I'm right in the South of England - was very windy but we live in a slight valley so the Westerly winds went over us. I pulled some dead branches off a tree near my car the day before so I was ok there.

The roof came off my uncles shed overnight so I went to his house (5 miles away) with my dad at 7am - we came back an hour later and a tree had come down on the road we had just came through! It was near my house so I nipped back and took some photos after calling the police.

I sent them to the local paper but the main thing they reported on was the parking shunt between the Pride of Portsmouth and HMS St Albans.

I remember the "Great Storm" of '87 - our power was off for three days! One of the lime trees in my nan's field which came down then was cut up a few years ago by a local sculptor - he used it for crests and coronets (crowns) in Windsor Castle. Baroness Thatcher was one of them IIRC.

Gareth