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stay safe everyone !

2 years ago

Hunkered down for the day with my favourite’Storm Buddy ‘ - worked late last night to get todays emails off early today …. Almost booked a roofer, but was told ( sensible mrOnePlan) that that was a step too far … let’s hope he’s right .
Stay safe Houzzers !
We will get through this !
Karen

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Sonia
2 years ago
Staying home and staying safe. My insurance company sent me a long list of “things to do to prepare for the storm” including tying everything in the garden down as well as cutting down long branches on trees etc, which I haven’t done as me old arthritis is limiting. In the storm of 1987 one of our trees fell and my neighbours fence landed on my husbands car. Anyway Karen stay safe!
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OnePlan
Original Author
2 years ago
Oh my word !!
Yes I remember that storm too - my shed blew away !!! I was living in Kent then - in my first house !

It’s wild here right now - I was just putting things into cupboards in the outdoor kitchen and something big fell on the roof ! I nearly had to change my jeans !!!!
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Daisy England
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I removed bird feeders and lightweight tubs out of the garden yesterday ready for the storm today. I have placed them in the garden room. Here in Staffordshire we are due to expect 68mph (according to the forecast) later in the morning. It is already gusty but will get worse.

We have a Sycamore tree at the rear of our back fence which I have asked the Council (who it belongs to) to prune it on several occasions. They have refused. I just hope the nuisance tree does not fall our way should it be uprooted. However on a positive note and providing there is nobody close, it would delight me if the darn thing would uproot itself and fall in the opposite direction on the waste ground. Every autumn the darn seeds falling are beyond a nightmare and that's nothing to say about the leaves.
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You may have one by the end of today !!
Juliet Docherty
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No trampoline but two trees down!
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My elderly Mother popped out to bring her bins in and found people dealing with a trampoline which had lifted up and over a fence and onto the road. Somehow it had missed the parked cars. She’s in Surrey, which was under a red warning at the time. Luckily people were around as she could barely stand upright, let alone bring her bins in! (I had said it would be unwise to go out, but hey ho!) It’s been fairly wild here in Oxfordshire but we’ve not had any damage, at least nothing we’ve spotted yet. Angie

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