Storm Franklin is driving me nuts !

[Millicent2022]

So noisy can’t sleep !

Much louder than Eunice ! Anyone else ??

House feels like it's shaking.

Boring and quiet in London. It was raining and hailing earlier though.

Lancashire here. So noisy. Driving to Manchester airport soon, so will need to negotiate the Thelwall viaduct

@Awrite

West coast of Scotland here. Massive clap of thunder has just woken me up and now the wind just seems so loud.

I'm in Argyll and it's windy but doesn't seem as bad as we thought it would be, no thunder here. I need to be on a ferry to Gourock in the morning though and dreading that IF it's running!

Near Liverpool here.. I'm wide awake stressing about every gust of wind. It's so violent.. I think this is worse than the other two storms too. How can this just be a yellow warning?

I'm scared to look out to see if the side of my house is missing a gate and fence panels.

I'm in Northern Ireland and it's awful.I'm lying awake listening to a story on audible because I'm too tired to read. The storm's constant in a way I've never known before and we've had thunder and lightning. This feels so different to anything we've had before.

Cornwall and it sounds ten times worse than Eunice! Half 3 and still awake apparently it sounds different as blowing from a different direction?!

East coast of Ireland and it is manky outside. Can't sleep because of the noise and keep checking pots in balcony are not all over the place. It is going to be a fun day in work later on 😒😒

Noisey in Worcestershire

Liverpool here, am waiting tea and toast whilst I await my death. Giving up on sleep.

If @Frazzled50yrold has thunder in NI then I expect we will have that to look forward to soon. Yay.

@Justleaveitblankthen you will actually die if you try and drive over the Thelwall viaduct!! It can't possibly be open in this weather??

@TheresSomebodyAtTheDoorNeil

Im on the Cumbrian coast..... It sounds like the world's ending here

Slightly further down the NW coast and agree with this description!

I would not be driving over Thelwall. Not a chance. If it's still open the authorities are insane.

Somerset here and can't sleep either. This is to much now with a third storm

Me too,in Merseyside.I haven't slept a wink.

@Justleaveitblankthen

Lancashire here. So noisy. Driving to Manchester airport soon, so will need to negotiate the Thelwall viaduct

Take care xx

Scotland here and it sounds mental! Much worse than Dudley and Eunice, but no warnings. Scary.

I didn’t know about Franklin until the house shaking awakening.

@Hungry625f tea and toast sounds the way to go out 😄

NW here. Cannot believe how bad it is. Whole house is awake due to it. Lying here worrying about the roof tiles and chimney stacks. Checked Ventusky and it says it will be much worse at 7/8am. Honestly worried about the half hour drive to work/school.

Ni here too and it is far worse than the previous few days. Sitting in a chair holding dd 7 months because it keeps waking her😫 to be fair to her it is seriously loud in her room and wind whistling through the closed window while the rain batters it

Sounds like many are having a rough time of it. It hasn’t hit Essex yet, not looking forward to when it does going by the accounts above.

Hope damage isn’t too bad when you get to survey things in daylight.

Horrendous wind and rain lashing against the window. It also sounds as if it is in one corner of the bedroom so I think we have lost some slates and it is raining in, into the loft.

Worried about the huge trees ( oak, beech) on the green. If they come down I think they will hit the house. My bedroom is at the front of our stone cottage.

Think I am going to go done to the warm kitchen and make a cup of tea. It is at the other end of the house.

Stay as safe as you can everyone.

@Faithtrusts

Near Liverpool here.. I'm wide awake stressing about every gust of wind. It's so violent.. I think this is worse than the other two storms too. How can this just be a yellow warning?

I'm scared to look out to see if the side of my house is missing a gate and fence panels.

Same here.This isn't a Yellow one at all.

Sleepless in Sefton
Husband's flight from Manchester Airport cancelled for next 2 days too, presumably due to storm

Also awake here and it's just woken DS, but thankfully he seems to have settled back down. We were in a red warning area for Eunice and it was very anticlimactic. This one has been so much louder and gone on constantly all night since about 4pm yesterday. The house feels like it's shaking!

Gave in put coat on and went for an inspection to settle my mind.. can't see the roof, something keeps making an awful sound with the gusts but gate and fence panels seem ok at the moment.

Just seems to be getting more violent though, I cant believe three storms in the space of days, I've not slept properly for stress of it all for days.

Last bad weather (nov?) my gate, which is a car gate not a foot gate was lying on the floor the next day. I have a house with a side garden so it's so exposed if we loose a panel/gate.

Manchester and it sounds like Armageddon here. I can’t sleep so I’m watching a poor plane trying and failing to land at Manchester airport on flight radar.