Thoroughly Euniced

I heard the outriders of Storm Eunice about 5AM, but got to sleep and when I surfaced at 11-ish it was in full spate. The wind noise was loud enough that I turned on some music to try and drown it out because I was wincing every time a gust hit the house. And I wasn't too keen on the way the trees at the bottom of the garden were being blown about either - the trunks are a couple of feet across and they were tossing like reeds - it's a good job they aren't in leaf yet.

I'd say it blew itself out about 3-30-4PM, but we're still being hit by odd gusts three hours later (and there's now rain tossing down as well).

I think the house survived okay - I need to take a look at the roof tomorrow in the daylight - but bits and pieces from everyone's gardens have been randomly re-distributed around the street. I had to throw some shoes on and rush outside as soon as I glanced into the back garden about 11:30, there was a big green tarp thrashing itself to death against my french windows. I shoved it behind the shed for the afternoon and confirmed with my neighbour that it's actually his when we spoke about 5PM. My other neighbour has an even bigger tarp in her garden that's blown in from her next door neighbour's, so that's one being blown northwards and one southwards within about 50 feet of each other.

But everything's minor compared to some of the pictures on the news, I think it's the first time I've seen "Train delayed due to station roof on tracks", and it had happened at least twice.

I checked in with my mother, who was well north of the worst of the storm, and they'd had a light dusting of snow several times during the day, though she was a bit worried that the winds were picking up there since dark.