Usually the phone and 4G can fill in, so long as the nearest beacon isnât taken out.
Take care people. We had a big storm last Saturday night and though Iâd prepared, I was still up at 5am retrieving things during the worst of it.
Very good
Yep mines all off in case of surges it intermittent outages
So far so good. Nothing out the ordinary - about 25 mph so far.
Today my order of a Joan Baez CD and a couple of other smaller items will be delivered , and I ask myself is it really necessary for the likes of Amazon workers to be out today .
My old insurance head is thinking - any injury could be claimed as employerâs liability
The only time you donât want an upgrade, Amber to Red !!!
Going to bed last night it was Amber, woke this morning to find out weâre now in the Red warning areaâŚâŚâŚ
Living in Brighton in 87 we got severely battered. My house despite a power cut was ok, I slept through much of the night and didnât realise the storm had been so bad when I left for work, slightly late due to oversleeping as my alarm hadnât gone off. My car ended up with a cracked windscreen which I initially put down to vandalism, leaving home I soon realised it wasnât vandalism. Driving through the centre of town and then along the A259 coast road to Seaford where I worked back then, the devastation was shocking with loads of trees down and lots of building badly damaged. However, within 36 hours everything was pretty much back to normal in Brighton for most people, for some though, the damage to houses took months to repair. My parents, who live in rural Sussex were completely cut off, roads blocked by hundreds of fallen trees and they were without power for 2 weeks. Fortunately, their oil boiler still heated hot water without power and a wood-burning stove kept a couple of rooms warm and they had a camping stove to cook on.
Stay safe, stay snug
Supposed to be getting 80mph winds and heavy rain all day here.
So braced a couple of nervous bits of garden buildings and furniture yesterday as some extra defence.
It is very breezy and weâve just had some rain for an hour but itâs blue skies now in Cambridgeshire and as I type this, even the wind has dropped. Itâs either the calm before the storm or itâs missed us!
Good luck, stay safe and keep us informed.
Managed to get home from near Bury st Edmunds very early this morning, counting ourselves lucky we had not gone to the CotswoldsâŚa few hours away. Orwell bridge was closed when we were on the A14 at 7 am this morning. Tied down a few bits in the gardenâŚâŚ.hope for the bestđ¤đ˝
Thats encouraging
Quite windy just north of bristol atm but nowhere near as bad as i expected⌠Secured my pots last night to avoid them flying about!
On the positive side, forum Scots must be heaving a sigh of relief for once 
Iâm at my mumâs, where I was in 1987. I remember wandering up the road to the tube with a hangover, and two trees had blown down on the road. Hopefully not as severe here today, but my friend and I have cancelled our dinner engagement tonight.
Just watched some birds flying backwards. I thought only hummingbirds could do thatâŚ
I lived opposite a park in Bristol in 87, loads of trees came down, but donât panic no hurricane here lads!!