It didn't seem that bad yesterday morning, but by dinnertime the wind was phenomenal - trees were soon coming down (they had to close the road on Penglais Hill - I walked to the top to meet Martin, battling my way against the wind, and listening with some apprehension to the creaking and cracking of the trees on either side of the road!).
By the time we got home, the electricity was out, but at least for us it was restored within a couple of hours.
We didn't entirely escape in our garden either - the winds did for the final bit of the tree that started coming down in 2012.
The smaller of our two greenhouses didn't fare too well either - lots of broken panes of glass, and the door falling off!
Today the full scale of the damage was emerging - the trees either side of Penglais Hill had come down like dominoes, resting against each other - a brick wall had been 'blown over' by the Co-Op - I could go on . . .
We won't be forgetting the first few weeks of 2014 in a hurry!
