storm damage

[murraymints]

It was AWFUL......trees down roofs off....so MUCH damage here in Edinburgh..not quite as bad as 1987 which I lived through in Norfolk but almost..how was it in other parts..?

[EvianBaby]

Well not much damage down my end but I did notice that out of the four big foam play mats I have in the garden for the kids, I only seem to have two left. If anyone sees any giant jigsaw puzzle bits flying around south Oxfordshire could you let me know.

One of the iron garden chairs had made it's way to the end of the garden too. I would have quite liked to have seen that.

[ummmm]

I have a scared rabbit!! He's been sitting on the sofa with me most the day. What a wuss!!

[Ann]

We were all thinking of you up in Scotland - it sounded (and looked on the News) horrendous for you up there, it was bad enough here in the midlands. Hope everyone kept safe.

[Euphemia]

It was very scary. I have lived in the Hebrides where we got used to strong gale/storm force winds but I have never encountered anything like the battering of yesterday's storm in Edinburgh.

[albaqwerty]

We got off relatively lightly here (just outside of Glasgow) Neighbors fence down, other neighbours motor bike blown over. Some streets look like someone has pushed bits of roofs off. 3 damaged cars from flying debris.

[bookbinder]

You have my sympathy, people in Scotland. I'm in West Yorkshire, about 250 feet above sea level, and well inland. No damage here, but River Wharfe at Tadcaster almost up to top of banks. We used to live 500 feet up, elsewhere in West Yorkshire, and regularly had roof damage in gales, but here we seem to just miss the worst of it. I'd still rather not have to listen to the wind roaring in the trees, though!

[boxtops]

murray, you had the record wind speed for the whole country yesterday!

[murraymints]

I can believe that Boxy.... I am actually 2000ft above sea level...very high and get strong winds at the best of times....fortunately my damage was limited to garden...arches,pots etc and to my oh's play shed...neighbours in the same road not so lucky..lots of roofs very badly damaged..and it is now raining heavily ..just what they don't want...

[Ankou]

i started to think about ummmm sitting on the sofa with her rabbit and forgot all about the storm.

[erin-x]

We had it pretty bad in Fife. Our fence was blown down, lots of trees blown over, the car wash at the garage was completely wrecked. I was lucky with my car. When I went to my work yesterday I made sure I wasn't parked near any trees but when I went back to the car it was surrounded by roof tiles! Luckily none of them hit it but I never even thought about that! Too worried about trees! Lol!

[karenmac60]

We've had trees down, shop signs and awnings destroyed, and a few miles from me a family had the entire roof ripped off their house - there's just the timber frame left!

[annie0000]

we've got trees down and more tiles of our neighbours roof and another neighbour has lost her first lot of tiles too - other than that its the torrential constant rain that is causing flooding issues now - i'm in Stirling. Where are you murray?

[murraymints]

Annie I amabout 13 miles south of city centre Edinburgh, now very wet still blowy but not as bad....more to come though.....AAAARRRGGHHH...

[annie0000]

I'm originally from Edinburgh and I lived in Penicuik for a while murray, I just couldn't think of anywhere that high in Edinburgh so got me wondering where you were. We always got worse winters and better summers in Penicuik than they had in Edinburgh - In summer we could leave home and take a walk up the Pentlands and look down on to Edinburgh covered in cloud or Haar and we'd be basking in sunshine. However the temp gauge on the car would start beeping as the temperature dropped as soon as you got to Hillend - it was always 3 or 4 degrees cooler in Winter and we'd be stuck in the snow while they hadn't a drop in town - and that's only 9 miles from the city centre.

[murraymints]

Annie...hiya..very top end of Gorebridge...by vogrie park...OS map reads 2000ft....what school did you go to ? although you are probably younger than me..was born and brought up in Loanhead....