Please put away your DC’s trampolines when storms are coming

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They are a nuisance. Trampolines have blown into roads, train tracks. Then blow into other people’s gardens potentially damaging properties.

Please take them down as the first storm of the autumn, Storm Amy, is coming.

Ours is properly secured - pegged down with multiple giant pegs like those used for marquees. They weren't expensive and didn't take long to whack in with a sledgehammer - far easier than dismantling the trampoline every time it's a bit windy (we live near the coast).

My neighbours are away and I am not clambering through a dense prickly hedge to tie theirs down for them. Quite frankly I'd be happy to see the back of it!

(assuming it goes to a happy new life on the trampoline farm, not blocking the main line to Kings Cross or whatever)

Yes! Our neighbours once got their car badly damaged from another neighbour’s flying trampoline. Just pleased a child wasn’t in the place of the car

Anything large and loose in the garden really.

We used to prepare ours by taking the sides down, and weighing down the legs. Never moved.

My garden was destroyed by a flying trampoline a couple of years ago.

Likewise if you have a metal or plastic shed that is not fixed to the ground please look at securing it somehow. My husband was inches away from being hit when our neighbour's steel shed took off and then landed in our garden. I don't think my husband has ever been so scared or felt so lucky before or since