"David Hill" wrote

Well for now it looks as if the worst of the wind is over.
Here at the side of Swansea Bay we had 26 hours with the wind gusting to 60
mph or more, of that 18 hours were gusting to over 70mph, but with that
came just 0.6 inches of rain so I suppose we were lucky, though there is
water running everywhere.
Here everything is still standing, just the ground littered with twigs;
mostly dead wood; that the gale removed, and my first daffs are still
upright, I checked the variety and they are Rijnveld's early sensation, and
are about 3 weeks ahead of the next earliest.
The first Camellia buds are just showing signs of red but a time away from
flowering.
Hope everyone else got away lightly.

Whilst we did have strong winds it's the flooding we are all concerned about
here. It's back again with the same three main roads closed as before as the
Thames has burst it bank again. They are now saying it will be worse than
2003 locally.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK