Provisional data coming out suggests that in terms of wind speed, apart from Northern Ireland, which was under an amber warning and parts of the North West, Eunice was a stronger storm. It suggests that the amber wind warning perhaps should have covered the NW too.
I'm a bit baffled by the lack of heavy rain warnings and I'd like to know more about why this happened.
It is interesting how people's perceptions away from the NW are different with regards to the wind. As I've suggested, I think this is down to the fact that so much heavy rain was embedded in it - it sounds much worse when rain is battering the window. A lot of structure and trees were already weakened and came down. (that aspect could be used to make an argument for upgrading a warning). Also from a local point of view, the gusts haven been shorter but closer together with Franklin. With Eunice, there were long intense gusts, followed by quite lengthy lulls. Perhaps that changes the perception of which were worse.
Also the wind direction was a little different I think and that will have put different people into the worst of the winds.
I'm sorry about your neighbours conservatory roof flapjackfairy. That would have been scary.