ecb89
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Think we got off fairly lightly in Essex. Watching some of those planes last night on flight radar was entertaining but obviously not for those onboard!
Storm
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HorseMaid
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Stables and horses all intact - phew!!
holeymoley
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What a night. Feel like a zombie today. Everything fine a ours, gusts were terrifying though and I don't get startled easily. Gusts were peaking at 59/60mph and wind speeds 30+mph. How we have no damage I'll never know.
Goldenstar
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It was a wild night horses are in at night atm still too windy now to windy to exercise so they are out in the paddock that shelters them most from the the west .
Nothing like storm Arwen that was frightening the windows where moving that was 97 mph here at its worst .
Hope every body is getting on ok in it.
Nothing like storm Arwen that was frightening the windows where moving that was 97 mph here at its worst .
Hope every body is getting on ok in it.
Equi
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Final damage, just the house and a tree. Ponies all ok! 
Keith_Beef
Novice equestrian, accomplished equichetrian
The ones I heard about were diverted from Manchester to Beauvais.Manchester planes were diverted to Paris, just what you need when you want to get home
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The French like to call it "Paris Beauvais", but that is even sillier than calling Luton airport "London Luton".
Luton airport is 56 km (35 miles) north from central London whereas Beauvais airport is 85 km (53 mi) north-northwest of Paris.
sportsmansB
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Im in Northern Ireland and it was by far the worst we've had for a long long time
I had a branch come off a tree, take down the Fibre broadband line and just miss smashing the garage window, but that's the worst of it at home apart from stuff everywhere - and I feel lucky for that, I have a lot of big old trees around the house and gardens. Kept the horses in the smaller paddocks by the house and shelter last night as they have really good fencing and I knew I wouldn't have time to walk the perimeter of the big field before work this am to check the boundary for fallen trees on the fence. The pony was completely unbothered and appears to have amused herself by removing her top rug, and the retired eventer was very skittish but settled with hay in the shelter.
Took me an hour to do a 15-20 min journey this morning as every road I tried was blocked by trees and power lines- but I couldn't stay at home to work because no internet
I had a branch come off a tree, take down the Fibre broadband line and just miss smashing the garage window, but that's the worst of it at home apart from stuff everywhere - and I feel lucky for that, I have a lot of big old trees around the house and gardens. Kept the horses in the smaller paddocks by the house and shelter last night as they have really good fencing and I knew I wouldn't have time to walk the perimeter of the big field before work this am to check the boundary for fallen trees on the fence. The pony was completely unbothered and appears to have amused herself by removing her top rug, and the retired eventer was very skittish but settled with hay in the shelter.
Took me an hour to do a 15-20 min journey this morning as every road I tried was blocked by trees and power lines- but I couldn't stay at home to work because no internet
setterlover
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No major damage or trees down here surprisingly.One elderly rail fence at the end of the garden to the summer fields is leaning in so just been out and driven in some new posts and bracing.
Horses had hoovered up all the haylege and we're stood at the back of the pole barn warm and dry and asking for more.
Calm and dry at the moment but I think we have rain and high winds tomorrow (just for a change!!!!)
Hope everyone gets cleared up before rain and wind hits tomorrow.
Horses had hoovered up all the haylege and we're stood at the back of the pole barn warm and dry and asking for more.
Calm and dry at the moment but I think we have rain and high winds tomorrow (just for a change!!!!)
Hope everyone gets cleared up before rain and wind hits tomorrow.
SashaBabe
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Our electricity went off at 9.00 last night. I had an 8.30 dental appointment this morning, so left the house early. Glad I did because the road I usually travel was closed due to a fallen tree. Took a long route on a back road, came round a bend and almost collided with a tree which had come down and was blocking half the road. Back home and electricity has just come on. Glad to be back home.
Icedance
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Horses and stables all ok over night. A nearby owner who doesn’t maintain their fences appeared to have a few rails down this morning but their horses were still in. A few branches down over the roads this morning but nice and sunny out now
luckyoldme
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Forgot to mention, please be careful!
Two years ago a tree fell on me just after storm Dudley. ...it was late on in the day well after the wind died down.
Nobody can argue that they had to go out last night. I knew as soon as I got out of my car that it was way to bad to be out in an empty or a high sider. I had made my mind up that if it was the same when I was meant to start that I was staying in bed....The decision was taken out of my hands. I hope that the drivers are all ok, Mr Lom was past there this morning and he said it was carnage.
Two years ago a tree fell on me just after storm Dudley. ...it was late on in the day well after the wind died down.
I think there are 11 over on the M6 between Carlisle and Shap.
Nobody can argue that they had to go out last night. I knew as soon as I got out of my car that it was way to bad to be out in an empty or a high sider. I had made my mind up that if it was the same when I was meant to start that I was staying in bed....The decision was taken out of my hands. I hope that the drivers are all ok, Mr Lom was past there this morning and he said it was carnage.
PurBee
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Im in Northern Ireland and it was by far the worst we've had for a long long time
I had a branch come off a tree, take down the Fibre broadband line and just miss smashing the garage window, but that's the worst of it at home apart from stuff everywhere - and I feel lucky for that, I have a lot of big old trees around the house and gardens. Kept the horses in the smaller paddocks by the house and shelter last night as they have really good fencing and I knew I wouldn't have time to walk the perimeter of the big field before work this am to check the boundary for fallen trees on the fence. The pony was completely unbothered and appears to have amused herself by removing her top rug, and the retired eventer was very skittish but settled with hay in the shelter.
Took me an hour to do a 15-20 min journey this morning as every road I tried was blocked by trees and power lines- but I couldn't stay at home to work because no internet
Im west ireland and was watching the north too as it was hammering you there. Scottish highlands looked severe too. This was a bad one for Ireland, i can imagine there’s been lots of damage and roads unpassable.
That was the 9th storm in 4.5 months - we better have a decent summer after putting up with that this winter!
That was the most intense storm we’ve had here in over a decade. We were pummeled the whole day and night.
Im on a SW facing valley hill surrounded by massive big and small trees, which are useful as a big windbreak but some inevitably are at risk of coming over in high winds.
A tree came down over our van and horse area, by their barn, and by the grace of luck, if the van had been parked an inch forward would have been crushed/write-off!
The stable roof came off in parts - freaking the horses out so they used the shelter of a massive tree instead of going in their stable. We were out there trying to repair the roof, so they had a full shelter to hunker down in, and only managed a partial repair - but they were so freaked out with the tree coming down and roof coming off they abandoned the area for hours.
Thank god theyre very wind-hardy at this point, and are vastly more calm than me when the wind is that bad! Even OH was freaked, and that takes some doing!
120 gusts were just tearing through for hours, i used all my strength to remain calm so i could be calm for the horses and regularly reassure them.
We were so frazzled by it we slept for 10hrs and i woke 4 times still hearing the storm, altho it had calmed down to 70 by the time we got to bed.
This morning the horses are fine, totally calm, eating well, thank goodness.
please now, weather-gods, can we have a lovely calm warm sunny spring and summer?! 
SEL
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@PurBee sounds awful - relieved you're all ok.
My yard had a lot of damage in 2022 storms and it took a while for the horses to trust the bottom paddock where the shelter blew up (literally - covered 2 acres with bits of it). They got over it but I'm still apprehensive in high winds
My yard had a lot of damage in 2022 storms and it took a while for the horses to trust the bottom paddock where the shelter blew up (literally - covered 2 acres with bits of it). They got over it but I'm still apprehensive in high winds
Squeak
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Starting to hear rumblings that we might be getting another storm tomorrow evening 
holeymoley
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Storm named for Tuesday. Seems to be covering Ireland only at the moment.
paddy555
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Dartmoor and we are very lucky and have very little. Windy last night but nothing extraordinary.
Wind howled more than anything else, not much rain overnight and all over by about 2am.
power cut for 15 mins and that was it.
very lucky
Wind howled more than anything else, not much rain overnight and all over by about 2am.
power cut for 15 mins and that was it.
very lucky
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Pearlsasinger
Up in the clouds
All well here, gusts of up to 78mph apparently but no damage, not even to the dead tree that we are waiting for the tree feller to attend to. But it was a struggle getting across the yard to dish out hay to horses and sheep (in separate fields) and I decided not to risk struggling across the top of the field to check along there.
Tiddlypom
Carries on creakily
It was wild here last night too, but not apparent damage.
I normally go out and shift the electric fencing to strip graze each evening at around 7pm, stomping across the field with a head torch, but I thought s0d that and put hay in the field shelter instead. That was for my benefit as much as the horses.
I normally go out and shift the electric fencing to strip graze each evening at around 7pm, stomping across the field with a head torch, but I thought s0d that and put hay in the field shelter instead. That was for my benefit as much as the horses.
ponyparty
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Well the wind has picked up again here already. I can hear stuff banging around outside whilst I wfh. Horses were all in winter field 2 this morning when I went up to feed and check on them, but they'd clearly been in the field shelter in winter field 1 overnight (they've got the run of both as there's no shelter in field 2 but it's got lots of grass left to strip graze). Wonder if they'll have gone back there now that the wind's up again - or if stuffing their faces on today's strip of new grass is more important!
PurBee
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They really do have memory of ‘fright flight’ dont they? My mare is definitely more wary than the gelding, and after a rat or cat, hiding in the back of their barn has freaked her out, she’ll avoid it for days! The dopey brave gelding is more “whats the problem?” - he definitely lives in the moment and more easily forgets past freak-outs. I saw some poops in their barn this morning so i know he returned there at some point for a snooze, but i doubt the mare went in!
For a storm to obliterate a shelter in a field, would have me very nervous of every storm. I have a mantra going in my head “we have always been ok, despite some damage, we’re all always alive, well and ok”.
I’m about to take a wander and see if there’s other damage, after my caffeine boost!
Barklands
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Still very windy up here in the North and frequent powercuts at my place! I thought the worst would have passed, how naive of me!
toppedoff
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It's died down here. In Herts area though
Saw this, bloody ridiculous and promoted for tourism!
Saw this, bloody ridiculous and promoted for tourism!
SEL
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Storm Jocelyn is on its way in tomorrow 
I swear we never got storm after storm even a decade ago. I know global warming is probably the culprit but I'm starting to feel they are targeting my days off!
I swear we never got storm after storm even a decade ago. I know global warming is probably the culprit but I'm starting to feel they are targeting my days off!
SantaVera
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Another named storm on its way for Tuesday and Wednesday 
PapaverFollis
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I wish they wouldn't give the bloody things names. I feel like it only encourages them.
PapaverFollis
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That sounds utterly horrendous PurBee. 120mph! That's just... argh.
I'm glad you're OK.
I'm glad you're OK.
Rowreach
Adjusting my sails
Sadly another one is coming.This morning the horses are fine, totally calm, eating well, thank goodness.
toppedoff
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Weird question but with how storms are named, does it just go through the alphabet until its gets to Z or does it "restart" the alphabet per year?
PapaverFollis
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Restarts every year.
PapaverFollis
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Although we had one this year that seemed out of sequence? I'm sure I looked up why but am too sleep deprived now to remember.