Has the storm hit your area yet?

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Hay...

Listening to the wind just starting to pick up here in Suffolk.

Is it bad where you are?

Very windy now here in North Herts, lots of fences over according to local FB posts, fortunately mine is currently ok. Is this going to get worse?

Yes, West Country. A huge branch (8ft long and a foot thick) has come off one of my trees already, along with lots of smaller bits. This is a big tree that we have managed by licensed tree surgeons every two years, so is healthy and in good condition. No damage done but that was more luck than anything else.

It's not been over egged. It hasn't started overnight. The warnings are for today in the daytime depending on where you live anything from now until 5pm ish. It's going to apparently get worse. So far what we've had is just bad weather.

the storm of 1987 - I remember walking to work and having to hold onto a lamppost because I literally could feel my feet being lifted off the ground. My boss was walking behind me and offered a comforting arm and we battled to the office together

Since my last post half an hour ago the wind has now really picked up in Newcastle and it's lashing it down!

Kept me awake most of the night. Getting stronger. I'm in Northamptonshire and yes I do remember the storms of 87! Trying to walk down the street to a friends house and being pushed over by the wind x

@Raindancer411 I remember it !!!!!
Awake all night, no power for a week, and carnage !!!!

@Charley50 lol oh dear! My dad went to work and we had a bad power cut. When he walked into the staff room he was carrying a hot drink and everyone wanted to know where he got it. We had a camper van at the time and had brewed it in there. Needless to say he was very popular lol

I remember sitting in the kitchen with him and my sister over night and my mum slept through it. Following morning next doors roof was off and no where to be seen and tiles were bedded in our lawn. I remember driving around a few days after with my family and seeing all the big trees down

@Charley50 i walked to the bus stop to get to college that morning !! Climbing over fallen trees, hearing all the alarms going off !! Bus never showed up !!!

It's nice to hear some old story's of the 87 storm. My son (7) is worried about this one so far so I was trying to put myself in his shoes from back then when I was trying to ensure him it's all good.

South Devon and it's been pretty horrendous since late last night. I've been awake since five, along with a very scared dog hoping we haven't lost anything off of the house.

A huge branch (8ft long and a foot thick) has come off one of my trees already, along with lots of smaller bits.

I think we might have a similar situation here soon. The tree opposite my house is already bending, and we haven't even had the worst of it yet.

Not good, @watersheep, especially if it’s supposed to get worse . Stay safe.

‘87, yes, my 9 year old best friend and I set off for school as usual, dodging fallen branches and stuff all over. We almost there before there was a notice board up saying the school was closed. Lol, the days before email/ text messages! We could have buggered off for the day and our parents wouldn’t have known! But we were good girls so turned back and went home.
Here in Sussex it’s just getting wet and rough.

Thanks Rightest I'm staying put and trying to stick to the back of the house today, just in case it topples.

I hope the rest of your tree stays put.

Me too!

Our fences got taken down in the last Storm Brendan so they should be okay for this one, one in the front might go but it's the neighbour's. The dog has done very well and went out in the garden for his morning ablutions (with a wary eye on the thrashing trees). Would be gutted if any of our trees were damaged, we keep them all trimmed back and no leaves at present so hopefully they weather it ok.

We're in the south west Midlands. It's blowing some gusts here but apparently it's not hitting us until lunchtime. Annoyingly I have to go out as I didn't get to the supermarket because I went to collect DS to save him travelling today, he has to be home for a job interview tomorrow so I'm going to have to venture out at some point.

Our next door but one neighbours have just been in next door's garden pushing all the heavy stone pots up against their fence to try and shore it up, I'm so tempted to go and move them to the fence between me and next door so the fence that our neighbours own is ok - whereas next door but one own the fence on the other side so I think they've been a bit of a CF to be honest. No idea where next door are, there car had gone when I got back last night so I guess they have been away overnight and aren't wanting to travel back today.

The Met Office wind map say it's 20mph winds and they are going to get slower as the day goes on, I'd like to believe that but I'm not convinced.

I was in Devon so the 1987 storm wasn't as bad there as in the SE (but bad enough). I remember my mum coming into my bedroom to wake me up for school and asking me if I'd heard the wind. I think a lot of the primary schools were closed that day but my secondary was open.

DH lived in London and said his brother knew there was something up when a bin was moving faster than his car ;)

Both doors on neighbours' bin store are now open and banging, and one of the hinged lids has flipped open. Each gust lifts one of its legs off the ground.

DP is sitting in the bay window, weather watching, in the hope that he catches the moment that it takes to the air.

And we're glad that we're upwind of their house!

Who remembers the 1987 storm??

I slept through it.

When I woke up, we had no power and the phone was out of order. This struck me as an odd coincidence.

I took the dog for a walk, thinking it was strange that there were smashed roof tiles on the pavements here and there.

I didn't know there'd been a storm until I called in at the paper shop on the way back, and everyone in there was talking about it.

@iem0128 def not over egged, this is the most severe storm in years

A huge branch has just come down off a tree in front of our house. I'm glad there were no cars there at the time, although I don't think it would have broken the windscreen.

Son has athletics training but it's been moved to the track rather than their usual tree-lined roads, so hopefully will be ok. DH still had to drive him there though. I think it should have been cancelled really.

Most running races have been cancelled but I hear the Newbury racecourse one is still going ahead, maybe they thought there was no risk of anything like trees or debris hitting the runners on a race course.

Ok it has now judging by the wind sounds!

Over egged? Not sure people living in the Calder Valley would say that.