Tom Atkinson wrote:

Wondering how everyone fared with the storms sweeping UK. We are in
N.Ireland

North Yorkshire in a fairly windy spot - gusts to 90mph. Woke up this
morning to loud noises and lots of very gusty wind. The power was
erratic and looking out showed why. A neighbour's large beech tree was
down across the road, held up in part by the new 3 phase mains cable.
The cable support poles were all bent like bananas! Mine is one of the
few fixed line phone connections still working.

All roads from the village blocked by fallen trees. Spent most of the
day helping clear roads. Garden shed totally annihilated - became a sort
of bent and twisted semi-flat pack. Otherwise we only lost a few roof
tiles and are praying nothing more serious hits us tonight. Repairs are
needed and the weather is still too active for compfort.

A couple of villagers lost serious chunks of roof tiles, the village
hall suffered roof damage and its old weather vane flew off.

Compared to the floods in Carlisle it seems we got off lightly.

Regards,
Martin Brown