Stormy weather

[white_hart]

Thanks to Storm Eunice, the rather dilapidated remainder of the corrugated plastic roof over the end bit of our back garden between the end of the garage block and next door's fence is no more. It managed to take several bricks and the rather substantial timber the guttering was attached to with it, but by some miracle didn't actually hit someone's car that was parked out the back. Getting something done with the now entirely roofless space will cost a bit of money, but not nearly as much as paying to fix a car that has had a solid beam dropped on its roof, or even contesting a claim for same.

Other than that we appear to have got off lightly. We had a brief power failure in the morning (only about a minute, but long enough to knock the router out so it took me ten minutes to get back online and into my meeting), but all our fences are still standing and the only other damage I could see from the windows was one wheelie bin on its side. I was very glad that we live in a mid-terrace house which was sideways on to the wind, though.

The forecast for the weekend is still looking pretty windy, even if nothing like today, so we're erring on the side of caution and planning not to swim. Which is a shame, though on the other hand, it means I can just stay in bed all weekend if I want...

Comments

[antisoppist]

My computer took half an hour to get back up and running after the first power cut and then we had a second longer one.

I hope you are staying in bed all weekend or otherwise doing something undemanding.

[cmcmck]

We go off lightly.

I think the Met overdid the amber zone somewhat and it was mostly well to the south of us.

[muninnhuginn]

Our biggest piece of damage was the roofing felt coming off the roof of the summer house. Only a problem as most of my knitting stash is stored out there--and the spinning wheel. New felt already applied, but not fully fixed due to the rain.

[mrs_redboots]

We were very lucky; the churches seem undamaged, and of the family members I've heard from, my mother lost two fence panels ("One is in pieces on the ground, the other is just held up by ivy!" she said when she rang me earlier).