Storm Éowyn

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Thought I’d start an early thread on this. Friday looks very blowy here in Wales. We currently have a yellow warning, waiting to see if it’s upgraded.

Confirmed camp is cancelled. Quite relieved tbh.

That's good.

I am feeling a bit scared here in rural Scotland. We are surrounded by trees so I am praying damage will be minimal. We have a small herd of ponies and I have turned them out into a big field, away from any trees and have told them I will see them when this is all over. If I keep them in they will go crazy with fear, plus the yard is surrounded by trees, putting them in the firing line. I have to walk through woodland to their field and last time I checked on them in a storm, a falling tree nearly came down on me. Just keeping my fingers crossed nothing comes down on our house or outbuildings.

Red in Northern Ireland. No public transport. Schools and many businesses (even Tesco!) closed

Hoping that you stay safe and your ponies are all OK. We are also in a village but not extremely rural so I'm preparing with power banks and torches and securing everything in the garden. Not sure what to expect at all!

@krustykittens are they natives? They’re almost certainly better out. I’d always worry about mine in stables in that kind of storm.

Yes, Highland ponies and a cob. The last storm, when the woods I walk through was littered with pigeons too scared to roost in the trees, they were grazing away very happily in the middle of the field, not a care in the world. So I am going to trust them to take care of each other until this is over and stay inside.

I'm in the West of Ireland and we apparently are going to get the brunt of it when it hits land from the Atlantic sea tonight. Everything is shut in Ireland for tomorrow, hoping we won't lose electricity but more importantly hope there won't be loss of life. We've been told by Met Eireann that this is looking like it could be the worse storm to hit Ireland ever😱

We've had the Red Alert.

We're in Argyll. In the last (Amber) storm, our village was cut off for three days. The road was blocked with a landslide.

Highlands are canny. They’ve generations of wisdom about Scottish storms!

Mind yourselves @AnSionnachGlic

I just watched the BBC weather and Louise Lear said that Storm Eowyn "could be the most significant storm to impact the Republic of Ireland in its history!!"

Blimey! Stay safe MNers in Ireland/Northern Ireland and anywhere else with a red weather warning.

If there is any damaged caused by say your fence to someone else's property are you liable

shouldn't be (unless it was already unsecure or something)

I'm in Ireland on the coast..my anxiety is through the roof 🥹

keep safe!

keep powerbanks loaded up, flash lights loaded. camping stove accessible (but do not use it in unventilated rooms or where you sleep).

Having been through a Red alert with storm Darragh, i wish all of you in Red this time, good luck 🍀
I'm sure you're getting prepped, dont forget to recharge your phones!

The whole of Ireland is on red alert. Every school public building and supermarket where I live is shutting down. We are on the west coast so storms are regular but this is being hyped as a threat to life.

Very sceptical this will be anything other than a normal bad winter storm that is expected at this time of year.
Here we have had several yellow warnings over the last year or two and other than a bit of ordinary winter weather they were nothing out of the ordinary.
The Met Office seems to like crying wolf nowadays imo.

Red weather alert for me central Scotland. Alarm went off in my phone just before 6 when at work. Everything's off tomorrow and closed. X

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne I lived in Argyll in my 20s. I remember a couple of 3 day power cuts & blocked roads - no mobile network (not that there was much at the best of times), no internet, no post even. Strange times! Good luck for this storm 🤞

@Zebedee999 I agree with yellow warnings, I was quite annoyed I cancelled travel plans due to a storm last year they hyped up and then it was really quite tame. However I think with a red warning it is different. The Weather broadcaster Judith Ralston said the other day she'd never seen anything like it in her entire career and she is 57. I think this storm could be quite serious and warnings should be heeded.

Yellow warnings are quite common.

Red and Amber warnings, not so much. We've had much devastation here in the past couple of years on Red and Amber warnings.

By all means, take warnings in your own area lightly. People can and do die in these circumstances, however. My own approach is forewarned is forearmed. If it doesn't turn out to be so bad, then that's a great thing. If it does cause destruction however, then that's horrendous and and not to be dismissed as 'ordinary'

Here's the bugger now

Just been into Asda to get some groceries and OMG it's like march 2020 all over again. Shelves stripped bare.