours chimney pot crashing through or something.
Its rented so I guess I'd contact the agency rather than insurance.

I wouldn't go outside if my roof has blown off, debris would be blowing everywhere.

Magic ,no our tree is at the front on public pavement but the branches lean into our house.
It could go into the children's bedroom's And front of house.

Mattresses are a good idea!
I think for us under the stairs might be safest place , it's packed with junk but we could pull it out and get in with mattress?

The house next door has a huge lose slab hanging in their gutter right on our house border.i asked them to make it safe but it's still there.im worried about that hitting the car.

They aren't there now.

This concerns me as the roof came off the terraced home on a street near me last storm.

Grab bag is a good idea.

Oh God Yes! Huge old chimneys!

Yy to bathroom, I think ours is on most exposed side' I don't think it would be Safe

They were saying on the radio this afternoon that trees tend to attack the upstairs. So the advice for people with large trees very close to the house was to stay downstairs.

I'm a bit scared now

@HotPenguin

I wouldn't go outside if my roof has blown off, debris would be blowing everywhere.

A huge felt roof fell off des student house last night in the storm, it badly damaged 2 cars. Massive heavy pieces of roof which would have killed anybody under them, they didn’t dare go out to see what the damage was.

*dd’s student house

@formalineadeline

You can't escape from a bathroom. If the room became unsafe or damage caused a fire you don't want to be trapped in the one room that doesn't have a window large enough to escape through.

Abit assumptive. My bathroom window is my upstairs fire escape

Dogs how awful!!

I feel very vulnerable

When I lived in America we used to practice tornado warnings regularly at school. You were always advised to shelter in place in a room with no external windows if possible and as low to the ground as possible if no basement was available. Debris is the main source of injury.

I shouldn’t think you are going to need that type of advice though.