Was out in the garden 2.30am rescuing my new water butt - not enough water in it to keep it in place, so it was rumbling off down the path - and the wildly flapping greenhouse guttering. New tap needed for water butt now - smashed. Also two outside doormats with ambitions to become magic carpets are now stowed in shed! Still, the fence stayed up, which is more than i can say for the one across the road...
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Been really windy here in Fife last couple of days with heavy showers.
I was unable to open the side gate as wind was so strong and the gate is wooden slatted style with small gaps so like a solid sail!
Sunny at the moment but still strong winds, mind you we are right on the coast.
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Took my daughter to work at 4.30am and driving back down the street was like an obstacle course because of wheelie bins left out on the street blowing into the road!
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We do live on a hill, and the westerlies hit us side on. Only just had that side fence re-fixed too. We live off West Lane, what does that tell us?
Got a raging sore throat, and with that and listening to the gale all night and worrying about the fence, hardly got a wink of sleep. Hate wind, hate it.
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I put my bins and bags out behind the fence last night for this morning because I didn't realise it would get so bad.
My green food bin was 9 doors away (goodness knows where the food bag has gone that was inside it) and the lid was under a car, my plastic bottles box and my two sacks for plastic and cans have disappeared completely.
It stopped blowing at 5.30 but it's building up a bit again. I hate it too, there's no defence against it.
We had one of those reinforced plastic greenhouse from Asda and it has been shredded by the wind and the frame destroyed.
It was tied down securely.
We are open fields at the back so there was nothing to slow the wind before it hit the greenhouse.