On 24/12/2013 12:30, Emery Davis wrote:
What a lovely name for a storm, anyway.

So, wondering how you all made out.

We got plenty of gusty wind as promised and lots of standing water
outside. The only casualty though was the last of our elm trees, which
was in no great shape anyway, being cabled to keep from splitting. I
guess the cable wasn't enough. A shame really, second elm lost this year
to wind. I shant be planting more of them. Not looking forward to the
big job of cutting it up, or paying someone to do it.

The main damage came to our neighbour's place, which took a large birch
on the house over the front door. It uprooted quite early in the storm,
around 9pm last night. Damage could have been much worse -- lucky it was
a birch and not an large pine or oak -- but it did poke through a couple
of ceilings and take off the roof across the front of the house along a 4
ft deep area. Not heavy enough to break any of the main supports. Wily
old country rat that he is, there was already a team of roofers there at
8 am this morning, equipped with chainsaws!




It's sad to hear about your Elm, but good to know there wasn't more
significant damage. We seem to have survived unscathed, but I haven't
been out in the garden today, so hope all is well outside.

I do feel for your neighbour. Hope he can get the house patched up
without too much trouble.
--
Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay