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?

In Herts and the wind has picked up a lot since last night when ds and I were joking where s this storm then?
I m picking dd up from work soon, she d normally walk back but i m worried about flying debris.
In 87 I was 19, in my first job and the bus couldnt get through for fallen trees. Walked in 2 hours late and my boss gave me a funny look and said i should have been on counter duty by then. Errrr look outside

Well the fence is down on both sides in the garden, north London. Great.

We've got a holly tree down now.

Yes in kent it's blowing a hoolie
Sea rescue were out this morning, complete with helicopter. God bless those brave people

This chap who seems to be on a ship in the North Sea has posted a video 😬

twitter.com/andrewgeddes23/status/1226419280176144384?s=21

Those thinking they've escaped it or that it's not that bad it's not due to peak until mid afternoon!! We've 3 hours of build up to go yet

I live in a flood risk area. Rivers have already broken their banks, roads are closed and there’s a few trees that have been blown down for good measure!

Wind absolutely battered the house all last night (Gloucestershire) - garden looks like drunken toddlers have been on the rampage . Bins are over but still in situ.

Rain constant but every now and again absolutely hammers down for a couple of minutes.

Yes the wind has just knocked the rest of my fence over. Im not impressed at all fucking wind.

Well obviously not overegged. I have the strongest wind gusts compared with Newcastle or Preston; currently 55, 57 .. I won't be out of the wood until tomorrow morning.

87 storm: I went to college and promptly fell asleep, with nobody around me. A cleaner came in and gave me a strange look. I then left after learning there was a storm. I was In South Kensington at that point. Had no idea until I saw a huge tree with half uprooted base ON TV! Didn't hear any wind or rain!

Danger to life now, according to met office.

Not a good sleep here, much fretting overnight, although no visible damage.

Stay safe all.

Hope you don't have venture out in it again noche

SW London and not nearly as dramatic as I was expecting. Wondering if this means it hasn't properly got going yet or is passing us by.

SE here and just home to find the door of my greenhouse has blown off, four fence panels are down and the bridge table is smashed to bits.

Bird table

In 87 I had just left school and was working in a Household Insurance department. Took 3 hours to get my coat off the next day when I arrived as I stupidly didn’t take it off before taking the first call! Every time the phone was put down it would ring. Person after person with saying they now had 3 sheds in their garden, trees down and roof tiles off and damaged cars and other things.

Everyone was really nice about it and not shitty about having to wait to get through.

In 87 the entire roof came off our house and was deposited down the road

In '87, I was 9 - we were staying in a caravan in Cornwall. When we ventured out in the morning, lots of caravans had overturned.

A colleague I worked with some years later had a tree through her bedroom ceiling during the '87 storm - she was sleeping in her parents' room as she was scared. So, so lucky.

Cornwall here. It's very wet and windy...and the first day of my week off work!

My side gate has blown off both hinges and the felt has been ripped off the roof of my shed.

Hampshire woke up to 3 fence panels down!!!! waiting for final count before doing anything as very strong winds and heavy rain at moment. Looks like Monday may be a problem as well.

Watching fence panels flap...
What a pain. Our responsibility of course and have a very fussy neighbour who is already being a pain about it all...

Lancashire, eased off a little, but lots of roads flooded. I doubt that’s the last of it.

Update from NE Coast near Middlesbrough. Strongest winds were between 2am and 3am with gusts recorded at 70mph. I don't think we've had them that strong though I didn't used to check recorded wind speeds.

Does anyone know how I can find out the highest EVER recorded wind speeds for my area?

I managed to fall asleep just after 3 when it died down. I was very surprised to see nothing in the garden had moved this morning including a trampoline but that always seems secure in the corner we have it in.

To add its really quire calm now, the winds died down early morning and then we were lashed with rain. Very quiet outside now but we are staying in - - apart from DH going to the shop to get a cooked chicken and some bits for dinner and having a chill day - - apart from my kind DH who has insisted I have a sofa day while he sorts dinner and does the washing

Anybody in Brighton? Am abroad and worried about my house on seafront