Where is this storm then?

[malificent7]

So i am in Somerset and it is a little bit windy. Not carnage yet. Dd is at home and I've decided not to go in to work . I have done the right thing havn't i?

The lads have just had to go out and secure this bit of torn sheet metal flying around in the yard. It was flying around like it weighed nothing. Utterly deadly. They wouldn’t let me come with them and my heart was in my mouth watching them. They just sort of leapt on it to stop it and then had to slide it along the ground so the wind didn’t get under it again.

I think people are dismissive because they were expecting something like the '87 hurricane or even worse, but Eunice is a different type of storm. The hurricane went on all night, building to a climax and then fading away. We woke up to see damage everywhere we looked.

But the danger of Eunice is in record-breaking gusts, coming, literally, out of the blue. I'm in SE London, Kent borders, and I really wouldn't know that there's anything wrong. Vinyl tablecloth still on garden table flapping a bit but nothing worse. But 10? miles up the road the O2 Dome is falling apart. With normal weather, we'd be experiencing the same half an hour later.

We need to get Jake Gyllenhaal on the case. Shit just got real.

I wouldn't even bother trying to get them to empathise, raspberryjamchicken – you can't reason with stupid.

The man in Henley was hit by debris falling off someone's roof. Police are saying he's seriously hurt.

All I can say is that in my road, although it is windy, it’s not currently strong enough to be blowing garden furniture about or setting off car alarms

Well maybe try not to be so dismisdive @CounsellorTroi, just because it is not affecting you badly, it is not the same for everyone. There are trees down in another part of Cardiff too.

A man has died in Ireland due to a falling tree but you twats crack on and laugh, it's just a tree after all. Just someones life. Can't believe the idiocy on this thread.

In the southwest I know several friends in our city who have damage to their houses, fences in our street are damaged and nearby a huge billboard has fallen down on a pavement.

In all of these cases, people could have been seriously hurt or killed by flying debris but most people are being safe and staying in unless it's essential to go out.

It's like people on here are disappointed no one has died?!

There’s always enough rain in the U.K. so I just don’t understand why other countries moan about droughts.

Is basically the same as, it’s fine here in X don’t know what the fuss is about.

@ClaudineClare

All I can say is that in my road, although it is windy, it’s not currently strong enough to be blowing garden furniture about or setting off car alarms

Well maybe try not to be so dismisdive @CounsellorTroi, just because it is not affecting you badly, it is not the same for everyone. There are trees down in another part of Cardiff too.

I wasn’t being dismissive. Which is clear in the context of the rest of my post.

@ GirlInACountrySong what ripped the roof off o2 then? The weather? Or was that the media as well.

@WhenIHadYou

Tree down in my daughter's street in Bath. It is a fairly main road and blocking traffic. Greenhouse destroyed in Wales.

The horror!!

What's the point in comments like this?

A man was killed near us last year because he was crushed by a falling tree.

I bet you wouldn't be making sarky comments if it was someone you know who had their home destroyed or who lost their husband.

Its always odd why people decide to come onto threads like this and be horrible and dismissive. Very odd.

It’s daft declaring it all a hype before the storm has even passed over. Do people not think before sharing whatever pops into their heads?

Also there was loads of coverage of Arwen, particularly those left without power for days. I’m baffled by the accusations of ‘no one cared’, yes they did but what did people expect? Vigils?

Sssssh now. Don’t you know the South is suffering? A bit of the O2’s roof has blown off and everything

Grow up.

A lorry blown over on the M4, 6 trees in 25 mins down on Kent rail lines, a man in Ireland dead, my neighbour’s work van in London crushed, fire brigade up the road securing garage rooves that are launching flying corrugated steel sheets across the road, my immobile 90 yo Dad with no heating or power and his carer can’t reach him…

oh God, the tedious media hype, hey?

@SoupDragon

Sssssh now. Don’t you know the South is suffering? A bit of the O2’s roof has blown off and everything

Grow up.

Totally agree. Pathetic.

It's just hitting us now but not too bad so far. Thoughts with all those in worse hit places.

@HomeHomeInTheRange

A lorry blown over on the M4, 6 trees in 25 mins down on Kent rail lines, a man in Ireland dead, my neighbour’s work van in London crushed, fire brigade up the road securing garage rooves that are launching flying corrugated steel sheets across the road, my immobile 90 yo Dad with no heating or power and his carer can’t reach him…

oh God, the tedious media hype, hey?

Oh and my Dad is not in the SE so is it ok to worry?

@WhenIHadYou

Tree down in my daughter's street in Bath. It is a fairly main road and blocking traffic. Greenhouse destroyed in Wales.

The horror!!

Blocked roads are potentially horrific for the people who can’t avoid travelling - emergency services, key workers etc.

Essex here
Saw a woman at lunchtime get hit by a council bin in the street , took her right off her feet , poor thing had over an hour wait for an ambulance, there were plenty people waiting with her though
Our old front door was in the driveway , it's now sat on the front of husband's car he was just about to sell .I cant get the door off but hopefully not too much damage underneath .. it does look like one of the lights is smashed though

There really are some absolute pricks on this thread

Easy Sussex here and loads of trees down and road is blocked.

Someone had left their Range Rover parked near a large tree = one squashed car!

I don't understand why people are so keen to minimise and be dismissive of others' experiences. It's like the first wave of the pandemic on here all over again with some posters keen to say nothing is happening.

@TheFormidableMrsC

There really are some absolute pricks on this thread

Yep there really are!!