I hope all my North European readers came through the storms relatively unscathed.
For those that didn’t know, we “enjoyed” hurricane force winds yesterday.
Fortunately, we only had most of our garden furniture doing a Wizard of Oz impression and lost part of our fencing.
A neighbour had tiles fall off and smash through her porch as well as a large proportion of her fencing collapse.
Akra is currently working from home as power still hasn’t been restored to his office.
And last night, all our power went off at 4am, setting burglar alarms off all across the estate (we’d replaced our back up battery recently, but still woke to the sounds of others’ alarms).
Still, none of us were hurt, and the repairs have all been negotiated between neighbours in a very civilized manner.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Paula // 19th Jan 2007 at 8:02 pm
It has gone relatively unreported in the media (there is a surprise) but up here in the far reaches of Scotland, okay on the outskirts of Edinburgh, we have had gale force winds since mid-November.
With only a couple of days break between the storms. We are beginning to get used to the wind blown effect. It is when the rain is added in that it becomes annoying.
2 Jag // 20th Jan 2007 at 11:39 am
Goodness. We were quite lucky, but a neighbour “lost” a large section of fence. It just disappeared. I have to say it was quite frightening Thursday afternoon.
3 Lisa // 20th Jan 2007 at 2:18 pm
My shed door blew off! Otherwise we are relatively unscathed. Until next time…
4 Pewari // 21st Jan 2007 at 6:29 pm
Paula: I can imagine – strong wind AND rain is a pretty unpleasant combination.
Jag: eep – did anyone “discover” the fence later? Got to be interesting waking up and finding a strange fence in your garden the next day. Have to say, I really didn’t enjoy doing the school pick up with the kids – didn’t feel very safe being out in it, although the strength had lessened somewhat by 3.30pm.
Lisa: yikes – all fixed now, I hope?
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