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[Sarah B]

I live 7 miles from Portsmouth in Waterlooville and the Independant online UK said today that Waterlooville and Havant were some of the worst affected areas in Hants. It was awful.

 

I was awake all night as we are closely surrounded by trees as we side to the woods and have big trees in the garden.

 

Chooks were in the eglu last night but out in their run today, and as I had to work and it was still horrendous and I have a poorly one it was a real worry.

 

Luckily when I got home the run had not blown away - there were no trees on the house nor the chook run but boy did I worry!

 

x

[chelsea]

I think last night was worse than the night before

 

I hardly slept a wink - dont think the hens would have either poor things.

 

Very very windy

[The Dogmother]

Not too bad here last night - we only seem to have got the tail end of it. News pictures for the south coast look pretty bad.

 

Pamster - how were you last night?

[hillfamily]

News pictures for the south coast look pretty bad.

 

Pamster - how were you last night?

 

We're OK :D (thank you for asking) ....no damage to the house (although 3 of my neigbours have lost a lot of roof tiles......must just be the angle of the houses ....) only some damage to bits and bobs in the garden and the shed roof - will be out there later with my trusty roll of roofing felt and nail gun

[The Dogmother]

Glad to hear it.

 

One up for us DIY girls then?

[hillfamily]

 

One up for us DIY girls then?

 

Absolutely

[Egluntyne]

Quiet as can be here.....so far.

 

Fingers crossed.

[The Dogmother]

It's amazingly calm here too Egluntine. Beautifully sunny at 6.30am, but has gone downhill since and we've had a bit of rain, but no gales yet.

[Egluntyne]

Very blustery here since about 8pm.

 

I think we are in for a bad night.

 

We were bound to get it eventually.

[chelsea]

im getting seriously miffed with this weather now

 

its SO windy here, like a bloomin hurricane and its our 3rd night on the trot.

[Tara123]

Very windy here too.

 

It seems to be worse than yesterday

[Snowy]

Hope everyone is OK this morning! Howling winds here in the midlands, can't imagine what it must be like on the coast!

Stay safe everyone!

[buffie]

It's blowing a gale, like a train. Safe journeys this morning

 

BBx

[Egluntyne]

Awful here. The garden looks as if it has been stirred with a stick.

 

And the rain!

[Olly]

Very windy here - the cat-flap keeps rattling, which is making Welly very uneasy - I predict he will spend the day on the bed with one paw over his nose, like yesterday.

 

I love that expression Egluntine 'the garden looks as if it had been stirred with a stick' ditto here, everything swaying around but hopefully nothing actually falling over. No rain yet (quick, must get to work before it starts!)

[Christian]

Been blowing a gale all night, but really started to get bad at 6am.

 

At least it is dry.

[MedusA]

Been blowing a gale all night, but really started to get bad at 6am.

 

At least it is dry.

 

Ditto!

 

I was out all day yesterday, so the girls had to fend for themselves (I did check on them before locking them in the eglu and they seemed OK). I will spend some time with them today to make up for it.

 

I was due to pick my Mum up today from Lincolnshire, for a visit, but as the windspeed is 39mph (gusting to 52mph), we're leaving it until tomorrow. Hopefully things will have calmed down by then.

 

I hope everyone is OK. Take care out there and only travel if your journey is necessary, as they say!

[chelsea]

still like a hurricane here

[Jules.]

Some of our roof tiles have gone

Good job we have home emergency cover

 

I daren't let the chooks out in case of injury from falling tiles

[craftyhunnypie]

Last night at 11.30pm..it was like a Cyclone / twister here. It went mad. The bin blew over first. Then the trees were bending in half & the noise!

I was ready for bringing the chooks inside! But their houses were all ok & they were quiet & tucked up in their nests!

The roofing felt which hubby had only re done the other day - had blown off one of the sheds again. So he went out in all that weather to hammer it back on & put some wooden batons across it (hammered those down too). But I was worried the wind would get under his jacket & carry him off.

But then it all went calm & dead still. Really wiered!

about an hour later, it came again..it was like we had been in the eye of the storm at one point. The little gazebo that used to cover the little chooks took off, but got lodged down the side of the house, otherwise it could have landed on the cars!

Just been egg collecting & the garden is unbelievable. Stuff everywhere..rubbish from other people all over the place. The poor cat, won't go out for a wee wee, so I think we will have to put a litter tray down for her today..she's 11!

The chickens are enjoying wind in their bloomers, but when a real big gust comes, they run in their houses.

Horrid weather, just hope everyone is ok.

Emma.x

[Treekeeper]

Same here high winds horizontal rain and stuff all over the garden

[Egluntyne]

Brilliant sunshine here now!

[The Dogmother]

Bad here too, was woken up at about 4am by the wind howling (no rain yet though). It seems to have got progressively worse, and my walk to school and then on to work was hard work. The office is surrrounded by mature trees, which are creaking like mad - I'm waiting for one of them to come through the roof!

[chickencam]

It is windy here this morning and it was bad yesterday evening when we went out to ED parents evening. There were huge black and mustard clouds and it was hard to stand up, we thought we would get soaked. We even took our oldest car because the school is surrounded by big trees but by the time we came out it was much calmer and hadn't actually rained much it must have just skirted past us.

 

The races at the Cheltenham festival have been called off today because of damage to the tented village it must be pretty bad for then to do that, it is very exposed up there

[feemcg]

The heaviest hailstones I've ever seen just now, deafening noise and rattling into my boiler vent, the whole place has turned white. I was out getting eggs a wee while ago in bright sunshine and blue skies, and the chooks were sunbathing!