To really, like seriously hate the wind?

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I like all kinds of weather, I love the fact that we have different seasons but I really really hate the wind.
It's just so destructive.
Been awake and listening to it for over an hour and it's wild.

@AndMiffyWentToSleep oh bless him, hope he's OK.

How's everyone in the red warning areas doing?
Any signs of the wind dying down?
Or is the worst yet still to come.
We keep having moments of relative calm and then it whips up again!

I think I’m weird, I love the sound it make cc and find it quite calming (when I’m safely inside) but obviously not liking the destruction. I find flooding worse (our area gets bad flooding and water just gets everywhere and the damage takes ages to fix/dry out. Much easier to fix a roof or a fence panel.

As long as you’re safe and have home insurance it’s not worth getting stressed about.

It is the worst kind. I do like listening to it when I'm cosy inside with a rain storm but not when it keeps me up.

I was actually having the conversation with DH earlier as I was never woken by the wind ever until I lived in a terraced street and assumed it was the wind being pushed through the houses/street and the age of them but then I've lived in culs-de-sac ever since and still it wakes me up. Prior to that I lived opposite a wood and on a 70s very wide street but I don't know if it's the house positioning or climate change in the last 15 years.

Well my back door has just come off its hinges. I literally opened it to let the dog out because I live on top of a hill very exposed. I’ve got countryside near my back garden. It literally has took the door from my hand smashed it broken the hinges because it’s gone against a handle that I have on the wall for me to hold onto because I’m disabled.
so anyway, I have now had to have a friend try to push it shut until Monday and the council can try and fix the hinges. You couldn’t do it in this weather anyway it’s that windy it’s terrible.

Oh my gosh @Workingclasslass that's horrendous, I am so sorry to hear that. 😢
Does the council have an emergency repairs number you could try.
Though I'm sure you would have done that already if possible.
That's truly shocking and just one example of how destructive powerful winds can be.
I honestly hope you and your dog are ok x

Well we had a bit of a lull earlier for an hour or so but now the winds seem to be ramping up again.
Hope everyone is OK.

I hate it too, always have done. We are in the red zone but tucked in a valley so are slightly protected. We had lot of work done on our house last year so at least everything is pretty sound.

My DF lives in the next village and they have a power cut. It's a bit worrying as he's 91, but he's quite safe and I can't do anything about it. We offered to go and get him and bring him here but he does want that either!

Me too. Used to live in a very windy part of New Zealand.

Then I left.

Turns out, in the tropics, wind is not a problem. Lived in Panama over 2 years, all over, and no wind like I experienced in temperate zones.

So there are parts of the world were wind is not a problem. Bugs, yes. Wind no.

The Mistral, strong winds that blow across Provence, were said to drive people mad. Old story that if a man ( doesn't say woman afaik) could prove the Mistral drove them to murder they couldn’t be found guilty.

Think I’ve got off lightly from Darragh, no damage so far. 🤞

Just long for Summer.