It was a bit scary in the early hours. The gusting wind woke me at 05:00 (we sleep in a loft conversion with Velux windows so it tends to be a bit noisy) and as soon as it was light enough to see outside I found that two fence panels had popped out of their concrete post and water had penetrated past the poorly sealed edge of one window. If that's all then we got away lightly.

Local radio is talking about numerous road closures due to fallen trees and flooding throughout the area and no trains are currently running. 99mph gusts were reported at The Needles just across The Solent from us but that is a very exposed spot.

The wind has now died down here as the storm moves off towards Holland, Denmark and Germany.

A lot of people around here are saying, "Storm. What storm?" It's all a bit of an anticlimax.

Just checked the Triton and found a rip in the cover where I'd guyed it down. Perhaps if I'd left it alone? Anyway, it's an easy repair.

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Our thoughts are with the people in the south
Knowing how much you like the rain Ellen, I hope those thoughts are not of envy?
Seriously though, we've been very lucky here too. It's not normally that way and that big blue arrow on last night's weather forecasts on TV were right above us.
The two people furthest south are Graculus and Eribanut who are both hopefully OK.
Also thoughts for Tee Pee who we believe is riding it out in his Eriba somewhere on the east coast.
R