To be scared shitless of wind...

[Sallyspoons]

Not the farty kind. It’s blowing out there, my tiles rattle, the neighbours tree is massive and I’m petrified. This all stems from the storm in 1987 when I was 10, but I’m not 10 now and everytime it’s windy I feel like crying.

The Great Storm of 87 is one of my earliest memories - one of my bedroom windows got cracked and remained cracked till I moved out (thanks mum and dad!).

I live on the top floor of a tower block directly next to the river and it’s super noisy on windy days. I don’t mind it but I can see how the current weather/predicted weather would freak some people out.

Have you considered CBT? This sort of anxiety is not normal and CBT would give you some ways to deal with it.

It only effects me on windy days )and when I watch Wizard of Oz” I don’t think I need therapy I need to woman up. My sister is the same with thunder storms and she’s in her late 50’s.

I'm not a fan either TBH. I also experienced a scary storm in my childhood, so I think that is why. We lived next to a stand of trees when I was small and remember many of them falling during high winds, and my parents always being worried one might hit the house.
It can feel quite threatening when it's really windy. I live on top of a hill and we get it so much worse than the surrounding areas. Although thankfully there isn't anything around (trees etc) that could damage our property.

I get that it can be frightening, but I love it (I like thunderstorms, too). However, even I was mildly perturbed this afternoon when I drove to the coast on rural roads to go to Sainsburys. There were some sizable bits of tree in the road, and I was mentally preparing myself about what to do if one hit my windscreen.

I slept through the '87 storm. When I woke up, we had a power cut and the phone wasn't working. I just assumed that the power was off at the telephone exchange.

Even after stepping over roof tiles in the street, I didn't realise there'd been some sort of weather event until I got to the paper shop and everyone in there was talking about it.

OP, could you put headphones on and drown out the noise a bit? That might help you relax a bit. Draw the curtains so you can't see it, too.
I hope it soon passes. It's awful being frightened of something and not knowing when it will stop.

I sympathise op. I both love the wind as it blows the cobwebs away, but hate it as I fear a tree coming down and sinking our boat (home). Or our ropes snapping under the strain. I loathe moving the boat in anything more than 15mph winds.
So - I try to secure as much as possible against the high winds and then hide under the duvet (or at work!) with headphones and tv/music/podcast and a cuppa tea.
I can’t control the wind but I can adapt to it and control my fear.

Hurricanes are objectively terrifying, it's quite normal for anyone who's been through a serious one (helplessly witnessing the material damage they cause) to feel afraid when hearing strong wind.

Thankfully storm Francis should be over by tomorrow. But I'm glad there's no large tree next to our home (sad my garden flowers are getting devastated, though )

I hate the wind too it makes a mess of my garden no matter what I do. I end up with so much damage every time we have a storm or windy day, along with a poor neighbours washing or garden toys blown over from somewhere. The stories of cars blown across roads and trees coming down does worry me, we live near a park with big trees and they do scare the life out of you when you hear one come down.
Hopefully one day they’ll make a chemtrail for wind control

It is horrible : every window I open blows everything about and my tree in the garden is going mad!

I remember that storm too....we woke up to find our fence panels in next door's garden and maybe a tile or two off the roof. I do get a little nervous of getting blown away and nothing to hang on to.

I also hate it. No known cause although I did grow up in a very windy seaside town but far rather have a thunder storm than wind.

When I was a teenager, we had one of those corrugated plastic roofs on our conservatory. It blew off in bad winds, leaving me and my mum to try to retrieve it from the garden in the middle of the night and rescue what we could. So yeah, I know how you feel. I find the wind really scary too.

Seems to be dying down a bit thank the lord. Thanks for the support 😊

I understand OP. I used to live in a house with a massive oak tree, scarily big. If it ever fell regardless of the direction it went it would have taken out several houses. On stormy nights I found it impossible to sleep and would sometimes also get a bit teary.

I've moved now, but every time the wind picks up I do get a very fleeting feeling of dread.

I remember the storm of 87. I slept through the worst of it, but I remember being late for school the next day as DM didn't know if it would be open and there were leaves twigs and branches down all over the place. Lots of mature trees uprooted in the park.

A few years back I had a tree come down in front of my car. I managed to emergency stop with 10m to spare. I just saw it tipping out of the corner of my eye. I had my 2 yo and 6wo in the back. It was totally surreal and had that slow motion thing about it. The irony was I'd chosen that route to stay in the valleys to avoid being buffeted on the hills. It wasn't that windy, but the tree was dead and rotten through.

At least you know what the trigger was which makes it easier to find strategies to manage it.

@CandleWick4

Agree.

I hate it too OP. I don’t think it’s an illogical fear to have because wind can obviously do a lot of damage, but it psychologically unnerves me too, I’m guessing because there’s always a howling wind blowing when things are getting spooky in horror films haha. I think if it’s affecting you so much that it has you in tears though some sort of therapy could be useful to you.